Saligan Batas February 2024
As SALIGAN commemorates EDSA People Power this month, the latest issue of SALIGAN Batas highlights the impact of people's engagement in governance: influencing policy changes, including establishing judicial precedents. Buhay ang diwa ng EDSA sa bawat isa na patuloy...
A Needless Wait
A Needless Wait The farmers of Hacienda Velez-Malaga are still in the fight for their future The Decquios, like most farmers in the country, are used to waiting. Mario, 39 and wife Linde, 48 have been waiting for the court to junk former landlord Roberto Cuenca’s appeal against distributing the rest of Hacienda Velez-Malaga to […]
A Call For Sobriety
A Call For Sobriety Peace Advocates’ Appeal for Sobriety The intense reactions to the planned signing of theMemorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front has already reached an alarming stage. In the last few days we have seen how the unarmed civilians from both sides of the conflict […]
ALG Success Story
ONE STEP BEYOND by Michael Vincent Gaddi Salvador Santos is a simple coconut farmer from Padre Burgos, Quezon who lived peacefully with his family and harvested coconuts from several trees he had planted. Just as he had grown accustomed to this worry-free life, trouble struck. Sometime in 1997 the land owner suddenly filed a barrage […]