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Sidebar | ‘Done and decided’? Baguio court declines to review constitutionality of Anti-Terrorism Act’s implementation

By | Jun 19, 2026 | Commentary, Side(bar)

Sidebar | ‘Done and decided’? Baguio court declines to review constitutionality of Anti-Terrorism Act’s implementation

The constitutionality of the Anti-Terrorism Act can still be questioned with regard to how it is actually implemented. In contrast, however, Judge Belmes refused to rule on the matter at all, despite the clear ruling of the Supreme Court in Calleja allowing the same.

AT GROUND LEVEL

SATUR OCAMPO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Christ’s birthplace existential war rages

What a sad Christmas season this is for the peace-loving peoples of the world. Devastating wars are being waged, most notably, today, in Palestine and Ukraine. Soldiers are dying, civilians are suffering and dying too, and there seems to be no power on earth that will stop the gunfire.

Is peace adviser spoiling the resumption of talks?

This is the third piece in a row I’ve written about perceivable hindrances to the smooth resumption of formal peace negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. It had been announced in early December that they had agreed to do so in Oslo, Norway, on Nov. 23.

BALIK-TANAW

PROMOTION OF CHURCH PEOPLE’S RESPONSE

Balik-Tanaw | Impostor Syndrome

As we delve into these texts, we’re reminded of the universal nature of God’s call. The invitation is open for all- elite or the powerful are invited, likewise God welcomes the marginalized, and ordinary people. Amos, a shepherd and dresser of sycamores, embodies this truth. His story challenges the established power structures and affirms that prophecy and justice can emerge from the margins.

Balik-Tanaw | The bastard from Nazareth

But Sunday’s lection on Jesus’s homecoming paints a different picture. His townmates ask, “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?” Mark’s ‘The carpenter from Nazareth, the son of Mary’ (read, bastard) was a hard sell. It was certainly a hard sell for the other Nazarenes; in the Lukan version of this story, they tried to throw Jesus off a cliff.

Balik-Tanaw | Making society whole again – justice and peace work is healing work

I love quiet times. Perhaps it is the best sign of my “coming of ageing”, or perhaps it is just the way I am loving that moment when I transitioned into 60 years. No fanfare, no special 60th party. I was alone. But it was not a lonely moment. If I am affected by comparisons to other people who have celebrated their 60th with fireworks and expensive staycations, I would have been the loneliest. One of my friends even told me, seriously, “You are like an outcast!” But sure enough it was the most intimate of my celebrations ever. In the quiet and stillness of that day, God’s love became real. It was a miracle. It was a healing moment.

BALIKSAYSAY

FRANCIS GEALOGO

Batingaw mula Balangiga

Sa mahabang panahon, naging simbulo ang mga kampana ng karahasan at pagnanakaw ng pagkakakilanlan na kaakibat ng digmaan. Isang kabalintunaan ang naganap na pagsasauli ng mga kampana nitong nakaraan nang ipahayag ng mga opisyal na salamin ang pagsasauli ng 'natatanging pagkakaibigan' ng Amerika at Pilipinas. Hindi naging pagkakataon ang seremonyal na pagbabalik upang mapwersa ang Amerika na humingi ng kapatawaran sa mga ginawa nitong karahasan sa Pilipinas, na ginagawa ng ibang bayang nasa antas ng rekonsilyasyon matapos kaharapin ang pait ng digmaan.

Krisis sa bigas o paano mag-alay ng tula sa mga magsasaka

Nitong mga nakaraang buwan, halos dumapa nang husto ang presyo ng palay sa pamilihan sanhi ng pagdagsa ng mga inangkat na bigas mula sa ibang bansa. Mas mahal pa ang isang istik ng sigarilyo o isang bote ng softdrinks kaysa sa isang kilo ng palay. Sa walang habas na pagpasok ng mga inangkat na dayuhang palay, wala nang proteksyon ang mga magsasaka na pangalagaan ang kanilang mga ani sa pamilihan.

Macario Sakay: Ang tulisan bilang bayani

Ang paggamit ng linyang anti-komunista, ang red tagging sa mga kritiko ng pamahalaan at ang pagpatay, pagpapakulong at panggigipit sa mga aktibista at kritiko ng pamahalaan ang kasalukuyang ekspresyon ng karanasang nagsimula pa sa panahon ni Macario Sakay.

BLOODRUSH

SARAH RAYMUNDO

Federico Garcia Lorca and academic freedom

The 'Real' was not Irene Marcos. But rather, an instance in which the academe's complicity in that violent history is being displayed like anything. What the protest action affirms is a space that will not be defeated, that will not surrender, a space that turns itself into a place that battles academic freedom's free market version.

#NeverForget Eileen Sarmenta

The predator, in this case, is a corrupt politician who had the police functioned as his private army. This equally brutal government is about to set him free. We have all the reasons to fear rape and death to this day.

Bato’s new enemy: imagined transwomen rapists

The separate spheres theory has been rendered obsolete in modern times on account capitalism's inclusion of women workers in production while maintaining the wage gap and other sexist practices that serves the interest of profit accumulation.The separate spheres ideology also has a profound impact on culture, and therefore on mindsets, that it has normalized gendered restrictions in the use of public toilets.

FIRST PERSON

BULATLAT CONTRIBUTORS

KALIBUTAN

KALIKASAN-PEOPLE’S NETWORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

War in Paradise

This war of suppression, directed at people who resist what government armed forces call ‘vital installations’ and ‘flagship projects,’ has always been the biggest investment guarantee that the Philippine government grants to extractive and pollutive large-scale industries.

KONTEKSTO

DANILO ARAO

Konteksto | Pag-asa

Walang problema kung nais paniwalaan ang kasabihang “Habang may buhay, may pag-asa” pero mas mainam na isakonteksto ito sa mahigpit na pagkakaisa ng mas malawak na mamamayan.

Konteksto | ‘Negosyonibersidad’

Bagama’t nangangakong hindi palalayasin ang mga manininda, nakapagtatakang mas binibigyan ng prayoridad sa espasyo ng kampus ang mga “taga-labas” sa halip na ‘yong mga bahagi ng komunidad.

Konteksto | 2009

Ang inakala kong election-related violence na away ng dalawang politikal na angkan, may nadamay palang mga peryodista’t manggagawa sa midya. Ang inakala kong posibleng mabilang sa daliri ang mga pinatay na kasama sa trabaho, napakarami pala.

LAB NOTES

Advocates of Science and Technology for the People

OPINION

BULATLAT EDITORS

End the Nakba now

Since 1948, the people of Palestine have lost more than 85% of their land to Israel. The militarisation of the Israeli state has now confined them to a series of open-air prisons, in which the Israeli state routinely rehearses its cruel technologies of war — poisoning the soil, contaminating the water, and terrorising the people.

ON THE FRINGES

BULATLAT STAFF

QUESTION EVERYTHING

MONG PALATINO

ROOT ACCESS

COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS UNION

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