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(UPDATED 10:57 pm) Basilan Rep. Wahab Akbar has died due to injuries from a blast that occurred at around 8:00 pm Monday at the South Wing driveway of the House of Representatives complex in Quezon City. Akbar died at the Far Eastern University Hospital while undergoing treatment. Gabriela Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan is now at the […]
MoreRuel Muñasque, 33, has become the first Filipino to be freed from detention by virtue of a writ of amparo. The Supreme Court recently introduced the writ of amparo as a new remedy for victims of extra-judicial killings and abductions and other abuses by people in authority. For a background on the writ of amparo, […]
MoreThe US writers’ strike continues, and what better thing to do that to get to know why they dropped their pencils and started picketlines in front of the studios. Get your answers from this short, informative video of the Writers Guild of America:
MoreBy ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 8, 2007 NOTHING is sure yet after all with the purported $30 million in fresh military aid from the United States, a lobby composed of Filipinos and Americans, including members of US churches, said yesterday. The Arroyo government might not even get any increase at all and could face […]
MoreThe NUJP, of which I may apply soon as a member, is on target. I agree 100% with this statement regarding the NPC’s censorship of a press freedom mural. I am reposting here in full the well-written NUJP statement which I obtained from the email loop: A QUESTION OF TRUTH The National Union of Journalists […]
MoreBy ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 7, 2007 THREE comfort women, including a Filipina, are now on a campaign tour across Europe to convince the continent’s leaders to raise the issue of World War II sexual slavery with Japan during a European Union-East Asia summit on Nov. 21. Menen Castillo, now 78, was turned into […]
MoreBy ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 6, 2007 THE Philippines will get an additional $2 million in military assistance from the United States but only if the Arroyo government shows progress in addressing political killings. An announcement on the website of Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, said: “The version of the US […]
MoreThe talks with producers over shares in DVD sale proceeds have failed, and the Writers Guild of America have been compelled to launch a nationwide screenwriters strike as announced by this statement issued at 12:30 am Nov. 5: As of 12:01 AM November 5th, the WGA strike is on in the Eastern time zone. WGAE […]
MoreActivists should be more wary of their email communications (extra precautions please!) especially now that the US government is arguing before a court that no one has a right to privacy of email communications. The Register of UK reports that: … the government is seeking to eliminate any Constitutional privacy interest in email. Under this […]
MoreHere’s another roundup on Global Voices Online, this time about censorship in the Philippines. Members of the Neo-Angono Artists Collective are protesting alterations to a mural they made as commissioned artists of the National Press Club. The group has posted the original mural in their website: Titled “press freedom”, the 8 by 32 feet mural […]
MoreThe University of the Philippines is more popularly known as a bastion of activism. But perhaps unknown to many, the vast majority of students, faculty, non-academic personnel and administrators aren’t activists. For most of its history and even until now, UP is actually a very pro-Establishment institution. In fact, it is a pillar of the […]
MoreInquirer reports that US airport authorities detained one of the US government’s invited guests — the first Muslim member of the British cabinet — and searched his luggage searched for explosives: International Development Minister Shahid Malik was detained for about 40 minutes at Washington Dulles airport Sunday by the Department of Homeland Security after meeting […]
MoreSome really malicious persons are playing tricks on known anti-Arroyo personalities in a transparent effort to link them to the atrocious Glorietta bombing last Friday. Inquirer.net reports that calls to a purported cellphone number of “Sheik Omar”, who belongs to a shadowy group that has claimed to have perpetrated the bombing, were forwarded to the […]
MoreGabriela Women’s Party Representatives Liza Maza and Luz Ilagan now have started began posting their press releases and statements in a WordPress blog. Latest from the GWP solons: Impartial probe on Glorietta blast sought; public vigilance urged amid possible crackdown President Arroyo must resign now
MoreBy ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Oct. 19, 2007 A MEMBER of the Hong Kong legislature is leading a fact-finding mission that seeks to shed light on human rights abuses under the Arroyo government. Leung Kwok Hung of the Hong Kong Legislative Council arrived in the Philippines Monday for the Oct. 16-22 mission organized by the […]
MoreAnakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran is now confined at the Philippine General Hospital after figuring in what appears to be a freak road accident in Intramuros, Manila. Jimmy Miranda, Beltran’s driver, was also hurt. The solon was on his way to the centennial celebration of the Philippine Assembly at the old Ayuntamiento Building, also in Intramuros. […]
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