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Election watchdog accuses Comelec of undermining credibility of polls

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Election watchdog Kontra Daya accused the Commission on Elections of failing to address issues that may lead to massive fraud in the May 9 elections.

In a press conference in Quezon City, the group enumerated issues that “pose great danger to the security and accuracy of the counting of…votes.”

“It has opened avenues for cheating and disenfranchisement, and has eroded even further the credibility of the upcoming polls,” Kontra Daya convenor Giovanni Tapang said.

Here is a video of the press conference.

Workers successfully hold rally at US Consulate on Labor Day

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Thousands of workers and their supporters overpowered phalanxes of Philippine National Police personnel to reach Roxas Boulevard in front of the United States Consulate on May 1.

Wanting to close their Labor Day activities by holding a rally in front of the consulate to denounce increased US military presence in the Philippines, the protesters used their superior number in overpowering hastily organized police lines.

Kilusang Mayo Uno, organizer of the biggest Labor Day event in the capital, said that neo-liberal policies dictated by the US on the Benigno Aquino government is to be blamed for the low wages and labor-only contracting policies they suffer.

Workers launch national minimum wage campaign

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The group All Workers Unity held a rally on April 25, 2016 from Rizal Park to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Intramuros Manila to launch their national minimum wage campaign.

The group challenges the outgoing Benigno Aquino government to raise private sector workers’wage by P750 and set the minimum salary of P16,000.

Members of Kilusang Mayo Uno, Gabriela Women’s Party and the Pinagkaisang Samahan ng Tsuper and Operators Nationwide danced on the street to dramatize their campaign.

The event is a warm up activity for the massive Labor Day rallies on May 1, the groups said. (With reports by Jonamel Baquiran. Photos by Danica del Valle)

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Farmers were clearly targeted, lawyer says

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Darwin Sulang, one of the two killed in the violent dispersal of protesting farmers in Kidapawan City last April was targeted by a police sniper.

This was revealed by peoples’ lawyer Ephraim Cortez in a press conference with other human rights defenders and peasant leaders in Quezon City last April 15.

Cortez said that the results of the autopsy conducted by Prof. Racquel Fortun last April 9 indicate that Sulang was deliberately shot based on how cleanly he was shot between the eyes.

Fortun also examined Enrico Fabligar’s cadaver, Cortes said.

The victims did not die of mauling or heat stroke as the Philippine National Police (PNP) stated, the lawyer said.

Cortes said they will include these evidence as part of their defense of the farmers and in their counter charges against the PNP.

CONTRIBUTED VIDEO: DOJ asked to release arrested Kidapawan farmers

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Kidapawan farmers and their supporters picketed the Department of Justice on April 13 in the Philippines to press for the immediate release of those illegally detained by the police and pursue justice for the victims of the bloody dispersal of April 1.

Only 10 of the 77 farmers arrested have been released as of April 14. The detainees include three pregnant women and several elderly.

(Video by ILPS-Philippines)

UP professor reveals harassment of farmers in Kidapawan

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University of the Philippines Professor Gerardo Lanuza reveals in a press conference the continuing harassment victims of the April 1 Kidapawan shooting suffer.

Lanuza participated in a fact-finding mission to Kidapawan a few days after the incident. He was assigned to interview four injured farmers, but was prevented by the presence of four soldiers armed with assault rifles inside a local hospital.

In this video, Lanuza enumerates the various ways in which the police and the Philippine Army make injured farmer Christopher Lumandang suffer even further.

(Featured image of Christopher Lumandang by Kilab Multimedia)

CONTRIBUTED VIDEO: Nora Aunor joins solidarity action for Kidapawan victims

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Philippine movie superstar Nora Aunor joins a solidarity action in Manila for the victims of the violent dispersal of farmers in Kidapawan, North Cotabato last April 1.

Aquino gov’t condemned at Global Day of Action on Kidapawan shooting

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Hundreds of activists and peasant supporters marched from Quiapo to Mendiola in downtown Manila today to condemn the Aquino government for the violent dispersal of peasants in Kidapawan City last April 1.

Blaming government inaction in the face of the prolonged drought in the country, activists started their rally in front of the Quiapo Church where a special Mass was celebrated for the victims.

At Mendiola, Suara Bangsamoro spokesperson and shooting survivor Jerome Succor Aba narrated how their efforts to seek relief from the government were instead met with bullets and truncheons.

Actors Nora Aunor and Monique Wilson attended the rally and took turns in blaming the government for failing to care for the starving peasants in Mindanao.

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Kidapawan negotiator recalls carnage

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Jerome Succor Aba recalls events immediately before and after the violent dispersal in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato last April 1 that killed at least two civilians and hurt more than a hundred.

He was negotiating with the police when the protesting farmers where attacked.

During a solidarity event for the victims of the dispersal at the University of the Philippines, Aba and farmer Mercedita Iyong explain the reason for the barricade and the response they received from the local government unit.

Ka Roger and Ka Soly laid to rest

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Here is a video of the funeral march of Gregorio and Soledad Rosal who were finally laid to rest in Ibaan, Batangas last March 31.

Ka Roger died due to a heart attack last 2011 while his wife Ka Solly was killed in an encounter in Southern Tagalog in 2013.

Roger acted as Communist Party of the Philippines spokesperson until his death. His remains were hidden for five years due to security threats.