Ito ay kuwento ng danas at diskontento hindi lamang ni JP. Ayon sa Sine Sanyata, “Hindi lang tinig ni JP ang ating maririnig. Isinasakatauhan ni JP ang boses ng kay raming Filipino na naghihirap ngayong pandemya. Si JP ay ang masang Pilipino—inaalipusta, niloloko, nilalapastangan, at etsa-pwera ang pag-iral. Sa katunayan, tayong lahat si JP.”
“[T]he premise, framework, and implication of the use of the term ‘communist terrorist group’ render this kind of amnesty patently objectionable and unacceptable, legally and politically,” National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers president Edre Olalia said.
The artists said they wanted to call attention to the health workers’ demands and for the Philippine government to effectively respond to the worsening pandemic.
Unlike the moon you wrote about, I did / not know you were a secret poet / crafting paeans about the silent and glowing / orb across cloudless night skies / and shadow-throwing trees giving shelter / to comrades trekking dangerous mountain trails.
FARDEC said Tijamo’s abduction came after both the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Department of National Defence “baselessly” alleged FARDEC and 17 other church and non-government organizations as “communist terrorist groups” in a November 2019 Congressional briefing.
“CHRF originally hoped to continue to face the challenge with everyone in the existing ways, but convenor Figo Chan is already in jail because of several cases, and the secretariat can no longer maintain its operations. With no members participating in the next secretariat, we can only begrudgingly announce our disbandment.”
Pinangunahan ng Health Alliance for Democracy at iba pang grupo ang protesta sa harapan ng Department of Health (DOH) sa Araw ng mga Bayani, Agosto 30.
“They were among the best sons and daughters of the people who dedicated their lives to the cause of national freedom and democracy. Their deaths bear hard upon the hearts of the workers and peasants across the country and all the oppressed peoples in the entire world,” the Communist Party of the Philippines said.
“Ang balita kahapo’y kagila-gilalas / ‘Sang hiningang maluwalhating napigtas / Buhay na tapat sa hangaring lumaya / Kamataya’y makapangyarihang tula…”
“State armed forces seem confused about what terrorism is. Serving the people—which was what Kerima Lorena Tariman did—is not terrorism,” UMA chairperson Antonio Flores said.