Students and teachers slam hero’s burial for dictator Marcos
Thousands of students from the University of the Philippines, Ateneo and Miriam College held a protest rally along Katipunan Ave. in Quezon City the day that Ferdinand Marcos was buried and given military honors at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. The students were joined by their professors and school administrators. Motorists also blew their car […]
STATEMENT: Treacherous burial mocks struggle for press freedom during Martial Law
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) shares the Filipino people’s outrage against the treacherous burial of the remains of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan Ng Mga Bayani. The burial mocks the life-and-death resistance of the journalists and media workers in the struggle to expand the frontiers of press freedom during […]
POOLED EDITORIAL: We will never forget
by the People’s Alternative Media Network The furtive burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani is a heinous addition to the long list of crimes of the Marcoses against the Filipino people. The Supreme Court decision dismissing the petition against the Marcos burial has yet to become final and […]
Activists vow to continue fight against the Marcoses
In a forum at the College of Law of the University of the Philippines-Diliman a day after the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos was sneakily buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, activists vow to fight efforts to what they say are obvious moves to revive “Marcosian ideology.” Bagong Alyansang Makabayan and the Campaign Against the […]
Thousands march and protest vs Marcos burial
Martial Law victims and students from the University of the Philippines-Diliman, UP Integrated School, Miriam College and Ateneo de Manila University joined forces and held protest actions a few hours after the late President Ferdinand Marcos was buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani last November 18. Enraged by the sneaky manner in which the […]
Cowardly, protesters call sneaky Marcos burial
by Abril Layad B. Ayroso “COWARDLY and like a thief in the night,” is how enraged Martial Law victims and progressive organizations called the sneaky burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) last November 18. Progressive groups launched several simultaneous protests all over Metro Manila in opposition to the […]
Martial Law victims decry surreptitious Marcos burial at LNMB
While former President Ferdinand Marcos was being buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, Martial Law victims massed up at the Philcoa in Quezon City to protest what they called a surreptitious internment last November 18. The protesters said the burial was in keeping with the nature of the Marcos dictatorship which they claim may […]
Survivors reenact Luisita massacre on 12th anniversary
Survivors reenact the Hacienda Luisita massacre at the culmination of the three-day Cultural Caravan for Land, Justice in Peace commemorating the 12th anniversary of the carnage last November 15. They also recounted the violent dispersal that killed seven strikers and injured scores of others.
Luisita farmers vow to continue struggle for land, justice and peace
Despite harassments and murders against their ranks, the farmers of Hacienda Luisita till the soil and raise their crops as part of their struggle to reclaim the land that has been decided to be theirs all along.
Consumers ask Supreme Court to nullify Meralco ‘sweetheart’ deals
Consumer group Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas with its counsel Neri Colmenares filed a petition at the Supreme Court against the government’s Energy Regulatory Commission’s (ERC) awarding of 20-year power contracts to seven private generation companies without bidding, among them are those owned by Meralco. The petition was filed on November 8, 2016. A week […]