In Philippine politics, when corrupt politicians want the people to move on, what they mean is they want their crimes forgotten.
Respondents in the complaint “were not identified to have personally attacked the complainants and there is no evidence showing that force employed, if there was any, by any respondent is of a serious character.”
Ni JOHN THIMOTY A. ROMERO Patuloy na dumarami Ang mga imaheng Pinuno na ng puros na karahasan; Dugo sa bawat pahina Patak ng luha sa bawat pagbuklat Nang maisiwalat Ang kalagayan ng kapwa ko lumad. Patuloy na dumarami Ang pinalilisan ng takot Binubugaw ng mga putok...
Peasant groups assailed the killing of a farmer leader in the 39,000-disputed government-owned lands sprawling the towns of Coron and Busuanga in Palawan.
“We ask the Duterte administration to do everything to win the domestic case against Mary Jane’s traffickers.”
“The progress of the peace talks is hinged not only on the efforts of the NDFP; it needs the broad, active participation of all patriotic and democratic forces in society.”
The family of an OFW who met an accident abroad is determined to make his recruitment agency pay for their negligence.
“My family maybe poor, but I would never be involved in illegal drugs…I am innocent.”
Antonio Pajalla used to be a trade unionist before he went underground and joined the New People’s Army. He availed of the government’s amnesty program to lead an “ordinary life.” But not quite: he is a peasant leader who was recently arrested then released.
The Philippine government (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines signed this Joint Statement on the Resumption of the Formal Talks in the Peace Negotiations between the GRP and NDFP last Aug. 26 in Oslo, Norway.
Improving the quality of life of the people is the better option than violence.
Agrarian Reform Sec. Rafael Mariano ordered the distribution of the lands being controlled by the Cojuangco family through Tadeco.
"The resumption of the peace negotiations is in the best interest of farmers and the peasant masses.”
“The situation at hand presents a distinct factual milieu. The private complainant Mary Jane Veloso is not sick or infirm.”
“We are enduring the fact that we have to be away from our families to provide for their needs. But now, we have lost everything.”
“The case of Pajalla is a concrete representation that the remnants of the previous regimes’ fascist counterinsurgency programs still remain in the Duterte administration."
“The peasants of Southern Tagalog call on the Duterte administration, and to Quezon Governor (David) Suarez to immediately release Antonio Pajalla.”
“We urge President Duterte to not only limit the exemption to returning OFWs, but to abolish the OEC permanently.”
“We condemn the arrest of peasant leader Tony Pajalla. We demand the Quezon-PNP to surface him as soon as possible.”
“Tiempo muerto will continue to be a season of hunger and death for sugar workers every year, if the country’s fundamental land problem is not seriously addressed.”
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