The land had just yielded a bountiful rice harvest. Farmers were just about ready to sow mongo seeds to rejuvenate the land and prepare it for the next planting season. But on the morning of January 16, farmers in Brgy. Cutcut woke up to find that a hut, a security outpost of the Cojuangco-owned Tarlac […]
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 […]
Alam ng mga Pilipino sa ibang bayan kung papaano pagmalupitan ng kanilang mga amo. Nitong Linggo, Enero 19, nakiisa ang mga migranteng Pilipino sa Hong Kong, gayundin ang iba pang mga Pilipino sa ibang bansa, para humingi ng hustisya sa sinapit ni Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, Indones na foreign worker sa Hong Kong na maraming beses na […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Balik-Kongreso na ang mga mambabatas ng 16th Congress matapos ang holiday break. Pero pinatikim na agad sila ng kilos-protesta ng militanteng mga grupo.
“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 […]
