2 MIN READA regional trial court in Tuguegarao City this morning, January 14, cleared peasant organizer, writer, and poet Amanda Socorro Echanis of criminal charges five years after her arrest.
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< 1 MIN READThe NDFP in Cagayan Valley has raised alarm over the disappearance of one of its regional staff, who has been out of contact for over three weeks.
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3 MIN READResidents along the Cagayan River woke to flooding of their communities this morning as Magat Dam in southern Isabela released more water downstream on Sunday.
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4 MIN READHis admirers said “Ka Louie” exemplified the best of the Filipino revolutionaries. They said he demonstrated all the values a Communist is expected to live by: humility, self-sacrifice, and dedication, among others.
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2 MIN READFarmers and rights groups denounced the filing of terrorism financing charges against six Cagayan Valley activists, saying the move furthers a pattern of persecution through legal means.
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< 1 MIN READ“Residents also said that the bodies of the two bore stab wounds. Acosta was also said to be recuperating from illness in the said community,” Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay said.
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< 1 MIN READ“The clinic is a safe space for HIV patients and commercial sex workers. We are open at three o’clock in the afternoon until 11 at night because of the nature of work and lifestyle of our clients, who go out mostly at night.”
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< 1 MIN READ“Here in Conner, we also have the unique phenomenon of lowlanders making the eight-hour trek up to our village to have their mobile phones, flashlights, radio sets, batteries and other gadgets recharged after strong typhoons have damaged their [on grid] power supply lines. Why is that? Because what we have here is a more reliable power supply that is cheaper and cleaner,” village chief Benito Lugayan said.
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< 1 MIN READ“The children ran from the power house to their homes, wanting to be the ones to switch on the lights,” Dalma said. “That night, they played in the barangay clearing way past their usual bedtime while their elders played the gongs that echoed around the mountains throughout the night.”
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< 1 MIN READAt least two journalists in the Cordillera region have been invited to a fake dialogue with the Baguio City Police earlier this month that turned out to be a witch-hunting activity against journalists and activists.
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< 1 MIN READ“These domestic ‘remedies’ described by the Philippine ambassador (to The Netherlands) in his letter have proven utterly ineffective in stopping wave after wave of drug-related killings, the imprisonment of thousands of poor Filipinos on questionable charges, and the commission of countless human rights violations during the anti-drug campaign,” the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers said.
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< 1 MIN READThe UP Artists’ Circle said Doloricon was one of the pillars of social realism in the Philippine art scene and was popular for his paintings, murals, and relief prints that depicted the struggles of the masses.
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< 1 MIN READIt is not only in the sugar cane fields of Negros and Panay islands that slave-like labor exists, a farmers’ group revealed but exists as well in two of Northern Philippines’ biggest provinces: Isabela and Cagayan.
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< 1 MIN READKODAO | The country’s Inflation rate accelerated to 3.5% in December 2020, driven by the increase in the prices of food non-alcoholic beverages, transport, and restaurant and miscellaneous goods and services, the NEDA reported Tuesday.
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< 1 MIN READKODAO | The year 2020 had been particularly bad for journalism in the Philippines that saw more media workers killed, arrested, jailed and lose their jobs, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) reported.
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< 1 MIN READKODAO | Another peasant activist in Bohol Province was killed just as nine Tumandok civilians in Panay Island were being massacred last Wednesday in one of the bloodiest day for farmers under the four-year old Rodrigo Duterte government.
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< 1 MIN READKODAO | The National Democratic Front of the Philippines revealed the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army are being urged to create armed urban partisan teams in response to widespread abuses by State security forces.
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3 MIN READAs heavy rains brought by Typhoon Ulysses inundated the region, Magat Dam opened seven floodgates since Thursday, swelling the country’s biggest river system and bringing near-unprecedented flooding of communities from Central Isabela to Aparri, Cagayan.
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2 MIN READThe Communist Party of the Philippines extended its unilateral ceasefire for 15 more days to “prioritize the fight against the [COVID-19] pandemic” despite complaints of the Philippine Government violating its own unilateral ceasefire.
