“I really believed, while I was in there, that they were really going to kill me.”
Day: July 17, 2015
Solon slammed for ‘arrogance’ in talks with Lumad ‘bakwets’
“If she wants to help, she should listen to us, because we experienced these abuses.”
Collective project, radical vision: Ericson Acosta’s Mula Tarima Hanggang at Iba Pang Mga Awit*
BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO Ericson Acosta, author of Mula Tarima Hanggang at Iba Pang Mga Tula at Awit (The University of the Philippines Press, 2015) spent twenty three months in prison. That is a lifetime to a dog, a long time for most of us, and a time to live through the banality of…
IPT 2015 | Int’l court hears victims of rights abuses by Aquino, US govts
“This tribunal will contribute to this record and, hopefully, the people will use its results to end impunity.”
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Teachers ask SC for TRO on Ph-Japan pacts
“This unconstitutional act embodies President Aquino’s endorsement of the militaristic path of the Abe administration, proof that he is all too willing to act as an enabler of a resurgent Japanese militarism.”
Economic crisis still afflicting the world
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective It has been seven to eight years since the world was rocked by an economic cataclysm called the housing crisis. Banks and financial investment houses that were hitherto believed to be too big to fall were rocked at its foundations when billions of dollars were lost in a high stakes…