Main Story: Murdered labor leader Rolando Olalia cased by Special Operations Group under Defense department - witness By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Former Air Force Lt. Col. Eduardo “Red” Kapunan managed to evade detention at the Rizal Provincial Jail...
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“The Army's non-compliance with a categorical and unqualified order of the Court is not unexpected. They have done this before over and over again.” – private prosecutor
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Main Story: A signed ‘framework agreement doesn’t mean fight is over’ MANILA – The supporters and fighters of the Bangsamoro people may have the trust and allegiance of progressive peoples’ organizations in the Philippines, but...
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The two peace panels still have to agree to at least three remaining contentious points that should have been part of the signed framework agreement. Now these would have to be annexed to the signed agreement.
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The public, especially the young people who have known him only as the senator who presided over Corona’s impeachment trial, must be educated that Enrile is far from the hero he depicts himself to be. Lest we forget, Enrile was tagged as among the leading plotters of ‘God Save the Queen’, which claimed the lives of Ka Lando and Alay-ay, as well as former Bayan secretary general Lean Alejandro.”
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“They are not marginalized. Are they marginalized when their leaders hold positions in the government? There they are – so near to those in power and you’ll say that they are marginalized and unrepresented? Unrepresented voice of the marginalized? Even if you don’t know how to think you will easily see that.” – Henrietta de Villa, chairwoman of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting
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“For 14 years they’ve raised that defense over and over before the Regional Trial Court, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. They have repeatedly invoked that amnesty and it has repeatedly been junked.” – lawyer of the Olalia family
By MARYA SALAMAT
While the labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno hailed the surrender of former Air Force colonel and Rebolusyonaryong Alyansang Makabansa (RAM) leader Eduardo “Red” Kapunan, one of the alleged main perpetrators of the Rolando Olalia-Leonor Alay-ay double murder, it fears that the case might be whitewashed.
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The Baguio Regional Trial Court concluded that “the tremendous increase in the fines and charges, for as much as 1,200 percent was more of a revenue measure, rather than of regulation” and thus, not within the power of the Land Transportation Office to do and is therefore, “unconstitutional.”
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“Why is he with the Philippine Army considering he’s already retired and supposedly the (double murder) case had no connection with the Armed Forces of the Philippines?”– Rolando Rico Olalia, lawyer and son of the victim
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“I begged him to stop. I was terrified when he reached for a small knife that looked like a Swiss knife and stabbed me on my neck several times then kicked me hard on my back. I lost consciousness, and when I woke up I was already here at the hospital.”
By MARYA SALAMAT
Information being provided by Philex mines and the government on why the mine tailings pond spill happened and the devastation resulting from it are understated, nay sanitized, an independent mission discovered. It is “the worst mining disaster in the past two decades.”
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By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Main Story: Untold story of Philex’s mine waste spill MANILA – Information from locals and the report of an independent fact-finding mission conducted by various groups last month show how both Philex and the government have had...
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Aside from the fact that Philex is not taking responsibility for what appears as its negligence at readying a replacement for the expired TP3, the company has also been claiming that the contents released by its mine tailings dam are harmless 'sediments.'
Group raises ‘Red Alert’ level over worsening child poverty in the Philippines (Photo by Marya Salamat)
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While both panels are moving toward signing a framework agreement, the MILF said, there are still a lot of contentious issues, after which, there are still the compact and exit agreements to discuss.
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Labor groups slammed the Aquino government’s two tiered wage system saying that it would effect wage cuts, prompt massive layoffs and contractualization, and legalize violations against the minimum wage law.
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com A new study by Dana Carney of Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University, as reported in The Economist, sheds light on how people can be brainwashed or greenwashed, and therefore manipulated to hold...
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Despite evidences and eyewitnesses, the accused killers of Olalia and Alay-ay, thirteen known members of RAM, have so far evaded arrest by invoking the amnesty granted them after their failed coups.
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“They [big corporations] have, for years, raked in profits by pressing down workers’ wages and pushing back the hard-earned gains of the country’s labor movement. They have been able to widen the disparity between the affluent minority and the poor and hungry majority in the country – a situation that violates the principles of social justice.”
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