What the US and the Philippine government have connived to teach you is imperialism’s most insidious lesson: that whatever you do is an exercise in futility, because you are a citizen of a client state, because your country is a claptrap Third World country without power, because your government is a failed government, because your…
Year: 2007
On the killing of Bayan Muna leader in Bicol:
The deputy minority leader at the lower House last week linked the recent killing of Rodolfo “Pong” Alvarado – leader of Bayan Muna (BM or People First) – in Ligao City, Albay to the government’s thrust to prevent the party-list group from winning seats in this year’s elections. “If they can’t have our party disqualified,…
Negros Health Workers Decry Hospital Mismanagement
It is bad enough that a public hospital in Negros has become profit oriented, much to the consternation of its poor patients. What proves to be worse is that its workers are deprived of legally mandated benefits despite the hospital’s income and congressional support. BY KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat BACOLOD CITY – Workers at the…
Awit
para sa pamilya Nadera May mga awit na dumadaan at umaalis. May mga awit na namamahay at nananatili. Lahat ng awit ay nag-uugat, sumasanga at kinakailangang maglaho. AKDA NI ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Ang awit, nilalamlam na parang bola ng makapuno na nilalaro sa bibig. Hindi kinakagat o nginunguya, hinahayaang matunaw ang tamis. Unti-unti dahil…
Bananas Stained with the Blood of Workers
Since two years ago when banana plantation and packing workers began forming unions and agitating for legally mandated minimum wage rates, soldiers from the 28th Infantry Battalion have also started harassing them in their barangays (villages). The harassments took a more violent turn with the shooting of union president Vicente Barrios and four other unionists…
Open-Pit Mining Destroyed Village in Zambales
It was as if a giant used a shovel to gouge the face of the mountain in Barangay Buhawen, San Marcelino, Zambales. Below the towering rocky façade, reddish-black liquid formed a pool of poison. This is the legacy of open pit mining 15 years ago. And now mining companies are about to come back with…