Ni ABET UMIL Magkahiwalay ang mga aktibidad, ng walong buwan pa lamang na administrasyon ni Presidente Rodrigo Roa Duterte at Liberal Party, para sa ika-31 taong komemorasyon ng People Power 1. Bagamat tungkol sa kapangyarihan ng pagkakaisa ng sambayanan na...
Controversy has greeted Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez’s successive orders – cancelling the contracts/permits of 23 mining firms in operation (out of 41), suspending five others for six months, and cancelling the contracts on...
The campaign by President Rodrigo Duterte and his allies in Congress for the restoration of the death penalty is replete with irony. Capital punishment is supposed to discourage criminality while at the same time insuring that those who commit certain crimes get...
Ni KRISELLE CARTALLA Babae ka. Pero hindi lang isang ordinaryong babae. Isa ka ring manunulat, makata, mangingibig at madirigma. Sumusulat ka hindi lang para sa mag-ingay Dahil sa bawat paglathala mo'y kalakip nito ang mga kwento at sanaysay mong may saysay....
"The long and arduous struggle and sacrifices of Hacienda Luisita farmers for the land are slowly being repaid. The CLOA distribution to Luisita farmers is just the start.” By CERES BUSY Bulatlat HACIENDA LUISITA, Tarlac — The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)...
President Duterte’s four-day blustering last week – withdrawing the government’s unilateral ceasefire, “cancelling” the GRP-NDFP peace talks, ordering the re-arrest of 17 NDFP consultants released in August to join the peace negotiations, and tagging as...
The unfortunately named Magdalo group -- the Magdalo was the Katipunan faction that murdered Andres Bonifacio and Antonio Luna -- identified with Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has a point. It doesn’t do anyone any good for the Philippine government (GPH),...
On his seventh month in office President Duterte has come to the crucial stages of his two major initiatives and campaign promises: resume and pursue the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations, and put an end to the illegal drugs problem. And on both issues he ought to...
Reinvestigating the Jan. 25, 2015 Mamasapano incident, as President Rodrigo Duterte says he’s planning to do, would seem to be unnecessary at first. But that first impression soon yields to the need to address a number of questions in the public mind that until...
Ni KENNETHFER NABO Gutom na gutom na kami Kami na nagtanim Kami na walang pagod na nagsaka Sa lupang hindi amin Bungkal dito Tanim doon Buong araw nakayuko Ito ang buhay naming sa nayon Gutom na gutom na kami Binuksan ang kalderong walang laman Gutom ang aming mga...
Having done their assigned tasks to move forward on the most substantive agenda of the GRP-NDFP peace talks, the two parties met this week in Rome for their third round of formal negotiations under the Duterte administration. It wasn’t easy sailing: the NDFP side...
Almost always inaccurate are generalizations about any group, whether a race, a social class, an ethnic community, a profession -- or, for that matter, a government agency and its personnel. There’s always someone who’s an exception to a rule widely presumed to be...
A week before the global celebration of Human Rights Day in 2016, various people’s organizations in the Philippines conducted a solidarity fasting campaign to press for the release of 400 political prisoners. In response, a government peace negotiator described the...
For those of us who are committed social justice activists or organizers, the sheer scale of this march was awe-inspiring.
MANILA -- Members of underground organizations under the National Democratic Front of the Philippines held a lightning rally this morning in Cubao, Quezon City in support of the ongoing peace talks between the government and the NDFP. In a statement, the NDFP-Metro...
Negotiate in a non-adversarial way. Resolve differences and overcome obstacles. Focus on the substantial agenda of social, economic and political reforms that address the root causes of the armed conflict and thus move decisively forward to a just and lasting...
To Samuel Johnson (born 1709; died 1784), poet, essayist and author of A Dictionary of the English Language (published in April, 1755), do we owe the observation that “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” His biographer James Boswell (born 1740; died...
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