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NOT A CRIME TO BE CRITICAL

< 1 MIN READStudents from various universities in Baguio city gathered to decry the recent attacks of the government under the veil of the so-called “Red October Ouster Plot,” including a malicious Facebook post circulated by the Baguio City Police Office (BCPO), maligning progressive youth organizations.

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Moratorium sa field testing ng Golden Rice, iginiit

2 MIN READNaigiit ng mga magsasaka mula sa Danggayan – Cagayan Valley, Danggayan Dagiti Mannalon ti Isabela (DAGAMI) at Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad sa Agrikultura (MASIPAG) sa naganap na dayalogo noong ika-8 ng Oktubre 2018 sa lokal na pamahalaan sa probinsya ng Isabela ang moratorium sa field testing ng Goldern Rice.

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MGB evaluates small-scale mining areas

3 MIN READThe Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau (MGB-CAR) conducted rapid assessments of existing small-scale mining (SSM) areas in Mountain Province. They visited the Barangays Fidelisan in Sagada; Matiim at Alab and, Farnet at Mainit both in the town of Bontoc and; Maliten at Laylaya, Besao.

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Radyo Sagada bags award for health advocacy

< 1 MIN READ Four awards were given to health advocates in Mt. Province for their unique contribution in health education. Radyo Sagada 104.7 was awarded the winner in Best Educational Program, Radio Category in the 2018 Cordillera Health Advocacy Media and Promotions Champion- HEALTH CHAMP AWARD in Baguio City on October 5.

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Ompong washes out Quirino ricefields

4 MIN READOn September 15 typhoon Ompong battered Northern Luzon with heavy rains and strong winds, the Abra River swelled up through Quirino, Ilocos Sur carrying rocks and soil from the mountains. The ricefields along the way disappeared into the raging waters, destroying crops, irrigation systems and road pavement among others.

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Health union denounces harassment of members

3 MIN READBy ANNE MARXZE UMIL/BULATLAT.COM www.nordis.net MANILA — There is no exception from the crackdown of President Duterte’s critics, not even public health workers are spared, said Alliance of Health Workers president...

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Makan ala Pinoy: Sarsiado a daing a mol-mol

2 MIN READMalaksid iti pinirito a daing, mabalin met a mailuto ti parrot fish a sarsiado. Dagiti daing a dadakkel nga ikan kas ti mol-mol, besugo ken bacalao ti naimas a maisarsiado. Mayat daytoy kadagiti sulsulinek a lugar a saanen a madanon dagiti sadiwa nga ikan, padasenyo daytoy sarsiado.

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Napateg a pannagna

3 MIN READPanggimong a serbisio ti kasapulanda nga ipaay koma ti gobierno kas ti libre nga edukasion dagiti ubbing, libre nga agas ken serbisio iti salun-at. Kasta met a maaramid koma ti farm-to-market roads ken agsuporta koma gobierno tapno dumur-as ti sistema ti agrikultura iti lugar. Dagita koma ti serbisio nga ipaay ti gobierno iti umili, saan a panagtalinaed dagiti militar iti komunidad.

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Youth Speak: Activists not Terrorists: On the Facebook post of BCPO

2 MIN READThe danger in redtagging these organizations is the risk these students and activists are put into. With the anti-insurgency program and the Red October plot, activists become the main target. In schools across the Cordillera, students are subject to thorough bag frisking because of the administration’s fear of a student insurrection, and students are being tagged members of the NPA.

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Group slams fake mass surrenders in Ilocos Sur

2 MIN READReports said that nine members of Kabataang Makabayan (KM) from Barangay Legazpi, Galimuyod surrendered to the Community Support Program of the 81st IB. Another group from Barangay Bugnay, composed of ten KM and 17 Samahang Magsasaka members also yielded to the military.

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Mayor, 2 others killed in La Union

< 1 MIN READUPDATED OCT.3, 7:16 A.M.
VIGAN CITY — Unidentified assailants ambushed the mayor of Sudipen, killing the official, his security detail, driver and wounding his wife at around 6:40 pm yesterday, October 1.

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Bed capacity increase of BGH signed into law

< 1 MIN READPresident Rodrigo Roa Duterte has signed into law Republic Act 11084 increasing the bed capacity of Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) from 500 to 800 principally authored by Baguio City representative Mark Go.

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Beneco comes to aid of city over hydros

2 MIN READThe Benguet Electric Cooperaive (Beneco) has come in support of the city in untangling the mess the latter is embroiled in as a result of the failure of a company to begin rehabilitation of the city’s four hydroelectric plants.

