Andrea Rosal: Freedom at great cost

Press Statement 7 September 2015 9:15 pm After 18 months in jail, Andrea Rosal, worthy daughter of a worthy father, is finally and rightfully free again. Her freedom is due to the resolute legal battle and campaign, no thanks to this government which inhumanly refuses or ignores pleas for compassion and humanitarian cries. She has […]

IPT 2015: A victory of the Filipino People

(While waiting for the verdict by the jury of the International Peoples’ Tribunal on US-Aquino governments’ crimes against the Filipino people./Photo by Jonna Baldres) July 19, 2015   The Philippines Chapter of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS-Phils) hails the conclusion of the International Peoples’ Tribunal (IPT 2015) in Washington, D.C. as it finds […]

IPT: The trial of Pres. Aquino and US government on crimes committed against Filipino people

A media conference was held at the Quezon Memorial Circle at Quezon City this June 16, 2015. Atty. Edre Olalia, secretary general of National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers explains the International Peoples Tribunal and the charges/grounds of the defendants, President Benigno Aquino III and the government of the United States of America, represented by President […]

P1NAS: Hands off Philippines, independence day twin rally

A twin rally was held last June 12, 2015, independence day in front of China embassy at Makati City and US embassy at Manila, to calls on the Filipino people to stand in defense of national sovereignty and territorial integrity against the foreign powers that seek to tear the Philippines apart. Chinese Consulate to US […]

Mary Jane Veloso is Flor Contemplacion Part II

The story of Mary Jane Veloso is Flor Contemplacion Part II but for the much happier ending: her execution by firing squad for drug trafficking having been held in abeyance by Indonesian President Jokowi Widodo at the eleventh hour. In the case of Contemplacion, which by the way happened twenty years ago, last ditch efforts […]

Migrante Int’l explains why Mary Jane got last minute reprieve

The organization that led the worldwide campaign to save the life of Mary Jane Veloso explains how the Filipina on death row got a last minute reprieve from the Indonesian government last night. Veloso was the only one spared in Indonesia’s mass execution of one local and eight foreigners convicted of drug possession and trafficking. […]

Aquino’s criminal liability — 5 cases

At the public launch of NOW! (Noynoy Out Now), presented March 5, 2015, Atty. Edre Olalia of the NUPL (National Union of People’s Lawyers) cited Pres. Aquino’s criminal liability in at least five cases: 1) DAP; 2) EDCA; 3) Yolanda; 4) Impunity; and 5) Mamasapano.