tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83846198247591743602012-01-30T10:48:34.177+08:00My open private thoughts on life and death, defeats and triumphs, ecstasy and despair,love and apathy...CHERYL L. DAYTEChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01922694531597991639noreply@blogger.comBlogger1231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8384619824759174360.post-22925059727911888582011-12-23T11:45:00.006+08:002011-12-24T08:23:24.825+08:00

De Lima: No conspiracy in 'revival' of fund misuse raps vs Corona wifeBy MARK MERUEÑAS, GMA News December 22, 2011 4:25pmJustice Secretary Leila de Lima on Thursday said it was merely "coincidental" that the funds misuse complaint against Chief Justice Renato Corona's wife began rolling anew at a time when the Chief Justice is to face an impeachment trial next month.Through her legal counsel, Ma.

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EditorialAccountabilityPhilippine Daily Inquirer11:49 pm | Friday, December 16th, 2011 23share1387 1362“There is no doubt that we are staring at a constitutional crisis right in the face,” said Supreme Court spokesperson Midas Marquez, after the House of Representatives impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona. But on the day Marquez uttered his grave declaration, the Philippine republic seemed none

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Corona wife summoned over funds misuse rapBy Vincent CabrezaInquirer Northern Luzon2:54 am | Saturday, December 17th, 2011 18share398 368The wife of impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona has been subpoenaed to appear in a preliminary investigation at the Department of Justice on a complaint alleging she misused the funds of John Hay Management Corp. (JHMC), where she was a former top officer.JHMC

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by Cheryl L. DaytecThe past days have been eventful.Gloria Arroyo, who is facing cases of plunder and electoral sabotage pending before the Department of Justice, asked the Aquino Administration for leave to travel abroad allegedly to seek medical treatment. The countries she identified as her destinations happen to have no extradition treaties with the Philippines. Coincidental? Hmmmm.

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Why the Marcoses want Ferdinand buried a hero...And why Bongbong Marcos is now a senatorBy Raissa RoblesBy having the dictator Ferdinand Marcos buried at Libingan ng mga Bayani, the Marcos clan will be able to erase his sordid and wicked past and have him declared a hero.Then Senator Bongbong Marcos will run for President five years from now and package himself as – of course – THE SON OF A HERO!

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Corona’s rhetoric full of contrariesTo Take A Stand By Oscar P. Lagman, Jr. To Take A StandBy Oscar P. After he was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Renato Corona said, “My heart is in the right place and its loyalty is to the Constitution

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AMITA LEGASPI, GMA News 10/12/2011 | 12 NN President Benigno Aquino III on Wednesday reiterated that he will not allow a state burial for the late President Ferdinand Marcos as the move would allegedly be an injustice to Martial Law victims. “It really would be, I think, the height of injustice

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Kris-Crossing MindanaoFrEEDOMBy: Isagani ZaratePhilippine Daily Inquirer2:52 am | Monday, October 3rd, 2011 1share60 60Not even the foreshadowing ferocity of Typhoon “Pedring” concealed the immense delight of Maricon Montajes and six other political detainees inside the Batangas Provincial Jail, as they shared their stories to our group of lawyers and paralegals who visited them last

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DEFERRED ENLIGHTENMENTby Cheryl L. Daytec Love is patient, but should it be gullible, too? Several minutes after the appointed timeA second resembles an ominous eternityThe gates are still gaping, bolts clutchingat the last hair-thin straws of their patienceThe piqued microwave grudgingly stands byto rescue carefully prepared food from coldSympathetic walls glow with motley reflectionsOf her;

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The Danube River, Hungary, October 2009Beauty Before DeathCheryl L. DaytecTrees dance with colors like discotheque lightsthrough mists of white descending from the heavensThe light about to travel to another world hesitates,begs for more time to kiss the vivid autumn shadeslike a thirsty traveler who cannot drink enough from the spring of sweet water in the heart of the desert But it must go and

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(The Gwangju Cemetery where the May 18 heroes rest hopefully in peace.) A Mother’s Last Words To Her Son: May 1980*by Cheryl L. Daytec-Yañgot Kim Hyo Seok was just a high school teenager that day in May 1980 when Special Forces arrived before dawn and surrounded the downtown YMCA where he and other pro-democracy protesters had barricaded themselves for several days. Within minutes, the soldiers

