PODCAST: Concha Araneta Bocala on genuine agrarian reform and national industrialization
Ang panayam kay Concha Araneta-Bocala, Consultant ng National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) ay bahagi ng programa sa radyo sa panahon ng Kampuhan ng mga Lakyabanis ng Visayas. Ginanap ito noong Disyembre 7, 2016 sa Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Sina Raymund Villanueva ng Kodao Productions at Ronalyn Olea ng Bulatlat.com at Vice President […]
PODCAST: Concha Araneta-Bocala hinggil sa CASER at karanasan niya bilang political detainee
Ang panayam kay Concha Araneta-Bocala, Consultant ng National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) ay bahagi ng programa sa radyo sa panahon ng Kampuhan ng mga Lakbayanis ng Visayas. Ginanap ito noong Disyembre 7, 2016 sa Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Sina Raymund Villanueva ng Kodao Productions at Ronalyn Olea ng Bulatlat.com at Vice President […]
Activists slam Duterte on Human Rights Day
PROGRESSIVE organizations have had enough of human rights violations under the five month old Rodrigo Duterte government. Thousands of torch-bearing activists stormed Mendiola on International Human Rights Day last December 10 to protest human rights violations under Duterte, including more than 6,000 extrajudicial killings, militarization of communities and the hero’s burial of the late dictator […]
Karapatan: State terror continues
Tinay Palabay of the people’s rights alliance KARAPATAN, martial law victim Boni Ilagan of CARMMA(Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses to Malacañang) and Nato Reyes of BAYAN (Bagong Alyansang Makabayan) address a rally marking International Human Rights Day 2016 in Manila. Protesters marched from Liwasang Bonifacio to Mendiola where they burned an effigy of […]
Activists condemn human rights violations under Duterte
Thousands of activists slammed continuing human rights violations under the Rodrigo Duterte administration in rallies on International HUman Rights Day last Friday. In Manila, the main rally led by Karapatan said Duterte is not serious in giving justice to victims of rights violations. Instead, the activists said Duterte buried the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos as […]
Lawyers present six reasons why political prisoners must be freed
People’s lawyers held a press conference at Mendiola this morning and cited six reasons for the immediate release of all political prisoners. The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) and the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) joined human rights victims and their kin in solidarity fasting and stressed the legal and humanitarian grounds for the release. […]
Sison: CPP ready to terminate ceasefire if political detainees are not released by January
Kodao’s Raymund Villanueva interviews National Democratic Front of the Philippines chief political consultant Prof. Jose Maria Sison on President Rodrigo Duterte’s promise to release all political prisoners, ceasefire, peace talks, new AFP chief of staff Eduardo Año, and extra-judicial killings connected to the so-called drug war. Kodao: In a recent interview, you said the […]
NDFP will not be swayed by Duterte’s ultimatums–Agcaoili
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte is mistaken to think that the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) would be swayed into signing a bilateral ceasefire with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines, NDFP Negotiating Panel chairperson Fidel Agcaoili said. Reacting to Duterte’s threat that he will not release political prisoners without a signed bilateral ceasefire […]
Caring and dying for their land
(Datu Jimboy singing) This was not a party, more so a karaoke party that Filipinos are known for. The song was not about love or any other ordinary ditty. The venue was not in a bar nor a concert hall and the singer is not a pop star. The occassion was a solidarity event among […]
Peace consultant reads poem on freedom of political prisoners
Natuional Democratic Front of the Philippines peace consultant Tirso “Ka Bart”Alcantara reads his poem “Pangako ng Kalayaan” at the Laya event held at Bamboo Intramuros, Manila on December 3, 2016. The event was organized by the people’s rights alliance Karapatan to call for the release of all political prisoners.