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President’s admission will be taken seriously – solons

2 MIN READACT Teachers Representatives Antonio Tinio and France Castro lambasted the lame excuse of the Duterte administration saying that the admission of President Duterte on extrajudicial killings should not be taken seriously. The solons said that this is an issue concerning people’s lives and should not be taken as a joke. Both solons also said that the President blatantly admitted that he is guilty of extrajudicial killings and he will be accountable for his crimes against the Filipino people.

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Dumagats’ protest against Chinese-funded Kaliwa-Kanan-Laiban dam

3 MIN READThe steps of the Chinese Embassy were made red by the placards, traditional attire and mamá (betel nut) of Dumagat leaders representing villages to be submerged by the New Centennial Water Source Project (NCWS) as they protest against the building of a series of mega dams in the Sierra Madre Mountain Ranges.

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Solons join Teachers’ National Day of Action

2 MIN READOn World Teachers’ Day and National Teachers’ Day, ACT Teachers Party-List Representatives Antonio Tinio and France Castro will march to Mendiola along with about 2,000 teachers who will stage a protest action against the overworked yet underpaid status of teachers amidst TRAIN-induced inflation.

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Editorial: The Indigenous People’s month

3 MIN READLong before it was decreed by then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as the national Indigenous People’s Month, it was in October that Filipinos already commemorated mostly with the Church, Tribal Filipino Week and Tribal Filipino Sundays.

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As the Bamboos Sway: My brother, Ces

5 MIN READEven in silence, he spoke with eloquence. At least to me. He has been my only brother for 64 years of his mortal life that I had grown to know what he conveyed with the mere twitching of his lips, rolling or gleaming of his eyes, the gravity of his sighs, or jiggle of his shoulders in mirthful mode or shrugging them.

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Weekly Reflections: Indigenous Peoples and the Church

4 MIN READOctober is declared as Indigenous People’s Month in the ecumenical world. This is an opportune time for us to look into our relationship with the indigenous peoples in our country and elsewhere. The story of the Canaanite Woman as recorded in the Gospel according to Matthew could help us in our reflection (15:21-28).

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Bulatlat Perspective: A fantastic plot like no other

2 MIN READFor the past weeks, the Duterte administration has been weaving a rather absurd narrative of unholy alliances between and among various political parties purportedly plotting to unseat him. The plot thickens day by day. The disinformation they are throwing, red and bomb scares included, all lead to one thing: this is not a drill.

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Message: Gurong Pilipino: Turo Mo, Kinabukasan Ko!

4 MIN READNo words can actually capture an expression recognizing the roles of teachers in our society. But the theme on this year’s celebration Gurong Pilipino: Turo Mo, Kinabukasan Ko substantiated and iterated the role of our teachers – OUR TEACHERS, OUR HEROES!

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Statements: The Déjà vu of government-backed conspiracies

2 MIN READUsing the spectre of communism to scare the Filipino people into quiet submission is a harrowingly similar tactic used by Marcos and the AFP to quell dissent and spread fear. Ferdinand Marcos raised the ‘Red’ scare to prop up his authoritarian rule which was suffering cracks, akin to Duterte’s use of this so-called Red October. Even the protest movement then was rising as the Filipino people called for fundamental change.

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A community’s grief and anxiety through children’s eyes

4 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The usual road to Loacan from Ucab, Itogon is now missing in maps and photos, defaced from the wrath of the September 15 heavy downpour that saturated the soil and followed the law of gravity. The new route is via Sabkil, offering us distant views of Ucab and Loacan whose mountains bear scars from the recent onslaught, and unseen reminders of a century of mining.

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Makan a la Pinoy: Taraon a pangpadaruy iti dara

2 MIN READGagangay a proseso ti bagi ti panagpalet/panagtukel ti dara (blood clotting) a makatulong iti panagsardeng iti panagpadara kadagiti nasugat wenno nadunor. Ngem parikut daytoy kadagiti addaan high blood pressure ken sakit iti puso. Mabalin a manglapped ti blood clot iti panagtaray ti dara iti puso, utek, bara ken dadduma pay a paset ti bagi a no saan a masigud a mataming ket agresulta iti komplikasion.

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Editorial: SSM for sustenance only and not for profit

2 MIN READIn a barangay meeting last Thursday, the residents: farmers, small scale traders and miners, were gathered to discuss their future as a community against the national government official’s decision to suddenly close down their small scale mining operations where they were drawing their already main, and for some, only means of livelihood.

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Weekly Reflections: Children in God’s kingdom

8 MIN READIn our church calendar, the month of September is Christian Education and Nurture Emphasis month. This is a time for us to recognize the importance of Christian education and nurture in the total life and witness of the church. I would like to believe that Christian education and nurture has been the source of the strength of Protestant evangelical witness throughout the ages. The moment Christian education and nurture is neglected, church growth will be stunted and her witness to the world will be weakened.

