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| Category: OPINION | 2006-06-13 6:06 PM +0800 |
Killing Season in the Philippines |
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| by Herbert Docena (Focus on Global South) | |
 MANILA - Political activist Cathy Alcantara was gunned down by unidentified assailants last December 5, outside the resort where she had helped to organize a conference on farmers' rights. Two months later, the lifeless body of her activist friend, 19-year-old Audie Lucero, was found in a remote rice field. Lucero was last seen surrounded by police officers and soldiers in a hospital lobby, inexplicably crying. Annaliza Abanador-Gandia, another left-leaning activist, had frequently marched with the two victims, often at the forefront of demonstrations calling for various sorts of political change, including the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, an end to US military exercises in the Philippines, and overhaul of the World Trade Organization's free-trade policies. On May 18, it was Abanador-Gandia's turn to die. It's unclear exactly what happened, because she was alone inside her shop that night. Her body was found slumped on a table, eight bullets through her face, chest and stomach. The gunpowder found on her face indicated that she had been shot at point-blank range.[ Read More ] |
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| Category: NEWSBREAK | 2006-06-05 6:39 PM +0800 |
Two of Sagada11 Now Freed! |
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| by Manila Indymedia | |
TWO among the eleven tortured and illegally arrested backpackers also known as the SAGADA11, were already released from La Trinidad District Jail on May 30, Asian Commission on Human Rights (AHRC) said, Thursday night.  Minors Frencess Ann Bernal (15) and Ray Lester Mendoza (16) were released from La Trinidad District Jail after the court granted the earlier petition by their legal counsel to turn them over to their parents. The two minors were amongst the 11 torture victims detained in La Trinidad, Benguet. They were illegally arrested in February 14, 2006 at Buguias Checkpoint by Police authorities who claimed that they were in “hot pursuit” of suspected Armed Rebels.
In a separate newspaper report, Judge Agapito Laoagan Jr. ruled the “warrantless” arrest by the police as illegal as it did not fall under the principle of a “hot pursuit” operation. Under arrests made by virtue of “hot pursuit” operations, warrants may not be required. Further, the arrests should be made within hours from the commission of the crime. [ Read More ] Please continue to support the release of nine others more, namely: 1. Rundren Berloize Lao (24) of Gerona, Tarlac 2. Anderson Alonzo (18) of Calinan, Davao City 3. Aldoz Christian Manoza (18) of Pasig City 4. Ron Pandino (20) of Laguna 5. Jethro Villagracia (21) of Calinan, Davao City 6. Neil Russel Balajadia (25) of Santolan, Pasig City 7. Darwin Alagar (21) of Urdaneta City, Pangasinan 8. Arvie Nunez (21) of Lucena City 9. Jefferson dela Rosa (20) of No. 211 A.M. De Leon St., Santolan, |
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| Category: Human Rights | 2006-04-05 11:35 AM +0800 |
Punks Held Offline Sit-in at Commission on Human Rights |
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| by Manila Indymedia | |
| MANILA-- At least 30 punks held a sit-in protest at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) of the Philippines head office in Quezon City on Friday, demanding an impartial probe into the alleged brutal torture of 11 peers by police in Benguet province, north of Manila.
