MGA AGOS SA DISYERTO: SA MULING PAGBULWAK
Alexander Martin Remollino
1964 nang bumulwak sa landas ng panitikan sa Pilipino ang Mga Agos sa Disyerto, isang kalipunan ng maiikling kuwento nina Efren Reyes Abueg, Dominador Mirasol (SLN), Rogelio L. Ordoñez, Edgardo M. Reyes, at Rogelio Sikat (SLN). Mula noo’y nakadalawang edisyon pa ito: isa noong 1974 at isa pa noong 1993.
At ngayo’y muli itong inililimbag. Kahapon, inilunsad ang ikaapat na edisyon ng klasikong kalipunan sa Politeknikong Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (PUP) sa Sta. Mesa, Maynila... BASAHIN ANG BUONG ARTIKULO
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
OF PIES AND CRUMBS (OR HOW A FORTUNE CAN BE A PITTANCE)
Alexander Martin Remollino
20 million pesos
is a pie that could make or break records
until you break it up for multitudes... FIND FULL POEM AT ARKIBONG BAYAN
Alexander Martin Remollino
20 million pesos
is a pie that could make or break records
until you break it up for multitudes... FIND FULL POEM AT ARKIBONG BAYAN
Thursday, August 05, 2010
NOYNOY BACKTRACKS ON PROMISE REGARDING TRUTH BODY
Alexander Martin Remollino
On June 29, a day before he was inaugurated as the country’s 15th president, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III announced his plan to create a truth commission that would investigate corruption and human rights violations under the Arroyo regime.
“This is the body that I promised the people I will set up to put closure on so many issues,” Aquino told reporters in a press conference that day. He also said the commission “will, as necessary, prepare and prosecute cases to make sure those who committed crimes against the people will be made to pay.”
He said the commission will look into “any and all issues, including extrajudicial killings.”
Human rights group Karapatan documented more than 1,200 extrajudicial killings and over 200 enforced disappearances under the nine-year Arroyo administration. Arroyo’s implementation of Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL) – a US-directed counter-“insurgency” program which targeted unarmed activists and ordinary citizens for “neutralization” purportedly to destroy the “political infrastructure” of the underground Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front of the Philippines (CPP-NPA-NDFP) – is blamed for the killings and disappearances.
Aquino named beforehand Hilario Davide Jr., a former Supreme Court chief justice who campaigned for him in the last elections, to head the commission.
On July 30, he signed Executive Order No. 1, creating the Philippine Truth Commission of 2010 and outlining the scope of its work.
Human rights violations are conspicuously absent from its coverage... READ FULL ARTICLE
Alexander Martin Remollino
On June 29, a day before he was inaugurated as the country’s 15th president, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III announced his plan to create a truth commission that would investigate corruption and human rights violations under the Arroyo regime.
“This is the body that I promised the people I will set up to put closure on so many issues,” Aquino told reporters in a press conference that day. He also said the commission “will, as necessary, prepare and prosecute cases to make sure those who committed crimes against the people will be made to pay.”
He said the commission will look into “any and all issues, including extrajudicial killings.”
Human rights group Karapatan documented more than 1,200 extrajudicial killings and over 200 enforced disappearances under the nine-year Arroyo administration. Arroyo’s implementation of Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL) – a US-directed counter-“insurgency” program which targeted unarmed activists and ordinary citizens for “neutralization” purportedly to destroy the “political infrastructure” of the underground Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front of the Philippines (CPP-NPA-NDFP) – is blamed for the killings and disappearances.
Aquino named beforehand Hilario Davide Jr., a former Supreme Court chief justice who campaigned for him in the last elections, to head the commission.
On July 30, he signed Executive Order No. 1, creating the Philippine Truth Commission of 2010 and outlining the scope of its work.
Human rights violations are conspicuously absent from its coverage... READ FULL ARTICLE
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
ANG DAAN PATUNGO SA PAGBABAGO AYON KAY NOYNOY AQUINO
Alexander Martin Remollino
Ako, si Noynoy Aquino,
na lubusang nakatitiyak
na ang mandatong nakuha ko sa huling eleksiyon
ay patunay
na umaasa pa rin ang Pilipino sa pagbabago,
ay nagdedeklara ngayon
na ito ang daang tatahakin natin
tungo sa pagbabago... BASAHIN ANG BUONG TULA
Alexander Martin Remollino
Ako, si Noynoy Aquino,
na lubusang nakatitiyak
na ang mandatong nakuha ko sa huling eleksiyon
ay patunay
na umaasa pa rin ang Pilipino sa pagbabago,
ay nagdedeklara ngayon
na ito ang daang tatahakin natin
tungo sa pagbabago... BASAHIN ANG BUONG TULA
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