“Why target the bookstores? Why do this in the city? Is this part of a destabilization plot to stall elections? Is this just a beginning of something bigger?”
Popular Bookstore unfazed but vigilant after red-tagging graffiti
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Groups hit red-tagging against political opposition
“We should not allow Duterte and NTF-ELCAC to use red-tagging as a political weapon to divide the opposition. We should push back against the escalating attacks against Robredo and the political opposition.”
Autopsy on Chad Booc shows state agents’ intent to kill
“Is this really the mindset of the armed state agents, that they will just shoot the non-combatants? Not only shooting to disable them but shooting to kill them.” – forensic expert Raquel Fortun
QC court junks charges against labor organizer
The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) said that the court’s findings “only prove how State forces are hell-bent at quelling the exercise of labor rights being promoted by trade union organizers such as Dennise Velasco as well as activists in general.”
After 5 days, kin retrieve remains of Chad Booc, 2 others
The bodies of three of the five victims in the New Bataan massacre were finally released to their families, according to Save our Schools Network.
5 killed in Davao de Oro are civilians, not NPA, group says
“Throughout their years of service, Chad, Jurain, and Elgyn had been subjected to threats, harassment, intimidation, including death threats, red-tagging and terror-tagging, and surveillance. It is then even more deplorable that the people who take up the initiative to serve in far-flung communities, where the Duterte government cares little to address the needs of its residents, are targeted and killed,” SOS Network said.
Community doctor Naty Castro flown to Agusan del Sur
“Doc Naty also reserves all her rights to pursue legal remedies against those police officers who violates her rights with impunity and went against established procedure when they took her from her home in San Juan on Feb. 18., denied her access to counsel and family. And transported her without notifying any familiar member or counsel.” – FLAG
Question Everything | Friends and foes of Filipinos in the fight for freedom
The CPP-NPA continues to thrive especially in the remote areas of the country because its politics of empowerment resonates not just with the oppressed but all those who wanted to build a new future founded on justice and equality.
US solons want sanctions vs PH’s rabid red-taggers, rights violators
“Those behind these corrosive violations should no longer operate with impunity.”
NUJP calls out Tiglao’s ‘malicious, irresponsible’ red-tagging of journalists
“It is not only untrue, it also perpetuates the dangerous narrative that journalists are communists or rebel sympathizers for reporting that (which) does not parrot what the government says. It (is) also the kind of labeling that has raised concerns over how the Anti-Terrorism Act will be implemented.”
Neglected and attacked, health workers push back and score victories
The campaign asserting their rights and welfare won for them some of their much-deserved benefits, and led to the expansion and consolidation of their unions and organizations.