Police destroys Cordillera heroes monument
The demolished panels of the Anti-Chico Dam struggles monument. (Northern Dispatch photo)
“It is part of the government’s acts of historical revisionism or distorting and erasing the true history of the people’s resistance and heroism which remain relevant until today.”
By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
MANILA The monument to the three martyrs of the anti-Chico Dam struggle during the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship was demolished by suspected police personnel, January 13, in Tinglayan, Kalinga province.
The metal panels featuring the faces of Macliing Dulag, Lumbaya Gayudan and Pedro Dungoc were removed from the Anti-Chico Dams Struggle Monument platform located along the Bontoc-Kalinga road.
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Media groups sue NTF-ELCAC officials over red-tagging
Alternative media practitioners and their lawyers from the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) file charges against government officials over red-tagging, Dec. 18.
“Complainants have been targeted for their critical and independent reporting on issues affecting the marginalized and oppressed sectors. They are being persecuted for publishing progressive and alternative views on matters affecting the Filipino people progressive ideas that are anathema to the current tyrannical regime.”
By EMILY VITAL
Bulatlat,
Kodao Productions,
Pinoy Weekly, and its network AlterMidya-People’s Media Network filed administrative and criminal charges against National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) spokespersons Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. and Lorraine Badoy, and exec
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Truthtellers under siege: Worsening media repression under the Duterte administration
The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 has been widely criticised for curtailing press freedom and the freedom of expression. It has granted authorities the power to detain activists and journalists, and to allege them at the very least of committing terrorism as the law so vaguely defined.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO, RONALYN V. OLEA, and ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
In December 2019, a Philippine court has rendered a historic decision that convicted a political clan and their cohorts guilty of the infamous Ampatuan massacre[i], the single deadliest attack against journalists. This has made the Philippines as the “biggest mover” and has put it in the top five deadliest countries for journalists[ii], per the Committee to Protect Journalists.