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Tonyo Cruz The Philippine Bar Association this week said it is concerned that certain courts have become “warrant factories”. While the country’s largest voluntary lawyers’ group did not specify the particular courts, its statement indirectly referred to the mass arrest on Human Rights Day of six labor organizers and a journalist. Press reports said Executive Judge Cecilyn Burgos Villavert of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 89 issued the warrants against labor organizers Den...

To be a prophet amidst the lies Being a prophet is to challenge the status quo where injustice and oppression are considered normal A suspected drug pusher is surrounded and searched by policemen during a night patrol in an urban poor community in Manila in this file photo. (Photo by Vincent Go)  A recent news story in the Philippines was that of Dennise Velasco, a trade union organizer, being arrested in his home for allegedly keeping a grenade, live ammunition and a gun there. His wife, ho...

That may be a facetious sentence but given Red fronts’ expertise in deception and in using our democratic and legal systems to advance their armed insurgency, that term best describes the recent brilliant move of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac). It’s been an open secret that one of the Communist Party’s source of funds has been through its front organizations, masquerading as crusading NGOs, which easily fool gullible bleeding-heart liberals espec...

(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna partylist Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate said they have been campaigning against red-tagging because of its “dire consequences.” “Hindi ito simpleng labeling lamang. Ito po ay may dire consequences, deadly consequences in fact,” he told reporters in a press conference, after Sancelan, who heads the Guihulngan City Inter-Agency Task Force against Emerging Infectious Diseases (GCIATF-EID),  and her husband Edwin were gunned d...

Cops’ gimmicks bringing anxiety to the public must be stopped — Sinas By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News Published December 17, 2020 10:16am Updated December 17, 2020 10:39am Gimmicks of police officers which could cause anxiety to the general public must be stopped, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police General Debold Sinas said on Thursday. In a television interview, Sinas was asked for his reaction about the prank supposedly made by the Cebu City Police where its men preten...

Published December 17, 2020, 5:15 PM The non-delivery of the 10 million doses of COVID-19  vaccine from Pfizer because of the alleged failure of Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III to prepare the necessary requirement is another “reflection of incompetence”, Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna partylist Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate said Thursday (Dec. 17). Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate (Bayan Muna Party list Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The progressive law...

Published December 17, 2020, 5:28 PM A militant farmers’ group took the initiative of opening its office to inspection to show it is not hiding any firearms and explosives. Acting on the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas’ (KMP) request, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Thursday inspected its national office in Quezon City. (Makabayan / MANILA BULLETIN) Personnel from the agency’s Human Rights Protection Cluster Investigation Office conducted the inspection of the two-story office of...

SunStar Photo by Amper Campana December 17, 2020 PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) Chief Debold Sinas said on Thursday, December 17, that he will order the stoppage of gimmicks being done by the police if he finds out that it causes anxiety to the public. "Wala naman yun sa regular directive namin. Baka initiative lang po ng mga lower units natin. Titingnan ko po kung ano ang nangyari, maybe kung its good, then we could support it but if it already caused anxiety sa publiko at sa mg...

Makabayan bloc seeks probe on irregular warrants vs activists, progressive groups enablePagination: false endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 16) — The Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives has filed a resolution which seeks to look into the "irregular" issuance of search warrants that resulted in the arrests and filing of "trumped-up" charges against red-tagged activists and members of progressive organizations. The coalition on Tuesday filed House Resolution 1427 urg...

By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News Published December 15, 2020 3:23pm Updated December 15, 2020 3:27pm Duterte Youth party-list Representative Ducielle Cardema is seeking the revival of the Anti-Subversion Act as she filed a measure proposing to outlaw the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New Peoples Army (NPA), as well as the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). Cardemas proposal is contained in House Bill 8231, which she called the proposed "Anti-CPP-NPA-NDF Act o...