Sa pusod ng syudad ng Dasmariñas, Cavite, matutunton ang 372-ektaryang Lupang Ramos, isang lupaing mahigit isang siglo nang iginigiit ng mga magsasakang mapasakanila. Mula sa mga Kastilang prayle, mga Amerikano, hanggang sa pamilya ng negosyanteng si Emerito Ramos, Sr., nagpalipat-lipat sa...
By JUSTIN UMALIBulatlat.com SANTA CRUZ, Laguna – Five volunteers of progressive party-list Bayan Muna Southern Tagalog along with two companions are being held in a checkpoint by elements of the police and military in barangay Panikihan, Gumaca town, Quezon province,...
By JACINTO LINGATONGBulatlat.com SANTA CRUZ, Laguna — Youth groups in Southern Tagalog have strongly opposed the proposed resolution of the 202nd Infantry Brigade, Philippine Army and CALABARZON Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF ELCAC)...
By JACINTO LINGATONGBulatlat.com SANTA ROSA,Laguna – Reports of increased police checkpoints and intelligence agents near offices and universities have been documented a day before the 38th year commemoration of the first people power uprising that toppled the...
Human rights alliance, Defend Southern Tagalog continues to echo the call for justice and the protection of activists against terror charges after court junked cases against human rights defender Ken Rementilla and Jasmin Rubia. By JACINTO LINGATONGBulatlat.com SANTA...
Ni Michelle MabingnayPinoy Weekly Bandang alas-kuwatro ng hapon nitong Setyembre 29 nang mabasag ang katahimikan sa Barangay Macamot sa Binangonan, Rizal. May dumating na mga pulis mula sa Criminal Investigation and Detention Group (CIDG). May dala raw silang warrant...
By JACINTO LINGATONGBulatlat.com SANTA CRUZ, Laguna — Three indigenous people’s rights advocates investigating human rights violations were abducted in Mindoro Oriental. According to Karapatan Southern Tagalog, they are Job Abednego David, 29, Peter del Monte Jr., 29,...
Can a road project be the residents’ highway to homelessness and joblessness?
By JACINTO LINGATONGBulatlat.com SANTA CRUZ, Laguna – A Laguna-based unionist was subjected to surveillance and harassment last August 5, following a series of threats and intimidation of labor leaders in the Southern Tagalog region. According to reports, Mario...
Human rights group Karapatan denounced the recent reports of activists and human rights defenders being accused of trumped-up charges.
“The state continues to disregard the rights of organizers and mass leaders, right on the second anniversary of the Bloody Sunday Massacre.”
By Romma Mendoza ANOTHER day, another alert. Sleep is hard to come by in Southern Tagalog, a region where indiscriminate violence can happen in an instant. Here, human rights workers have neither the room for silence nor time to rest before another human rights...
SANTA CRUZ, Laguna – Several workers at the Coca-Cola plant in Santa Rosa, Laguna province received text messages inviting them to a mysterious event, according to labor center Pagkakaisa ng Manggagawa sa Timog Katagalugan (PAMANTIK-KMU). In a March 18 report,...