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Antonio Zumel Center for Press Freedom

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Blue passport blues One guy, waving a small US flag, said he was taking his wife out to celebrate. What about you? Nothing, I said; I’m going home, filing away my citizenship certificate. Nothing? “Life goes on,” I said, “citizen or not.”
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News
Media en route to 'bakwits' held nearly an hour by military Around 40 journalists from Mindanao and Manila and some 20 representatives from civil society organizations traveling in a nine-van convoy en route to the evacuation centers in Datu Piang town were held at a military checkpoint along the Cotabato-General Santos highway for 46 minutes Tuesday morning.
Features
Coping with the loss of a journalist parent Some children of slain journalists still do not understand why their father or mother was killed. Others have come to accept the situation and have learned to be proud of what their parents did.
 
Viewpoints
Bad medicine If shoddy and unfair reporting is the disease it’s meant to address, a right of reply bill is no cure, and is in fact worse than the disease in that it’s certain to kill the patient. The patient isn’t press freedom alone. It’s the entire media system as well.
Readings
Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable The problem newspapers face isn't that they didn't see the internet coming. They not only saw it miles off, they figured out early on that they needed a plan to deal with it, and during the early 90s they came up with not just one plan but several.
 
Mediawatch
Barbaric Israel

Despite the best efforts of the American corporate media, the Israeli lobby, and compromised politicians, the true nature of Israel’s barbarity towards the Palestinian people is not easily hidden. Only the Israeli and American governments try to deny that war crimes were committed.

Solidarity
Representatives of media victims of violence agree on support mechanism The IFJ last week hosted a meeting of representatives of families of journalists who lost their lives during the course of their work to discuss the establishment of a support network which would provide assistance to families of media victims of violence.
 
Nation
It's battle of good vs. evil, Church leaders say of fight against Arroyo's Cha-cha Mother Mary John Mananzan OSB never swore in her life. Despite having seen so much corruption and injustice all these years, she said she has never cursed. These days, however, Mananzan has the convent-bred and Catholic-educated Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to thank for losing her manners, if not her cool.
Focus
Only 15, student confronts military-backed political repression in Quezon City school Pressured by the military, officials of a high school in Quezon City rejected the enrollment of a student activist. Aghast and angry, the student decided to fight back.
 
Analysis
Signs of impunity and desperation Impunity and desperation in a murderous, corrupt, and undemocratic regime is a dangerous combination. It brings back memories of Martial Law. It would then not be surprising that if the Arroyo government fails in its Cha Cha bid, it would resort to massive cheating during the 2010 elections.
Opinion
Revolutionary option Time and again ruling regimes announce the impending demise of armed revolutionary movements in much the same vein and for the same reasons that they belittle the democratic protest movement.  The aim is to conjure strength and stability, to foist the illusion of popular acceptance if not support
 
Statements
Military’s 'hit list' repugnant to rule of law The “Order of Battle” is nothing but a hit list of people the military has identified as “enemies of the state.” It makes the military the prosecutor, judge and executioner all at the same time.
World
Showdown in Honduras: The rise, repression and uncertain future of the coup Worldwide condemnation has followed the coup that unseated President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras on Sunday, June 28. Nationwide mobilizations and a general strike demanding that Zelaya be returned to power are growing in spite of increased military repression.
 
Human Rights
Regime insists Roxas torture fabricated; victim might testify in Manila

A day after Melissa Roxas recounted her ordeal in the hands of her captors, the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) reiterated the government’s claim that the abduction and torture of Roxas had been “stage-managed.”

Antonio Zumel
AFP 'hit list': The cat is out of the bag That the Armed Forces of the Philippines remains a  principal suspect in the killing of Filipino journalists and activists has once again been given credence when Filipino journalist Mr. Carlos Conde recently discovered that his name is in the “order of battle” of the AFP's southern command.
 
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    'State of denial'

    "State of denial" is Australian Broadcasting Corporation's video report on the political killings in the Philippines. Bangkok-based correspondent Karen Percy highlights the story of two University of the Philippines students - Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan - who on June 26 last year were abducted by armed men believed to be under the command of recently retired Major-General Jovito "The Butcher" Palparan. ABC aired this feature last May 15.

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