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Casiño expresses thoughts as campaign nears end
Pom Cahilog-Villanueva
Homewards
Drying the day’s catch
Latest killings, arrests by alleged soldiers condemned
Yesterday, Roque Antivo, the eight-year-old boy who was killed due to strafing by uniformed men, was laid to rest. On April 3, soldiers of the 71st Infantry Battalion Alpha Company of the Philippine Army strafed the house of a peasant family in Sitio Kidaraan, Barangay Anitapan, Mabini, Compostela Valley. Antivo was killed. His two brothers…
Picking dinner
Gravel picker, Romblon
SAN AGUSTIN, ROMBLON—I chanced upon a group of kids gathered on the shore during low tide. At first I thought they were picking shells but as I walked closer I saw that they were gathering some stones. I noticed the smallest among them, a little girl who looked like she was eight. I sat on…
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Artists gather to fight political repression
Filipino artists gather to fight political repression and to cal for the release of artists-political prisoners and all political prisoners as part of a global campaign to defend people’s culture.
Slideshow: Groups hold relief mission for victims of typhoon Pablo in Surigao del Sur
Progressive organizations led by Katribu party list initiated relief operations in far-flung villages in Surigao del Sur hardly hit by supertyphoon Pablo. The groups maintain that the impacts of climate change have been aggravated by the government’s mining policy. Text and photos by POM CAHILOG-VILLANUEVA
Calls for justice mark 3rd year of Ampatuan Massacre
Various media organizations, progressive groups and the academe commemorated the third anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre that claimed the lives of 58 individuals, of whom 32 are media workers. Photos by POM CAHILOG-VILLANUEVA, RONALYN V. OLEA, ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL, JANESS ANN J. ELLAO and FRED DABU Produced by BULATLAT MULTIMEDIA
Women slam Aquino’s inaction on price hikes
The commemoration of the 101st International Women’s Day is one of the biggest rallies in recent years. Gabriela, the country’s largest women group who spearheaded the protest action, slammed Aquino government for its inaction to put a stop in the overpricing in oil products, increased U.S. military presence in the Philippines and to prioritize the…