Entries by Kodao Productions

‘Terrorist’ wins UN Champions of the Earth award

An indigenous people’s rights defender and environmentalist the Rodrigo Duterte government wanted labelled as “terrorist” is named winner of the Champions of the Earth Award by the United Nations, one of the international body’s most prestigious awards. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced that Joan Carling is the winner of the Champions of the […]

Ang inyong matatamis na ngiti

Ni Ibarra Banaag   Sana’y di nagkamali sa treno’ng inyong sinakyan. Nakakaaliw man at nakakabingi ang hagikgikan. Ang sumakay ay di libre bagkus ay babayaran. Ng buwis at inutang sa kawatang dayuhan. Sana ay may preno ito sa pag-arangkada. At ng di rumagasa sa mga barong- barong. Malimas, madambong, pilak, gas at ginto. Habang pinapatag […]

Groups denounce killing of Moro human rights defender

Human Rights group Karapatan and Kawagib Moro Human Rights Alliance held an indignation protest Tuesday, September 25, at the Timog Circle in Quezon City against the recent killing of a Moro human rights worker in Mindanao. Mariam Uy Acob, 43 years old and paralegal of Kawagib, was gunned down by suspected military agents last September […]

CPP: ‘Red October’ plot an AFP invention

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) denied repeated claims by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) of a so-called Red October plot to oust President Rodrigo Duterte by October. The CPP said the AFP conjured the fictional plot only to set the stage for the Duterte government’s draconian measures against the people. “This […]

On conspiracy tales vs. the resumption of peace talks

Press Statement September 25, 2018 A recent interview of AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Carlito Galves and Brig. Gen. Antonio Parlade, Jr. revealed the sad truth that the Armed Forces of the Philippines remains in a quagmire of anti-democratic war-mongering, stale conspiracy peddling, and vicious red-tagging of known peace advocates in the GRP-NDFP peace process. […]

Para sa kabataan, ang pumikit ay kasalanan

Sanaysay at mga larawan ni Denver del Rosario Umulan ma’y hindi nagpatinag ang sambayanan, at kanilang isinigaw ang patuloy na panawagan, “Never again!” Sa hiyaw ng madla’y nangibabaw ang isang sektor ng lipunan na walang-sawang kumikilos at nagmumulat para sa kalayaan ng bansa. Halos limang dekada na ang nakalipas mula sa pinakamadilim na bahagi ng […]

Method in its madness

By Luis V. Teodoro Despite the bluster of President Rodrigo Duterte and his equally loud lieutenants, yes-men and accomplices in the Cabinet, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, his regime is in reality completely without anything that even approximates a rational and coherent platform of governance. It is making things up […]

Filipinos defiant under US-Duterte police state

As police troops deploy a tight cordon around Rizal Park on the 46th anniversary of martial law, persecuted Supreme Court Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno dare speak at the Luneta rally. The crowd chants “never again to martial law.” Joining the rally are farmers from as far as the Bicol region, workers, women and youth […]

Int’l tribunal finds Duterte ‘guilty’ of slaughter and other crimes

The International People’s Tribunal (IPT) held in Brussels, Belgium found President Rodrigo Roa Duterte “guilty” in a two-day hearing held in Brussels, Belgium. After hearing 31 testimonies and experts’ reports on Duterte’s alleged crimes, including his government’s war on drugs that has killed at least four thousand victims, as well as “essentially genocidal war especially […]