UP holds Black Friday Protest vs NutriAsia violence
Students of the University of the Philippines denounced the violent dispersal of striking workers by condiment manufacturer NutriAsia in a Black Friday Protest last August 3. The students said the Rodrigo Duterte government is equally liable for the violence on the workers and their supporters as the incident is symptomatic of intensifying state fascism all […]
Cordillerans to launch #DEFENDCORDILLERA campaign on IP Day
Activists will commemorate International Day of the Worlds’ Indigenous Peoples (IPs) on Thursday, August 9, in Baguio City to call for a stop to intensified attacks, plunder of ancestral land and resources, militarization, and the criminalization of indigenous human rights defenders, In a press conference in the said city Monday, August 6, the Cordillera People’s […]
The ignorance that kills
By Luis V. Teodoro Within months of his coming to power in 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte’s profanities, tirades, threats, outrageous remarks about women, human rights, heads of foreign states, and what he was actually doing, had called the attention of international media — in Japan, the United States and Europe — to what was happening […]
UNITED PEOPLE’S SONA 2018: ‘Walang forever na diktador!’
Tens of thousands of protesters filled the main avenue leading to President Rodrigo Duterte’s third State of the Nation Address last July 23, 2018. The march and protest rally, dubbed the broadest SONA protest against arroyo gathered groups from many political colors and stripes, leading Bagong Alyansang Makabayan secretary general Renato Reyes Jr. to quip […]
Theater of the absurd
By Luis V. Teodoro A television comedy director was supposed to direct it, and did hold at least one rehearsal over the weekend. But the directorial prowess of Joyce Bernal wasn’t in much evidence except in President Rodrigo Duterte’s subdued though less than forthright State of the Nation Address (SONA) this year. Together with the […]
Boracay
Ni George Tumaob Calaor naghasik ka ng dahas at nilukob ng takot yaring isla ng aking pangarap at yaong pangarap para sa aking mga supling ay naging bangungot sa karimlang aninag ay hindik sa kanilang kinabukasan. yaong buhanging dati’y napakadalisay kay pino at puti buhanging kumakastilyo sa masagana naming pamumuhay buhanging sanay tumatawid […]
Itanong Mo Kay Prof: Ang SONA ni Duterte 2018
Sa episode na ito ng Itanong Mo Kay Prof nina Jose Maria Sison at Sarah Raymundo, sinuma at tinasa nila ang ikatlong State of the Nation Address ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte noong ika-23 ng Hulyo. Ayon kay Prof. Sison, mahalagang kaganapan ang pagkakaisa ng mas maraming sektor sa mga protesta laban sa mga pagkukulang ni […]
Lawyers, groups slam arrest warrants vs Satur Ocampo, others
Groups and lawyers condemned the issuance of warrants of arrests against four well-known activists at a press conference in Quezon City Friday. They explained that the resurrected case against Satur Ocampo, Rafael Mariano, Liza Maza and Teddy Casiño were based on lies as proven in another court and the Commission on Elections and that they […]
Victims decry Arroyo’s ‘resurrection’ as House speaker
A day after former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo wrested the House of Representatives speakership in a controversial manner Monday, families of victims of human rights violations held a press conference and vowed to bring her to justice. Under Arroyo’s Oplan Bantay Laya counter-insurgency program, more than 1,600 were killed extrajudicially while 200 remain missing to […]
Nato on trolls: ‘Let us not allow them to win’
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) secretary general Renato Reyes Jr. is pushing back hard against online bashers he believes are “Duterte-Marcos trolls,” adding he has already consulted lawyers for appropriate legal action. “I decry the orchestrated online slander campaign instigated by Duterte-Marcos trolls against me and the broad United People’s SONA,” Reyes told Kodao. Reyes cited […]