Photos and text by MARIO ESPINOSA
TO mark the anniversary of the bloody Mendiola Massacre, hundreds of farmers last Friday burned the effigy of President Benigno Aquino III as they marched along the streets of Mendiola.
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EVERY year thousands of Filipino devotees flock to Quiapo Church in Manila to celebrate the Feast of the Black Nazarene. The life-size, dark, wooden sculpture is believed by many Roman Catholics to be miraculous.
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NORTH Triangle. Home to close to 7,000 urban poor families in Quezon City. After the September 23 clash between demolition teams and residents, another confrontation looms. The settlers are prepared to defend what they claim is their land. Photojournalist Kenneth Guda visited and documented the current plight of residents there.
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AT a time when human rights defenders are needed as ever, members of the legal profession have increasingly found themselves under attack. In this slideshow, Jo Abaya-Santos followed human rights lawyer Jobert Pahilga in the course of serving his clients of mostly poor farmers and peasants, and asserting his right to exercise his profession, despite the attacks and lack of financial reward.
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THE University of Santo Tomas has mounted an exhibit of old books and other historical treasures which, school officials say, prove that globalization first came to Philippine shores some four centuries ago.
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Photos by MARIO IGNACIO
SOME 300 students of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City staged a rally on the second day of their protest against the P1.39 billion budget cut on state universities and colleges.
Photos by MARIO IGNACIO, CHIT ESTELLA and AVIGAIL OLARTE
MARKING the first year of the Ampatuan massacre, over a hundred journalists and militant groups on Tuesday marched to Mendiola demanding justice to the slain.
LONG ago, in the days before the unats or straight-haired people took over their land, home to the Aytas of Bataan was the vast forest that stretched all the way to Zambales and included what is now the economic zone called Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).
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IN 2006, about 300 families of Sitio Agusuhin in Subic, Zambales were forcibly evicted from their land. The government had entered into a deal with Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co., owner of the biggest shipbuilding facility in the country.
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Militant groups welcomed President Benigno Aquino III along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City with a rally, as they have done with previous presidents, every fourth Monday of July.
