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By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point/Business World Posted by (Bulatlat.com) In much of the conflict-wracked areas of the world, it's the women who're keeping things together despite civil war, ethnic cleansing, terrorism, and the other ills failing and failed states...
By SAM FERGUSON Truthout/Perspective International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Buenos Aires, Argentina - On September 3, 2009, three aging, retired officials from Argentina's army entered a federal courthouse in Rosario, Argentina. The men - Pascual Guerrieri, Jorge...
By BENJAMIN DANGL Counterpunch International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Richard Gillman, the former CEO of Chicago’s Republic Windows and Doors factory where over 200 workers organized a victorious sit-in last year, has been sent to jail on eight charges including...
By HENRY GIROUX Truthout/Perspective International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) C. Wright Mills argued 50 years ago that one important measure of the demise of vibrant democracy and the corresponding impoverishment of political life can be found in the increasing...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
At around 6 a.m. today, three men were seen taking photos and asking information regarding Lumbera's house in a subdivision in Quezon City. Village guards approached and apprehended one of them.
Makabayan Coalition leaders and partylist solons Satur Ocampo, Liza Maza, Teddy Casiño, Rafael Mariano and Joel Maglunsod led some 60 rallyists in a peaceful protest on Tuesday at the US Embassy in Manila, calling for immediate pullout of all US troops, logistics...
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
The issuance of questionable safe-conduct passes is just one of the many complicated ways in which the Philippine government has been handling what were supposed to be preparations for the resumption of its formal talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. It underscores what the NDFP deems to be an utter lack of sincerity of the Arroyo regime to pursue the peace process.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Since 2001 when Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assumed the presidency, the trade union movement, like other peoples movement in the Philippines, has been experiencing violations of their rights as humans and as workers in a level never before seen in our country’s post-Martial Law politics, the Kilusang Mayo Uno said. The group welcomes the first International Labor Organization-High-Level Mission to the Philippines this month.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
A close ally of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the House of Representatives was accused of grabbing land from supposed beneficiaries of agrarian reform programs of the government.
By ZOFIA LEAL
Another mother has gone to a place she had never been to find her missing son. Wilma Rodriguez has just started her long journey. Nagtatapang-tapangan lang ako. Hindi talaga ako matapang. Pero kapag hindi ka lumaban, hindi rin titigil ang mga yan,” (I just try to be a fighter. I am not really a fighter. Because if you don’t fight, they would not stop.) she said.
By RITCHE T. SALGADO
For more than a decade now, Thelma Chiong has always made it a point to visit her daughters on their birthdays. This year, however, the visit was extraordinarily painful because a few days earlier, Mrs. Chiong had received word that one of her daughters’ rapists and murderers was going to be repatriated to Spain, a free man for all intents and purposes.
Statement on the Killing of Fr. Cecilio Lucero National Ecumenical Forum for Filipino Concerns in the USA We, of the National Ecumenical Forum for Filipino Concerns in the United States of America (NEFFCON), an alliance of Church-based individuals and groups in the...
By ARNOLD PADILLA
The latest incarnation of the text tax comes in the context of an administration under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to widen its revenue base. It was the IMF that first openly pushed the text tax idea in 2002 to address the government’s burgeoning budget deficit.
By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com Agoo, LA UNION -- Manong George has been a fisherman all his life. Fishing is not just his primary source of income but also his family’s source of food. Despite the natural dangers of fishing, fisherfolks also have to contend with the...
By ZOFIA LEAL Culture Bulatlat.com According to Vincent Tañada, lawyer, librettist and director of the stage musical “Ako si Ninoy”, the core message of the production is the “selfless giving of oneself for our countrymen and women for the advancement of our...
Ito ngayon ang highlight ng Quezon Memorial Circle (QMC), lalo na sa mga dumadaan sa kabilugang kalsada nito. Exakto ang bagsak nila, tila sampung metro ang layo sa isa’t isa, palibot sa kabuuan ng QMC. Para itong mga christmas tree dahil patay-sindi ang mga mumunti at maliliit na ilaw nito, pero dahil Agosto pa lamang ay nakahilera na, kay aga naman kung para sa Pasko ang mga ito. Ibang estetika ito, na ang artifisyal ay itinatampok sa natural na kapaligiran nito.
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