“This goes to show how the people can do even more than this regime.”
Rice donations pour in for protesting farmers in Kidapawan
Day: April 5, 2016
‘We only want to feed our children’ – North Cotabato farmers
“Hunger. This is what we have been experiencing. I hope our government officials would stop lying.”
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Tanghalian
Ni PEACE FLORES Kumakalam na naman ang sikmura ng nagbubungkal ng lupa. Tagtuyot kasi. Walang makakain kapag nalanta ang pananim. Walang laman ang kamalig. Walang maisasaing kahit magtatanghali na. Kaya ang nagbubungkal ng lupa, sumangguni sa pamahalaan. Humingi ng makakain dahil tuyo ang lupa. Humingi ng butil ng bigas. Ang tugon ng namamahala? Butil nga.…
Pooled Editorial | Journalists denounce police intimidation and harassment in Kidapawan coverage
AlterMidya, a nationwide network of independent media organizations, denounces police intimidation and attempts to suppress information by preventing journalists from covering the aftermath of the April 1 Kidapawan massacre. The Cotabato police set up a checkpoint outside the Spottswood United Methodist Center where the protesting farmers retreated after Friday’s violent dispersal. Setting up a checkpoint…
BigasHindiBala
The violent dispersal by the police of the 6000-strong protest by farmers and lumad (indigenous people of Mindanao) in Kidapawan, North Cotobato last April 1 could be dismissed as just another incident in the long list of clashes between state security forces and citizens airing their grievances against government. But this is different. This has…