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(The following article is reprinted from queerlife.co.za)PROSECUTED FOR DARING TO MARRYA Gay-affirming Community Church carried out a mass wedding for gay and lesbian families in the Philippine city of Baguio, recently. Now the city government is considering whether to prosecute those who participated.The event was part of the city’s Pride Month celebrations. The mass wedding drew sharp

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Last weekend, the Baguio City Metropolitan Christian Church (MCC) performed a mass same-sex wedding. Eight gay and lesbian couples were united in the ceremony. Roman Catholic Bishop Teodoro Bacani and other religious leaders condemned it as immoral. Baguio City Council members and other lawyers denounced it as illegal and called for an investigation. Later this evening(Philippine time), a

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HauntedBy Luis Teodoro in Business World He’s been dead for 22 years, having died in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sept. 28, 1989, at the age of 72, but Ferdinand Marcos haunts us still. The most recent manifestation of the ghost of atrocities past came in the form of his children’s pushing a resolution in the House of Representatives, with former Marcos acolyte Congressman Salvador Escudero as pointman,

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Reluctant Departure(for Y and S)by Cheryl L. Daytecfor the last time I reconnoiter the hotel lobbysomeone takes our picture in front of the ficusnow taller than it was one calendar agowith recalcitrance, we draggle the weightof three hundred forty-one days of my life…fifty kilograms cramped in two black suitcases-assorted books, clothes and overused shoestwo laptops, a camera, even a cheap

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Wedding DanceBy Amador DaguioAwiyao reached for the upper horizontal log which served as the edge of the headhigh threshold. Clinging to the log, he lifted himself with one bound that carried him across to the narrow door. He slid back the cover, stepped inside, then pushed the cover back in place. After some moments during which he seemed to wait, he talked to the listening darkness. "I'm sorry

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Bury Marcos as 'hero'?AT GROUND LEVEL By Satur C. Ocampo (The Philippine Star) I wasn’t at all surprised that Rep. Salvador H. Escudero III had filed a resolution in the House of Representatives (HR 1135) urging the Aquino government to allow the burial of the remains of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.Neither was I surprised but nonetheless dismayed that over

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Watching the No-Fly Zoneby Cheryl L. DaytecDemanding an immediate ceasefire in Libya, including an end to the current attacks against civilians, which it said might constitute “crimes against humanity”, the Security Council this evening imposed a ban on all flights in the country’s airspace — a no-fly zone — and tightened sanctions on the Qadhafi regime and its supporters.-UN Security Council, 17

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TOURING BRATISLAVAby Cheryl L. DaytecI amwithout my name…alone with my shadowin a crowd of peoplealso nameless to meunlike their cameras-Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Canon-capturing the charmof a city, its neoteric dashmerging gracefullywith its antediluvian air:Baroque palaces and a dinerthat gyrates with graceful speedlike the small hand of a clock,a Gothic castle perched on a hilloverlooking the

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Lawyers group Join Farmers Groups in filing criminal charges against former Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez at the DOJ today The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) joined militant peasant and fisherfolk organizations in filing criminal charges against resigned Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez at the Department of Justice today. In the complaint affidavit they presented to DOJ Secretary Leila

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(Painting by Kathlea Francynn Gawani Yangot, aged 8)Carmenby Cheryl L. DaytecLook at her handswith unvarnished nailsnow rough from ageand labor in her youthThey have embracedmany babies in their cribsand driven awaythe obnoxious goblinsthat called on themat night and in solitudeLook at her mouthwith unpainted lipsHow many wordshave flowed from themsoftly like the feelof cotton on bruised

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Seasons of Cautious Amourby Cheryl L. DaytecAcross the humid airwe swappedreluctant smilesYou asked memy nameDiffidence slipped to easewhen leaveswere a riot of colorsand they were fallingon our shoes trudgingunknown roadsTogether, we exploreddark alleys, strange nooksYou kept me fromfalling off ravinesAnd I kept you frombumping into dead-endsof walled opportunitiesWe were bridgedto each

