STREETWISE: Why peace talks hang in the balance
Streetwise By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Why peace talks still hang in the balance And so it has come to this. After stoking such high expectations about the resumption of peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and what the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) considers the top “security threat” in […]
PEACE TALKS NECESSARY TO ADDRESS MODE OF CEASEFIRE–NDFP
THE National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) said its guerillas can still use command-detonated landmines as there is no valid ceasefire between the New People’s Army (NPA) and Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) soldiers and police forces. In a statement following President Rodrigo Duterte’s latest threat of withdrawing from the peace […]
GRP NAMES BAUTISTA AND PAMINTUAN AS PEACE PANEL ADVISERS
QUEZON City Mayor Herbert Bautista and Angeles City Mayor Ed Pamintuan will join the government negotiating team at the resumption of formal peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) on August 20 in Oslo, Norway. GRP chief negotiator and labor secretary […]
NDFP consultants to be released through JASIG–Bello
DETAINED National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultants may still be released to join the resumption of formal peace negotiations with the Government of the Philippines (GRP) on August 20 in Oslo, Norway. Chief GRP negotiator Silvestre Bello III said that they are working on the release of 22 NDFP negotiators through the Joint […]
ITANONG MO KAY PROF: Unilateral Ceasefire at Usapang Pangkapayapaan
Itanong Mo Kay Prof Hinggil sa unilateral ceasefire at usapang pangkapayapaan August 3, 2016 Opening Spiel ni Prof. Sarah: Mainit na pagbati sa mga tagapakinig ng Itanong Mo Kay Prof. Muli nating makakapanayam ang Chief Consultant ng NDFP para sa Usapang Pangkapayapaan at tagapangulo ng International League of People’s Struggles. Naging malakas ang ugong ng […]
UP students slam ‘repressive’ enrollment policies
YOUTH activist groups protested at the University of the Philippines (UP) yesterday to condemn its administration for imposing “repressive” policies that force students to undergo “very difficult” enrollment procedures. Students of the national university slammed what they call an enrollment fiasco brought by the “failure” of the new online registration systems launched by UP’s Alfredo Pascual […]
Kidapawan victim’s dad charges ‘witness’ for perjury
EBAO SULANG, father of Kidapawan shooting victim Darwin Sulang, filed perjury charges against Senate witness Charlie “Longhair” Pasco at the Department of Justice yesterday. Pasco testified before Senate investigative committee hearings last April that the younger Sulang was carrying a gun when he was gunned down during a violent dispersal of protesting farmers last April […]
Land grabbing endangers PH agri productivity–experts
FOOD security activists challenged the Rodrigo Duterte government to end land grabbing activities against farmers and indigenous peoples in a conference last August 1 at Balay Kalinaw, University of the Philippines-Diliman. The Philippine Network of Security Food Programmes, Inc. (PNSFP) presented cases of land grabbing throughout the country, as well as their campaigns and mass […]
STREETWISE: Dark clouds over GPH-NDFP peace talks
By Carol P. Araullo PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte’s dramatic declaration of a unilateral ceasefire vis a vis the CPP-NPA-NDFP to usher in the peace talks slated to resume on August 20 was, for all intents and purposes, one of the high points of his one-and-a-half-hour-long State of the Nation Address (SONA) last July 25. He said it […]
Sison: NDFP has been patient and working hard for peace
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF THE PHILIPPINES (NDFP) chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison said that President Rodrigo Duterte failed to display patience in preempting the Communist Party of the Philippines’ announcement of its own unilateral declaration of ceasefire last night. In this interview, Sison responds to Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process chairperson Jesus Dureza’s […]