Testigo October-December 2012 Issue

 

Envi group blames mining, logging for massive devastation of ‘Pablo’. DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/ 9 December)–An environmental group has blamed large-scale mining and logging operations to the widespread destruction and deaths wrought by Typhoon Pablo in Compostela Valley (ComVal) and Davao Oriental.

 

PHL cybercrime law outrages netizens. (GMA News) MANILA — A new cybercrime law in the Philippines that could see people sentenced to 12 years in jail for posting defamatory comments on Facebook or Twitter is generating outrage among netizens and rights groups.

 

Anakbayan slams first-ever arrest under Cybercrime Law, warns of ‘impending e-Martial Law’ (ANAKBAYAN) The youth group Anakbayan slammed the arrest of an anti-mining activist in Cagayan province last Friday, the first ever under the Cybercrime Law despite a 120-day temporary restraining order (TRO), as ‘a preview of e-Martial Law’.

 

Strike in more than a decade. (Interaksyon.com) TALISAY CITY, Negros Occidental -- Negros Occidental, the province also known as “Sugarlandia,” saw its first industrial strike in more than a decade as more than 100 workers of the First Farmers Holding Corporation here took to the picketline to protest their alleged illegal dismissal, which they claim is part of moves to bust their union.

 

Mga sigaw sa Bonifacio Day. (Bulatlat.com) Filipinos celebrate this Nov 30 the 149th birthday of the man they call as the great plebian, Andres Bonifacio. But unlike in usual government-sponsored celebrations marked by a one-time laying of wreath, some short speeches in hurried programs, token souvenirs to commemorate the hero, progressive peoples’ organizations nationwide prepared for a simultaneous whole day of mass actions. In fact, they were also the most visible in heralding Bonifacio’s 150th by next year.