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By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com Overseas Absentee Voting was implemented in 2004 so that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) could exercise their right to vote. But since then, Migrante International has been criticizing the government's insincerity in...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com Their advocacy has often placed them in conflict with government officials. However, they do this not to spite the government but to remind it of its job of protecting the rights and welfare of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)....
By Bulatlat The 10th Infantry Division-Eastern Mindanao Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines “is actively opposing and closing the door” to the possibility of an early, safe and orderly release of the New People’s Army (NPA) prisoner of war (POW) Cpl....
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com In the approaching shopping season for Christmas, Triumph underwear as gifts for one's self or for loved ones may no longer be a generous idea anymore. It would be tantamount to blessing the global giant's cruel treatment of its...
By MAO HERMITANIO Contributed to Bulatlat.com Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng may have left the country last month but the need for relief and rehabilitation efforts have not subsided especially in Central Luzon provinces devastated by the surging flood. Volunteers of...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com Senator Chiz Escudero created quite a stir when he bolted from the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) at a time when he was almost certain to bag the party’s nomination. But there are rumors that one of the reasons behind...
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Kulturang Popular Kultura Bulatlat.com Ang “ako mismo” ay isang ad campaign na sinasaad na sa sarili magsisimula ang pagbabago. Dili walang iba kundi ako ang susi sa transformasyong panlipunan. Hindi aksidente na ang kampanya ay nakatuon sa...
By MARIFE MAGBANUA
Students and the teachers of an alternative boarding school for Lumads in Surigao del Sur pick up the pieces after being displaced by militarization for 40 days.
What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness -- Bush's NSA program -- is now deemed a vital state secret. by Glenn Greenwald Posted By Bulatlat.com The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the "state...
By DILIP HIRO commondreams.org International Posted by Bulatlat.com While the tone of the Obama administration is different from that of its predecessor, and some of its foreign policies diverge from those of George W. Bush, at their core both administrations...
By HENRY A. GIROUX Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com This article is drawn from Henry A. Giroux's forthcoming book, "Hearts of Darkness: Torturing Children in the War on Terror" (Paradigm Publishers, 2010). For the last decade, we have lived through a...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Metro Manila drivers’ associations welcomed the freeze or control in oil prices mandated by Executive Order 839. “It gives people immediate relief,” said Piston's Steve Ranjo. And relief is exactly what the Filipino people have been needing for who knows how long.
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Twenty-five years after Gabriela was established, the same issues continue to hound and unite women, Liza Maza, Gabriela Women’s party-list Representative, said at the opening of Gabriela’s 25th anniversary cultural program. “From...
By RONALYN OLEA
The United States Congress has withheld the US$2-million military aid to the Philippines in 2010 due to human rights concerns.
Because of Surging Oil Prices Davao City --- Less than 50 days before Christmas and yet, due to rising prices of oil products and rice in Mindanao, the poor would have a sad Christmas, Anakpawis partylist said. “The dismal state of the poor in Davao and in the...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com MANILA -- When President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued Executive Order No. 839 on October 23 ordering oil companies to roll back pump prices in areas affected by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng to October 15 levels, the Big Three...
A boy walks on top of the tombs at Wireless Public Cemetery in Davao City. Thousands are expected to visit their loved ones tomorrow, All Souls' Day. (Photos by Keith Bacongco / AKP Images...
By JHONG DELA CRUZ
Filipino nurses have the longest record of migrating, as well as the longest history of abuse. This abuse is a result of aggressive, profit-driven, exploitative policies of both their point-of-origin and destination countries. One of these is Canada, one of the most popular destinations now for Filipino nurses.
Sidebar: Filipino Nurses in Canada -- In Search of a Better Life (An Interview with Evelyn Calugay)
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