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Who is Dennise Velasco? Dennise is an activist, labor organizer, and human rights defender. I consider him a good friend since our days in the student movement in the late 1990s. He grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Valenzuela. He majored in management as an undergrad at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He became an activist after joining the Students for National Democracy. I first met him in 1998 in Diliman when he represented activist groups from PUP for youth consult...

Makabayan solons presence in Congress further strengthens communist rebels —Lorenzana By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News Published December 13, 2020 11:14am Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, said the presence of Makabayan Bloc in Congress strengthens communist rebels. DND photo Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana is firm in having the House Makabayan Bloc removed from Congress, claiming that their continued representation only strengthens communist rebels. This, ev...

Removing Makabayan Bloc from Congress would worsen public anger at govt —Castro By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News Published December 13, 2020 5:35pm Removing the Makabayan Bloc in Congress would only worsen the publics anger towards the government, ACT Teachers party-list Representative France Castro said Sunday. In a statement, Castro said that disqualifying Makabayan lawmakers in the next elections would show that the Duterte administration is merely belittling their legitimate calls for f...

He added that these former NPA members risked their lives and their families for coming up with their exposè during the Senate hearing where they all took an oath, to tell the truth. (PNA file photo) MANILA – A ranking official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) lambasted the pronouncements of Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairperson Chel Diokno that President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s persistent red-tagging claims against Bayan Muna Party-list R...

Bayan Muna Rep. Ferdinand Gaite (Bayan Muna Rep. Ferdie Gaite Facebook / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Gaite said Velasco’s “good judgement” will protect members of Congress against government agencies’ red-tagging of Makabayan congressmen, who include nominees from Bayan Muna, Gabriela, Kabataan, and ACT Teachers. “Clearly there is pressure on the House to join the communist witch hunt of the NTF-ELCAC (National Task Force to End Local Community Armed Conflict), but we believe Speak...

Search You Are Here:Home → 2020 → December → 10 → On International Human Rights Day, one journalist, 6 activists arrested in separate raids On International Human Rights Day, one journalist, 6 activists arrested in separate raids Updated 6:11 p.m. MANILA — Impunity reared its ugly head as elements of the police arrested one journalist and six activists in four separate incidents of raid this morning, December 10. At around 3 a.m., elements of the Criminal Investigation...

"This red-tagging is baseless and malicious. Such actions by the highest official of the land only subvert and hurt our already weak justice system," FLAG chairperson Chel Diokno said in a statement.