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The mothers of missing UP students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno today filed a criminal complaint against retired General Jovito Palparan Jr. for rape, serious physical injuries, arbitrary detention and other crimes, based on sworn affidavits of several eyewitnesses. Counsel Edre U. Olalia, Secretary-General of the National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) said “This will not ensure that Karen

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On 29 April 2011, Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez resigned rather than face impeachment. The National Union of Peoples' Lawyers, the largest organization of human rights lawyers in the Philippines, on that same day issued a press release. Here it is:NUPL welcomes resignation of Gutierrez, challenges Pnoy to prosecute ArroyoThe National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), one of the parties in the

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This day marks the fourth year of Jonas Burgos' disappearance. Poet Butch Espere expressed his remembrance of his comrade through a moving poem. A Placard for Jonasby: Butch S. Espere (Note: This April 28 will be the fourth year of the abduction of Jonas Burgos by elements of AFP-ISAFP. It was a May 1st rally at Liwasang Bonifacio when a friend from Bulacan broke the bad news to us who were

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(Melissa Roxas' Press Conference after her release from abduction, from Habi Arts on Vimeo.)Late last year, the Supreme Court of the Philippines in Roxas v Arroyo ordered the Commission on Human Rights to investigate the abduction and torture of Fil-Am activist Melissa Roxas. In her amparo petition, Roxas claimed that she was abducted by elements belonging to the Philippine military. The Supreme

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(AP Photo/Angelo Carconi, LapresseThe Flight of Wingless Birds: The Roma's Lament*by Cheryl L. Daytec Some 150 Gypsies whose camp was dismantled have taken refuge in one of Rome's most ancient basilicas, creating a standoff Saturday with city officials trying to get them out…Some people who had gone outside for work or to procure food hadn't been allowed back inside.- Daily Reporter, 23

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(This article was supposed to be appear in my column in the 2009 Holy Week edition of The Northern Dispatch. However, I did not submit it for one reason or another. I am publishing it here if only to celebrate Jesus' life as a victim of human rights violation and as a human rights advocate.)Last Christmas, I wrote that Jesus Christ is a victim of the very thing he despised- flagrant

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Bird Wingsby Cheryl L. Daytec Come, my jailer, come closer, I am too weak to move to you Chains have broken my body But my spirit is unbeaten, firm Come feel the shape of my wish From this- my gasping breath Strike me with your bloodied gaff I will be grateful to you, my jailer Death is like my pair of bird wings Your gaff the chain around your soul./cld

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China tells U.S. to quit as human rights judgeEmailPrintReuters – A man rides a bicycle past a billboard located near the entrance to the studio owned by detained activist …By Chris Buckley – Sun Apr 10, 11:57 am ETBEIJING (Reuters) – The United States is beset by violence, racism and torture and has no authority to condemn other governments' human rights problems, China said on Sunday,

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Morong 43 file countercharges for arbitrary detention;sue Gloria Arroyo, military, police for P15 million in damagesMembers of the Morong 43 today filed a civil case for damages in Quezon City against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, former Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales, former Chief of Staff Gen. Victor Ibrado and other top-ranked military officials arising from rights violations

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CAST-OFFSfor Miss Ethiopia by Cheryl L. DaytecEverything is in two suitcasesI leave nothing but bitternessAnd a smorgasbord of garbage:Old clothes, used toothbrushesEmpty canisters, assorted papersReceipts, a small bottle of olive oilYes, even the sharp memoriesThe beautiful, the acrimonious And the variegated scandens vineI pruned from its mother spreadingIts foliage in a big corner claypotI

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No Business Like War Business: Who Stands to Profit from Intervention in Libya? By PEPE ESCOBAR, Asia Times From the Pentagon to the French government to the water privatizers, here are some of the beneficiaries of the campaign in Libya.March 30, 2011 | Lies, hypocrisy and hidden agendas. This is what United States President Barack Obama did not dwell on when explaining his Libya doctrine to

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Statement and Tribute of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers(NUPL-Philippines) “I have never worked as a lawyer with the aim of making money, or in litigations for money. Since I studied at the university and we were taught that being a lawyer entails a commitment to justice, I assumed it as such, with absolute passion. Since that point in time I have been involved in cases where justice has

