BAYANI
Ka
Pepe
Ni Alexander Martin Remollino
Isang araw matapos na mapatalsik ang rehimeng Marcos, isa sa mga pangunahing
lumaban sa diktadura ang nagdiwang ng kanyang ika-64 na kaarawan: si
Jose Wright Diokno. Ka Pepe kung tawagin ng mga nagmamahal sa kanya,
nakatala siya sa aklat ng ating kasaysayan bilang isang makabayan, tagapagtanggol
ng karapatang pantao, at tagapagsulong ng makatarungang kapayapaan.
BALITA AT LATHALAIN
Peace Constituency Fires First Salvo Against
War in Iraq, Mindanao
By Alfred A. Araya Jr., CyberDyaryo
On February 28, thousands of people, made up of students in school uniforms,
youth, activists, housewives, children, priests and nuns, workers, artists,
and and urban poor, gathered at the Quirino Grandstand in Luneta Park
in Manila for a 'nationwide prayer assembly for peace.'
Bukambibig: Tanaw ng Isang Kalahok
Ni Alexander Martin Remollino
Ang dinaluhan ko noon sa Likha-Diwa ay ang Bukambibig, ang huling
bahagi ng serye ng mga gawaing tumagal nang may isang buwan, na inorganisa
ng UP Writers Club, UP Ugnayan ng Manunulat, at UP Quill sa pakikipagtulungan
sa National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).
Tsubibo ng Kano
Ni
Aurelio Flores
Sa isang palatuntunang inorganisa nitong Marso 5 ng College Editors
Guild of the Philippines at Kabataang Artista para sa Tunay na Kalayaan
at ginanap sa Mayric's España, kasabay ng mga awit at tula ay
itinampok ang paggunita sa Digmaang Biyetnam bilang pagtutol sa nagbabantang
digmaan sa Iraq.
Ang Unos na Iyon
(Rebyu ng Days of Disquiet, Nights of Rage)
Ni Alexander Martin Remollino
Sinulat sa wikang tinatawag na "Bagong Peryodismo," "pampanitikang
peryodismo," at "malikhaing di-katha," itinatala ng Days
of Disquiet, Nights of Rage ang mahahalagang kaganapan sa kabanata ng
ating kasaysayang kung tawagin ngayon ay ang Unang Sikapat o First Quarter
Storm (FQS) ng 1970.
Lacson: Hero or Villain?
By Ronalyn Olea, Bulatlat.com
No doubt, opposition Senator Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson is among
the most controversial politicians in the countrytoday.
Bam Aquino is New Youth Commission
Chair
Malacañang has announced the appointment of Paolo Benigno "Bam"
A. Aquino IV as the new Chairperson of the National Youth Commission
(NYC).
Groups Organize National Youth Dialogue
on ICT
The Young Volunteers for Sustainable Development in partnership with
Taking IT Global and the Youth Creating Digital Opportunities Network,
is organizing a national youth forum on the information society and
the role of information and communications technologies for sustainable
development.
Poverty Produces Younger Child Workers
By the Center for Women's Resources
Another war—as deadly as that in Maguindanao—wastes the
Filipino children today: the war of poverty.

LIHAM AT PAHAYAG
Media for Peace
We are writers, journalists, photojournalists and workers from the
Philippine print, broadcast and online media. We do not usually make
public our positions on the issues and events we report on but, considering
what is happening—with the United States edging closer to war,
heedless of what will happen to the rest of the world—we feel
there is a need to speak out.
Youth RESIST! Holds Assembly
By Jake Zamora
Youth RESIST! will have a forum/assembly on March 13, 2003 from 1:30PM-5pm,
at the Executive House, UP Diliman Campus. Aware of your unrelenting
commitment to the defense of human rights, we have the honor to invite
you to Youth RESIST! and to its assembly.
Mindanao Again! We Are Angry, Saddened,
But Not Surprised!
By
Joel Rocamora
President, Akbayan Citizens’ Action Party
We. the Akbayan (Citizens’ Action Party), condemn in no
uncertain terms the bombings yesterday in Davao City and Tagum City.
Message on International Women's Day
By Bayan Muna Rep. Satur C. Ocampo
Bayan Muna pays tribute today, International Women's Day, to the Filipino
women and all women who struggle in various ways to bring hope, peace,
and justice during these perilous and uncertain times.
Task Force Mapalad Condemns Benedicto's
Carnage vs Nagasi Beneficiaries
By the Task Force Mapalad
The Task Force Mapalad national peasant federation strongly condemns
the March 6 killing of a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program beneficiary
and wounding of two others by farm workers loyal to Kitchie Benedicto
Paulino, daughter of the late Marcos crony Roberto Benedicto and former
owner of the 564-hectare Hacienda Esperanza in La Carlota City in
Negros Occidental.