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.
Ni GLENN FORD B. TOLENTINO Nakaprograma tayong isilang ng sistematikong matris ng kompyuter dito sa google earth. Binibinyagan tayo sa ngalan ng yahoo, twitter o facebook [Walang lalabag sa atas ng eletronika] Mga sanggol wari tayong inaaral ang ligoy-propaganda ng...
Ni RICHARD GAPPI Nanawagan ngayon si Pangulong Noynoy Aquino na palayain na si Aung San Suu Kyi, ang halal na pangulo at lider ng Kilusang Demokrasya sa bansang Burma na inagawan ng kalayaan at ikinulong ng militar matapos ang kudeta at itatag ang junta. Reaksyon...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“They wasted two years of my life,” Lita Mahilum, a political prisoner who was in jail for two years before being cleared by the Court of Appeals of the charges filed against her by the military, said.
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP) has started a roving exhibit of “Artista ng Bayan” (People’s Artists), portraits of 12 Filipino artists who “used their art in their struggle for a better society.” The...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Big landowners in Negros Occidental have found another way to retain and re-concentrate the land in their hands: file criminal cases against peasants and farm workers.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The greatest challenge to the peace process is whether, this time, the President has the political will to surmount all obstacles and opposition... Running parallel is whether the peace process is really a problem solving endeavor or just an exercise to manage the conflict, as what previous presidents, deliberately or otherwise, did.” – MILF Chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Who would continue their tasks? The dead could no longer speak. It is us, the ones they left behind, who must carry on what they had started,” said Evangeline Hernandez, mother of slain human rights defender Benjaline “Beng” Hernandez and chairwoman of Hustisya!
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“I had hoped that my father’s case would be the first and the last case of extrajudicial killing but the culture of impunity is still here. There has been no effort from the President to stop the killings. His inaction has allowed the killings to go on,” Ernan, son of Fernando Baldomero, first victim of extrajudicial killing under the Aquino government, said.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The Department of National Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines, which often dismiss accusations that soldiers are involved in extrajudicial killings, admitted that the suspected perpetrators in the extra judicial killing of Bayan Muna Negros member Benjamin Bayles are members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines(AFP). But this happened, Karapatan said, only after their own investigation revealed the true identities of the suspects.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“He mentioned about the poison tree. He knew the arrest was wrong from the start. What else is the President waiting for? Release the Morong 43 now,” Evelyn Montes, wife of Dr. Alexis Montes, said.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
After President Benigno S. Aquino III granted amnesty to rebel soldiers, relatives and supporters pressed anew for the release of the Morong 43 and other political prisoners in the Philippines.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Why wait for an actual injury when you have the singular opportunity to slay the dragon at first sight?” said Edre U. Olalia, legal counsel of the petitioners against the Human Security Act of 2007 in an interview with Bulatlat.
Sidebar: Recent SC Decisions Detrimental to Human Rights -– Rights Lawyer
The ruling upholding the constitutionality of the Human Security Act of 2007 is the latest in a series of negative decisions the Supreme Court made with regard to human rights, lawyer Edre U. Olalia said.
Ni MARK ANGELES Ikalawang gabi namin sa piling ng mga organisadong magsasaka at ngayong gabi, isang piging ang inorganisa—isang programang kultural. Sa likod ng mga sanga ng maubod na kalamansi, pahapyaw na magpapasilip ang mga hubad na mga paang pumapadyak, ang...
“The Philippine government is boasting that it is a signatory to the nine core conventions of the UN and yet, it violates these conventions,” Marie Hilao-Enriquez, chairwoman of Karapatan, said. By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The case of Benjaline “Beng”...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The main perpetrator in the extrajudicial killing of human rights defender Benjaline Hernandez was granted bail by a local court and was reportedly acquitted recently. But the United Nations Human Rights Committee found the Philippine government accountable for her death.
Sidebar: Philippine Government Told to Enforce UN Rulings on Rights Cases
Ni RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA Naka-chat ko minsan si Middle Class Nalilito raw siya Bakit daw ba gustong-gusto ng mga pobre Ang ituring silang mahirap? Poverty mentality raw ang tawag doon. (Kita mo nga naman, pinasiklaban pa ako nire) Ako namang si Simple Mind Ay...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Poetry is the written soul of the poet. It cannot be imprisoned.” – Mark Angeles, Palanca awardee
Agustito “Tito” Ladera, 38, and Renato Deliguer, 21, were last seen by their relatives tending their farms before they went missing. Witnesses point to soldiers of the 36th Infantry Battalion who were seen arresting two farmers.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Human rights groups believe that President Benigno Aquino III has sanctioned state-perpetrated killings by extending the OBL, the bloodiest counterinsurgency program the Philippine government has ever implemented.
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