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Waiting in an Ishinomaki Classroomby Cheryl L. Daytec(Thirty children) sit quietly in the corner of a third-floor classroom where they have waited each day since the tsunami swept into the town of Ishinomaki for their parents to collect them. So far, no one has come and few at the school now believe they will. -The Daily Mail, 18 March 2011 Mama, when the classroom shook And the teacher told

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My note: Anakbayan released this statement supporting the Libyan's right to self-determination and condemning the West's aggressive war.Stop Imperialist War of Aggression on Libya!Anakbayan condemns the US-led imperialist war of aggression against Libya. The armed intervention and bombings violate Libya’s national sovereignty and its people’s right to self-determination. While hiding behind the

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Glorifying a Dictator Is an Insult to History; Victims of Human Rights Violations Still Seeking Justice - NUPL In a press release today, the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) said that seeking a hero’s burial for the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos, is an insult to our country’s history and to thousands of human rights victims under the Marcos dictatorial regime. The statement came as

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Dead War Babies (Picture accessed from http://whitewraithe.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/dead-babies-at-shifa-morgue.jpg)Cry of the Innocentby Cheryl L. DaytecI have not fully diedGo search the wreckageOf the war shrived of causeFind my shivering ghostSinging dreams of peaceWeeping not for myselfBut for youWho lost your sanityIn the haze of powerI have been madeTo shed bloodOne among many

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Two hours ago, I posted on my Facebook Wall (Yep, I write it like it is a place.) the Al-Jazeera news about the UN Security Council imposing a no-fly zone over Libya. The post generated a very vibrant discussion which readers might be interested in.Cheryl L. DaytecIMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN SEEMS TO HAVE MISCALCULATED THE UN WHEN HE HYPOTHESIZED THAT THE "NO-FLY ZONE" WOULD FAIL TO GET THE NOD OF THE

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On 16 March 2003, 23-year old Rachel Corrie was murdered when she was crushed to death by a bulldozer operated by the Israeli Defence Force. She used her body as a human shield to stop the IDF from demolishing the home of a Palestinian family in the Gaza Strip.To date, Israel still pursues its aggressive acts against the Palestinians. Notwithstanding more than fifty United Nations General

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GLIMPSESBy Jose Ma. Montelibano“If it was all right to have a Gloria Arroyo Supreme Court, it should be much better to have a Noynoy Aquino Supreme Court.”This would be my response to the rhetorical question asked by the spokesman of the Supreme Court if we wanted an Aquino Supreme Court. His question apparently was premised on a speculation that the majority members of the Supreme Court, except

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WOMANby Cheryl L. DaytecIn fairy tales, they stole your strength Made you A wispy figure Whose salvation is In the kiss of a prince In Holy Books you have been Targeted for stoning, for burning` A prostitute A widow purged of essence A rambling witch A wife defiled An unwed mother An uncircumcised virgin You have been dragged through The corridors of sorrow A grieving

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PRESS STATEMENT8 December 2010 The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers ( NUPL), strongly condemns the malicious inclusion of Prudencio Calubid, Leo Velasco and other missing political activists by the Office of the President of the Republic of the Philippines in the list of the persons who may obtain amnesty under Presidential Proclamation No. 75. It may well be remembered that Prudencio Calubid,

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(NUPL HR lawyers in front of the women's detention center.)A few days ago, members of the National Union of Peoples Lawyers visited the Morong 43 in their prisons in Bicutan. Their collective morale was impressively high even as they echoed what everybody asks: Why are they still in jail when their arrest was illegal? Foreign journalists covered and exposed their

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Today is International Day to End Violence Against Women. I am sharing my poem that was published in Chaneg ten years ago. While Silence is Her Refuge He crushed her being spat on her education raked her self-confidence burned her plans charted in the kitchen where her work was never done. Violence upon violence visited her scar-ridden body The pain - so severe she could not even

