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‘Oakwood’ and GMA Sona

Published by Ellen on July 26, 2009

July 27, six years ago was a Sunday, the day before the last Monday of July when the president delivers the State-of-the Nation’s address.

That was the day when some 300 soldiers took a stand against Gloria Arroyo’s misgovernance at the Oakwood Premier Hotel (now Ascott) in Makati.

The group didn’t have a name but a TV producer saw in the image of the sun in their red armbands a resemblance to the symbol of the Emilio Aguinaldo’s Magdalo faction in the revolutionary Katipunan. He called them “Magdalo” and the name stuck.

This year, July 27 is a Monday. As the Magdalo group marks six years of the ‘Oakwood incident’, Gloria Arroyo delivers her SONA, supposedly her last.

Trillanes’ wife hopes for normal life after Arroyo

Published by Ellen on July 24, 2009

by VERA Files Exactly six years ago on Monday, July 27, Army Capt. Arlene Trillanes turned on her television set to see some 300 military…

Ang bagong direksyon ng Magdalo

Published by Ellen on April 29, 2009

Sa aking pag-uusap sa marami sa mga batang opisyal ng military na nakasama sa grupong Magdalo, nakikita ko and sinsero nilang pagmamahal sa bayan.

Napansin ko rin na malawak silang mag-isip at matatalino sila. Maari sigurong sabihin natin na nagkulang sila sa aspeto ng operasyon sa kanilang ginawang panindigan laban sa administrasyong Arroyo, ngunit handa silang magsakripisyo para sa ina-akala nilang tama.

Hindi naman lahat. Dahil mayroon din naman mga bumaligtad at mukhang namang ina-alagaan sila ng husto ng pamahalaang Arroyo.

Tale of the absurd

Published by Ellen on April 28, 2009

When the story first came out last week about a group of Magdalo soldiers arrested while on a shooting training in Clark, I had a hunch paranoia got the better of government authorities again and that the activity might have something to do with job in war-torn foreign countries.

I had done some stories on private armies providing security for contractors servicing the United States military and their allies in Iraq and Afghanistan like Blackwater and DynCorp and I know that they have applied for permission to use some parts of the former US bases, Clark and Subic, for training their personnel.

Since the job was security in a hostile environment, those companies prefer applicants with military and police training. It was not a surprise to me the soldiers were Magdalo members.

Convicted, dismissed and happy

Published by Ellen on March 26, 2009

rivas3 When I talked to Capt. Candy Rivas this afternoon, she was laughing and we talked of finally having our long-planned dinner, now that she expects to be released from her three year detention.

She didn’t sound like someone who had just been convicted.

Candy was convicted this morning of “Conduct unbecoming of an officer and gentleman” for harboring and concealing Capt. Nicanor Faeldon who had escaped from his prison cell in Fort Bonifacio in December 2005.” The punishment is dismissal from military service.

Samahang Magdalo

Published by Ellen on February 18, 2009

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Sa mga nangyayari ngayon sa bansa na garapalan na ang kurakutan at kasinungalingan, marami ang nagtatanong, may natitira pa bang matino?

Maganda ang ganoong tanong kasi ibig sabihin nun, hindi ka kasama sa mga sinungaling at magnanakaw. Ibig sabihin nun umiiral pa ang itinuro sa ‘yo ng inyong mga magulang na mamuhay ng maayos, huwag manloko at hindi nakakasakit ar perwisyo sa kapwa tao.

Sa nakikita natin na kapal ng mukha ng mga magnanakaw, palagi natin naitatanong sa ating sarili, may magagawa ba tayo? Pumunta kayo sa http://www.samahangmagdalo.org/site.

Alam natin na ang Magdalo ay unang lumabas nang nanindigan ang mga 300 na sundalo, karamihan mga batang opisyal, laban sa panloloko ni Gloria Arroyo sa mamamayang Pilipino noong July 27, 2003. Pumunta sila sa dating Oakwood Hotel sa Glorietta, Makati at doon nila ipinahayag ang kanilang pag-withdraw ng suporta sa pamahalaan ni Arroyo.

Magdalo Kitchen

Published by Ellen on December 20, 2008

There is now a Magdalo restaurant.

It’s on A. Luna st. in Pasay City. I’m not sure now if it’s 2175 A. Luna.

From Buendia (coming from Roxas Blvd.) , it’s the street right before PAGCOR. It’s on the right. From the corner of Buendia and A. Luna, the sign of Magdalo can be seen.

Magdalo Kitchen is owned by Jeane Monteverde.

Last Dec. 17, the office of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, held its Christmas party at the Magdalo Kitchen.
It was fun. Here are a few pictures:

Trillanes quotes Miriam

Published by Ellen on September 21, 2008

An officer and a gentleman, Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, is courteous to Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago.

Last Sept. 3, the detained senator filed a resolution questioning Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita’s meddling in Senate processes by presiding the Senate Technical Working Group on Philippine Baseline Bills on Aug. 14, 2008 in Malacañang.

Trillanes, who is one of the five senators who have filed a bill delineating the country’s archipelagic baseline, said Ermita’s role as presiding officer of a Senate committee meeting is a clear violation of the constitutionally enshrined principle of separation of powers of the three branches of government.

“Secretary Ermita’s actions effectively undermined the independence of the Senate as an institution,” he said.

Small blessings

Published by Ellen on September 2, 2008

Maybe I should thank the Commission on Human Rights for saying that the arrest of journalists who covered Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim at the Manila Pen on Nov. 29, 2007 “constitutes arbitrary arrest/detention in violation of human rights standards.”

It’s definitely better than the dismissal of our class suit by NBI- agent- turned-judge Reynaldo Laigo of the Makati RTC who said that our arrest, handcuffing, and detention was “justified’ and even added that we were “so lucky” that the police didn’t initiate criminal charges against us.

With a leader who has no respect for the Constitution and disdains truth, CHR chair Leila de Lima gives me some hope. Maybe I should thank her for making the Commission say that “there have been violations of the human rights of liberty, security of person and freedom from arbitrary arrest of the complainants in the Manila Peninsula Siege.”

CHR: No basis in detaining journalists during Nov 29 standoff

Published by Ellen on September 1, 2008

The Commission on Human Rights said Monday there was no basis to justify the arrest and detention of several journalists during the Nov. 29, 2007 standoff at The Peninsula Manila hotel in Makati City.

In a news briefing, CHR chair Leila de Lima said some violations were committed during the arrest and processing of media personalities in the aftermath of the six-hour standoff between government forces and the group of Army Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim and the Magdalo led by Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.

In one of its resolutions, the CHR recommended that the case be “referred to the Department of the Interior and Local Government and to the Philippine National Police for internal inquiry and for filing of proper administrative disciplinary cases and measures applied to proper persons.”

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