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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 1. Read more
HIGHLIGHTS of the International Conference for People’s Rights in the Philippines (ICPRP) held in Davao City on July 23-24, 2016.
Over 300 delegates from all over the world participated in the conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Algiers Universal Declaration on the Rights of Peoples.
PROGRESSIVE organizations held a rally in front of the United States Embassy in Manila last July 26 to protest the final Supreme Court ruling declaring the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the US and the Philippines legal.
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan’s Renato Reyes said that EDCA is an unjust agreement that is only advantageous to the US. Read more
Coming from international solidarity missions, global activists join BAYAN-Southern Mindanao Region in a picket at the regional office of the Commission on Human Rights in Davao City to protest the killing of Hermie Alegre, chairperson of the Parents- Teachers Association of the Salugpungan Lumad school, and wounding of Bagobo tribal chieftain Datu Danny Diarog. The lumad leaders were attacked on July 15, 2016 while on their way home from a meeting with the National Commission on Indigenous People. Protesters also mobilized for the http://justpeace.ph/ campaign.
The JustPeacePH platform mobilizes at the International Conference for People’s Rights in the Philippines (ICPRP) held in Davao City on July 24-25, 2016. It supports the resumption of peace talks between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), release of all political prisoners, dismantling of para-military groups and an end to militarization.
Footage of torch march taken at the visit to the UCCP Haran evacuees.
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TENS of thousands of activists from all over the Philippines gathered in front of the House of Representatives to hold the biggest State of the Nation Address rally in decades.
Allowed to march as close to the venue of President Rodrigo Duterte’s first SONA speech, the rally was also the most peaceful in years.
The activists applauded some of Duterte’s pronouncements, specifically on the lowering of income taxes and unilateral declaration of ceasefire with the New People’s Army.
Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano joined this morning’s Human Chain for Just and Lasting Peace at the Quezon Memorial Circle.
In anticipation of 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) in Oslo, Norway in August, the activity is one of the support activities organized by progressive organizations. Read more
KARAPATAN secretary general Cristina Palabay talks about the postponement of the resumption of formal talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
Earlier this week, the GRP announced that it will ask the NDFP for a month-long postponement to effect the release of NDFP consultants and allow them to participate in the formal talks.
Both parties originally scheduled their formal talks on the third week of this month. Read more
SA isang bansang ang karamihan ay maralitang magbubukid, marami ang palipat-lipat ng sakahan upang makisaka. Wala silang sariling lupa. Ang kanilang pangunahing puhunan ay ang kanilang lakas-paggawa, nagbabakasakali ng magandang ani. Tumatanggap lamang sila ng 10 hanggang 15 porsyentong bahagi ng ani. Sa maraming pagkakataong wala silang ani dahil sa kalamidad, patuloy pa rin silang nagbubungkal at umaasa.
Alamin ang buhay ng mga Samak, ang mga nakikisakang magbubukid. (Maigsing bidyo-dokumentaryo ni Amel Sabangan)
CHIEF government negotiator Silvestre Bello III speaks about their impending resumption of formal talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.
In this video, Bello warns about ‘enemies of peace’ who may attempt to derail the talks to embarrass President Rodrigo Duterte. He also mentions those who have ideological disputes with the NDFP, war hawks and those with ‘distorted’ political agenda as groups that do not want the formal peace negotiations to succeed.
Watch the full video on the prospects of the GRP-NDFP peace talks. (Interview by Raymund Villanueva / Video by Pom Cahilog-Villanueva)