Rights groups express alarm over intensified harassment
By Joseph Cuevas Karapatan and other progressive groups scored the government over recent incidents of harassments and red-tagging of progressive organizations and activists. Karapatan linked this series of attacks to the alleged ‘Red October’ destabilization plot the military and police said the Communist Party of the Philippines and other groups are about to launch this […]
Would CASER have prevented mining disasters?
SPECIAL REPORT By Raymund B. Villanueva National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant Randy Malayao can only shake his head as he looked at photos of the landslide in Itogon, Benguet last month that reportedly killed 69 residents, majority of whom were miners and their families. Initial reports said the tragedy was brought […]
‘Kalokohan ‘yang Red October na ‘yan’
“Iyong Red October plot na inilalako ng gubyerno, kalokohan talaga iyon. Mabuti pa, pag-usapan na lang ang panawagan ng magsasaka dahil ang Oktubre ay Peasant Month.”—Evangeline Hernandez, Chaiperson, Hustisya
Rate hike for Maynilad customers approved: Looming increase in water rates to burden consumers more
Amid soaring prices, the MWSS Board of Trustees has given the nod to higher water rates for Maynilad Water Systems Inc. This and impending Manila Water Company, Inc. rate increases are bound to burden consumers anew, said water rights group Water for the People Network (WPN). WPN urged the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System-Regulatory Office […]
Ang inyong matatamis na ngiti
Ni Ibarra Banaag Sana’y di nagkamali sa treno’ng inyong sinakyan. Nakakaaliw man at nakakabingi ang hagikgikan. Ang sumakay ay di libre bagkus ay babayaran. Ng buwis at inutang sa kawatang dayuhan. Sana ay may preno ito sa pag-arangkada. At ng di rumagasa sa mga barong- barong. Malimas, madambong, pilak, gas at ginto. Habang pinapatag […]
CPP: ‘Red October’ plot an AFP invention
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) denied repeated claims by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) of a so-called Red October plot to oust President Rodrigo Duterte by October. The CPP said the AFP conjured the fictional plot only to set the stage for the Duterte government’s draconian measures against the people. “This […]
Panayam kay Dan Balusio ng BAYAN Bikol sa ika 46th na Komemorasyon ng Martial Law
Setyembre 21, 2018 – Panoorin ang panayam kay Dan Balusio, Secretary-General ng BAYAN Bikol hinggil sa kalagayan at panawagan ng mamamayan ng rehiyong Bikol tungkol sa Martial Law mula noon hanggang ngayon.
Para sa kabataan, ang pumikit ay kasalanan
Sanaysay at mga larawan ni Denver del Rosario Umulan ma’y hindi nagpatinag ang sambayanan, at kanilang isinigaw ang patuloy na panawagan, “Never again!” Sa hiyaw ng madla’y nangibabaw ang isang sektor ng lipunan na walang-sawang kumikilos at nagmumulat para sa kalayaan ng bansa. Halos limang dekada na ang nakalipas mula sa pinakamadilim na bahagi ng […]
Method in its madness
By Luis V. Teodoro Despite the bluster of President Rodrigo Duterte and his equally loud lieutenants, yes-men and accomplices in the Cabinet, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, his regime is in reality completely without anything that even approximates a rational and coherent platform of governance. It is making things up […]
Filipinos defiant under US-Duterte police state
As police troops deploy a tight cordon around Rizal Park on the 46th anniversary of martial law, persecuted Supreme Court Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno dare speak at the Luneta rally. The crowd chants “never again to martial law.” Joining the rally are farmers from as far as the Bicol region, workers, women and youth […]