MEDIA RELEASE 12 August 2011 MANILA — “Given the present disposition of the Aquino regime, Charter change will most likely not serve the Moro people but the US’ capitalist and militarist interests.” This was labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno’s reaction to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s re-assertion of its demand for a Moro sub-state more…
Day: August 12, 2011
Indigenous peoples’ groups decry use of IPRA and NCIP for development aggression
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Main Story: Respect our rights to land and life, indigenous peoples asked on World IPs Day MANILA – Most often, “large-scale resource-extractive ventures like mining and so-called development projects” destroy the environment, the lands that are home to the country’s indigenous communities, and with it, their traditional economic activities. These prompted…
Respect our rights to land and life, indigenous peoples asked on World IP Day
By MARYA SALAMAT
August 9 is the international day of the world’s indigenous peoples, but the “occasion is a grim one as human rights violations and ancestral landgrabbing are rampant.” – Piya Macliing Malayao, KAMP.
Sidebar: Indigenous peoples’ groups decry use of IPRA and NCIP for development aggression
Benjie Oliveros | A deeper look at the London riots
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The London riots began at a Tottenham neighborhood, August 6, after the police shot to death Mark Duggan. The riots have now spread to neighboring cities: Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol and Notting-hill. Shops were looted, cars and buildings burned. The British government has labeled the riots as “criminality,” “appalling violence and…
An overview of the human rights situation in Eastern Visayas*
By ERICSON ACOSTA Bulatlat.com Many are surely wondering, why did the military detain Acosta? Why was he imprisoned? In what far-off corner of the islands could Barangay Bay-ang be found, and what could a writer and poet like Ericson Acosta possibly be doing there? In truth, these are vital questions, not just to the overly…
Satur C. Ocampo | Green and delicious
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Neuroscientist Custer Deocaris’ decision to return to his home country, under the DOST “balik-scientist” program, is good news. His having launched a campaign to convince fellow Fili-pinos to eat brown rice and more vegetables — specifically indigenous greens — is, for me, doubly welcome…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Lack of conviction
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld In conventional Philippine politics, grave accusations about graft and corruption, electoral fraud and other anomalies, including heinous crimes like extrajudicial killings, massacres and other atrocities, are abundant and even common knowledge. These are the stuff of the opposition’s tirades against those in power, rising in crescendo and reaching fever…
News in Pictures: Los Angeles janitors fight For their jobs
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY DAVID BACON