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Statements: Let ethics always be our guide

2 MIN READThis week, media took a huge, self-inflicted hit at a time when the industry and individual journalists continue to be vilified and threatened by those who would seek to undermine the profession of truth to advance their nefarious agenda.

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Statements: On the Office of the Solicitor General’s response to the City Government

< 1 MIN READTongtongan ti Umili – Cordillera Peoples Alliance welcomes the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG)’s answer to a petition filed by the City Government of Baguio that brands their claims to prevent the city’s indigenous people’s mandatory representative (IPMR) to assume office as “self-serving, gratuitous, and unwarranted conclusions of law.”

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Weekly Reflections: Martial law as a Theological issue

4 MIN READOn September 21, 1972, then Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos declared martial law in our country in the guise “to save the republic and reform society.” However, what happened in more than a decade of Marcos Rule was the very opposite of what the regime had claimed to do. Our country was plunged into long dark nights of fascist rule, where crying and weeping of widows and orphans were heard all over the land amidst the sarcastic laughter and merriment of the powers-that-be, feasting lavishly on the riches and beauty of our motherland.

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Cordillera, 54 dead in Ompong’s rage

2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — In a breaking news, initial data gathered today, Sunday September 16, on the aftermath of yesterdy’s weather disturbance that battered thru northern Luzon, typhoon Ompong (Mangkhut) left 54 dead in the Cordillera, 49 missing and 33 injured.

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14 killed in Kalinga road mishap

2 MIN READTABUK CITY, Kalinga — Fourteen passengers, most of them senior citizens, were killed and 25 others were injured when the brakes of the jeepney they were riding on failed and they fell into an 80-meter ravine in Barangay Dao-angan at Balbalan town here in Kalinga on Tuesday afternoon, September 11.

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Editorial: Faces of disaster

2 MIN READDisaster is briefly defined as a calamity, or a catastrophe, even described as a misfortune. And it seems to be happening too often in the Filipino life nowadays. Here north of the country, Benguet Province farmers were just recovering from too much inundation from almost three months of rain and then Typhoon Ompong rages thru. When farmers have recovered from a devastation like this on their own, it is said to be due to the resilience of the people or simply the ability to bounce back.

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All That Fits: Surface James Balao

2 MIN READA few days from this writing (September 11) we are already counting 10 years since the abduction of Cordillera activist James Balao on September 17, 2008. We are also counting 10 years of injustice for James, his family, his clan, the Cordillera communities he served and his organisation, the Cordillera Peoples Alliance, of which he was a pioneer.

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As The Bamboos Sway: BBM and the rebels Corpuz, Honasan

4 MIN READShould former New People’s Army rebel Victor Corpuz and EDSA poster rebel Gringo Honasan be concerned if, by any political magic maneuvering, the Political Electoral Tribunal (PET) backslides to declare Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. the duly elected vice-president in the 2016 Philippine elections, where if President Rodrigo ‘Digong’ Duterte resigns or dies, Bongbong becomes president? If not through the PET but through the use of a massive campaign chest and battalions of trolls, Bongbong runs for the presidency and wins in 2022, should the former rebels still be concerned? That is if President Rodrigo ‘Digong’ Duterte succeeds in silencing his fiercest critic, Senator Antonio ‘Sonny’ Trillanes IV.

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Gruesome and Cruel: 11 massacres under Duterte (2/2)

3 MIN READHuman rights group Karapatan said the police and military usually justify the indiscriminate killing of civilians, whether women, children or elderly, by tagging them as members of the New People’s Army (NPA). The group blamed Duterte’s absolution of the “burchers in the government” for the worsening “state
of impunity” that “made it possible for these massacres to continue.”

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PNP arrests suspect in Abra bombing

< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The Abra police has arrested a suspect in the January 25, 2018 grenade blast that killed two policemen and injured 26 people, including Abra Rep. Joseph Bernos and his wife, La Paz Mayor Menchie Bernos during a public gathering.

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Cagayan Gov, nagmura sa harap ng kapitolyo

2 MIN READTUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — “Kung magnanakaw ako magnanakaw tayong lahat!” Ito ang mga salitang binigkas ni Cagayan Provincial Governor Manuel Mamba sa harap ng mga empleyado ng Provincial Capitol noong ika-3 ng September, Lunes dito sa gitna ng flag ceremony.