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3 MIN READThe NDFP has reported to the UN Secretary-General’s office the GRP’s alleged violations to its unilateral ceasefire, noting that these violations are in defiance of the UN’s global ceasefire request in the fight against COVID-19.
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2 MIN READThe CPP accused the Duterte government of violating its own unilateral ceasefire following a skirmish between the Philippine Army and the New People’s Army in Rodriguez, Rizal on March 28.
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2 MIN READThe UN welcomed the temporary unilateral ceasefire order of the CPP, the first belligerent force in the world to honor UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ call for a global ceasefire to focus against COVID-19.
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3 MIN READThe CPP issued a unilateral nationwide ceasefire order to all commands and units of the NPA from March 26 to April 15, as a response to UN’s appeal for a global ceasefire for the fight against COVID-19.
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2 MIN READThe Communist Party of the Philippines announced that its forces were already carrying out a mass campaign to fight COVID-19 outbreak even before Malacañang’s announcement of a 27-day ceasefire in line with the lockdown.
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2 MIN READJose Maria Sison said the NDFP is not assured and satisfied that the ceasefire announcement is based on national unity against Covid-19, the appropriate solution of the pandemic as a medical problem and the protection of the most vulnerable sectors of the population, including workers, health workers, those with any serious ailments and the political prisoners.
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2 MIN READOrganizations under EcuVoice have announced their submission of a report on the Duterte government’s human rights violations to the UNCHR, urging the world body to further investigations on killings and threats on advocate sectors.
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3 MIN READIn commemoration of the first death anniversary of slain NDFP peace consultant Randy Malayao, activists in Isabela hold a rally in front of a Philippine Army camp in Gamu, condemning the lack of justice for Malayao.
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3 MIN READVeteran GRP Peace Negotiator and former DAR Secretary Hernani Braganza denied allegations made by former military officials serving under the Duterte cabinet that the GRP Panel failed to consult other government agencies for the CASER draft and the document is “treasonous.”
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4 MIN READNDFP says Esperon and Galvez intentionally muddle the NDFP’s unilateral draft version of the CASER with the negotiated and mutually agreed CASER that the peace talks will produce. They maliciously diminish and vilify the progress that the peace talks have made to sabotage this and give way to their narrow-minded hawkish militarism, the NDFP added.
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2 MIN READThe High Court allowed two People’s Television cameras which other media outfits could hook into and limited number of reporters ho would not be allowed to bring their own cameras, smart phones and other video and audio recording equipment inside the courtroom.
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2 MIN READGoodwill measures from President Rodrigo Duterte may be the ticket for the Government of the Republic of the Philippines to successfully revive formal peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, Jose Maria Sison said.
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2 MIN READ“This is a forum organized by MAT…Gen. Parlade has every platform that he can get, including mass media to spill his twisted lies. He is not welcome here…If he can be so kind and act like a gentleman and step out of this hall,” Bayan Chairperson Carol Araullo said.
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< 1 MIN READ“The Filipino people should continue to support the Filipino athlete. Their outrage is directed at the evil Duterte-Cayetano combine,” the long-lasting underground publication said.
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3 MIN READThe International Association of Democratic Lawyers resolved to back plans to file potential cases against Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for “violations of international human rights law” during its council meeting in Belgium on November 2019.
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2 MIN READArtists’ and journalists’ alliance LODI asks ICAD co-chair Vice President Leni Robredo to investigate ‘disinformation’ regarding the government’s drug war, and provide full disclosure on its issues, as part of her agency’s top priorities.
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2 MIN READVeteran journalist and activist Luis V. Teodoro leads this year’s recipients of the prestigious Titus Brandsma Awards, from the media ministry of the Carmelite Order in the Philippines.
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2 MIN READRandy Malayao’s family expressed sadness over allegations made by the Philippine National Police (PNP) that the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant mismanaged funds that may have led to his assassination.
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2 MIN READ The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) denounced efforts by the Rodrigo Duterte government for what it calls the “regime’s foulest move in sowing false information surrounding the murder” of National Democratic Front of the Philippines peace consultant Randy Malayao last January 30 in Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya.
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