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Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson in an interview with Lumad tribal leaders. (Screenshot from Mocha Uson's Facebook page)

Tribal leaders to Uson: You do not know our struggle

Leaders of several iIndigenous peoples groups in Southern Mindanao admonished Congressional aspirant Mocha Uson to discern what she would be saying against the tribes, calling her “attention seeker”.

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Sister Pat Fox (left) shares a light moment with children of sitio San Roque, Quezon City after a violent dispersal of urban poor homes in 2014. (Bulatlat File Photo by RVO)

Aussie nun to Duterte: He will have his day in court

Australian missionary nun Sr. Patricia Anne Fox remains resolute in the face of an Immigration order denying her visa extension application and requiring her to leave before Nov. 4.

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In his speech during the distribution of the Certificates of Land Owners Award (CLOAs) to some 3,400 agrarian beneficiaries, covering 5,808 hectares, in Northern Mindanao at the University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines on Wednesday, October 31, Pres. Rodrigo Duterte has ordered Agrarian Reform Sec. John Castriociones to prioritize the giving of lands to the peasants and landless following the massacre that killed nine sugarcane farmers in Sagay City, Negros Occidental, on October 20. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Sison accuses Duterte of siding with oligarchs

“No amount of pretending to distribute land ownership certificates, be these token or fake, can cover up his selfish and ugly role as an ultra-reactionary part of the oligarchy.”

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Is ‘drug war’ being used vs. urban poor dwellers facing demolition?

Maria Roselle Locsin, 37, was watching television in their home on Oct. 7 in Sitio San Roque in Quezon City, along with her husband Bernie Tupaz and 10-year-old daughter, when armed men in plainclothes barged into their home.

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