Ronalyn V. Olea or Len to her colleagues loves to brew coffee strong enough to keep everyone in the newsroom awake. She’s a vegan and a bike commuter, braving the chaos of the road to get to meetings and errands.
Ronalyn V. Olea or Len to her colleagues loves to brew coffee strong enough to keep everyone in the newsroom awake. She’s a vegan and a bike commuter, braving the chaos of the road to get to meetings and errands.
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Mylene Zantoa, 32, only wants a decent life for her family. Zantoa and her husband work on less than two hectares of land in San Francisco, Quezon province. Mainly preoccupied with copra production, Zantoa said what they...
Peasants marched to Mendiola to denounce the 40 years since the implementation of to what they refer to as the bogus Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. Peasants and activists demand for the passing of a genuine agrarian reform that would truly serve their...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA -- “The President should not wait a minute longer in enacting this bill into law.” This was the statement issued by Desaparecidos, an organization of families of victims of enforced disappearances with the passage of the...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – A day before the first death anniversary of Fr. Fausto “Pops” Tentorio, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima told the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland that the missionary’s death “has not been...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Not only was he illegally arrested, detained and mistaken for somebody else, Rolly Panesa was even tortured to admit that he is allegedly the communist leader Benjamin Mendoza. Yet, his government-issued IDs – one was issued by the Philippine National Police – showed he is not who the military claims him to be.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Two years ago, Daisy Ayo, 37, said she was visited several times by men in uniform. “They told me they would like to investigate my involvement in our campaign for the land.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA
A security guard, his wife, his son and his daughter-in-law were arrested by military intelligence agents and were falsely tagged as rebel leaders.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The 84-year-old chairwoman emeritus of Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap is a tireless fighter, an inspiration to the poor
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Media organizations filed the ninth petition to the Supreme Court seeking to declare the Cybercrime Law unconstitutional, Oct. 3. Media groups National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), Center for Media Freedom...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Earlier, Gilbert Paborada was warned by a representative of a palm oil plantation "to stop opposing or he would regret what might happen to his life.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – After 18 years of religious work in different parts of Europe, Benedictine nun Sister Stella Matutina was assigned to Mindanao in 2008. One day, the nun received a call from one of their parishioners begging for help. Sister...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Last week, activists of the 1970s up to the present commemorated the 40th year of the declaration of Martial Law not only to recall those dark years but also to remind the people of the dangers of a dictatorship or its repressive instruments being revived. One of the legacies of Martial law was treating the press as a dangerous enemy that needs to be suppressed.
Martial law’s legacy of stifling the press persists
Above-ground alternative press: Open defiance to the Marcos dictatorship
Underground press during martial law: Piercing the veil of darkness imposed by the dictatorship
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – When Ferdinand Marcos stifled press freedom, there were those who stood up for the truth. The alternative press, defined by Luis Teodoro, deputy executive director of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR),...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – “The sound of the typewriter then was considered subversive.” Carolina “Bobbie” Malay said as she recalled the early years after Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law. When Marcos shut down newspapers, radio stations and...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Forty years after the imposition of martial law, the Philippine media is still confronted with problems bearing imprints of the dictatorship. The enactment of the Republic Act 10175 or the Anti-Cybercrime Law is just one of...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
During the 21st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Philippine government claimed that it has been complying with the recommendations put forward by the council during the Universal Periodic Review, but human rights and church groups think otherwise.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
As the Aquino government continues to fail to arrest retired general Jovito Palparan, another victim of state-enforced abduction and torture has positively identified some of the soldiers who tortured Karen and Sherlyn.
The entire National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) deeply mourns the passing away of Atty. Romeo T. Capulong, its Chief Legal Counsel and champion of the exploited and oppressed. The leadership of the NDFP, all its allied organizations, and the NDFP...
Ni Edre U. Olalia 20 September 2012 Bakit nga ba abugado ng bayan, at abugado ng mga abugado ng bayan si RTC? Kasi very human siya. At nakakahawa ang katapangan niya. Hindi mahal ang mura niya kapag siya ay iniinsulto ng mga makapangyarihan at nakakakita ng...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
How can one summarize the life of a man who has done so much for the people?
Statements
Letter to RTC
Bakit nga ba Abugado ng Bayan, at Abugado ng Abugado ng Bayan si RTC?
NDFP mourns the passing away of Atty. Romeo T. Capulong
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