BY CARLO MANALANSAN Bulatlat.com MANILA — Multisectoral groups hEld a protest action today at the Bantayog ng Mga Bayani as part of a nationwide action honoring the “national and new” heroes in this year’s National Heroes Day, August 31. They honored those who sacrificed their lives for the country’s democracy. They paid tribute to medical…
They may be tireless and fearless, but human rights defenders are humans too. They get tired and have their own share of fear. Still, they continue to rise above it all amid the worsening human rights situation in the country. Watch this fun-filled Huntahan sesh with human rights defenders of Karapatan, which is now on…
By EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com MANILA – – In the midnight of April 27, 2018, Reymond Cerbito went out of their house in Santa Maria, Bulacan to buy something from the nearby sari-sari (variety) store. He never came back. The 20-year-old father of two mysteriously disappeared during the height of President Duterte’s campaign against illegal drugs….
Elena Tijamo, coordinator of Farmers Development Center (Fardec) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Sobs were all that 50-year-old Violeta heard from her sister Elena Tijamo, a development worker who dedicated more than half her life in serving farmers and farm workers, as she was dragged out of their house in Cebu, with…
BY RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA A paramilitary group destroyed an indigenous people’s school in Bukidnon Province last Wednesday, August 26, the Save Our Schools (SOS) Network reported. The Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation Inc. (MISFI) Academy in Sitio Laburon, Brgy. Matupe, San Fernando was attacked and destroyed by around 50 members of paramilitary group ‘Bagani’, the network…
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-climate-change-global-warming-part-2-story.html By LILIAN HAZEL CORRO-NAVARRA, MIDM United Church of Christ in the Philippines Psalm 63:2-6, 8-9 Romans 12:1-2 Jeremiah 20:7-9 Matthew 16:21-27 According to the Webster dictionary, mission means “the act of sending; the duty on which one is sent”. In the UCCP Calendar, August is mission month. Today, we meditate on the words of…
DEPARTMENT of Interior and Local Governments (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Ano once again tested positive for COVID-19 less than two weeks ago. That development naturally led to questions on whether other members of the Cabinet, but most specially President Rodrigo Duterte, have also contracted the infection. Mr. Duterte only this week said one of his ailments…
MANILA, Philippines — The sustained surge of international condemnations and calls for justice and independent investigations on the extrajudicial killings, this month, of peasant leader and peace consultant Randall Echanis and Negros human rights and health worker Zara Alvarez has sparked anew an urgent demand: Stop the Killings! The demand recalls, and will most likely…