By RONALYN V. OLEA
Arman Albarillo dedicated his life to caring for his family, but the extrajudicial killing of his parents by soldiers led to his political awakening, which made him embrace an extended family: the oppressed.
Groups mark 120th year of Katipunan (Photo by Bonifacio150 Committee / Bulatlat.com)
Ni Richard R. Gappi Bulatlat.com Pinatay ang kanyang tatay. Pinatay ang kanyang nanay. At tulad ng batang makulit na kinikilala ang daigdig, nagtanong siya kung bakit. Nang matutuhan at matanto niya ang mga sagot, sinagot siya ng ganito: bakit ka nagtatanong? Kaya para patahimikin, sinuhulan siya. Pero nang hindi siya makuha sa santong dasalan, dinaan…
Gawin na lang nila ang gusto nilang gawin sa akin tulad ng kanilang ginawa sa aking mga magulang. Hinding-hindi ako titigil sa paghahanap ng hustisya para sa aking pamilya at buong sambayanan.” – Arman Albarillo (1978 – 2012), human rights victim; New People’s Army fighter By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World I write this…
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“He lived the way he wanted to live – doing good for the poor, defending them”.
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com I would have written about President Aquino’s request to the US to fly its spy drones around Scarborough shoal and its impact on Philippine sovereignty when the killing of Willem Geertman happened. Geertman was a 67-year old advocate of peasant land rights, indigenous people’s rights, and environmental defense and protection. He…
The middle class is being hollowed out; increasingly, there are the super-super-rich, and there are the rest of us.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Political detainee and NDFP consultant Alan Jazmines was transferred in the wee hours of the morning and was not allowed to call his lawyer.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
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Gabriela hopes to “mobilize the public to use the internet in solving one of the scourges of electronic harassment, bullying and violence against women.”
By NAN LEVINSON, TomDispatch | News Analysis Truthout “PTSD is going to color everything you write,” came the warning from a stepmother of a Marine, a woman who keeps track of such things. That was in 2005, when post-traumatic stress disorder, a.k.a. PTSD, wasn’t getting much attention, but soon it was pretty much all anyone…
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Witnesses said the killers forced Willem Geertman to his knees and shouted invectives at him before pulling the trigger.