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BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat The women’s group GABRIELA this morning staged a rally at the Court of Appeals earlier today to demand that the guilty verdict on US Marine L/Cpl. Daniel Smith be affirmed. Members of the women’s group said the recent...
Activists vowed to continue their campaign for the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) despite Subic rape victim Nicole’s recantation of her earlier testimony accusing Lance Corporal Daniel Smith of rape. The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and the...
The Malayang Kilusan ng Bagong Kababaihan (MAKIBAKA), the mass organization of revolutionary women under the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), condemned the Arroyo regime and the Armed Forces of the Philippines for killing Rebelyn Pitao, daughter...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat "Nicole", the Subic rape victim, has left for the US and terminated the services of her lawyer Evalyn Ursua. Ursua herself announced this in a forum launching the Junk VFA Movement earlier today in Quezon City, where she spoke...
There may be more to the Balikatan military exercises which are set to be held in the Bicol Region this coming April than the much-vaunted “humanitarian missions”. The participation of an overwhelmingly large number of US troops indicates a high likelihood of combat operations during the exercises, said the spokesperson of a Bicol-based anti-Balikatan alliance.
Dr. Oliver “Doc Ogie” Gimenez is not an ordinary doctor. He is among the few community doctors who have chosen to stay in the country to serve the poor in remote areas. For his service, he was branded a communist and charged with fabricated cases of multiple...
Enchanted with the surreal, Camille de la Rosa now prepares to introduce the philosophy of the surreal movement in the Philippines through her new work. And she is hoping that everyone will welcome this development. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent Bulatlat...
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) raised the alarm over the recent surge in extrajudicial killings. It reported that in just four months, seven peasants were killed. BY RONALYN V. OLEA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat A...
Rebelyn was wearing her white school teacher’s uniform when she left home to go to work. “Ma, lakaw na ko (Ma, I have to go now),” she called out to her mother Evangeline. It was 6:30 a.m. – the last time Mrs. Pitao saw her 20-year old daughter. It was the last...
Let the Stones Cry Out: The Continuing Search for Justice Published by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) 188 pages Let the Stones Cry Out: The Continuing Search for Justice not only depicts the darkness engulfing the nation but also...
About 30 million Filipinos living below the poverty-line hound the urban scene of modern-day Philippines. In the heart of Tondo, Manila, one can easily be acquainted with the images of destitute lives of thousands of men, women and children struggling amid the ever worsening situation.
Fourteen years after the enactment of the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995 or RA 8042, the problems confronting OFWs remain the same and are even getting worse. Without urgent action from the government, at least 41 overseas Filipino workers in...
NATO, the main overseas arm of the U.S. military-industrial complex, just keeps expanding. Its original raison d’être, the supposedly menacing Soviet bloc, has been dead for twenty years. But like the military-industrial complex itself, NATO is kept alive and...
Bamboo is not just a material for fences, houses or pigpens. Its traditional uses have been stretched to include other non-conventional ones, from toothpicks to barbecue sticks. Now the bamboo is catching special attention. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch Posted...
Nilililok ng mga struktura ng tarps ang bagong edifice ng syudad. Purong imahen, statikong karangyaan at konsumerismo, at ang irony nito, manipis lamang ang imahen na ito. Walang nasa likod ng imahen ng urbanidad at kosmopolitanismo. Parang sine, intense ang...
NI ROMMEL PIPOY LINATOC* Inilathala ng Bulatlat Sa payak na liwanag, isinilang ang lahat Walang nilalang na namili kung saan siya isisiwalat Ang halaga ng hininga na sa iyo’y nagmulat Binasbasan ng pag-asa, pinatayog ng pangarap Upang malanghap, ang kaaya-ayang...
NI TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Inilathala ng Bulatlat Kay Rebelyn at sa ating lahat na isinilang sa gitna ng digma Pinaslang kang walang laban, Nilamog ang katawan mong walang lakas, Ikaw na ang tanging sala’y Naging anak ng digmaang Mula sa iyong libing Ay mag-aanak...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Pag-aagawan ng liwanag at dilim Na nagbabadya ng dapithapo’y Gumagayak ang aking pagtatanod. Sa atang na tungkuli’y mabubuhay ako’t mamamatay. Wala akong hiling na handog, papuri o papugay, Hindi ako tutugot hanggang sa...
Fear of firing is probably the single biggest reason why workers don't organize unions. According to a recent report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, "Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007," by John Schmitt and...
Bambi Santos was an activist, a full-time staff member of the national democratic alliance, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN). She was killed at the age of twenty-seven, in what military authorities said was an encounter. Witnesses contend however that there was a...
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