tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:07:02 +0000Thoughts and sharings from one who refuses to let his mind be wrapped in the chains that this insane society inflicts upon the people.http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)Blogger303125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-3743654293445634944Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:06:00 +00002009-02-27T13:08:34.904+08:00NO WELLNESSAlexander Martin RemollinoFor Tweetie de Leon, Marian Rivera, and other Nestle product endorsersThere can never be wellnessin eating and drinkingthe flesh and blood of workerswho fought for the good life.http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2009/02/no-wellness-alexander-martin-remollino.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-8478323253910043864Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:30:00 +00002009-02-27T13:04:10.592+08:00ARROYO AND PEOPLE POWERCenterstage / UPI AsiaAlexander Martin RemollinoManila, Philippines, February 26 — "The world embraced Edsa I in 1986. The world tolerated Edsa II in 2001. The world will not forgive an Edsa III, but it will instead condemn the Philippines as a country whose political system is hopelessly unstable."These were the words of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo last http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2009/02/arroyo-and-people-power-centerstage-upi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-7864306081371833011Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:18:00 +00002009-01-21T10:25:30.267+08:00LAWYER SAYS GMA TO GAIN FROM PUNO IMPEACHMENTFor lawyer Theodore Te, the bid to impeach Chief Justice Reynato Puno smells of “political maneuverings” that would benefit the current Malacañang occupant.BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINOBulatlatDoes President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo stand to benefit from the impeachment of Chief Justice Reynato Puno?This is a question that has arisen amid alleged moves http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2009/01/lawyer-says-gma-to-gain-from-puno.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-7033480836408624552Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:40:00 +00002009-01-21T10:09:45.592+08:00ISRAEL, THE OPPRESSORS OF YOUR PEOPLE ARE STILL ALIVEAlexander Martin RemollinoIsrael,your soldiers today are the Romans and Nazis of old.Listen to the wails of the women and men in Palestinewhose homes were reduced to rubble,whose sons and daughters and brothers and sisterswere slaughtered like pigs --these are the same criesthat burst forth from the mouths of your peopleas Jerusalem's ruins http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2009/01/israel-oppressors-of-your-people-are.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-3119904954798196862Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:31:00 +00002009-01-15T10:33:41.707+08:00PARALLELSAlexander Martin RemollinoSixty years have the Palestinians spentaway from Palestine,herded into the Gaza Strip and the West Bankas the Jews were in the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Europe.For sixty years they have been fleeing from massacres against them,which are not unlike the pogroms of the Holocaust.With their homeland being chewed up almost daily,the Palestinians are getting http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2009/01/parallels-alexander-martin-remollino.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-9144254130256542603Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:08:00 +00002008-11-06T22:26:33.861+08:00OBAMA AND FILIPINO MIGRANTS IN THE U.S.Centerstage / UPI AsiaAlexander Martin RemollinoManila, Philippines, November 06 — How will a Barack Obama presidency affect Filipino migrants in the United States?This question has arisen following the election of Obama, in part because the U.S. president-elect’s father is a Kenyan who migrated to Hawaii and lived there for two years before divorcing his http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-and-filipino-migrants-in-u.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-4839838468939607491Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:01:00 +00002008-11-04T11:07:34.281+08:00SOLDIERS RAID EVACUATION CENTER IN N. COTABATOEarly last month, Rakman Suleik and his 17-year-old son Samsudin, together with a few others, fled from the fighting between government troops and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Aleosan, North Cotabato. They had evacuated, to safety or so they thought, at the house of a certain Colonel Maguid of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/11/soldiers-raid-evacuation-center-in-n.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-7786598495956897554Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:44:00 +00002008-11-04T10:57:14.934+08:00WITNESS INSISTS BOMBING THAT KILLED 4 CHILDREN, 2 ADULTS DELIBERATEMohalidin Unsi insists that the bombing attack by an OV 10 aircraft that killed four children, his wife and father-in-law, September 8, while they were fleeing on a boat was deliberate. He said they were even fired upon by soldiers while they were retrieving the bodies of the dead children.BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINOHUMAN RIGHTShttp://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/11/witness-insists-bombing-that-killed-4.