At the onset of 2023, Masbate farmers faced intensified land grabbing by the province’s big ranchers, bourgeois compradors and bureaucrat-capitalists. Among them are old and new cronies of the Marcos family. Masbate Governor Antonio T. Kho evicted peasants from Rantso Pecson’s 550-hectare land in Cawayan town. Even nearby private lands were not spared from the […]

The reactionary military and state defiled the tampuda, a sacred ritual of the indigenous Higaonon people, to falsely portray “Lumad unity” and smokescreen its scheme allowing expansion of foreign plantation and mining. On May 12, the 402nd IBde spearheaded a fake tampuda to “reconcile” the Namatindong clan of Esperanza, Agusan del Sur and the Manhumusay-Pinakitob […]

Soldiers of the 94th IB massacred a family, including two children, on the evening of June 14 in Barangay Buenavista, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental. Soldiers fatally shot 50-year old Emilda Fausto and her children Raben Fausto, 11, and Ben Fausto, 15, in their sleep. The family’s father Roly Fausto, 52, was found dead outside of […]

Kapatid, a group of families of political prisoners, reiterated its call for the release of Gerardo dela Peñtilde, 84, the oldest of 824 political prisoners currently incarcerated in different parts of the country. The groups said it has been pushing for dela Peña’s release since 2019 but no action has since been taken by the […]