The idea of terrorism is extended to several forms of social fight and protest. Dissident political and trade union opinions become criminalized. An environment movement such as Greenpeace or animal rights activist is even prosecuted as terrorist in some countries. Lawyer Raf Jespers of the Progressive Lawyers Network, Belgium, made these arguments during a forum of international lawyers in Davao City last month.
In this analysis piece, the Policy Study, Publication and Advocacy (PSPA) Program of the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) analyzes the recent filing of human-rights charges against President…
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Davao shines more than ever as the world renowned fashion designer, Toni Galang brought forth glamour through his designs and couture. Toni Galang ?06 marked a major event at Marco Polo Hotel last July 27, 2006. The event showcased Toni?s Black and White, Gold, and Bridal collection. The various collections were worn by Davao models (including yours truly), Bb. Pilipinas-World Marina Benipayo and Bb. Pilipinas-International Patty Betita.
The advocates of constitutional change, most especially former President Fidel Ramos, House speaker Jose De Venecia and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, cannot claim to be sincere adherents of constitutional principles when their track record in governance says otherwise.
By the Policy Study, Publications and Advocacy (PSPA) Program
Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
MANILA — The advocates of constitutional amendment are in their last-ditch efforts to rush the approval of their project following the junking of their petition by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) last week. Considering the brains behind this exercise, their political motives and the means they have used to clinch their objective, all the more is there reason to oppose it and to shy way from complacency.
This has been the question nagging me for days now as I follow the story of an anti-terror expert who ran an experiment of bringing explosive materials and who passed through the security personnel of an airline carrier and two major airports in the country, airports that had, in the past five years, survived bombing attacks from ?terrorists.?
The authorities, from airport security to Davao City officials to Malaca?ang, are after the head of Samson Macariola, the anti-terror expert who showed to a journalist his feat of testing the security measures of the airline and the Manila and Davao airports by carrying real explosives and assembling them inside the airplane.