‘Evil and crooked’: Councilor, employees unions condemn dismissal of 60 Bacolod employees
“These members of the BACIWA Board of Directors believed that they are the ‘absolute authority’ by issuing arbitrary, capricious, and illegal resolutions and orders which completely gave PrimeWater total supervision and control over its management, operations, collections, and the trampling of employees’ rights. Now, they have evolved as the henchmen of PrimeWater,” Bacolod City Councilor Wilson Gamboa fumed.
PNP’s Oplan Sauron and SEMPO killed the Tumandok 9—Bishop
San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza said that the Rizal Day massacre of the Tumandok is similar to the massacre of six and the mass arrest of 26 in the towns Guihulngan, Mabinay, and Sta. Catalina in Negros Oriental in December 2018 as well as the killing of 14 farmers in the island in March 2019.
Gov’t ignores appeal for Ladlad’s hospitalization; Alcantara’s son arrested to force father to surrender
“I am appealing to Manila RTC (Regional Trial Court) Branch 32 Judge Thelma Bunyi Medina for prompt action now on our motion to bring my husband, political prisoner Vicente Ladlad, to MMC for immediate treatment for repeated chest tightness since 11 AM today,” Fides Lim said.
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).
AFP, PNP troops kill 5 mango orchard workers in Rizal
Troops belonging to the 2nd Infantry Division (2ID) of the AFP and the Region IV-A Command of the PNP killed Carlito Zonio, Vilma Salabao, Wesley Obmerga, Jonathan Alberga, and Niño Alberga, workers of a mango farm in Sitio Malalim, Barangay San Juan of the said town, human rights group Karapatan-Southern Tagalog 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!
Alvin Luque’s journey to immortality
“I have no regrets with the choice I have made…and I will use this life to make my mark, together with other revolutionaries, in liberating the people from a rotten society. And should I die in the course of this fight, it is one death I know that is well worth bearing.” — Alvin Luque / Ka Joaquin Jacinto
Duterte gov’t fails to meet its human rights obligations amid the pandemic
The Duterte administration’s so-called emergency assistance is so small that it is just a token measure to give the illusion of responding. Tens of millions of Filipinos are not getting any help causing millions to go hungry and sink deeper into poverty.