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, by Akbayan, APL-SOCSARGEN, MPC
Dear Friends,
Please find below the official Akbayan statement (national & regional) as well as the news items concerning the brutal killings which occurred in Maguidanao, Central Mindanao.
Now that some areas in Mindanao are under a state of emergency, we appeal to the Arroyo government (…)
, by ESGUERRA Christian V., Philippine Daily Inquirer
WHILE the whole nation recoils at what they are believed to have done, President Macapagal-Arroyo is not about to break her embrace of the Ampatuans. Or at least that was the assurance the deputy presidential spokesperson, Lorelei Fajardo, gave to the warrior clan that is widely suspected to be (…)
, by Forum Asia
Dear All,
We thank FORUM-Asia and other networks that came up with a statement/action on the massacre in Maguindanao, Philippines. Wahyu (Susilo) and his co-activists in Indonesia held a rally in front of the Philippine Embassy in Indonesia yesterday to denounce the massacre especially the (…)
, by Centro Saka Inc., MPS (Mindanao), PCICC
Coalition demands justice for Maguindanao massacre
PCICC
The Philippine Coalition for the International Criminal Court (PCICC) joins the country in demanding justice for the vicious and gruesome murder of innocent and unarmed women and men of Mindanao, many of them lawyers and media (…)
Statement on the November 23 Maguindanao Massacre
November 26, 2009
RPM-M (Revolutionary Workers Party-Mindanao
The November 23 Maguindanao massacre has been the most brutal and most savage in all the crimes committed by the ruling elite under the Arroyo regime. It could only be done (…)
, by Philippine Daily Inquirer
The shock we all feel over the unprecedented, indeed unimaginable scale of the massacre in Ampatuan, Maguindanao is also, and traumatically, the shock of recognition. We realize: This is what happens when power becomes absolute.
How did one political family come to exercise absolute control (…)
, by BELLO Walden
Eulogy delivered by Rep. Walden Bello of Akbayan at the wake of Cynthia Oquendo and Catalino Oquendo, Polomolok, South Cotabato, Nov. 26, 200.
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I did not know Atty. Cynthia Oquendo and her father, but from the recollections of their colleagues and (…)
, by LARA Francisco Jr.
LONDON (MindaNews/26 Nov) — The Maguindanao massacre predicts the eruption of wider violence and conflict as the nation heads towards the 2010 elections. Yet to dismiss this incident as “election-related” is to miss the fundamental political and economic implications of this evil deed. The (…)
By Romel Regalado Bagares, Executive Director, Center for International Law | 11/26/2009 3:32 PM
KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato -
What is now known here as the Ampatuan massacre wiped out the staff of the five-year old pioneering vernacular newsweekly Periodico Ini (This Periodical) based in (…)
, by LDCI, Movements (Women), MPPM, NUJP, UPLM
Statement of Condemnation on the Massacre of Women, Lawyers, Journalists and Civilians in Maguindanao
The Mindanao Peoples’ Peace Movement (MPPM)
The Mindanao Peoples’ Peace Movement (MPPM), a network/coalition of human rights and peace advocates coming from different grassroots (…)
, by de QUIROS Conrado
THE question is, “Why?” I do not just mean this in the sense of patent motivations. The people who massacred—never has that word resonated more grimly—Toto Mangudadatu’s followers on their way to the provincial capitol to file his candidacy obviously did it to prevent him from filing his (…)
, by Philippine Daily Inquirer
BY instinct and conviction, President Macapagal-Arroyo is a believer in strong central authority and the paramount political status of the presidency. But out of necessity she has conceded unprecedented power to provincial warlords in the name of expediency and political survival to the extent (…)
, by Afrim
Members of the Davao City Climate Change Action Network (DAVCCAN), Development Round Table Series, the Stop the New Round Coalition and other interest groups will look into climate change issues and examine solutions to the climate crisis at a forum to be held on 24 November, at the University (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
DAVAO CITY ------ Concerned about the destruction of lives and properties brought by the ongoing armed conflict in various parts of Mindanao after the failed Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD), partners of Bread for the World (BftW)-Germany, an international program for the (…)
, by AKMK
MILANMO CAMP
Spreading Culture of Peace among the tri-people youth and the Community through continuous Dialogue and Immersion in the present Mindanao context
The peace situation in the Philippines, particularly in Mindanao, has been like a vicious cycle. Many sectors have lost hope, but (…)
, by AGM-Mindanao, AWC-Mindanao, KPD-Mindanao
After the release of the two members of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), Gov. Sakur Tan of Sulu declared a state of emergency in the island- province on March 31, 2009 resulting in the arrest of 42 persons including two or more policemen, vendors, and barangay captains. Among (…)
, by Afrim
The current undertakings of the House of Congress to amend the 1987 Philippine Constitution and allow foreign ownership of land pose threats to Filipinos’ access and control to the country’s land and resources.
House Resolution 737 authored by Speaker Prospero Nograles proposes to amend the (…)
, by CARUMBA Amabella L., MPPM, SENTURIAS Al
In a peace summit, some 400 representatives of people’s and nongovernment organizations affirmed their call for the conduct of a United Nations-supervised/managed/facilitated referendum on four political options: free association, autonomy, federalism, and independence. “The conduct of a (…)
, by MPPM
Assert the right to self-determination of the Tri-Peoples, build just and lasting peace, and work for genuine development in Mindanao! We, the Tri-Peoples (Katawhang Lumad, Bangsamoro, Migrants and Descendants) of Mindanao-Sulu-Basilan-Tawi-Tawi-Palawan participating in the 5th Mindanao (…)
, by MPPM
Some 400 representatives of various people’s and nongovernment organizations, including the church sector, formally opened yesterday, December 12 the 5th Mindanao Peoples’ Peace Summit (5MPPS) at the Mindanao State University in Marawi City . The 5th MPPS will be conducted until December 16. (…)
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