Dee Ayroso is a self-taught illustrator and was a Bulatlat editor before she focused on cartooning. Comics is where her flaws and strengths in writing and drawing can sit together and have coffee.
Dee Ayroso is a self-taught illustrator and was a Bulatlat editor before she focused on cartooning. Comics is where her flaws and strengths in writing and drawing can sit together and have coffee.
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Cristeta Sison is fighting the "red menace."
"Even before the Spaniards came, we were already on the land. We have lived here for centuries, and we’re still here up to now."
Security guards in a disputed land in Bukidnon fired at Lumads, killing one and wounding two others.
Even as 969 evacuees return to their villages in San Luis town, more than a hundred others remain in Bunawan town.
Today, March 22, is the eighth year of disappearance of Abner Hizarsa, a four-time political detainee and former spokesperson of NDF-Bataan.
Violations of human rights and international humanitarian law continue, a month into the government’s “all-out offensive” in Maguindanao against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, says a Moro group.
“Now is the time for the Moro people to lift the veil of compliance to the US-Aquino regime, and intensify the fight to protect the rights of the Moro people.”
“The search for truth and accountability for the victims of the Mamasapano clash is far from over. The BOI report is but a starting point for more in-depth investigations.”
“We denounce the arming of the Lumad people against their own kin, making them pawns against the government's fight against insurgency.”
“Today we walk out against BS. No more lies, no more injustice, no more impunity.”
A children’s rights group and a youth solon said that the K-12 program is giving everyone more headaches than solutions.
“We are again calling on the House leadership to immediately resume the Congress probe on Mamasapano to further expose the truth because Pres.Aquino is again trying to obscure it and escape accountability.”
“The basic question is: will the BBL address the basic problems of right to self-determination, poverty and ancestral domain?”
“Suara Bangsamoro stands that if the AFP is sincere in its desire to achieve peace in Maguindanao, it should immediately recall its troops from their civilian encampments.”
Many Moro heroes in Philippine history have been ignored and forgotten because of a legacy from the colonizers: the alienation between Christians and Muslims.
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