The Artists’ Response to the Call for Social Change and Transformation (Artists’ ARREST), the Kilometer 64 Poetry Collective, and the Free Randall Echanis Movement (Freedom) organized last May 5 a cultural political event titled “Enemy of the State” at the Conspiracy Bar and Garden Cafe in Quezon City. Conceptualized following the recent arrest of National…
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Political Detainee Being Denied Urgent Medical Treatment
The Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecution panel continues to block the petition filed by detained peasant leader Randall Echanis to allow him to undergo medical treatment for his gallstones. BY RONALYN V. OLEA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat The Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecution panel continues to block the petition filed by detained peasant leader Randall…
Literary Folio for Jailed Peasant Leader Launched
Relatives, colleagues, and supporters of jailed peasant leader Randall “Ka Randy” Echanis launched the 58-page literary folio Panata sa Paglaya (Vow to Freedom) last Feb. 3. The folio contains poems by and for Echanis, as well as other literary and artistic pieces. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO CULTURE Bulatlat Anong kapalaran itong biglang dumating? Tila makapal…
Detained Peasant Leader, Colleagues Fast for His Release
Detained peasant activist Randall Echanis and his colleagues from the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP or Peasant Movement of the Philippines), Pamalakaya, the Amihan Peasant Women’s Association, Anakpawis Party-list, and the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines have been fasting the whole day to protest the latter’s continuing imprisonment. Echanis, deputy secretary general for external affairs…
Randy Echanis and Inhuman Jail Conditions
Being jailed is not new to KMP leader Randall Echanis, 60. His detention in January this year following his arrest in Bago City, Negros Occidental is his third already. It is the prison conditions he is now in that are new to him. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 30,…
Behind Bars: The Travails of a Political Prisoner
Randall Echanis, of the militant peasant organization the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, is not the only political prisoner of the Arroyo regime. There are currently 240 prisoners in detention by the count of Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at para sa Amnestiya (SELDA), an organization dedicated to helping political prisoners. BY LARISSA MAE…
Bishops’ Call for Peace Rejected by Military
The bishops want peace, but the military seems to want something else. By GERRY ALBERT CORPUZ Posted by Bulatlat ANALYSIS Vol. VIII, No. 2, February 10-16, 2008 The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) last week called on the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) to resume peace talks. It…
Son of Arrested KMP Leader Seeks Villar, JDV Help to Free Father
The son of Randall Echanis, deputy secretary general of the militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP orPeasant Movement of the Philippines), has sought the help of Senate President Manuel Villar and House Speaker Jose de Venecia to facilitate the immediate and unconditional release of his father. BY GERRY ALBERT CORPUZ Contributed to Bulatlat…