September 2016

Looking back: Winnipeg Filipinos hail Marcos’ downfall

Here’s how the Winnipeg Free Press covered the event. Interviewed by police is Arthur Dizon, one of the members of the August Twenty One Movement (ATOM). The other person carrying the placard is Marcelino Principe who also participated in yesterday’s (September 7, 2016) rally in Vancouver against the burial of Marcos at the Libingan ng […]

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Vancouver joins protests against Marcos burial

Vancouver, B.C. Filipinos say no to Marcos burial By Ted Alcuitas A small but determined group of Filipinos showed their opposition to the impending burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ remains at the country’s Hero’s Cemetery or Libingan ng mga Bayani. The Vancouver rally at the World Trade Centre, is one of many similar

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Author questions Marcos burial at hero’s cemetery

How can a plunderer get a hero’s burial while petty criminals are shot and dumped in the streets? Opinion Miguel Syjuco The New York Times Sept. 6, 2016 MANILA- Mornings in the Philippines reveal bodies dumped outside slums. Averaging 13 a day, nearly 2,000 in the last two months, the bodies are hung with cardboard

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Overseas Pinoys rally against Marcos’ burial at Heroes’ Cemetery

By: Boying Pimentel @inquirerdotnet INQUIRER.net US Bureau 02:42 AM September 6th, 2016   The leader who instigated a bloodbath that has killed 2,000 Filipinos wants to honor a dictator who murdered 3,000 and tortured tens of thousands more. It’s a troubling, challenging time. But also a time of resistance and struggle. On September 7, Filipino

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Breaking:Obama cancels meeting with Duterte

Obama snubs Duterte By Ted Alcuitas   President Barack Obama canceled a planned meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, in a rare diplomatic rupture that follows an outbreak of tensions between two close allies over the Philippines’ new drug war, The Wall Street Journal reports. The White House said last week that Mr. Obama was

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Breaking:Davao blast kills 12, 60 hurt

Al Jazeera   A blast has ripped through a night market packed with customers in President Rodrigo Duterte’s home city of Davao in southern Philippines, killing at least 12 people and wounding 60 others. A presidential spokesman said on Friday that the blast took place at the open-air market in Davao City, 960km south of the capital,

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Canada, Philippines Relaunch Youth Exchange Program

Press Release   Montreal, QC. (August 31, 2016) – Rita S Karakas, President  & CEO of Canada World Youth and Leoncio B Evascco Jr., Cabinet Secretary of the Republic of the Philippines, agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between The Philippines National Youth Commission and Canada World Youth to resume Youth Exchange programmes. The

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