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Ni TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat Pumatak ang luha ng libo-libong kasama kasabay ng mga pagsigaw. Naghalo ang poot at hinagpis sa hapon ng sa iyo'y pagpaslang, Ka Fermin. Hindi umulan sa kamaynilaan habang libu-libo kaming tumungo sa protesta laban sa mga...
Steep increases in fines and penalties, imposed by the Arroyo regime to make up for its chronic revenue shortfalls, are hitting jeepney drivers particularly hard. As if that were not enough, buwayas (crododiles) masquerading as traffic enforcers in colorful uniforms lurk in the streets, waiting to pounce on them at every turn.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat MANILA -- Another Filipino journalist has been killed, the latest in a series of murders that prompted a media group to say that “impunity is alive and well in the Philippines.” Radio commentator Crispin Perez, 66, was shot dead on...
How strong is the political will of the Filipino people to act against the Arroyo government's self-serving designs? Who is more determined? By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat MANILA -- The Filipino people's vote against the convening of a constituent assembly...
Detained peasant leader Randall Echanis today said President Macapagal-Arroyo’s so-called order abolishing the dreaded Inter-Agency Legal Action Group (IALAG) is not enough and urging the President to drop all charges against its victims. Reports said that the...
Impunity is alive and well in the Philippines and has claimed the life of another journalist. On Tuesday, a lone assassin shot and stabbed dead radio commentator Crispin Perez of radio station dwDO outside his home in San Jose City, Occidental Mindoro province. He...
Audio: Fiery Words Against Charter Change
Outside Manila, the Same Indignation
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Silage Choppers & Snake Spirits By Dao-yuan Chou Edited by Juliet de Lima-Sison Published by IBON Foundation Inc. 466 pages MANILA -- The new book Silage Choppers & Snake Spirits by Dao-yuan Chou could not have burst upon the...
By BOBBY TUAZON Bulatlat Silage Choppers & Snake Spirits By Dao-yuan Chou Edited by Juliet de Lima-Sison Published by IBON Foundation Inc. 466 pages MANILA -- China used to be the center of world socialism. That record has been shattered by revisionists and enemies...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat MANILA -- The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is one of the most controversial projects of former president Ferdinand Marcos. The plant construction began in 1977 despite strong opposition from various sectors because of the risks...
Fermin Lorico was a peasant organizer and a mass leader. He had been a marked man. On Wednesday, minutes after attending the anti-charter change rally in Dumaguete City, a gunman shot him several times – the latest in a series of extrajudicial killings of progressive leaders in Negros Oriental.
MANILA -- A meeting of officials of party-list groups Anakpawis, Bayan Muna, Gabriela, and Kabataan was raided by suspected elements of the military in Cagayan Valley region at past midnight Thursday. Anakpawis reported that around 30 heavily armed men in...
'Stop Cha-cha! Enough of Gloria!'
By RONALYN V. OLEA, JANESS ANN J. ELLAO, MAO HERMITANIO and GLAIZA MAY MUZONES Bulatlat MANILA – On the eve of the anti-charter change rally on Wednesday, text messages were circulating warning people from joining the rally to avoid being infected with the A(H1N1)...
Related Story: Threat of Flu No Match to Protesters' Outrage
More than a show of force, the protests across the Philippines on Wednesday were an expression of outrage, a manifestation of a people’s growing revulsion toward a regime that has become the most despised since the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
The newly-formed Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan (Makabayan) today aired the possibility of a People Power-backed, minority-led mutiny in Congress if the House leadership insists on convening Congress into a constituent assembly under House Resolution 1109....
Hours before the “Stop Gloria’s Con-Ass” Rally, environmentalists, scientists and indigenous peoples organizations will position themselves in front of Ninoy Aquino Monument and make rounds in Ayala and Buendia Avenue. This is to urge office workers and...
Reporters Without Borders urges the authorities to react with the utmost firmness to today’s murder of Crispin Perez in his home in San Jose (in western Mindoro Occidental province). Perez was shot twice and stabbed twice by an unidentified assailant shortly after...
Several religious leaders have vowed to never abandon the Filipino people in their struggle to defeat the regime’s attempt to change the Constitution. Arroyo, they say, “has surpassed the brutality and evilness of martial law.”
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