Macky Macaspac

Macky Macaspac

Macky Macaspac is a writer and photojournalist.

Alyado ni Pangulong Aquino inakusahang nang-aagaw ng lupa sa Bulacan

Inakusahan ng Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) ng pangangamkam ng lupa ng mga magsasaka sa Kaybanban, San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan si Jose Acuzar, bayaw ni Executive Sec. Paquito Ochoa. Si Acuzar ang tagapangulo ng New San Jose Builders at nagmamay-ari rin ng Goldenville Realty Development Corporation. Aabot sa mahigit 80 ektarya ng produktibong lupaing […]

Larawan | Mag-asawang Tiamzon, sinampahan ng bagong ‘gawa-gawang’ kaso

Sinampahan ng panibagong kasong kriminal sina Wilma Austria at Benito Tiamzon, mga lider ng rebolusyonaryong kilusan, sa Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 81. Kinasuhan ang dalawa ng kidnapping and serious illegal detention dahil daw sa pagdukot sa isang ahente ng Narcotics Command  at tatlong iba pang elemento ng militar sa Mauban, Quezon noong 1998. […]

Magsasaka ng Hacienda Luisita, wala nang lupa, dinadahas pa

Putok ang ulo, bali ang kamay, inaresto, kinulong at ngayon patuloy na tinatakot. Ganito ang nararanasan ng mga magsasaka sa Hacienda Luisita ngayon. Sa kabila ng desisyon ng Korte Suprema na ipamahagi na ang libu-libong ektarya ng lupaing agrikultural sa asyenda, nananatiling nasa kontrol ito ng pamilyang Cojuangco-Aquino. Sa katunayan, dalawang korporasyon na pag-aari rin […]

Rights groups slam trumped-up charges vs activists, peace consultants

Human rights groups picketed the Manila Regional Trial Court to call for the junking of murder charges against former Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo and some peace consultants of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), including Randall Echanis, Rafael Baylosis, Vicente Ladlad, and the recently arrested Benito Tiamzon and Wilma Austria. The clarificatory […]

Arrests, extra-judicial killing of activists intensify

Human rights group Karapatan condemned the recent arrest of a pregnant daughter of the late Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) spokesman Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal–the latest in a series of arrests and killings of supposed revolutionary leaders and sympathizers across the country. Andrea Rosal, nine months pregnant, was arrested by elements of the National […]

Revolutionary groups press for Tiamzons’ release, refute gov’t claims

Members of a revolutionary women’s group marched in downtown Manila to press for the release of Wilma Austria-Tiamzon and Benito Tiamzon, alleged leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and peace consultants for the underground umbrella group National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). Their faces covered in masks, members of Makabayang Kilusan […]

Larawan | Kasunduan para sa pagbase ng militar ng US sa PH, ipinrotesta ng progresibong mga grupo

Sinugod ng progresibong mga grupo sa ilalim ng Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) ang himpilan ng Department of National Defense sa Kampo Aguinaldo, Quezon City para iprotesta ang ika-pitong round ng mga negosasyon para sa "Enhanced Defense Cooperation" sa pagitan ng gobyerno ng Pilipinas at US. Para sa Bayan, lantarang paglabag sa soberanya ng Pilipinas ang naturang kasunduan

Rising number of extra-judicial killings in 2014 alarms rights group

Eleven cases of extra-judicial killings in 10 weeks. Human rights advocates, in a picket-protest in front of the Department of Justice (DOJ), called attention to this fact and urged the  Aquino government to find and punish the perpetrators of these killings and other human rights violations. “If the Aquino government cannot control and stop its […]

Luisita farmers urge DOJ to act on complaints

Hacienda Luisita farmers led by the Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala) trooped to the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging Sec. Leila de Lima to act on their complaints of harassment by security forces of Tarlac Development Corporation (Tadeco) who were fencing and bulldozing their crops and farmlands. The group also filed […]