Video: Arroyo’s Sona: A Litany of Lies
Day: July 29, 2009
News in Pictures: Melissa Roxas Testifies Before Congress
For a running account of Melissa Roxas’s testimony, read Bulatlat’s Twitter feed. Read her opening statement in Congress here. Melissa Roxas takes her oath right before making her opening statement. (Photo by Fred E. Dabu) CHR chair Leila de Lima (right) was also summoned by the House committee on human rights. (Photo by Fred E.…
Melissa Roxas Testifies in Congress: ‘I Will Not Tire to Tell the Truth’
“I have reason to believe that the Philippine military were the ones who abducted and tortured me, and held me captive for six days. I do not like to dignify the allegations being hurled at me now as they only echo what my abductors have been forcing me to admit during my interrogation and illegal, incommunicado detention.”
Video: The Making of the Last Gloria Effigy
Video: The Making of the Last Gloria Effigy
Peasants and Workers in Long March for Land, Decent Jobs
Days before the Sona, thousands of farmers, workers, students and activists braved the heat and the rain as they marched from the provinces of Southern Tagalog to Commonwealth Avenue. The march, called Lakbayan, is their way of fighting the regime’s abuses and asserting their basic rights.