Editorial Cartoon: Issue No. 1
Daily Archives: January 6, 2008
Nasaan na ang ‘Tinig’?
January 6, 2008 – 1:04 am
Sa gitna ng mga kasalukuyang pangyayari na sunud-sunod na kinaharap ng ating lipunan, ng Unibersidad at ng kolehiyo, nararapat lamang na nararamdaman din ang presensiya ng pahayagang pampaaralan upang siyang mag-ulat ng mga ito sa mga mag-aaral at maghayag ng mga saloobin tungkol sa mga ito. Tangan ninyo ngayon ang isang kopya ng inyong pahayagan–sagot [...]
Freedom in Peril: Probing the World Press Freedom Index
January 6, 2008 – 12:52 am
By Camille P. De Jesus
The Philippines climbed higher in the World Press Freedom Index, from 142nd last year to 128th, according to the organization Reporters without Borders (RSF). These words must have painted a better and freer press but the real image of the present condition of media in the country is yet blood-stricken. [...]
The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)
January 6, 2008 – 12:41 am
By Neil Jerome C. Morales
The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) was a land reform law mandated by Republic Act No. 6657, signed by President Corazon Aquino on June 10, 1988. It was the fifth land reform law in fifty years, following the land reform laws of Presidents Manuel Quezon, Ramon Magsaysay, Diosdado Macapagal and [...]
CARP and the Sumilao March
January 6, 2008 – 12:33 am
By Neil Jerome C. Morales
The battle continues for the Sumilao farmers and their call for the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The farmers reached Manila on December 3 after a 1,700-kilometer march from San Vicente, Sumilao, Bukidnon to personally voice out their [...]
Sustained Defiance
January 6, 2008 – 12:21 am
Amidst escalating repression, student publications remain undaunted
By Alaysa Tagumpay E. Escandor
The present is a time of suppression.
Exclamations of dissent are silenced in a climate of impunity. While top officials vow to “protect democracy,” the people’s democratic rights are snuffed out at every turn. The right to peaceably assemble is met with [...]