‘Miss-Ogyny’. Members of the Gabriela Network in New York held last week a “beauty pageant” to dramatize the killings of political activists, many of them women, in the Philippines. Photo shows a GABNet member dressed like a beauty queen, with a sash saying Miss-Ogyny, and holding a purple umbrella decked with small placards containing photos of Philippine women victims of political killings. (GABnet photo) | 
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The Philippine Supreme Court today dismissed the rebellion cases against six leftist congressmen known as the “Batasan 6,” among them Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran who has been detained in the past 15 months. “We are vindicated. This is a triumph of truth and justice over the Arroyo government’s invented and unfair charge against duly elected people’s representatives,” Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo said.
The Center for Public Integrity, which does “investigative journalism in the public interest,” published a report yesterday on how US…
MANILA — House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna President Satur Ocampo today categorically denied that he has agreed to…
MANILA — Malacanang welcomed today the move of Rep. Satur Ocampo of the militant party-list Bayan Muna and the Alliance…
The Press, one of New Zealand’s leading newspapers, ran this scathing cartoon today on President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who visited New Zealand yesterday.
MANILA — Protests over human rights abuses await Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the Australian cities of Sydney, Canberra…
The Philippines is a disaster area for human rights,” Green Party Foreign Affairs spokesman Keith Locke says. “Arroyo should be urged to stop the political carnage that she is currently condoning.
MANILA, Philippines — A Filipino trade unionist will be protesting in a cage against the Filipino President on the steps…
MANILA — A vote for Bayan Muna is a vote for justice, a vote against abuse. Bayan Muna aired this…
