Let us join the Women's Day rally this year to further the struggle for women's emancipation and to celebrate with GABRIELA on our 25th anniversary.

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taralets!

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Salamat sa information. Gusto ko sana sumama. Sana maging matagumpay ang pagdaraos ng rally na ito.

Nga pala,.. napakaganda ng iyong tula. Wala akong masabi. Ginising muli ang aking dugong feminista.

Salamat kislapalitaptap

...inaasahan ko ang mga kababaihan na unang magkomento dito...

siguro kaya sila hindi nagkomento dahil...nasobrahan ba...

baka nagkamali lang din  din ako ng pag-unawa sa sinabi ni tserman Mao...

Women hold up half the sky.

try kong balikan mamayang gabi yung tula.

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tama ang sabi ni Mao, kaya lang sa pagkakasulat mo, parang buong langit na ang pasan nila.

Para sa romantiko, magugustuhan nila ang bahaging ito, pero kilala mo naman ako. hindi naman tayo ganoon, di ba?

sige, subukan kong balasahin mamayang gabi.

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bakit hindi ka humugot mula sa aktwal na karanasan mismo, mula sa mga halimbawa sa kasaysayan ng mga babaeng tinutukoy mong nagsanib ng kanilang pangalan.

pwede...

parang si Lorena Barrios, Parang si Mika, Parang si Gypsie, parang sila...

sige, balikan ko mamayang gabi, at subukang maipost bukas o sa lunes na. 

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wag mong kalimutan ang paborito ko ha, si Tandang Sora.

....magmungkahi ka pa ng iba pang pangalan ng kababaihan na isinanib ang kanilang pangalan sa, natatanging larangan.

may kakilala ka bang mga babae ng tsina na pwede kong ipasok?

may naiisip n kasi akong linya eh.

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wala rin akong kilala. pwede siguro iyong asawa ni mao, iyong pangalawa. pero hindi ako pamilyar sa kanya, alam ko lang isa siya sa Gang of 4

...kung wala din akong maisip...

kahit yung mga kakilala ko na lang din ang ilagay ko... lorena, tandang sora, gypsie, mika atbp. pero mas maige sana kung mas maraming pangalan...

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ok na iyon. iconic naman na ang mga napili mo. pwede na nilang katawanin ang halos lahat ng kababaihan.

...tatadtarin ko ang bahaging ito mamayang gabi.

sige, hanggang sa muli!

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...gaya rin naming mga lalaki, kabilang kayo sa hanay na pinagsasamantalahan ng kasalukuyang sistemang panlipunan, ang inyong pakikibaka ay hindi hiwalay sa aming pakikibaka.

pero sa totoo lang, mas masaklap ang sitwasyon ng kababaihan sa ngayon, kumpara sa kalgayan ng kalalakihan. 

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sang-ayon ako sa iyo kislap..

Sana'y dumami ang isang tulad mo..

naibigan ko ang pagbabago sa tula mo..  mas mahusay!

tagni!

cheers!

aireen

...yaan mo ate aireen.

salamat sa iyong suporta, sa mga akda na may temang ganito.

hanggang sa muli!

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...salamat!

bagamat may bahaging kahinaan pa rin ang tula na ito.

tulad nung nakita ni Diwa.

balikan ko ito mamayang gabi...at subukang ipost yung bago sa linggo.

tagni, sinta! 

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...magandang gabi jondsmur!

salamat sa pagbasa!

may bahagi na akong binago sa ngayon.

tsek mo ulit kung magugustuhan mo pa.

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...pag nagtagpo tayo sa isang poetry reading... bigkasin natin ng sabay ha.

may binago akong bahagi sa tula, tsek mo lang ulit.

naging romantiko ksi yung dating ng unang gawa eh.

hanggang sa muli! 

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mas ok na. pwede nang bigkasin sa marso 8

...ginawa ko yang bahaging yan habang naglalakad ako kanina.

dadagdagan ko pa nga sana ang mga pangalan, kaso wala na akong kakilala eh, hindi ko rin alam ang tunay na pangalan nung iba kong kakilala.

makapaghanap nga ng pwedeng benyu, sabik na din ako na basahin ito sa harap ng mga kababaihan.

salamat sa paabot na pagsusuri kanina. di ko nakita yun eh.

tagni!

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ok lang basta ikaw. alam kong isa ka sa mga magagaling magsulat dito, lalo na't makabuluhan ang marami sa mga akda mo. kaya gusto ko lang ring makatulong sa mas mahusay na pagpapalaganap ng mapagpalayang kaisipan dito.

...sala-salamat.

pero hindi nman ako magaling magsulat.

nag-aaral pa lang.

hanggang sa muli!

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A Collection of Short Stories-Jonsdmur

ang galing mo talaga... sana maging makata rin ako.....

jonsd

jonds,

lahat naman tayo ay mga makata, kailangan nga lang na isulat.

isulat mo...sulat lang.

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ikaw naman, ayaw mo pang aminin. totoo naman. isa ka sa mga pinakamagaling tumula dito, hindi lang dahil sa magagandang salita kundi lalo pa sa nilalaman.

...ito si Diwa, ankulit!

di ako mahusay tumula noh. :-)

tagni!

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Abante Babae, Palaban, Militante!

sa paglaho ng uri!

...

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gie ann,

opo naman, hindi naman po lahat ng kalalakihan eh, nakakahon na ang pag-iisip sa kung ano ang nais ng simbahan at ng lipunan.

maligayang pandaigdigang araw ng kababaihan!

hanggang sa muli!

