Balikatan 2024: Para kanino?
Ang Trilateral Summit ng US-Japan at Pilipinas kung gayon ay kapulungan ng mga imperyalista bansa sa presensya ng isang tutang estado. Wala itong pakinabang sa mamamayan, kung kaya marapat na tutulan at wakasan ng mamamayang Pilipino.
Sa ibayo ng pampang
Katulad ng ilog at ragasa ng tubig,/ang bawat bahagi ay sakdal at dusa,/ang hindi mangahas lusungi’t languyin,/ibayo ng pampang ay di mararating.
‘Dapat tayong maka-Pilipino’
“Hindi pwedeng ang Pilipinas ay lumuhod sa US ngayon sa ilalim ni Marcos, matapos lumuhod si Duterte sa Tsina. Dapat ang ating gobyerno ay hindi maka-Amerikano, hindi maka-Tsino, kundi maka-Pilipino.”
Kal welcomed back as ‘revolutionary hero’
Activists as well as family and friends of Kaliska Dominica Peralta commemorated her life as “a revolutionary hero of the people” through a grand tribute at the Cine Adarna, University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman) last Saturday, April 20.
When peace dialogues should be ongoing, Marcos gov’t pronounces revolutionary groups as ‘terrorists’
On separate resolutions passed around the time when Malacañan Palace announced efforts to resume formal peace negotiations with the NDFP, the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) said that based on evidence gathered by law enforcement agencies, the basis for the designation on the CPP and NPA still exists.
Relying on bullies to de-escalate tensions
“The US, like China, also wants to control the oil and gas resources of the South China Sea for its energy needs. We cannot rely on the US as that would be tantamount to taking out one bully, but allowing another bully to come in.”
3 Filipinos die in UAE floods, top Philippine official confirms
Hans Leo Cacdac, officer-in-charge (OIC) of the Philippine Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on X (formerly Twitter) said: “With extreme sadness, we report the death of 3 OFWs (overseas Filipino workers) during the flooding in the UAE.”
Hinggil sa Million Solar Roofs Bill
“As usual, bumagsak na naman ang napakaraming planta ng kuryente ngayong napaka-init at kailangang-kailangan ng kuryente ng mga tao. ‘Di mo tuloy masisi ang mga consumer na isiping sinasadya ito ng mga generation companies para sumirit pataas ang presyo ng kuryente.”
Negros political detainees to hold another fast against rights violations
Political prisoners in Negros are set to hold another 24-hour fast on Friday, April 19, to demand thorough and impartial investigations by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on reported human rights violations since July 2022.
Groups demand investigation on ‘summary execution’ of former UP student leader
“The willful killing of Peralta by the military, who was unarmed at the time of her arrest, is a war crime that can never be justified under any circumstance. This is a blatant violation of (the IHL),” GABRIELA said.