The demonstration coincided with a scheduled court hearing against the torture victims in La Trinidad, Benguet, on charges of homicide in connection with a February 10 raid on an army base.[ Read More ] |
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| Category: Resistance | 2006-03-21 9:04 PM +0800 |
Bringing Street Protest to Cyberspace |
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| by Manila Indymedia | |
| NEWSBREAK! (28/3/2006) HACKTIVISTS expressing solidarity with the 11 political prisoners known as the Sagada 11 have hacked and defaced the website belonging to the National Defense College of the Philippines. Their website now reads, "We don't need the government, we don't need the military, we need JUSTICE AND LIBERTY for the SAGADA 11!", along with several links encouraging people to show their support.[ Read More ] UPDATES! (26/3/2006) VIRTUAL SIT-IN ends today, says BrigadaElektronica in a message forwarded through emails, the group thanked the participants who corageously joined the direct action that shuts the PNP website down (wednesday March 23). About 1,088 users participated in the action bringing the message FREE SAGADA 11. The group vowed to continue the campaign, saying, "stay tuned for our next target." UPDATES! (24/3/2006) GEOCITIES.YAHOO.COM responded to the ongoing virtual sit-in by blatantly deleting the html pages that had been set-up by BrigadaElektronica and JLI. But the group says "no need to worry," after suggesting cyber protestors to use the mirror sites. UPDATES! (23/3/2006) HACKTIVISTS from USA expressed solidarity with Filipino online activists by hijacking the PNP.GOV.PH "Report a Crime" form with an automated response that let people join the virtual sit-in. [ Read More ]  A GROUP of online activists offered an alternative space to protest after the Philippine Government violently prohibited the streets and freedom parks to exercise public assembly and practice freedom of speech. The online activists calling themselves BrigadaElektronica electronic disturbance group organized an “electronic sit-in”- bringing street protest actions on cyberspace.
Electronic sit-in is a form of electronic civil disobedience deriving its name from the sit-ins popular during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, a virtual sit-in attempts to re-create that same action digitally using a DDoS. During an electronic sit-in, hundreds of activists attempt to access a target website simultaneously and repetitively. If done right, this will cause the target website to run slowly or even collapse entirely, preventing anyone from accessing it. [source: wikipedia] The action officially starts on March 23, 2006 (10:00am Manila time), it will last until the first of April. They are inviting everyone to join and occupy the Philippine National Police website for being a rampant human rights violator. [ Read More ][ UPDATES FROM HACKSITES: Post.Thing.Net | SDHacklab | Hacktivist.com | Hackthissite ] THE VIRTUAL SIT-IN IS OVER. THANKS FOR THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED. KEEP UPDATED FOR MORE ACTION! |
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| Category: Human Rights | 2006-03-14 1:04 PM +0800 |
Sagada11 Solidarity Action Held in Spain |
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| by Jong Pairez (Indymedia Volunteer) | |
| NEWSBREAK! (3/14/2006) Police authorities asked the Quezon City judge to issue a search warrant for Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) headquarters, late this afternoon. The request for the warrant issue is apparently in connection with inciting to sedition charges that similarly forced a local newspaper to shutdown, last month. [ Read More ] UPDATE! (3/14/2006) Two new articles were included in the opinion column: Beyond the Politics of Representation, the added articles were written as a critique to the previous articles on the current political situation in the Philippines from an autonomist perspective. TAKE NOTE: These articles invite a discourse rather than an ideological reflection. Please take your own risk. [ Discuss ]  BARCELONA, Spain-- Protest Banners were hanged outside the Philippine Embassy, surprising passersby in Barcelona, yesterday (March 13), by a group of unnamed Spanish activists, saying, “Basta de Torturas en las Filipinas (enough torture in the Philippines)” and “11 de Sagada LIBERTAD! (free the Sagada 11!)”
Leaflets were also distributed, informing passersby about the rampant Human Rights violation in the Philippines under the Arroyo Regime. The group of Spanish activists who did a small solidarity action for the unconditional release of Sagada 11, specifically condemned the illegal arrest and violent torture suffered by the eleven young backpackers from the hands of Philippine authorities. Sagada 11 was named after the eleven backpacker punks and FoodNotBombs volunteers including a fifteen-year-old girl illegally arrested and tortured by Philippine Police and Military last month, while hitch-hiking on their way to Sagada mountains to visit a local tourist destination. Sagada 11 were wrongly accused of Homicide and Robbery charges after the authorities failed to arrest the maoist-leftist New Peoples Army who recently attacked a local Military Camp in Benguet. The eleven backpackers are not whatsoever affiliated to any authoritarian Leftists in the Philippines. They are still currently detained. [ Read More | A-Manila.Org | EarthFirst!Philippines | Online Petition ] Sagada11 Story Updates: Demand Intensifies for Safe Release of 11 Mountaineers | Free the Sagada 11: int’l campaign kicks off for punks tortured by PNP in Buguias |
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