After forcibly evicting the residents from their houses and bulldozed their farmlands in 2009, Oceana Gold is now destroying the water sources of communities adjacent to the mining site with their toxic mine tailings.
It addles our mind how President Noynoy Aquino can ignore the rampant human rights abuses under his administration and point to the martial law regime of the Marcoses as rabid violators of the people’s human rights.
In commemoration of the National Day of the Disappeared on November 2, progressive organizations call for the surfacing of all victims of enforced disappearances, from the Marcos to the present Aquino regime.
Watching the early morning TV newscast a day after the Kalag-kalag commemoration and seeing the gigantic heaps of basura at the cemeteries, my wife loudly clacked her tongue followed by a quick scathing comment, “Pagkawala gyuy disiplina sa atong katawhan oy!” [How can our people be…
There is this very interesting segment of a news report about the on-going protest action waged by Lumads of Mindanao through their Manilakbayan - protest trek all the way from Mindanao to the NCR.