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Groups and lawyers condemned the issuance of warrants of arrests against four well-known activists at a press conference in Quezon City Friday. They explained that the resurrected case against Satur Ocampo, Rafael Mariano, Liza Maza and Teddy Casiño were based on lies as proven in another court and the Commission on Elections and that they…
Text by Mong Palatino / Global Voices Southeast Asia Editor Photos by Lito Ocampo Veteran photographer and activist Lito Ocampo has been making frequent visits to his hometown of Pampanga, located in the central part of Luzon Island in the Philippines, to escape the noise and dirt of the capital region Manila. His visits allowed…
“The horrific nature and extent of the victims’ wounds belie any claim that the force used against them was – by any stretch of the imagination – reasonable, and erodes the Philippine National Police’s credibility as to its claim that the killings were carried out under justifiable circumstances.”
The series of “previews” (part translation, part summary, part review as noted in the last three column articles) shall end with Bomen Guillermo’s “Kawayan” (2007/2017) and Emiliana Kampilan’s Dead Balagtas: Mga Sayaw ng Lupa at Dagat (2017). Incidentally, the first two previews were fueled by fire and air: text’s terrorism and author’s sentimentalism, flickers that…
Ni JHIO JHAN NAVARRO Apat na pirasong tanso ang tinanggap niyang kabayaran matapos masugid na ipaglaban karapatan ng mga nasa sakahan Apat na pirasong tanso na di inabot sa kanyang palad bagkus itinarak sa laman dagling ibinaon sa awang katawan Apat na pirasong tanso na putok ang kilingling puot, hinagpis at dalamhati ang ugong at…