Poet, songwriter, singer, journalist and activist Ericson Acosta was illegally arrested in Northern Samar on February 13, 2011 while conducting research for peasant organizations. He has not been arraigned despite having spent more than two years in jail.
Category: Video
Global campaign to end violence against women launched in the Philippines
Women’s group Gabriela launched One Billion Rising – Quezon City last Jan. 17. Women from various urban poor communities joined them in dancing “Isang Bilyong Babaeng Babangon,” which is part of the global campaign to end violence against women.
Duyog Tabang: Relief mission for victims of typhoon Pablo in Surigao del Sur
In this video, members of progressive organizations provide relief goods and medicines to Lumad communities in Surigao del Sur affected by typhoon Pablo.
Rights violations slammed on Human Rights Day
Human Rights Day 2012: Protesters took to the streets to condemn human rights violations under Noynoy Aquino’s regime
Stop the Killings
A Public Service Advertisement for INDIEpendensya Film Festival: Asserting the Nation’s Real Independence, held at the University of the Philippines Diliman from Sept 17-19, 2012
‘Strike down Cybercrime law,’ netizens call on High Court
Various groups of netizens, journalists, computer professionals and activists troop to the Supreme Court, October 9 and reiterate their demand to scrap the Cybercrime Law. On the same day, the High Court suspended the controversial law and netizens gear for a long battle ahead.
Fresh wounds: A story of 24 years of searching
Fresh wounds: A story of 24 years of searching
Video: Orly Marcellana’s poetry for the peasantry
Orly Marcellana’s poetry for the peasantry
Floating dreams
Video: Floating dreams
Filipinos exasperated over Aquino’s policies
Video: Filipinos exasperated over Aquino’s policies
Groups to military: ‘Stop terrorizing civilians in Quezon’
Video: Groups to military: ‘Stop terrorizing civilians in Quezon’