Hindi isinasawalang-bahala ang karapatang pantao kapalit ng pagpuksa ng sakit at paglaban sa pandemya. Ito ang kabuuang mensahe sa libu-libong protestang nailunsad sa buong mundo sa kabila ng banta ng coronavirus disease (Covid-19). Hunyo 4 nagtipon ang daan-daang Taiwanese para alalahanin ang masaker sa Tiananmen Square, 31 taon na ang nakalipas. Ang kaiba ng taong…
Mukhang napikon siya. Iba’t ibang grupo sa sektor pangkalusugan, halos lahat ng mga grupo — 40 na asosyasyong medikal — nagsalita na. Nagrereklamo sa pagdagsa ng mga pasyente ng coronavirus disease-2019 (Covid-19) nitong nakaraang mga linggo’t buwan. Nagsagawa sila ng press conference noong Agosto 1. Kinabukasan, si Pangulong Duterte, nag-presscon na rin, mukhang napikon. Noong…
Hindi nakadalo sa SONAgkaisa, protesta sa UP Diliman noong Hulyo 27, sa ikalimang State of the Nation Address (SONA) ni Pangulong Duterte, ang magkakapitbahay na sina Net, Trixie, Malou at Maymay, mga miyembro ng Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) at residente ng isang pabahay sa Pandi, Bulacan. Bukod sa walang pamasahe, mahirap din bumiyahe dahil…
Nagtipun-tipon noong Hulyo 27, araw ng ikalimang State of the Nation Address (SONA) ni Pangulong Duterte, ang iba’t ibang grupong ipinoprotesta ang pagsasabatas ng Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, kapalpakan sa tugon ng kasalukuyang administrasyon sa pandemyang coronavirus disease-2019 (Covid-19) at samu’t saring mga isyung pambayan. Sa kabila ng panganib ng pandemya, banta ng kapulisan ng…
a poem in honor of Randall Echanis by TOMAS TALLEDO Away from our tuneful laughters and love of life and land — you malevolence of the dank, dark prowlers of orphans, widows and hapless cadavers Vade Satanas! back to your stations precincts headquarters camps barracks to curl hide and remorse why you stole the white…
“I condemn the persistent harassment of PNP La Loma-QCPD and their brazen act of snatching the remains of my husband Randall “Randy’ Echanis from us. This morning, I have positively identified his lifeless body which bore torture marks, multiple stab and gunshot wounds. Tonight, we have recovered his remains and transferred it to a funeral…
Bulatlat file photo By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — In the dead of the night, August 10, at least ten police officers forcibly took Randall Echanis’s remains at St. Peter’s Chapel from grieving family and colleagues. The police claimed there was no “release order.” The police reportedly transferred the remains to another funeral…
By LUCHIE MARANAN They who wield the law Sent hooded men who Barged into the house of an Ailing old man. They plunged their weapons Deep into his mortal being, Splattering the great deeds Of a peacemaker. So tell us now, Who are the peace slayers? Who are the social justice thieves? Who are the…