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Copy of the 11-page memorandum of the Securities and Exchange Commission on its effort to supposedly protect non-government agencies from money laundering and terrorist financial abuses. However, human rights groups are quick to point out that this is yet another move of the Duterte administration to quell dissent, especially by groups that are critical of his policies such as the war against drugs.
On human rights day, progressives mourn ‘bayan ng ulila’ as killings, rights violations continue.
"They should’ve let us know, so we’d know where to find our son. If he didn’t call, we wouldn’t know where to find him. They didn’t let us know. He has a family here. He has kids. He has parents.They should have let us know before they took him to a different city."
Labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno said President Rodrigo Duterte is a puppet of both the US and China governments, and is also “deathly afraid of the military.”
"The ugly situation on the ground cannot be concealed, and the putrid stench of machismo and sexism has permeated the air. This situation is urging us to unite and further strengthen our voices against misogyny and rising tyranny and dictatorship."
In an urgent alert posted at Karapatan - Negros Facebook account, the printed photos were thrown inside one of the houses of a local peasant leader there.
Karapatan decries these continuing forms of harassment by suspected State agents in Negros and elsewhere in the country. These are shameless and illegal acts by cowards in uniform who publicly villify, fabricate charges and kill human rights defenders and political dissenters.
“I am sad. But I am also thankful to the people I have met. I have learned a lot from you. I know that you will continue to persevere for peace, even in the face of arrests and harassments. Wherever I may be, I will always be with you.”
"This is part of an all-out assault against the people to further their repressive chokehold on ordinary Filipinos.”
"By directly taking over of the customs through the AFP, Duterte has firmly consolidated his overlordship of the shabu smuggling and trafficking operations in the country. He is now the lord of all drug lords and the godfather of the Philippine narco-government."
Nine farmers were killed and three wounded in a massacre in Hacienda Nene in Purok Pine Tree Barangay Bulanon in Sagay City, where farmers are staging “bungkalan” or land cultivation of idle farm lands.
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National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultant Adelberto Silva and four companions were arrested Monday afternoon in Sta. Cruz, Laguna.
Bayan-GL condemned the arrest, “targeting members of organizations actively pursuing the call for genuine land reform and national industrialization.”
"We must investigate how these extractives were allowed to acquire, operate, and abandon tenements in geologically hazardous areas without sufficient risk-mitigating measures."
In a two-page order dated Oct. 1, Judge Alexander Tamayo of the Bulacan Regional Trial Court Branch 15 denied outright the motion of Palparan.
In “Marcosian fashion,” the Duterte regime is setting up public opinion and the machinery for a massive crackdown on the democratic opposition, through the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).'
“Defending the environment and calling out the abusive corporations that endanger the lives of people is not a crime. Exploitative mining is.”
They tell the lumad farmers they will be slapped with cases if they will not ‘surrender’.
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