Cats against the Return
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Dee Ayroso | Nov 26, 2017
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Youth pledge to continue struggle for a better society
Youth pledge to continue struggle for a better society
During the #BlackFriday protest held at the Rizal Park, youth leaders pay tribute to the Martial Law activists who fought the Marcos dictatorship and vow to carry on the fight against and unjust system that favors the ruling elite and oppresses the poor and the...
First Quarter Storm, Voltes V generations pass the torch
First Quarter Storm, Voltes V generations pass the torch
Martial law veterans -- although far from retiring -- are assured of a future where the once-called “smartphone zombie” millenials are out on the streets, fighting the good fight they never stopped waging.
Villain in hero’s guise
Villain in hero’s guise
The Libingan ng mga Bayani is not, as its name suggests, literally a heroes’ cemetery. Soldiers, policemen, and former Philippine presidents can be buried there, apparently on the tenuous presumption that by having worn a police or military uniform, or being...
Reaping the whirlwind
Reaping the whirlwind
“...in the end you cannot cheat history. History will not err in its judgement because no matter how you fabricate achievements, glorify events or conceal truths, a true people’s history will eventually unmask the fake heroes and the judgement on them will be harsh...
Outside Manila, protesters denounce hero’s burial for Marcos
Outside Manila, protesters denounce hero’s burial for Marcos
In various cities throughout the country, ordinary citizens join protest actions against the hasty burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
Nov. 25 protest | Martial law activists, youth call on the public to stop Marcoses’ return to power
Nov. 25 protest | Martial law activists, youth call on the public to stop Marcoses’ return to power
Martial law activists and youths call on the public to join the fight in the arena which the Marcoses cannot control: the streets.
‘Marcos burial puts crack on peace process’
‘Marcos burial puts crack on peace process’
“This is like a slap on Carhrihl - the Comprehensive Agreement on the Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law - a slap on human rights.”
‘Duterte will feel our rage’| Anti-Marcos protest set on Nov. 25
‘Duterte will feel our rage’| Anti-Marcos protest set on Nov. 25
“We cannot accept the rehabilitation of the Marcoses, and their kind of leadership based on swindling, lies, deception.”
The looming Marcos restoration
The looming Marcos restoration
Thirty short years after the downfall of the dictator Marcos, the Marcoses are back with a vengeance. And soon, they hope, all traces of their disgraceful exit from Malacañang will be expunged from public memory. The hated despot -- the villain who wrought so much...
#BlackToBlock | Bar candidates, lawyers ‘mourn’ SC decision allowing Marcos hero’s burial
#BlackToBlock | Bar candidates, lawyers ‘mourn’ SC decision allowing Marcos hero’s burial
Just across the University of Santo Tomas where at least 6,000 are about to take their bar examinations, bar candidates and members of the legal profession – lawyers, professors, and paralegals – staged a picket protest as they “mourn” the recent Supreme Court...
SC ruling on Marcos burial stokes anew public protests
SC ruling on Marcos burial stokes anew public protests
The Supreme Court’s majority ruling (9-5-1) has upheld President Duterte’s oral order to the Armed Forces of the Philippines to bury the remains of former president-turned-dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. The alleged aim is “national...
SC urged to halt #MarcosBurial at heroes’ cemetery
SC urged to halt #MarcosBurial at heroes’ cemetery
"The hasty interment of Marcos’ remains will result in a grave and irreparable injury to the people’s rights as it will send the message that the late dictator, criminal manipulator of the justice system, human rights violator, and plunderer was a hero, politically reversing the many decisions of the Supreme Court, the judgment of the people in EDSA and history.”
Stop Marcos hero’s burial, CPP tells Duterte
Stop Marcos hero’s burial, CPP tells Duterte
The Communist Party of the Philippines said that GRP President Rodrigo Duterte “would virtually be spitting on the graves of the tens of thousands of martyrs who laid down their lives in the struggle to end the puppet, brutal and rotten Marcos dictatorship.”
Youths rage vs. Marcos burial in heroes’ cemetery
Youths rage vs. Marcos burial in heroes’ cemetery
The Supreme Court decision allowing a hero's burial for Marcos has sparked outrage among the youth.
‘Betrayal!’ Martial law victims, rights advocates say of SC ruling on #MarcosBurial case
‘Betrayal!’ Martial law victims, rights advocates say of SC ruling on #MarcosBurial case
“9-5-1 is a lie. We must stand up for the truth. And the truth is that Marcos does not deserve to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.” -- Edita Burgos
SC allows hero’s burial for Marcos
SC allows hero’s burial for Marcos
"Don't they know Marcos was a convicted plunderer and human rights violator?"
#MarcosBurial | SC justices stress reparation for martial law victims
#MarcosBurial | SC justices stress reparation for martial law victims
“The fact that it will reopen old wounds, isn’t it a continuity of impunity that the 1987 Constitution ended?” -- Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno
Martial law survivors, activists face off with Marcos loyalists
Martial law survivors, activists face off with Marcos loyalists
“Burying the dictator in the Libingan ng mga Bayani will not heal our wounded country.”
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