“Colleagues are encouraged to go beyond the narrative of traffic and disruption and report on why protests are held in the first place. These inputs will help better inform the truth that we report,” the NUJP-MMC said.
CAP said the new “Bagong Pilipinas (New Philippines) hymn recalls Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s “Bagong Lipunan” (New Society) motto and hymn in the 1970s “when songs and artistic endeavors were used to whitewash plunder and widespread poverty.”
Kapatid pressed for the disqualification of Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge Cecilyn Burgos-Villavert and Manila RTC Judge Jason Zapanta for “legal and moral unfitness” because of their “fundamental violations of justice, fairness, and respect for human rights that form the bedrock of our legal system and moral law.”
“[W]e urge everyone, particularly our security forces and duty-bearers, to refrain from disseminating misconstrued information that could hinder the freedom to protest or compromise the safety of individuals exercising their democratic rights,” the CHR said.
Bayan said it is against the national interests of the Philippines to be drawn into a shooting war between the USA and China in the manner that Ukraine is a “mere pawn” between the rivalry between the North American superpower and Russia.
Four government troopers were killed last May 28, Tuesday, in an encounter with the New People’s Army (NPA) in Barangay Bazal, Maria Aurora town in Aurora Province, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) reported.
“This is proof that we can achieve more victories through collective action and with the help of our true voice inside Congress, ACT Teachers Party-list,” ACT national chairperson Vladimer Quetua said in a statement.
Public school teachers in Manila scored a victory when the Department of Education-Division of Manila (DepEd Manila) withdrew its earlier order compelling them to submit performance ratings when they were supposed to be enjoying well-deserved rest.
“With this verdict from the IPT, we have judgment from some of the world’s best legal minds and the weight of international public opinion to back the victims’ continuing quest for justice and an end to impunity,” Karapatan said.
“As a former political prisoner who fell victim to the issuance of questionable search warrants by Judge Villavert, I cannot stay silent. Between 2018 and 2020, this judge issued numerous questionable search warrants that led to the arrest and filing of trumped-up charges against 76 activists,” former political prisoner Dennise Velasco wrote.
