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Pagpaslang sa mga mamamahayag sa ilalim ni Aquino, pinuna ng Human Rights Watch

  Bigo ang gobyerno ng Pilipinas na sundan ng makabuluhang aksiyon ang retorika nitong pagsuporta sa karapatang pantao at pagwakas sa impunity, o kawalang pakundangan. Sa World Report 2014 ng pandaigdigang grupong pangkarapatang pantao na Human Rights Watch (HRW) na inilabas kamakailan, sinabi nitong repleksiyon ng pagtaas ng bilang ng pinatay na mga mamamahayag ang […]

Landless farmers press for Aquino’s ouster, ‘system change’

Farmers bearing the brunt of landlessness and “fascist attacks” of state forces today marched to the gates of Malacañang to press for the ouster of President Aquino, saying that injustice has heightened 27 years after the Mendiola Massacre. Hundreds of farmers from Hacienda Luisita, Hacienda Dolores, and other areas of unresolved land disputes in Central […]

Aquino charged with plunder of P125-M Malampaya funds

Farmers from the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today filed a plunder case before the Office of the Ombudsman against Pres. Benigno Aquino III, Budget Sec. Florencio Abad, Agrarian Sec. Virgilio Delos Reyes, Janet Lim-Napoles, and nine others over the misuse of P125 Million of the Malampaya Fund. In a 16-page complaint with 70 documentary […]

Eight Months a Slave

I’ve been meaning to see the movie 12 Years a Slave. For the past few days though, I’ve been a witness to the unfolding of Erwiana’s life story that could be aptly titled “Eight Months a Slave”. Erwiana’s story can make even the most hard of hearts bleed–physically assaulted for eight months for any perceived […]

‘Palasyo, hugas-kamay sa Yolanda’

Hugas-kamay na parang si Pilato sa pagkamatay ni Kristo. Ganito inilarawan ng kabataan sa kanilang kilos-protesta sa paanan ng Malakanyang sa Mendiola Bridge. Sagot umano ito sa panukala ng administrasyong Aquino na gawing National Day of Prayer ang Enero 20 para sa mga naging biktima ng mga sakuna noong 2013. “Parang si Pilato…ang pagpapanggap ng […]

Notoryus

“Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality—thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.” – Nelson Mandela *           *           * Sipi ang nasa itaas sa blurb ni Mandela para sa Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (W. W. Norton & Company, 1993) na ni-edit ng aktibistang makatang […]