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A year ago today, 58 people were massacred in Maguindanao, Philippines. The murder was heartlessly committed by a political family- the Ampatuan Family- closely allied with then Unelected President Gloria Arroyo. The very perverse crime was committed under the cover of impunity that the Ampatuans enjoyed as factotums of the Arroyo regime.The following is the Statement I delivered today on behalf

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As I board the train from Geneva to Zurich, I agitatedly give my knapsack the once-over for the book I bought the day before. It is there. I expel a forceful breath of relief. The trip will last for four grueling hours and the book is my armor to fend off boredom. The day is showery and the sun seems to have retreated from the biting nip in the atmosphere. The lugubrious

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Sometime in August 2009, my grad school classmate Emina Cerimovic told our class about how four-year old girls are seen in Bosnia wiping car windshields while begging for money. That story is a mirror image of what is common in the Philippines, a very wealthy country where only 5% are affluent and 70% live below the poverty line. Apathy The

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Be careful. I say, be very carefulDoubt is an armor; trust is a weakness. Do not just kiss the gleaming white paper With your thumb marinated in violet fluid. You do not know if it is your death sentence, Or a sturdy high fence to keep you off your land, Or an absorbent sponge to sop up your sanity Or a sell-out of your soul or your possession, Or a permanent pact with the Devil

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In a Café With a Meager Crowd(Activists’ Reunion) They often sit in a caféwhose meager crowd is its lurewhile the tea brewsand cream perfects its assaulton the blackness of the coffeeTheir talk spirals from the pit of the mundaneto the limits of the profoundlike morning glory leaping out a high fencefrom the wet mound of earth They swap stories about small victoriesand large

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Today, the world starts a three-day mourning for the victims of the Israel-authored 2009 Gaza Massacre that claimed the lives of innocent civilians, many of them children.No one from the authors of the massacres has been made to pay. Meantime, Palestinian children are languishing inside prison walls. Their crime: they were forced to grow up too quickly to the horrors of a war without a cause

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(Connie with Rep. Satur Ocampo and former Vice-President Teofisto Guingona in Sept. 2007 during the NUPL Founding Congress.)The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) strongly condemns in the strongest possible terms the horrible act of brutal killings of innocent civilians including its two lawyer-members, Attys. Concepcion Brizuela and Cynthia Oquendo, and

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• Documents confirm that the CIA knew that the Jesuit priest Ellacuría was going to be killed by Jean-Guy Allard THE U.S. State Department, the CIA, and the Spanish intelligence services (the old CESID), all knew that the Jesuit priest, Ignacio Ellacuría, rector of the Central American University (UCA), and five of his colleagues were going to be killed by a death squad from the Salvadoran

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In the Philippines, stories of money changing hands from litigants to judges are not new. But here is a case where a judge himself confirmed how money was used to buy "justice" in a criminal case. He was the judge who signed the decision convicting the accused. According to this judge, he did not pocket any penny. Other people- among them a prosecutor and a lawyer said to be the bagman of another

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This is a story about how I got my package as much as it is a story about knowing what brassieres are made of. No, there is no word in what I am about to write that warrants either bowdlerizing or censorship. On August 12 while still in the Philippines, I sent to Budapest via courier service a box of clothes and shoes with myself as consignee. Two days later, I was to fly to Hungary’s capital

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In the Philippines, the biggest political announcement this week is Sen. Mar Roxas' decision to give up his presidential ambition in favor of Sen. Benigno Simeon Noynoy Aquino, his partymate in the Liberal Party and son of martyr Benigno Ninoy Aquino and the late "People Power" icon Pres. Corazon Aquino. Even before the official announcement was made, my husband Leandro who happens to be the

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SQUATTER(for M.C.)With a tentative hug, they said goodbye He sauntered, backpack embracing him She ran, ineffable sorrow enveloping her No rearward squint; anguish must not tarry The moon turned crescent, full, half, quarter Once, twice, a million times. She lost count In another world, another life claimed her Spring disembarked from the snow. But her Ring is still cold

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(Mike’s Final Appeal)So you have made your choice.I beg leave:Let me journey with our childrenBack to BaguioWhere the past still hovers nighWhere Love smelled freshAs pine scent after the first rainsWhere Faith was unsulliedAs a newborn’s innocenceBack to where the biting coldWas conquered by your feather-light touchWhere every space of emptinessWas crammed by your presenceWhere the wonted wine

