They left Davao City bearing meager belongings: a bagful of clothes good for ten days, a lunchbox and a cup. They had to leave their fields, their families for a mission -- to bring their woes for land and justice and call the attention of the national government.
MANILA — The court-imposed restrictions on the media covering the Ampatuan massacre trial are, for all practical purposes, a form of “special treatment” being accorded the main suspect, Andal Ampatuan…
MANILA — The first-ever nationwide peasant caravan for land and justice, now on its fifth day in the Bicol region, has been facing harassment from the military since yesterday, Jan.…
By CHERYLL D. FIEL This coastal town in northeastern Mindanao would have been as humdrum and sleepy as any ordinary day but the red letters on the railing of a bridge along the national highway broke the monotony: "Mabuhay ang ika-41 nga anibersaryo sa Partido Komunista sa Pilipinas! (Long live the 41st anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines)."
Once hounded by rebellion charges, which, to him were trumped up to silence him; wary of the unabated killing of activists under the Arroyo regime, the former secretary-general of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) finally sought refuge with the Communist New People’s Army and explained his choice.