By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Somehow, we see justice for our martyrs who struggled hard for this day to come.” – Lito Bais, Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura
Luisita farm workers hold assembly, call for immediate land distribution
Month: November 2011
Aquino acting as spokesperson of Hacienda Luisita – Pamalakaya
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“The value of the hundreds of thousands of tons of Luisita sugar comes from the labor of the farmers and the mill workers. Without them, the Hacienda would have remained a vacant lot.The farmers have already paid for their lands many times over.” – Anakbayan
Cotton candy at amorphous na gitnang uring buhay
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Sa workshop ng Malate literary journal, ang makatang si Allan Popa ang matulaing nagsalin ng cotton candy (paksa ng tulang wino-workshop) bilang “minatamis na hangin.” Mayroon itong dalawang lebel ng pagpapakahulugan: ang ordinaryong hangin bilang pahimagas, at ang extraordinaryong aksyon na patamisin ang hangin. Iniisip kong patungkol ang imahen ng…
Demolisyon
Video: Demolisyon
Morong 43 pushes court to act on their case against Arroyo
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Health workers who sued former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for human rights violations are dismayed at what they described as the slow pace of the local court handling the case. Six of the Morong 43, or the 43 health workers arrested on February 6, 2010 and detained for ten…
Kin of slain N.Luzon journalists urge Aquino to act on media killings
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Relatives of journalists killed in the Ilocos and Cordillera regions supported the call for President Benigno S. Aquino III’s administration to work faster towards the achievement of justice especially for the victims of the Ampatuan massacre. The massacre on November 23, 2009 claimed the lives of…
Salungguhit: Special treatment
Who says everybody is equal under the law? While the poor die of diseases in cramped , unsanitary jails, former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo wallows in the luxurious St. Luke’s Hospital. By Flon Faurillo (Bulatlat.com)
40 days after, still no one arrested for killing of Italian priest
40 days after, still no one arrested for killing of Italian priest
(Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea)
Farmers slam Aquino’s call for ‘just compensation’ for Hacienda Luisita land
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The Cojuangcos have long benefited from their illegal and immoral stranglehold of Hacienda Luisita and the farmworkers’ have long paid for the land.”– Randall Echanis, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
No to special treatment for Arroyo – Makabayan
By INA ALLECOR. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Members of the Makabayan bloc of progressive party-list groups in the House of Representatives are circulating a draft resolution against special treatment for ex-president and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Arroyo has been charged with electoral sabotage and the police and judicial authorities are currently in a quandary as…
Flight from justice
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The overriding and unstated premise in the controversy over the “constitutional crisis” provoked by the Supreme Court order allowing former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former First Gentleman Miguel Arroyo to travel abroad and the Justice Secretary’s insistence on barring them from leaving on the basis of a departmental “watch…