By KATHLEEN T. OKUBO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BONTOC, Mt. Province — “We the people of Mountain Province demand the unconditional and immediate pull-out from our villages of the troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines!” The Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance (CPA) here demanded in a statement. A regional alliance of some 130 sectoral…
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Kabataan Party Nominees Harassed by Military
Even the parents of nominees of progressive party-list groups are not spared of the harassment directed against them. Last March 13, the father of Kabataan Party’s second nominee and National Capital Region (NCR) chairperson Enrico Almonguerra received a letter from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) summoning him and Enrico to the Civic Military…
Soldiers on Campus Tour
In its dire effort to meet the three-year deadline to end the communist insurgency in the country, soldiers are now going on “campus tour” to try to “win the hearts minds” of university students in Metro Manila and to discourage them from getting involved in youth activism. A group of teachers, however, cried foul. BY…