“History is repeating itself and present turn of events are bridging the generation gap between youth activists of today and our counterparts 35 years ago.”
This was youth group Anakbayan’s statement on the 35th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law as it joined other human rights and cause-oriented groups in the commemoration march-protest held in [...]

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I am humbled by the vehement and heated response provoked by my article entitled ‘From Boracay to Greece!’ which came out in the June 2007 issue of People Asia. To say that this article was not meant to malign, hurt or express prejudice against the OFWs now sounds hollow after reading through all [...]

Dear Friends,
We are writing you on behalf of Prof. Monico M. Atienza, who has been comatose since December 23, 2006. An undetected mass in his throat gradually blocked air passage, which finally led to successive heart seizures.
Monico is the president of the First Quarter Storm (FQS) Movement, an organization of activists in [...]

In trying to absolve, before the public, the Macapagal-Arroyo administration of responsibility for the Wowowee tragedy which killed at least 75 people – one of the deaths being a forced abortion – on Feb. 4, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita has shown nothing except the extent of his servility toward Malacañang.
Those were among the wisest of [...]

It was an artist –- film director Lino Brocka –- who, as one of the framers of the 1987 Constitution, formulated the provision for one of the cornerstones of the democracy we are supposed to be: specifically Art. III, Sec. 4 which states that: “No law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech, of [...]