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-8038101445536546820Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:02:00 +00002008-11-01T16:07:00.665+08:00KAHIT NA IISA ANG ATING TAHANANG LUPAINAlexander Martin RemollinoIsang bayan tayong hindi nasasakopng mga hanggan ng heograpiya.Tayo'y nahahati sa kayraming pirasong nakakalatsa lahat ng sulok nitong daigdig,sapagkat itong ating lupainay pinaghahati-hatian ng mga tagaibang-bayan,mga tagaibang-bayang inaari ang hindi kanilaat ninanakawan tayo ng tahanan sa sariling lupain.Ang tirahan mo at ang http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/11/kahit-na-iisa-ang-ating-tahanang-lupain.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-7390479245300172723Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:04:00 +00002008-11-01T15:59:56.362+08:00MIGRATION, THE PHILIPPINES AND THE ECONOMIC CRISISCenterstage / UPI AsiaAlexander Martin RemollinoManila, Philippines, October 30 — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon quite missed the point at the opening of the Global Forum on Migration and Development that took place yesterday here in Manila, when he said that "migration can and should be a tool to lift us out of (the) economic crisis."Before http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/10/migration-philippines-and-economic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-2089635303859535287Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:50:00 +00002008-10-19T22:03:34.410+08:00CRIES FOR JUSTICE PURSUE PALPARANWhen he retired and after his appointment to the National Security Council fell through because of widespread opposition, Palparan has evaded media attention –- in contrast to his frequently hogging the headlines during his days in military service. He must have thought that by doing so, he could escape responsibility for the long lists of human rights abuses in http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/10/cries-for-justice-pursue-palparan-when.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-556214888312684774Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:00:00 +00002008-10-15T03:29:27.784+08:00KUNG MAY MGA DALIRI SANA ANG LUPAAlexander Martin RemollinoBinigkas ang tulang ito sa isang rali ng mga magsasaka may mahigit sa isang buwan na ang nakararaan, ngunit hindi pa nalalathala bago ang araw na ito. Ngayo'y iniaambag ito ng may-akda sa Blog Action Day 2008.Hindi nila pag-aariang lupang kanilang pag-aari.Paano magiging kanilaang di man lamang nadampianng malalambot nilang palad?Ang http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/10/kung-may-mga-daliri-sana-ang-lupa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-7601302916298275329Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:39:00 +00002008-10-13T21:43:51.051+08:00NOTIONS OF PATRIOTISMCenterstage / UPI AsiaAlexander Martin RemollinoManila, Philippines, October 13 — There is at present such a dearth of patriotism in the Philippines that one-time performance of deeds that may be construed as patriotic is almost always mistaken by Filipinos for patriotism itself. Even some of those with supposedly higher political consciousness have fallen into this trap at http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/10/notions-of-patriotism-alexander-martin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-5315926719668473523Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:07:00 +00002008-10-13T21:45:25.448+08:00ARMY MOVES TO EVICT PEASANTS FROM LANDBy virtue of a 1991 Deed of Transfer between the DND and the DAR, some 6,000 peasants and other residents in a 3,100-hectare area within a military reservation in Nueva Ecija should have acquired ownership of the land they live on and till. But they have not, and now they face the possibility of being driven away from the area.BY ALEXANDER MARTIN http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/10/army-moves-to-evict-peasants-from-land.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-1060188367764825959Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:03:00 +00002008-10-12T10:06:07.617+08:00KMU LEADER, LAWYER SLAM TAGGING OF UNION AS 'REBEL GROUP' IN TEXTBOOKThe KMU is tagged as a “rebel group” in a high school textbook; one of its lawyers is slapped with criminal charges in connection with the burning of a cellsite; there was an attempt to break into their national office. All these, says one of the KMU’s leaders, have the objective of destroying the workers’ movement.BY ALEXANDER http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/10/kmu-leader-lawyer-slam-tagging-of-union.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-6712735562209225057Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:39:00 +00002008-10-12T10:00:43.381+08:00ANG PINAKATAHIMIK MAN NATING MGA GABI AY HINDI TAHIMIKNI ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINOInilathala ng BulatlatMaging ang pinakamahimbing nating pagtulogay hindi mahimbing.Sa pinakatahimik man nating mga gabi,waring walang katapusan ang ingay ng mga buldoser,ng nagkakapira-pirasong mga tabla,ng nagkakayupi-yuping mga yero.Sapagkat may ilang nagnanasang umangkinng ating karapatangmakumutan ng http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/10/ang-pinakatahimik-man-nating-mga-gabi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-3883927939273826299Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:15:00 +00002008-09-01T20:39:12.811+08:00RANDY ECHANIS AND INHUMAN JAIL CONDITIONSBeing jailed is not new to KMP leader Randall Echanis, 60. His detention in January this year following his arrest in Bago City, Negros Occidental is his third already. It is the prison conditions he is now in that are new to him.BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINOHUMAN RIGHTS WATCHBulatlatVol. VIII, No. 30, August 31-September 6, 2008Being jailed is not new to http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/08/randy-echanis-and-inhuman-jail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-3804411651352416980Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:30:00 +00002008-08-31T12:34:31.181+08:00KAY PLARIDELAlexander Martin RemollinoBinigkas sa isang pagtitipun-tipon ng mga mamamahayag noong 3 Mayo 2008, Pandaigdigang Araw ng Kalayaan sa Pamamahayag, sa 70s Bistro. Inilalathala para sa ika-158 kaarawan ni Marcelo H. del Pilar (30 Agosto 2008).IPiping Dilat,Dolores Manapat,Plaridel:Nangarap ka ring tumalunton sa mga ulapng mga kaisipang "panghabang-panahon"ukol sa kagandahan,ngunit http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/08/kay-plaridel-alexander-martin-remollino.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-1024688345753603794Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:30:00 +00002008-08-31T11:59:47.540+08:00DENYING HISTORICAL WRONGSCenterstage / UPI Asia OnlineAlexander Martin RemollinoManila, Philippines, August 27 — In the debate on whether or not the Moros — the Islamized inhabitants of what are now known as the Philippine Islands — should be granted ancestral domain rights in Mindanao, there are those who have put forward the argument that Christians are the majority in the island. The http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/08/denying-historical-wrongs-centerstage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-3748567989419816937Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:22:00 +00002008-08-31T12:03:16.255+08:00LORENZO M. TAÑADA: A LEADER FOR FILIPINOSCenterstage / UPI Asia OnlineAlexander Martin RemollinoManila, Philippines, August 14 — Last Aug. 10 marked the 110th birthday of a great Filipino, Lorenzo M. Tañada — nationalist, freedom fighter, and statesman. It is worth remembering him now not only because we are just four days past a time of year associated with his birth, but also because his life http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/08/lorenzo-m.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-5648713379922174751Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:18:00 +00002008-08-31T12:05:44.119+08:00QUESTION OF A FIVE-YEAR-OLDCenterstage / UPI Asia OnlineAlexander Martin RemollinoManila, Philippines, August 12 — The ever-increasing popularity of bleaching creams and skin-whitening soaps in the Philippines brings to my mind what a friend told me a few years back about a question asked by one of her nephews.The boy is some sort of a child prodigy. He was reading newspapers at three and knew http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/08/question-of-five-year-old-centerstage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-4778067589503638386Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:46:00 +00002008-07-15T11:59:50.375+08:00MILF SEES RENEWED ESCALATION OF CONFLICT WITH GRPThe MILF, which is fighting for an autonomous state in Mindanao and has been engaged in peace negotiations with the GRP since 1996, sees a renewed escalation of its conflict with the Philippine government following a number of encounters with the military in the last three weeks.BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINOBulatlatVol. VIII, No. 23, July 13-19, http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/07/milf-sees-renewed-escalation-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-1236509348244930496Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:12:00 +00002008-07-11T12:18:06.647+08:00COURT STARTS HEARING TAGAYTAY 5 BAIL PETITIONAfter more than two years of being abducted and detained, the Tagaytay 5 finally had their day in court as the latter started hearing their petition for bail.BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINOHUMAN RIGHTS WATCHBulatlatVol. VIII, No. 22, July 6-12, 2008The Tagaytay City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 18 has started hearing the Tagaytay 5’s petition for http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/07/court-starts-hearing-tagaytay-5-bail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-4411727095469278949Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:29:00 +00002008-06-28T14:58:20.027+08:00TO A WARRIOR DYING OLDAlexander Martin RemollinoYou were one of a kind as a warrior,one who dared to venturewhere even the fearless feared to tread.You marched to the Devil's denfor the cause of the heavens.Without hesitation you courted the wrathof the false gods, the usurpers of power:you fought for the right "without question or pause,"ever resting your faithon the God of justice fighting by http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/06/to-warrior-dying-old-alexander-martin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577017.post-7050406255697969838Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:57:00 +00002008-07-04T14:42:48.302+08:00MGA MANHIDAlexander Martin RemollinoHabang binabagtas ng sinakyan kong dyip kaninaang isang lansangan sa Quezon City,tinawag ang aking pansinng isang higanteng karatulang may nakangiting mukha ni GMAna nagsasabing,"Ramdam ang kaunlaran."Siguro,ramdam na ramdam nga ang kaunlarankaya kailangang ipagsigawang nararamdaman ito –-parang sinasabing mga manhid tayokaya hindi natin nararamdaman.Pero sino http://ourthoughtsarefree.blogspot.com/2008/06/mga-manhid-alexander-martin-remollino.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alexander Martin Remollino)1