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DDS-CBN
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‘Advocacy, protests could be declared terrorist’ — lawyers
Protesters maintain that Duterte is the real terrorist wreaking havoc on the people’s lives. (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / Bulatlat) “It is clear that the law will be used against critics and dissenters.” By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Human rights lawyers are one in saying that the newly-enacted Anti-Terror Law or Republic…
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Philippine education in crisis
More than 9 million students in both private and public schools had enrolled online for schoolyear 2020-2021 as the month of June ended. The resumption of K-12 classes is scheduled for Aug. 24 this year, hence the Department of Education’s (DepEd) reserving the entire month of June for registration, and later extending it till July….
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Ambivalence toward the Left and peace talks
Over the last four years of Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s presidency, we may have gotten used to seeing, hearing, or reading about how he has tended to say one thing and, in the same instance, he walks back on that statement and states the opposite. This happened again last Tuesday during his weekly late-night televised address…
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From the Fire of Prometheus
By WILLIAM SAUNDERS, JR.* Hold fast to the gift of fire! I am rage! I am wrath! I am ire! The vulture sits on my rock, Licks at the chains that mock Emancipation’s breath, Reeks of death, death, death – Prometheus Unbound, Ruben Cuevas Drenched in the blood of her sons, Under the moon’s lone…
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Bulatlatan Q & A | Of rights and wrongs: Free speech and ‘Terror Law’
In this Bulatlatan episode, Nonoy Espina, chairperson of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and Maria… Posted by Bulatlat on Tuesday, July 7, 2020 In this Bulatlatan episode, theater artist and writer Maria Victoria Beltran who was recently detained for her satirical post and veteran journalist, chairperson of National Union of Journalists of…
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Denial of ABS-CBN franchise ‘tantamount to censorship’ – group
“It is clear as day that ABS-CBN is being punished for reporting and commenting on issues in a manner unacceptable to the Duterte administration.” By EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com MANILA– Media organizations and press freedom advocates are enraged at the denial of ABS-CBN franchise. Voting 70-11, the House committee on legislative franchise voted against the giant…
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ABS-CBN shutdown: An assault to the people’s right to know
Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat STATEMENT Bulatlat.com Congress has done it again: betray the Filipino people. This time, by striking another blow to press freedom and the people’s right to know. To say that the members of the media sector are perturbed and disappointed is an understatement: we are beyond aghast by how the supposed politicians…
