The next time someone offers me a glass of basi, I will not refuse.
Basi(s) for revolution and art
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Stop impending magnetite mining in Ilocos, groups ask CA
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Altamina Exploration Resources Inc.’s six exploration permits were converted to a Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement, providing it with an assurance that it could recover its capital outlay in five years.
Human Rights Advocates of Ilocos Gearing for 2008
“The year 2007 showed us that despite the many cases of harassments, threats and intimidations such as the filing of fabricated cases and other forms of human rights violations in Ilocos, the people remained vigilant and firm in their fight for their rights. This year, we are intensifying our fight for the advancement of human…
Brewing the Iloco Basi
The painstaking process of making the traditional Iloco basi includes boiling the sugarcane sap for at least two hours before placing the liquid into clay pots or tapayan for a three-month fermentation process. Basi-making is one of the booming small-scale industries in the Ilocos region such as this one located in Baruyan, Bangui, Ilocos Norte.…
Freed Ilocos Peasant Leaders to File Counter-charges
For three Ilocos peasant leaders recently freed after what they described as fabricated charges against them were dismissed, their struggle is far from over. BY ROD TAJON HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 34, September 30-October 6, 2007 VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur (407 kms north of Manila) – For three…
Fourteen Ways of Remembering the 1807 Basi Revolt
Who could have imagined that native sugarcane wine would become a trigger for a Ilocos-wide revolt, which bicentennial we are commemorating this month? And why is it that all we have got to show for it, after 200 years, are 14 paintings that only few ordinary Filipinos have seen? BY PIO VERZOLA, JR. Northern Dispatch…
Cordi Rights Group Remembers First Slain NL Activist
As human rights advocates here commemorated the second death anniversary of Romy Sanchez, they also condemned the passage amid wide opposition of the Human Security Act of 2007 also known as the Anti-Terrorism Law. Sanchez is the first activist killed in Northern Luzon under the Arroyo administration. BY KIM QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat…