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STOP Oplan Bayanihan. STOP Human Rights Violations. Public service ad of KARAPATAN-ST

On January 2011, the Aquino government instituted “Oplan Bayanihan”, its own version of the AFP’s Internal Peace and Security Plan. Like its predecessor Oplan Bantay Laya, it boasts of securing peace and putting an end to insurgency while guaranteeing the protection of human rights and civil liberties. But reality tells a different story. In the … Read more

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Program @ Crossing, Calamba
photo by Thrianne Gellido

2,500 workers and supporters mark 109th labor day commemoration in Calamba City

May 1, 2012, Tuesday – In commemoration of the 109th International Labor Day, an estimated 2,500 people led by Pagkakaisa ng mga Manggagawa sa Timog Katagalugan-Kilusang Mayo Uno (PAMANTIK-KMU) together with its allied labor and transport groups, and other progressive organizations, staged a demonstration at Calamba City calling for better wages, the right to unionize and the improvement of working conditions.

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Justice on Canvas

April 25, 2012, Wednesday – Karapatan-ST, in coordination with Artists’ Arrest, and other human rights groups, showed their sentiments in line with the commemoration of the 9th death anniversary of comrades Eden Marcellana and Eddie Gumanoy through an art exhibit set up just along the entrance of the crowded Redemptorist Church in Baclaran. In April 22, 2003, the two aforementioned human rights activists, following a Karapatan-ST-led Quick Response Team (QRT) investigation about reported extra-judicial killings in Mindoro Oriental, were brutally slayed supposedly by military proponents headed by Gen. Jovito Palparan and were believed to be holding evidences of oppression by the said general. After nine years and mere three days and several court studies, the case still had not been resolved, thus the continuous call for justice remained at hand.

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Real Reels | Militants from S. Tagalog Protest Against US-RP Balikatan Exercises

20 April 2012 [Manila] — Militants from Southern Tagalog led by BAYAN-ST march towards the US Embassy to voice out the nation’s call of debunking the Visiting Forces Agreement and the Balikatan Exercises of joint American and Filipino troops on strategic locations throughout the country, as people from different sectors were enraged by the US’s … Read more

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Ara (left) and Dana (right), daughters of Eden Marcellana, continue their search for justice.

Family, friends and collegues slam 9 years of injustice in Eden and Eddie slay case

April 20, 2012 – Human rights group Karapatan-Southern Tagalog and regional peasant organization Kasama-Timog Katagalugan staged a rally today at the Department of Justice and Mendiola bridge to commemorate the ninth death anniversary of their slain comrades, Eden Marcellana and Eddie Gumanoy.

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