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"She doesn't know either. She doesn't know the reason why. All I know was Pops is in the dark, taken by surprise."-Martin Nievera speaking for his ex-wife Pops Fernandez on the reason for the break-up of her romance with Jomari Yllana.(Inspired by the Break-up of Pops and Jomari)Patent is your wonder: You ask, how did I bearThe pain your leaving caused, colossal as a bearIt matters that I

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(In Sympathy to Mark Sanford)Ah, but there is no certain providenceFor this hopelessly impossible loveNone, but a catastrophic conclusionIt does not hurt any less but much moreTo keep waiting for an engaged shipFated never ever to dock at your quayQuietly, we sit, habitués of this café,Insulated from an interfering crowdBy the unsuspecting assembly itselfBold, I come to declare all

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It looks like finally, the uproar caused by Candy Pangilinan's statement: "Tao po ako, hindi po ako Igorot (I am a human being, not an Igorot.)!" is waning. As soon as she opened her mouth, we Igorots clenched our fists and went to war. For the enlightenment of our non-Filipino readers, Igorots are indigenous peoples found in the Cordillera region of Northern Philippines.On May 12, I wrote

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by: Mike Joseph Barcena, Don Aldrin Chantioco, Maychelle Ablog, Charlotte Cariño, Novy Marie Cruz, Irish Mae Fang, Mary Grace Ngo and Aira Pacheco and Rhomellie Tang Since time immemorial, China has been considered as the foremost leader in trade and commerce. The role of the Chinese in the Philippines transcended hundreds of years before the Americans alighted their presence in our country.

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Here is a very powerful rendition of the song One Tin Soldier by Cher and Sonny Bono. It beautifully opens and closes with "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear." Fittingly, it closes the Christmas season and leaves lots for us to reflect on in the coming year.Although written in the 1960's by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter in protest of the Vietnam War, the song may be interpreted to refer to the

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“Jesus is the reason for the Christmas season,” says a message circulating in cyberspace.December 25 is the presumed birthday of Jesus Christ. This is debatable because when he was born, shepherds were out watching their flocks at night. In those days, flock-watching in the fields was possible from spring to autumn. During winter, the sheep were sheltered in the shepherds’ homes. Israel’s

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At this time, we need charter change like we need a hole in the head.Whether the change is to be proposed by a constitutional convention or a constituent assembly, the result is the same: it will provide an opening for Gloria Arroyo to mess with the Constitution and consign the Filipinos to more years in the economic and political desert called the Arroyo Regime.On the occasion of the Ten

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Charles de Gaulle said, “The grave is full of indispensable people.” Last Sunday, Marky Cielo joined them. He was at the height of his popularity. As I write this, the nation grieves over his unexpected demise. It will take a long time for the Cordillera to come to terms with the death of this young man who will always be a model to peoples struggling with their indigenous identities and

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I am able to write this piece not because of democracy but in spite of its absence.The past weeks, thousands of protesters took over Thailand’s main airport to force the resignation of Prime Minister Somchai, brother-in-law of former Prime Minister Thaksin who was ousted on charges of corruption. They did not destroy a single airport equipment. A Thai court dissolved the ruling party and banned

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The Wind That Shakes The Barley is a very moving ballad written by Robert Dwyer Joyce, an Irish poet and professor of English literature. It is about an Irish revolutionary saying his final farewell to his beloved, as he was joining the resistance movement against British colonization. Caught between his love for the woman and his love for the Motherland, he chose the latter. After all, as

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Under a regime anchored on falsehood, all it takes to be a hero is to tell the truth.During the National Union of Peoples Lawyers first anniversary, Jun Lozada, the whistleblower who linked the First Family to the multi-billion ZTE bribery said, "They say I am a hero because I came forward to tell the truth. I did not know that just by telling the truth, one becomes a hero.”Heroes do not rise

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On Facebook which is virtually the only (with rare exceptions) place - if it is that- where my very hectic schedule permits me to socialize, I posted my poem His House Was Raided By The Army. I wrote this after listening to a Northeast Indian (who must remain unnamed for security reasons) relate his 1990's experience as a human rights defender and the depressing (Sorry, folks, but I really use

