Duterte raised this dare at the start of the November 13 House quad committee hearing on extrajudicial killings and human rights violations committed under his presidency and his mayoral terms in Davao City.
The Davao City Council (Sangguniang Panlungsod ng Dabaw) started its November 12 session with an internal matter – the tardiness of city councilors.
The Altermidya Network reiterates the call to dismiss the charges against our colleague Frenchie Mae Cumpio and the rest of ‘Tacloban 5’ as the community journalist took the stand for the first time in almost five years on Nov. 11.
The genocide-complicit Frankfurt Book Fair shrugs off what UN experts called a “scholasticide” that left an unprecedented trail of blood and rubble, of academics and research infrastructure.
Christopher Ryan Maboloc, a philosophy professor of Ateneo de Davao University, and author of “Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte”, posted this reaction last October 29 about the Senate blue ribbon sub-committee hearing: “Senator Risa Hontiveros achieved nothing yesterday.”
In commemorating peasant month, a review of the peasant movement’s history is a must, to understand its relevance and context on the contemporary issues that confront the Filipino peasantry.
Human rights lawyers in Mindanao criticized former President Rodrigo Duterte for his statements made during the Senate hearing as he justified the extrajudicial killings in his war on drugs campaign.
The sentiments of Samal residents have worried environmental groups and a family that has protected the island’s reefs for years. The bridge construction will destroy corals and affect the pristine waters that make Samal beaches a favorite destination.
“When our schools were closed in November 2018, the military threatened our lives. They said that if we don’t leave our school, they would kill a teacher or a student,” a Lumad youth said during the launch of Defend Talaingod 13, October 17.
A female broadcaster was killed in Zamboanga City on Tuesday night, October 22, the National Union of Journalists (NUJP) said in an alert.
