By EFREN RICALDE
Offering
Day: September 13, 2017
Balcony view
By RAYMUND VILLANUEVA
Mindanao martial law | Minors, students among civilians killed, missing in Marawi
A Mindanao peace group reports killings, disappearances and torture of Marawi civilians by government troops since the its military offensives began in May.
Duterte redux
By SARAH RAYMUNDO BLOOD RUSH In May of last year, one of the goals of this column was to take stock and advance bases for political analyses and solidarities with various sectors dealing with a new regime. I sought to deliver both activist and intellectual documents culled from my politicized organizational and academic engagements. More…
IP leader from Sandugo alliance threatened with arrest
MANILA — Pya Malayao, council member of Sandugo alliance of Moro and indigenous peoples, received this morning a threatening call from a man who identified himself as Mark. Saying he is an intelligence operative of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, this ‘Mark’ invited Malayao for a meet up at a coffee shop in SM North…
Teacher Miguel, helping Lumad children fulfill their dreams
Inspired by Fr. Fausto Tentorio, Miguel responded to the call of datus from Talaingod, Davao del Norte for volunteer teachers in 2013.
Int’l rights group slams P1,000 ‘defunding’ of CHR
“While the CHR’s performance as a constitutional body may not have been fully satisfactory to many Filipinos, its mandate is important in combatting human rights abuses.”