FILE PHOTO: Benedictine nun Mary John Mananzan hits historical revisionism being espoused by Marcoses and their supporters. (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea/Bulatlat) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — A women’s group has assailed presidential communications official Lorraine Badoy for red-tagging Benedictine nun Sr. Mary John Mananzan, a staunch human rights defender and women’s…
Health workers from Pasig General Hospital (Photo courtesy of Filipino Nurses United) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — With over a hundred thousand positive COVID-19 cases, the Philippines has reverted Metro Manila and neighboring provinces to a stricter lockdown for the next two weeks but critics say that without changes to the government’s…
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Photo by AlterMidya By DELIA D. AGUILAR and E. SAN JUAN, JR. Manipulating the mid-term May 13, 2019 elections, Philippine strong-man Rodrigo Duterte has finally seized full control of the State apparatus. He captured the last institution, the Senate, to guarantee absolute power (after removing an independent chief justice of the Supreme Court), with the…
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Children of political prisoners talked about their fathers and sent out their messages to the man who nurtured them. Political prisoners are charged with common crimes such as murder, illegal possession of firearms and explosives, arson, among others to hide the political nature of their cases. For those interviewed by Bulatlat, their fathers are far…