Progressives lead ‘Black Friday’ anti-Marcos rally
Progressive organizations came out in force to lead the Black Friday protest at the Quirino Grandstand last November 25. Led by the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses to Malacanang (CARMMA), the rally steadily grew until tens of thousands eventually flocked to the venue participated by students and private and government office workers. Protesting […]
Old and young meet at Black Friday anti-Marcos protest
“Millennials” and “Gen Z post-millennials” meet up with martial law veterans in an anti-Marcos march and rally at the Rizal Park on “Black Friday,” November 25, 2016. Among the speakers who expressed elation at the huge turnout from the youth and student sector were Bonifacio Ilagan, Wigberto Tanada, Sr. Mary John Mananza, Edita Burgos, and Satur […]
Black Friday: A fiesta of furious and funny placards
Thousands of youth and students who grew up with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram stamped their mark on the Black Friday protest at Rizal Park with both enraged and funny placards that became one of the focal points of the event. Tirelessly holding the placards aloft, the young protesters tried to outdo each other with the […]
Black Friday protests rage throughout the Philippines
FOR THE thousands of participants at the “Black Friday” protest at Rizal Park last November 25, Ferdinand Marcos’s heroes burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani is part of a plan to fully reinstate his family as the country’s most powerful political clan. Braving rains brought by Typhoon Marce, the massive rally participated by thousands of […]
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Massive ‘Black Friday’ protest fight against revision of history, organizers say
ACTIVISTS are asking the Filipino people to join the fight against the revision of history and the total political rehabilitation of the Marcos clan. In a press conference last November 23, members of Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses to Malacanang (CARMMA) and other progressive organizations called on Filipinos to participate in the planned […]
NUJP Statement: End Impunity; Justice Now!
by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines November 23, 2009 is a day that will forever live in infamy, not only for the Philippine media community, which lost 32 of its own in what is now acknowledged as the single deadliest attack on the press on record, but also the for the country’s […]
POOLED EDITORIAL: Seven years of injustice for Ampatuan victims, reign of impunity must end
by the People’s Alternative Media Network THAT JUSTICE remains elusive seven years since the Ampatuan massacre proves how the culture of impunity persists today. We are alarmed that recent events including the Marcos burial and continuing extrajudicial killings not only of alleged drug personalities but also of activists and journalists feed such an environment under […]
Journalists and victims’ kin decry impunity 7 years after Ampatuan massacre
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippine and the families of victims of the Ampatuan Massacre trooped to Mendiola last November 23 to demand justice for the mass murder of 58 civilians including 32 journalists in 2009. The NUJP demanded a stop to the culture of impunity as it noted that journalists are still […]