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
“The poor are still poor, exploited and oppressed. Today, social justice remains elusive, and the culture of impunity prevails, like it was under martial law.” – Karapatan
Sidebar: Aquino urged to indemnify victims, free all political prisoners
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Like President Benigno S. Aquino III’s father, they too were imprisoned, even worse, tortured during the dark days of martial law. Unlike Commission on Human Rights chairwoman Loretta Ann Rosales, they did not call on the...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The charges are baseless but with the slow judicial system, the military has made it a point that we languish in jail for long.”
Sidebar: Camp Bagong Diwa, one of the most restrictive jails in the country
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – It was drizzling when the lawyers from the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) arrived at Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan, Taguig City, Sept. 14. The jail guards took their biometrics – photo, fingerprints and basic...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Forty years after martial law, it is anomalous and anachronistic to have political prisoners languishing in different jails all over the country.” – National Union of People’s Lawyers
By RONALYN V. OLEA
In a show of commitment not only to their clients but to the cause of human rights, lawyers and law students from the National Union of People’s Lawyers will hold a sympathy fast to press for the release of all political prisoners.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“I almost cried out of anger. It pains me to see that Osorio [Staff Sgt. Edgardo Osorio] and the others have not yet been punished for what they did.”– Wilfredo Ramos, who was hogtied along with his father, the two UP students and farmer Manuel Merino.
Rights groups say Aquino following Marcos’s footsteps (Photo courtesy of Karapatan)
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – All smiles, Teddy Casiño waved his hands before thousands of members of Makabayan Coalition and supporters who flocked to the Polytechnic University of the Philippines gymnasium, Sept. 7. It was no ordinary day; it was the...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Issues regarding the valuation of the land, the verification of beneficiaries, the previous sale of parcels of land and the claim of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation still stand in the way of the actual distribution of the land of Hacienda Luisita to the farmworkers; and the farmworkers fear what would happen when these issues reach the Sereno-led Supreme Court.
Sidebar: Luisita farmworkers determined to fight for their land
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Farmworker Rodel Mesa could never be more certain: “The Cojuangco-Aquinos will never give up Hacienda Luisita.” The clan of President Benigno Aquino III seemed to be defeated with the April 24, 2012 final decision of the...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – In a supposed democracy, civilian authority is considered supreme over the military. Such is not the case for detained rebel leader Tirso “Ka Bart” Alcantara who has been in solitary confinement and heavily guarded by...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Sometimes, you ask ‘Why should you still have talks with a regime that shows no political will? That violates human rights? On the other hand, the economic crisis is worsening and it shows the necessity of holding negotiations on socio-economic reforms to address the roots of the armed conflict.” – Luis Jalandoni, NDFP
Sidebar: Police, military collude to defy court order, keep Red leader in military detention
ByRONALYN V. OLEA
“Forty is not just a number to remember but a reminder of the length of time we have been fighting impunity and for the attainment of justice. “ – Marie Hilao-Enriquez, Karapatan
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Ponciano " Poncing" Infante, president of the local transport group Pasada-Angeles City and the Pandan-Angeles Drivers Operators Association, was killed by two men riding a motorcycle last September 3. George San Mateo of Piston said Infante is the fourth transport leader killed this year.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Nothing has changed. In two years of the Aquino administration, there are already 11 victims of enforced disappearances.”
Related post: Bulatlat Live: International Day of the Disappeared
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Just last week, JL Burgos posted this on his Facebook account: “Yesterday, Edith Burgos, was followed by 'unidentified' men. Despite of my mom's effort to lose the 'unidentified' men (and believe me she's good at it), they would...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We hope the soldiers would leave soon so we can go back to our place.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – “James Balao is already dead.” This was the message received by Winston, James’s brother, on August 19, at around 8:20 a.m. from mobile number +639993031078. James has been missing since September 17, 2008 when alleged state...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“If the Massacre has made anything clear, it is the difficulty of obtaining justice through a judicial system hostage to technicalities and susceptible to the crafty manipulation of lawyers” – Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility
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