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Ampatuan Massacre Highlights Continuing Violence Vs Women: Gabriela Women’s Party

Ampatuan Massacre Highlights Continuing Violence Vs Women: Gabriela Women’s Party

By MARYA SALAMAT
The commemoration of the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women (VAW) in the Philippines got a piercing highlight in the Ampatuan massacre that occurred two days before the anti-VAW's day last week. “What happened in Maguindanao underscored the vulnerability of women amid fierce struggles as in an electoral struggle,” Gabriela partylist representative and aspiring senator Liza Maza said.

| Nov 30, 2009

Ampatuan Massacre Raises Level of Barbarity in Philippine Politics

Ampatuan Massacre Raises Level of Barbarity in Philippine Politics

By BENJIE OLIVEROS
The impunity in recent political killings in the Philippines could have emboldened the Ampatuan clan to commit the massacre. If the perpetrators of more than a thousand extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of political activists could walk scot-free, perhaps, they thought, they could get away with killing less than a hundred people.

| Nov 30, 2009

MILF: Ampatuan Claim a ‘Weird Statement,” Massacre an ‘Act of Animals’

MILF: Ampatuan Claim a ‘Weird Statement,” Massacre an ‘Act of Animals’

By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
“The MILF has no presence there, the place is near the checkpoints of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Citizen Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu), and is also near the Army station,” says the MILF’s Mohagher Iqbal. “So how could they accuse the MILF of having a hand in the massacre?”

| Nov 28, 2009

12 Journalists, Several Others Killed in Maguindanao Massacre

12 Journalists, Several Others Killed in Maguindanao Massacre

By CHERYLL D. FIEL
“The Ampatuan massacre goes beyond the issue of freedom of the press and of expression and strikes at the very foundations of democracy. This incident not only erases all doubts about the Philippines being the most dangerous country for journalists in the world, outside of Iraq, it could very well place the country on the map as a candidate for a failed democracy.”

| Nov 24, 2009

Why Workers Abhor Assumption of Jurisdiction (AJ) orders

Why Workers Abhor Assumption of Jurisdiction (AJ) orders

By MARYA SALAMAT
Unlike other post-martial law administrations that used assumption of jurisdictions (AJ) mostly to quell already ongoing strikes, the Arroyo regime has used these orders not only to quell ongoing strikes but also to make sure workers cannot strike at all. As a result, fewer strikes have been recorded, allowing Arroyo to claim that “industrial peace” is improving. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

| Nov 23, 2009

With Entry of CIA-Funded Group, US Deepens Involvement in Mindanao Conflict

With Entry of CIA-Funded Group, US Deepens Involvement in Mindanao Conflict

By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
The Asia Foundation, a “charity group” founded and funded by the CIA that represents American political and economic interests in Asia, is now part of a group that would help facilitate the peace process between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

| Nov 14, 2009

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