By Gerry Albert Corpuz Bulatlat.com Can a foreigner be barred for entering the Philippines because of his or her previous participation in a protest action here? The answer is yes, going by the experience of a Bangladeshi peasant leader who was deported last March 30 even if his travel papers were in order. Three international…
Day: April 8, 2006
Hooded ‘Witness’ a Military Asset, Says Rights Group
BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat.com When Jaime Fuentes, a witness of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in the rebellion charges against six representatives and six other officials of progressive party-lists, removed his disguise, he was immediately recognized by volunteers of Karapatan-ST (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights-Southern Tagalog) as a military asset who harassed them…
Victims of the Killer Landslide
By Johann Hein B. Arpon Bulatlat.com A farming village in the Visayas disappeared from the map on February 17 due to a killer landslide. The tragedy left a long trail death and destruction. The ordeal that the residents there went through cannot be effectively put into words, hence the need for photographs to literally show…
To Rebel Is Justified
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Many a young officer learns soon enough the yawning gap between the ideals that he learned in the military or police academy – courage, integrity, loyalty and the reality of military and police establishments that have succumbed to the rot of corruption, dishonesty, favoritism and organized criminal…
Job Fairs: Not for the Choosy
BY ZOFI LEAL Bulatlat.com Job fairs supposedly offer job seekers with an opportunity to explore companies and jobs that suit their qualifications, in terms of education, training, and experience, in order to harness their potentials. But choices in terms of types of jobs being offered are limited, a reflection of the limited employment opportunities being…
Call Center Jobs: Hope for the Unemployed?
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Trade Secretary Peter Favila said that the Philippines is not lacking in work.Unemployed Filipinos are just choosy. He cited applicants in call centers who supposedly back out after learning that they would have to start from graveyard shifts. But many call center agents are actually graduates of courses like engineering,…
Odd Jobs under the Arroyo administration
BY MARYA G. SALAMAT Bulatlat.com While the unemployed have very limited options under the employment generation plan of the Macapagal-Arroyo administration, employed workers are being battered by labor contractualization and other flexible work arrangements. The Macapagal-Arroyo administration boasts that it is handling the economy well claiming a 6.1 percent growth in the Gross Domestic Product…
People’s Governance, Not Arroyo’s Charter Change
By Antonio Tujan Jr. Ibon Features Posted by Bulatlat.com The current people’s initiative for charter change is itself a mockery of genuine people’s governance because it reportedly involves bribing voters and local government officials—a classic example of graft and corruption. The shift to a parliamentary system under the proposed charter change (Cha-cha) would “significantly reduce”…
Clueless on Cha-cha People’s Initiative
Clueless on Cha-cha People’s Initiative Signatures exchanged for sardines, P20, Philhealth cards By BULATLAT TEAM Bulatlat provincial correspondents interviewed barangay (village) officials and residents who were clueless about issues related to changing the 1987 Constitution. Local officials, however, implemented the people’s initiative for charter change, fearful also that they may lose their jobs if they…
Petition to Junk Charter Change, Arroyo Revived
By Emily Vital Bulatlat.com Members of organizations under the People’s Movement Against Arroyo’s Charter Change (People’s March) and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) have revived a signature drive opposing charter change and calling for Arroyo’s immediate resignation. Call it hitting two birds with one stone. Members of organizations under the People’s Movement…
Filipinos in U.S. Denounce Anti-immigrant Bill
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Immigrants in the United States are said to be the targets of a new bill in the U.S. Congress which essentially criminalizes undocumented persons and penalizes those who will take care of them. Given that there are four million Filipinos in the U.S. and about 60,000 Filipinos go to the…