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"The pen," wrote the playwright/poet Edward Bulwer-Lytton, "is mightier than the sword."No one grasps the full import of this statement more than a tyrant desperate to stay in power and afraid of the groundswell of dissension to state terrorism.On 17 November 2008, two men were killed in different parts of the world. They had some things in common aside from their date of death: both were

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(In November 2008, indigenous lawyers from Asia came together in a human rights training organized by Tebtebba headed by Victoria Tauli Corpuz, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Chairperson. Noting that indigenous peoples all over the world are exposed to the same perils and problems brought about by globalization and its development paradigms that

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Here is the latest press release from the Cordillera Peoples Alliance on the search for James Balao:Continuing the search for James Balao, the Balao family with the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) and the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) traveled to the National Capital Region (NCR) to conduct a search in the military and police camps here. This, after receiving reliable information that

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The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), the International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL), Pro-Labor Legal Assistance Center (PLACE), SENTRA and the Public Interest Legal Center (PILC) condemn the abduction and illegal arrest of Atty. Remigio “Ming” Saladero, Jr, a member of the NUPL, the chief legal counsel of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) and Board Chairperson of the Pro-Labor Legal

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I feel a bit guilty that October 12 came and went without my remembering that it was the 11th death anniversary of John Denver, one of the greatest musicians of all time. My only excuse is that I have been preoccupied with a lot of concerns (The unelected President has a way of keeping us busy.) over which he, were he alive, would be greatly disturbed. I have also been despondent over the fate of

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The search for James Balao continues with more vigor and determination.When I was a 12 year-old high school student in the 1980's, he told me and some other young boys and girls in a leadership training, "If you are not a part of the solution, then you are a part of the problem." He said he did not know who said it first, but that he was impressing it upon us. It became one of my oft-quoted

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As a 12-year old high school student in the 1980's, I was sent to a leadership training sponsored by the Cordillera Schools Group. Among the training facilitators was James Balao. My mentor, Ms Zosima Yamoyam, told me about the young facilitators - intelligent young people who finished college and chose to serve the people instead of finding lucrative employment. I was so impressed with the

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On December 1, 2006, fellow HR lawyer Manja Bayang and I met with two women whose husbands were victims of enforced disappearance. One of them talked with pain about the uncertainties felt by the disappeared's families. That night, I could not sleep thinking of how a desaparecido must be feeling during his/her last moments.At a few minutes past 2:00 A.M. of 2 December 2006, I woke up and wrote

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James Balao, an activist with the Cordillera Peoples Alliance disappeared on 17 September 2008. There is an online petition, "Surface James Balao" to pressure the State into releasing him. I urge everyone who cares about basic human rights to sign the petition. Below is the full text.SURFACE JAMES BALAO! We are alarmed and disturbed with the enforced disappearance of Cordillera Peoples

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By: Cheryl L. Daytec-Yangot and Mary Ann M. BayangCordillera Indigenous Peoples Legal CenterIn 2006, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines denounced the Arroyo administration’s Mining Revitalization Program. Reiterating its call for the repeal of the Mining Act, the CBCP said: “The right to life of people is inseparable from their right to sources of food and livelihood. Allowing the

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Today is the commemoration of National Heroes Day in the Philippines. I am reproducing my poem published by Bulatlat to honor Andres Bonifacio, Macliing Dulag, Marcelo del Pilar and other Filipinos -many unsung- who died for our freedom.ON NATIONAL HEROES DAYOn this day, we remember the women and menAll too aware that death was their destiny certainWhen in darkness and doom they scattered

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(Statement of the National Union of Peoples Lawyers in the Philippines)Reference: Atty Neri Javier-Colmenares (09178350459)NUPL Secretary-General Now it is very clear. The Solicitor General's motion informing the Supreme Court of the Arroyo government's decision not to sign the MOA with the MILF "due to changed circumstances" is one more proof that Pres. Gloria Arroyo only used the MOA as

