Video: Satur — A Tribute
Video: Satur -- A Tribute
Bulatlat Staff | Jun 19, 2009
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In Triumph’s Underwear Shops in the Philippines, a Fear of Massive Job Layoffs
In Triumph’s Underwear Shops in the Philippines, a Fear of Massive Job Layoffs
Triumph, one of the world’s largest underwear makers, has been re-exporting its raw materials from the Philippines to other countries where labor cost is lower. Its workers are understandably worried. Worse, they have reason to believe that the company may end up becoming a runaway shop.
Slideshow: Triumph Workers Cry Repression
Slideshow: Triumph Workers Cry Repression
Workers at Triumph Cry Repression
‘Improved’ Employment Driven by Survival Instincts, Not Arroyo’s Programs
‘Improved’ Employment Driven by Survival Instincts, Not Arroyo’s Programs
Aside from statistically concealing millions of jobless workers through the use of a flawed methodology, the Arroyo regime makes the deception worse by claiming that the job situation, because of government policies and programs, has improved despite the global crisis.
Impressions on Zambales’s Vanishing Culture
Impressions on Zambales’s Vanishing Culture
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat BOTOLAN, the Philippines -- What I saw when I went to the Loob Bunga Resettlement Area in Botolan, Zambales, sometime last month was different from what I had expected to see. I had gone to Loob Bunga as one of the speakers...
CHR to Military: Explain Continued Use of ‘Orders of Battle’
CHR to Military: Explain Continued Use of ‘Orders of Battle’
In forum, CHR officials and journalists from the NUJP bewail the use by the military of OBs. CHR chairperson Leila de Lima says the AFP claimed to have stopped using OBs but replaced these with “watch lists” – and military officials could not explain to her the difference.
Gunmen Attack Media Offices in Abra
Gunmen Attack Media Offices in Abra
MANILA -- Unidentified gunmen fired several shots at three media offices in Bangued, Abra province, last night, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) reported Thursday. At around 9 p.m. Wednesday night, two men in separate motorcycles fired at...
Falling Remittances Foretell Gloomier Consumption, Growth
Falling Remittances Foretell Gloomier Consumption, Growth
Remittance from overseas Filipinos continued to slow in with year-on-year growth of just 2.2% in April which is down from 3.1% in March and 4.9% in February, according to newly-released data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). According to research group...
Cagayan de Oro Groups Vow Sustained Mass Actions Against Cha-cha
Cagayan de Oro Groups Vow Sustained Mass Actions Against Cha-cha
By MACARIO PACANA Bulatlat CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – Welcoming three new convenors to their cause, the People’s Movement Against Charter Change (People’s March) has vowed sustained mass actions and protests against constitutional amendments. The broad...
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | “Con-Ass” and the People’s Wrath
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | “Con-Ass” and the People’s Wrath
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat The anti-Charter change (Chacha) and anti-Arroyo forces had barely a week to mount the muscle-flexing protest action yesterday in Ayala Avenue, Makati City and in major urban centers...
After SC ruling dismissing Lozano, Biraogo petitions, Arroyo and allies to force situation, solon warns
After SC ruling dismissing Lozano, Biraogo petitions, Arroyo and allies to force situation, solon warns
After the Supreme Court’s ruling junking the petitions seeking to nullify House Resolution (HR) 1109 calling for a constituent assembly (Con-ass) to amend the charter even without the Senate, a militant lawmaker called on the people to remain vigilant saying “this...
Senate Urged to Probe Lorico Murder
Senate Urged to Probe Lorico Murder
By EDMUND B. SESTOSO Bulatlat DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines -- The progressive Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas in Central Visayas has urged the Philippine Senate to conduct an investigation into the murder of Negros Oriental peasant leader Fermin Lorico. Earlier,...
Why CARPER Is Worse Than CARP
Why CARPER Is Worse Than CARP
Among other provisions, the CARPER bill mandates that private agricultural lands – the type that the Arroyos and the Cojuangcos own – can only be distributed if the original CARP managed to distribute 90 percent of its target. But CARP, despite the two decades it had, only distributed less than half of it. It’s an impossible provision that only underscores what progressive farmers have been saying all along – that CARPER is bogus.
Taong Kabayo
Taong Kabayo
Taong Kabayo. In a land of cheap, docile and surplus labor, humans take on the work of animals or machines.
(Photo by Raymund Villanueva)
Stopping Cha-Cha
Stopping Cha-Cha
Stopping Cha-Cha, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo seems determined to ram the charter change train through despite all opposition, but she will likely change her position when the number of protesters rises to a certain point. (By Flon Faurillo)
Dismantling of IALAG, Arroyo’s Shadowy Agency, ‘Just for Show’
Dismantling of IALAG, Arroyo’s Shadowy Agency, ‘Just for Show’
Unless the Arroyo regime released all the individuals it has thrown to jail for politically motivated and fabricated charges, the abolition last month of the agency behind these cases will amount to nothing but a publicity stunt, according to lawyers and human-rights advocates.
Hot Air Versus Hard Facts: The Latest Torture Cover-Up Scam
Hot Air Versus Hard Facts: The Latest Torture Cover-Up Scam
By JAMES BOVARD Counterpunch International Posted by Bulatlat The Obama administration appears increasingly devoted to covering up the worst crimes of the Bush era. CIA chief Leon Panetta formally objected to federal judge Alvin Hellerstein who was considering...
US-Peru FTA Sparks Indigenous Massacre
US-Peru FTA Sparks Indigenous Massacre
By TOM LOUDON Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat During the last week, deep in the Peruvian Amazon, confrontations between nonviolent indigenous protesters and police have left up to 100 people dead. The vast majority of the casualties are civilians, who...
A Wake-Up Call on Water Use
A Wake-Up Call on Water Use
By GLORIA GOODALE Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat A long-running resource issue finally trickles down to more consumers. Move over carbon, the next shoe to drop in the popular awareness of eco-issues is the "water footprint." That's the word in...
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