“These trumped-up charges against us are acts of desperation.”
Category: Other Stories
Mothers of missing UP students decry ‘delaying tactics’ in Palparan trial
“Are they really trying to delay the case until ‘berdugong’ Palparan and his co-accused are free from accountability?”
National budget = election budget?
Do the lump sum allocations in the 2016 national budget have a “special purpose?”
Young Fil-Ams form alliance for human rights, environment
“Hearing the problems of the lumads (Mindanao’s IPs), they really inspire you and put your problems in perspective.”
Higher education head hit for saying college ‘is not necessary’
“Patricia Licuanan’s statement further exposed the true intention of the administration of President Aquino to abdicate its obligation to ensure that children and the youth will have an opportunity to study and finish higher education.”
Police bars judge trying Tiamzon spouses from entering Crame
“It is ironic that our letter signed by the judge was honored. But the judge herself was not allowed to enter.”
The political satire of Juana Change
“Artists are very effective in criticism because the attack is different, its penetration to the audience’s consciousness is different. Art goes straight to the heart, to the psyche.”
Health groups give ‘kalabasa’ award to Aquino
“Its health agenda document, like that of past administrations…is all rhetorics of accessibility and quality health care for the poor, while in reality, the people are left miserable and dying with inadequate health care.”
Dispatches: Whitewashing internal displacement in Ph
As of May, there were more than 260,000 IDPs in the Philippines, the result of conflict and natural disasters. Too often the government talks the talk while neglecting them – or worse.
German City awards Filipino nun for HR advocacy
The German City Council said Matutina “pits herself against serious human rights violations in her homeland that occur in connection with the gold extraction of international companies in the Philippine Island of Mindanao.”
Bulacan judge inhibits from Palparan case
“It is the accused who will benefit the most because they are shopping for a more favorable or sympathetic judge. The obvious game plan is to dribble and plod.”