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In its August 4 issue, the Philippine Daily Inquirer published my letter criticizing The Queen for wearing a $3000 dollar dress while hordes of Filipinos queued up for a kilo of NFA rice. On that day, I was attending a human rights training in Nepal and could not read PDI. I only knew about the publication when I opened my mail this week and read a letter from Atty. James D. Lansang. He said to

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Just as we expected, The Queen delivered a canard about her Queendom. Life is dandy, the future is rosy, she is a brave Queen, she has been slaying dragons derailing the progress of her Queendom and still managed to make it a paradise for her subjects.Hounded by a very low credibility problem, she presented to the Filipino nation a handful of people who used to be thirsty until their cups

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On Monday, July 28, The Queen will deliver the State of the Nation Address (SONA) before Congress. I have not heard her yet, but I more or less know what she will say - that she has a bleeding heart for the poor, that life has become better in The Queendom under her reign, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.No comment yet. I will just share a poem I wrote in 2006 after The Queen delivered a SONA

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It was another bad week for the Philippines. The Supreme Courtjust strengthened the culture of impunity pervading The Queendom by expanding the scope of executive privilege. This is in relation to the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) signed in 2006 but still awaiting ratification by the Philippine Senate. The long and short of this agreement is

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On July 8, Philippine national dailies published on their front pages a picture of The Queen regal in a whopping $3,000 dress.That same day, I wrote a letter to one of the dailies expressing my disgust. I do not know if it was published. I am reproducing it here in the hope The Dress will arouse a national discourse and spark concrete actions against hunger.The picture of Pres. Gloria Arroyo

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Having been out of circulation for what seems to be a vast stretch of time, I do not quite know how to begin this piece. People speculated on what happened to me. Someone asked me if there is truth to the rumor that I have cancer.Honored, for lack of a better word, is how I feel over the fact that there were people who visited this blogsite in spite of my prolonged absence. It is not fair on my

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This one is really depressing. Mariannet Amper, a 12-year old girl killed herself over poverty! Read the story here and here.But there seems to be something good that came from her suicide: The Queendom miraculously acknowledged the existence of poverty and is taking full responsibility for the suicide. And, the suicide elicited a stern rebuke from the United Nations which also urged the

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Today, I give way to the thoughts of Ophelia Belo on the Philippine national situation contained in her valedictory address.According to Dr. Andrew Tauli (himself the class valedictorian of Brent School sometime in the 1960's) who gave us the copy of the address, Ophelia Belo "is the valedictorian for 2007 at the recently concluded graduation ceremonies of the Filipino Workers' Resource

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I am currently somewhere in Europe partly for business and partly for pleasure. I do not know if I will always be enthusiastic to go to an internet shop while there are sights to behold and places to explore. Envy me. At least I am taking a respite from having to know about the wrong turns being taken by The Queen and her ilk, and the massive corruption further burying the Filipino nation into

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He was a musician. He was a poet. He was a philosopher. More than all this, he was an activist.What a shame that he died too soon. On 12 October 1997, John Denver (born Henry John Deutschendorf) died when the private plane he was piloting crashed. The details of his death can be found here.He is best remembered by the world for that very beautiful love song "Annie's Song." In the Cordillera, he

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Who killed Jocelyn Dulnuan?Jocelyn Dulnuan, a 27 year old criminology graduate from Ifugao province left her practically newborn baby to work in Canada. Two months ago, she was employed as a housemaid in a S15M mansion. On October 2, the mansion became the scene of a murder - hers.Up to this time, the killer has not been identified.Aside from the one being pursued by the Canadian authorities, I

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Last night, I was watching TV and there was The Queen's Executive muchacho declaring Malacañang's disgust over a dialogue in the September 30, 2007 episode of "Desperate Housewives." The character Susan Mayer Delfino said: "Okay, before we go any further, can I check these diplomas? Because I would just like to make sure they are not from some med school in the Philippines." Malacañang had this

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We are living in dangerous times.Here are some of the facts: Since The Queen assumed power in 2001, there have been close to 900 cases of political activists and human rights defenders brutally murdered, involuntarily disappeared, unjustifiably arrested and detained or subjected to extreme pressure, threats and harassments. Of the murdered, nineteen were lawyers.Human rights violations continue

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