martial law

Prior to ordering California’s nearly 40 million residents to stay home in a statewide lockdown amid the coronavirus crisis, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he had put the National Guard on alert and that martial...

Christopher Sorio still vividly remembers the dark days of martial law. He was arrested by the military in the early 80’s, along with then ranking national democratic front leader Horacio ‘Boy’ Morales and father Edicio Dela...

by Pat Nabong, ABS-CBN News CHICAGO — These Filipino Americans have lived to tell their stories —- 47 years after the declaration of martial law in the Philippines under the Marcos dictatorship. They want the younger...

Toronto, Canada — At the corner of Bathurst and Wilson, also known as Little Manila, the allied organizations of Bayan Canada raised their banners and voices to oppose alleged human rights violations in the Philippines. In...

NEW YORK CITY — For a quarter of a century now – the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, or OPAPP, has and continues to find ways to bring peace in Mindanao. But...

Human rights activist Beth Dollaga was an observer at the International People’s Tribunal in Brussels, Belgium, where Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was found guilty of human rights violations in the country. Dollaga, together with other human...

September 21 marks the anniversary of the declaration of martial law in the Philippines. 46 years after the declaration of martial law, activists still recall the atmosphere in the Philippines during their youth. About a dozen activists...

These Fil-Ams, together with members of the international solidarity mission say they’re on a “fact-finding mission” in the Philippines to investigate the massacre of 8 Lumad members in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato in Mindanao. They are...

NEW YORK — The projections on the walls of the Philippine consulate in New York City just about sum up what these Filipino activists are protesting against — the president of the Philippines. “In the last two...

The slapping of red hands on the face of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is to symbolize the blood he has spilled in his war against drugs and his call of martial law in Mindanao. Located right...