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Chico Once More: Legacy of Resistance in the Cordillera (2/3)

5 MIN READThe aggressive development push in Cordillera involves extensive scale of violation of indigenous peoples’ rights over their land and primarily their right to free, prior and informed consent. Villagers of Huhlukan Barangay in Ifugao complaint on the real FPIC process prescribed by NCIP was not followed for proposed hydro electric projects as information was denied to them by Santa Clara Company for the proposed dam in Tinoc. Villagers are rather misinformed that villagers will have roads, electricity, and employment with the dam construction.

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Editorial: Sowing fear is what terrorists do

2 MIN READSowing fear is basically also what bullies do to their victims to get what they want. Some may remember the bullies in their school days who were hungry for recognition. It was important for them to control the class so they bully their classmates with threats of a fist fight, name calling, constant harassment and even run away with their victims’ “baon”.

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As The Bamboos Sway: Putang-Burgis

4 MIN READWow! I am able to use the word ‘puta’ without hesitation as I write this column, courtesy of President Rodrigo ‘Digong’ Duterte who has culturized the Filipino language to have the word acceptable in speeches. Deng! Those who believe in him or his captive audiences even applaud him whenever he utters the word. If they could, at every opportune time, they would even give him a standing ovulation or a standing ejaculation.

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Weekly Reflections: Building our nation’s future with today’s children

3 MIN READSeptember is declared as Children’s Month and September 9 as Children’s Sunday. This is probably to emphasize the importance of children in our nation’s life and future. But actually, every month should always be a children’s month and every Sunday must always be a Children’s Sunday. Caring for children is something that we do every day. Any nation that does not care for the young does not have a future at all.

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Takot hatid ng militar sa Isabela

3 MIN READJONES, Isabela — Nagdulot ng takot at pangamba sa ng mga residente at mga lokal na opisyal ang mala-Martial Law na kalagayan sa Barangay Sta. Isabel, Jones, Isabela sanhi ng pagdating at paghimpil ng pwersa ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) mula pa noong Hulyo. Ang presensiya ng militar ay bahagi umano ng pagpapaigting nila ng operasyon laban sa New People’s Army at pagpapatupad ng Community Support Program (CSP)sa ilalim ng Oplan Kapayapaan ng administrasyong Duterte.

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Ilocos provinces declare “State of Calamity”

2 MIN READNon-stop and heavy rains brought by the Southwest monsoon last week compelled two Ilocos provinces to declare a ‘state of calamity’. The declaration provides utilization of the local government’s calamity fund to respond to the needs of the affected communities.

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Religious convene Cordillera peace network

3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Church leaders from the different Christian denominations in Northern Luzon met in the city on August 27-28 to affirm their commitment for peace building. The gathering aimed to provide updates on the peace talks between the Philippine government (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), and present the overview of the draft Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER).

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Workers hail bills for added leaves

2 MIN READBy SHERWIN DE VERA www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Militant labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) welcomed the House of Representatives’ (HoR) passing of two proposed laws over the week, giving additional number of paid...

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Chico Once More: Legacy of Resistance in the Cordillera

6 MIN READAn environmentalist and human rights defender from the Center for Research and Advocacy – Manipur and a member of Meitei people of Manipur, India writes his perspective of the issues shared by indigenous peoples communities during the International Solidarity Mission (ISM) in the Cordillera.

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Heavy rainfall triggers land slips in Amguid

2 MIN READExperts from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau said the continuous precipitation from heavy rainfall is the culprit for the massive land movement in a village in Candon City and recommended immediate forced evacuation within a 75 hectares danger zone.

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Local Peace Talks may work if…

3 MIN READA Catholic leader sees localized peace talks working and complimenting the peace efforts between the GRP and NDFP if utilized as means to promote and discuss the overall agenda of the talks and the proposals of both parties to the wider public.

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Bandillo: Justice for Antique 7

3 MIN READOn the midnight of August 15, 2018, seven personnel and staff of NDFP-Panay were attacked and murdered by combined elements of the 301st Brigade, 61st Infantry Battalion, Antique PMF, and San Jose police in Atabay, San Jose, Antique.

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Poetry: Inaalala ang mga Nawawala

< 1 MIN READNi LUCHIE MARANAN www.nordis.net Walang hanggang pagtatanong Ang pag-asa’y alon, parito’t paroon Walang tuldok ang panata Na buhayin ang kanilang pagkadakila Walang hanggang pagtataka Kung saan dinala Buhay at...

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Northern Dispatch Weekly @ 29

< 1 MIN READIn 1989, Northern Dispatch Weekly was borne from the growing nationalist mass movement of indigenous people in defense of their ancestral land/domain and the right to self-determination. It was important for them to tell their own story, and share their outlook on issues in the region, as indigenous peoples, as national minorities; their culture, their identity and their common perspective for a national democratic society.

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