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BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted Feb. 7, 2007, 3:36 p.m. Security at the Senate grounds has tightened as the controversial Anti-Terrorism Bill is set to go through final reading. As of this writing, police at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CPP) grounds...
We hope that our testimony in honor of Popoy can help to define the legacy that he has bequeathed to his people. He had a tender soul and was troubled by the unkind world that he lived in but he sought to understand it and welcomed the revolutionary efforts to...
Heroes are known not by how they died, but by how they lived in the service of the people to the very end. Dr. Aloysius "Ochie" Baes, 58, former Rapu-Rapu Fact-Finding Commissioner and environmentalist, consistently embodied this principle until he died. By Lisa C....
Alter Trade Corporation began as an alternative enterprise promoting the principles of fair trade. However, it is now accused of having further impoverished the lives of farm workers. BY KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat BACOLOD CITY –Alter Trade Corporation (ATC) general...
Affected residents in Itogon and Benguet local officials have criticized the Land Management Services of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (LMS-DENR)-Cordillera for approving the survey plan of a housing cooperative involving some officials and...
In a counter-affidavit, Army Captain Joel Castro, tagged by no less than the Ilocos Sur police as the gunman in the killing of Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) staff member Jose Manegdeg in San Esteban town, Ilocos Sur on Nov. 28, 2005 denied having a...
The pen is indeed mightier than the sword. And the 130 pens of student journalists from the National Capital Region (NCR) chapter of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) proved to be mightier than the repression of campus press. BY REYNA MAE TABBADA...
They did not die in vain. The families and co-workers of the Hacienda Luisita martyrs said that in spite of the tragedy, they are slowly benefiting from what their kin and comrades gave their lives for.
The most recent armed clashes between members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have temporarily stopped, but residents of Midsayap, North Cotabato still refuse to return to their homes despite their squalid...
If there is any local politician who has managed to court controversy for the alleged presence of vigilante groups in his turf other than Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, it is Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña. He admits there are such groups in his area of...
The P294-million remaining budget of the Department of Health (DoH) for the last quarter of 2006 will be of great use, but unfortunately not to the health department and its services. Despite the intractable logistical matters and the great need for resources that...
Calling the new guidelines of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration as a “sugar-coated extortion scheme,” OFWs in Hongkong and Migrante International, the local organization of OFWs, are planning more protest actions and bigger mobilizations. BY AUBREY...
It is important to point out that while the Melo Commission report is kept under wraps, with only alleged parts of it revealed piecemeal, as suits the purposes of Malacañang, there can not be any meaningful nor even worthwhile response to it except that of...
The directives issued by President Arroyo, in response to the report of the Melo Commission, were not meant to get to the bottom of the killings but to continue with the cover-up. Only the recommendation to seek the involvement of foreign investigators is worth...
A National Internal Security Program (NISP) briefing paper dated May 5, 2006, a copy of which was obtained by Bulatlat from reliable sources, bared a systematic campaign by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) directed against partylist groups tagged by the...
Contractualization is a scheme that allows capitalists to replace their workforce with ease according to market demands. For the management, this translates to maximization of profits but for the laborers, this system denies them the security and benefits of a...
Based on the data periodically provided by our web counters, the greater bulk of visits to Bulatlat are from countries or areas with high concentrations of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and overseas Filipinos (OFs): the U.S., Canada, Hong Kong, South Korea, and...
Journalists agree that media workers need real unions that go beyond being lateral guilds – without discounting, however, the help that the latter can extend to media people. BY KARL G. OMBION AND RYAN LACHICA Bulatlat BACOLOD CITY - Danilo Alcoriza, a columnist...
Media workers in Negros see the gains they could reap from organizing their ranks. However, they are weighed down by a number of constraints. BY KARL G. OMBION AND RYAN LACHICA Bulatlat BACOLOD CITY – Forming a union here is like flying to the moon – arduous but...
PHOTOS BY AUBREY MAKILAN Posted Feb. 13, 2007, 12:46 p.m. At the start of the campaign for the May 14 elections, progressive partylist groups vying for seats in the House of Representatives have started doing the rounds to make known their platforms and programs....
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