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Sunday, 08 March 2009
Rebelyn: rebel leader's daughter dead at 20
Carolyn O. Arguillas / MindaNews
Friday, 06 March 2009 17:27

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 March) – She would have celebrated her 21st birthday on March 20 but teacher Rebelyn Maasin Pitao now lies inside a white casket at the Palermo chapel, Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes here, her long-sleeved white lace blouse and yellow skirt hiding the torture marks and stab wounds from an ice pick, but not enough to hide markings on her left wrist.

The “evil, vicious men from the military intelligence group,” her mother Evangeline says, “abducted, tortured, raped and stabbed to death” Ivy, Rebelyn’s nickname.
“Two stab wounds here, above the breast, one of which hit the lung; two under the breast, one of which hit the liver, another one here… five stab wounds from an ice pick.. markings from a three-centimeter rope around her neck… eyes blindfolded using a packing tape, apparently hit by a blunt object,” Evangeline says in Cebuano, describing how “grabe ka-brutal” (very brutal) the “evil, vicious men from the military intelligence group” were to her daughter.

“Gilamigas na mam gud daw na sya,” her body was infested with ants when found, her elder sister Rio, a nurse, explains to friends asking what happened to Rebelyn’s left wrist.

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Evangeline Maasin Pitao, Rebelyn's mother. MindaNews photo courtesy of Rene B. Lumawag, Pixels & Cutlines

Evangeline says her daughter violated no law, harmed no one and was “prayerful.” She taught elementary students – Grade 2 and Grade 6 -- as a substitute teacher at the St. Peter’s College in Toril and her mother says she was due to be a regular teacher, soon.

Her only “crime,” if at all that is a crime, is having been a daughter of Leoncio Pitao alias Parago, an elusive commander of the New People’s Army (NPA) who has put to shame many a promising military official in the last two decades.

Evangeline blames her daughter’s abduction Wednesday night and her having been found dead the next day on the “evil, vicious, military intelligence group, 100 per cent.”

In response to Evangeline’s accusation, Major Randolph Cabangbang, spokesperson of the Eastern Mindanao Command told MindaNews, “we are cooperating with the Philippine National Police in their investigation. We are also having our own investigation.”

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines in a statement signed by NDFP peace panel chair Luis Jalandoni held President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita “responsible for this dastardly violation of Rebelyn Pitao's right to life.”

“It is likewise a blatant violation of the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law,” he said, adding that Arroyo’s and Ermita’s “frustrated satanic desire to defeat the New People's Army and in particular kill or capture NPA Commander Parago, nom de guerre of Leoncio Pitao, has led them to commit grave violations of international humanitarian law and the CARHRIHL. In June of last year, the brother of Commander Parago, Danilo, was abducted and killed in Tagum City.”

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Grandma weeps. MindaNews photo courtesy of Rene B. Lumawag/Pixels & Cutlines

Rio says she, Rebelyn and their brothers -- Ryan, the eldest; Reynante, after Ivy and the youngest, Redford -- have had to live with military surveillance since their father was arrested in the late 1990s. But between the girls, it was Rebelyn who had a routine of home to school, school to home. Evangeline says Rebelyn would leave the house at 6:30 in the morning and be home by 6:30 p.m. or by 7. Rio’s eight-hour shift schedule at a government hospital downtown was erratic it made surveillance by anyone, problematic.

Rebelyn’s routine or pattern was easy to follow. From school, she would go to the tricycle terminal along the highway for the six-peso ride home to Bago Galera. That was the same routine she followed on Wednesday night.

Evangeline narrates that based on the account of motorcycle driver Danny Pelicano, Rebelyn, boarded his tricycle first. Over the years, drivers and passengers on this route have become familiar with each other.

Pelicano said a man who was not a regular passenger, entered and sat in front of Rebelyn. Another man entered and sat beside the driver. A female passenger also boarded the vehicle. They were still waiting for one more passenger when one of the men said he’d pay for the vacant seat.

Some 300 meters from the highway, along a dark, deserted portion of the road, somebody from a parked white van flagged the tricycle and together with the two male passengers who rode with them from the highway, forcibly dragged Rebelyn into the van, Pelicano reported.

The female passenger managed to run. Pelicano said he was warned he would be killed if he ran. As he was running, he said, he heard Rebelyn scream for help.

Pelicano reported the abduction to the nearest police station before informing Rebelyn’s family.

Rebelyn was found dumped late Thursday afternoon in an irrigation canal somewhere in San Isidro, Upper Tuganay, Carmen, Davao del Norte and was brought to the Villa Funeral parlor in Panabo City.

Rio recalls her mother received a text message from a reporter about a corpse at the funeral parlor. Evangeline says that when the body was described, she immediately knew it was her daughter. They rushed to the funeral parlor in Panabo City, some 30 kilometers away and saw her in the morgue late Thursday night. The body was brought to Davao City.

An autopsy has been conducted but as of 2 p.m. Thursday, the result had not been made available. A cartographic sketch of one of the male passengers has been released, based on the tricycle driver’s description.

“If they are angry because they can’t get my husband, they should go up the mountains and look for my husband there.”

Evangeline says her husband has communicated with her by mobile phone and his first question was if it was Rebelyn at the Villa Funeral Parlor.

Before she lost a daughter, she had almost lost her eldest son to “evil, vicious men of the military intelligence group.”

“Natulak pabukid” (Pushed to go up the mountains) was how Evangeline describes what happened to Ryan, a graduate of automotive school and a “habal-habal” (commercial) motorcycle driver.

Harassed by suspected military intelligence agents about two years ago, Ryan felt it was safer up in the mountains with his father. He has since joined the revolutionary movement that his father had long embrace, his mother acknowledges.

“Way magrebelde kung walay magdaug-daug,” (There will be no rebels if there are no tyrants), Evangeline said, adding if killing of innocent civilians goes on, “dili maundang ang rebolusyon,”(there will be no end to revolution). (Carolyn O. Arguillas/MindaNews)