RP Elections 2010

[Media Release]
The National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) strongly condemns the brutal politically-motivated killings in Maguindanao of political supporters and journalists.
We call upon President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to take a firm and decisive action immediately to go after the perpetrators of this heinous crime, and for the government to consider this and other recent tragedies [...]

[The following is an article I submitted to the UP Law Internet Society for publication in their magazine, "DIGITAL" (Digest of Information Technology and the Law).]
The blogosphere––or the newfangled world of Web-based publishing––together with the surfeit of social networking services such as Facebook.com and Plurk.com, has virtually changed the landscape of today’s news-reading and -gathering, [...]

Everything that legislators do now has something to do with the 2010 elections. There are two disparate events that seemed to prove this point. First, the consigment of the controversial Right of Reply Bill (Rorb) into the freezer. Second, the planned restoration of the compulsory acquisition of land–the “heart and soul” of the Comprehensive Agrarian [...]