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Doctors, Medical and Health Groups Refute Military on Morong 43

Doctors, Medical and Health Groups Refute Military on Morong 43

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
and RONALYN V. OLEA
Several medical and health associations expressed outrage today over the arrest, detention and alleged torture of 43 health workers. In a press conference at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine in Manila, officials of these groups refuted the military's claim that the 43 are communist rebels who were undergoing bomb training when they were arrested in a raid on Feb. 6.

| Feb 15, 2010

Military Continues to Deny Friends, Kin Access to ‘Morong 43’

Military Continues to Deny Friends, Kin Access to ‘Morong 43’

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Relatives and friends of the 43 health workers -- among them doctors, nurses and midwives -- who were taken by the military and police in Morong, Rizal province, on Saturday are set to file on Monday a petition for habeas corpus before the Supreme Court. This, after the military on Sunday continued to prevent them, as well as the media, from seeing those arrested in person.

| Feb 7, 2010

‘Mrs. B’: A Monologue About the Agony and Struggle of a Mother of a Desaparecido

‘Mrs. B’: A Monologue About the Agony and Struggle of a Mother of a Desaparecido

Written by Palanca awardees Joi Barrios-Leblanc and Rowena Festin and Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP) member Grundy Constantino and directed by Socrates Jose, "Mrs. B" depicts the agony and courage of a mother searching for her son. With award-winning actresses Bibeth Orteza and Gina Alajar playing the role of Mrs. Burgos, even the desensitized and the unaware would be moved into tears. Although the two actors have different approaches in portraying Mrs. Burgos, both are so intense and so good that their performances are incomparable.

| Feb 4, 2010

A Bloody Struggle for Land in Compostela Valley

A Bloody Struggle for Land in Compostela Valley

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
For the farmers, peasants and indigenous peoples of Southern Mindanao, the past several years had been a period of great danger and violence as big mining companies encroach into ancestral and agricultural land, using the military to drive them away. Many peasant and Lumad leaders who opposed these projects have ended up dead and tortured.

| Jan 31, 2010

Leyte Farmers Locked in Battle with Ex-CA Justice Over Land

Leyte Farmers Locked in Battle with Ex-CA Justice Over Land

By RONALYN V. OLEA
Since 2000, Alejandro Abaño could not go back to his farm in barangay Cabatianuhan, Alangalang, Leyte. In the first week of February that year, Abaño, together with some agricultural workers, was weeding the coconut land of his father when armed men pretending to be policemen came to their hut accusing them of being rebels. The armed men were allegedly hired by former Court of Appeals Justice Vicente “Cheng” Veloso, who claimed that he owned the land.

| Jan 30, 2010

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