Fan Girl Review: Allegory of the Diehard Devout Stan (DDS)
Disturbingly dark, twisted, unforgiving in its honesty and social commentary, and arguably her best and bravest yet, Fan Girl is entirely unlike any other movie by Jadaone. And we need more stories like this now. More than ever.
2020 saw most brazen abuses vs journalism—NUJP
The year 2020 had been particularly bad for journalism in the Philippines that saw more media workers killed, arrested, jailed and lose their jobs, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) reported.
Another farmer killed in Bohol as 9 Tumandok are massacred in Panay
Another peasant activist in Bohol Province was killed just as nine Tumandok civilians in Panay Island were being massacred last Wednesday in one of the bloodiest day for farmers under the four-year old Rodrigo Duterte government.
Gov’t troops massacre 9 Tumandok in Panay
Two days before the year ends, 12th Infantry Battalion-Philippine Army (12IBPA) troopers and the Philippine National Police in Western Visayas swooped down on Tumandok communities in Calinog in Iloilo and Tapaz in Capiz and killed the victims in a Synchronized Enhanced Management of Police Operations (SEMPO).
NDFP reveals CPP-NPA urged to form partisan teams ‘to fight gov’t abuses’
Sison said there are enough bases for small teams “to conduct armed partisan operations in the cities to mete out revolutionary justice against Duterte’s terrorist forces based in the urban areas.”
CPP claims NPA builds new guerilla fronts despite AFP’s all-out war
The CPP said the NPA has built new guerrilla fronts and expanded old guerrilla fronts in several regions – including Southern Tagalog, Bicol, Negros, Eastern Visayas, Northeast Mindanao, North Central Mindanao, Southern Mindanao and Far South Mindanao — despite the large-scale and sustained military operations mounted by the AFP the past year.
Sea of white makes crusading Bishop’s heart grateful
“We are very much in touch with our people and we truly express their deepest sentiments when we called on them to wear white as an act of solidarity and to express our desire for and commitment to peace, sanctity of life, human dignity and human rights, and our collective call to end the killings, COVID pandemic and abuse of our common home,” San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza said.
Bishop calls on faithful to wear white to end extrajudicial killings in Negros
“As your Bishop, I encourage you all who will come for Mass to wear white…to express our desire for and commitment to peace, sanctity of life, human dignity and human rights and our collective call to end the killings, the Covid pandemic and abuse of our common home,” Alminaza said.
Huling Yakap ni Nanay Sonya
Sa isang kisapmata, ang iyong humulagpos na yakap/at nabubuwal na hapong katawan aking nasilayan;/gusto kung sumigaw: ‘Wag mo akong bitawan, Nanay,/
higpitan mo pa ang iyong mapag-aruga , mapag-adyang/mga yakap — labanan natin. Ang dilim!
‘The killings in Tarlac are part of a pattern of abuse’
“The killings in Tarlac are not isolated incidents but are part of a pattern of abuse and impunity among the police, enabled by the current regime. From the drug war, war on critics, to quarantine enforcement, we reap the horrors today. #StopTheKillingsPH #EndPoliceBrutality”