By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Progressive lawmakers have put their foot down against six taxes on tobacco. Lawmakers from Anakpawis and Bayan Muna said the sin tax bill Congress approved on third reading last June 6, 2012 will not benefit local...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Child labor arises in the Philippines because of the government’s failure in generating decent jobs. – KMU
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas warned that the Philippines risks going through a rice crisis as the Benigno Aquino III administration is set to open the floodgates to bigger amounts of rice imports. June 30...
In the Philippines, there is still no successful prosecution of security forces for killings, ‘disappearances,’ despite Aquino's campaign and inauguration promises for accountability.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The Department of Agrarian Reform has interviewed 8,400 farmworkers when the tentative list of beneficiaries includes only 6,296 farmers who signed the stock distribution option in 1989.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“When we were in the barangay hall, we were told by the barangay ex-o to undress to see if we have tattoos. When we were already undressed he electrocuted us.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“It clearly shows the brazenness of the military. They were ready to do anything to sabotage our caravan.” – Save Bondoc Peninsula Movement
By MARYA SALAMAT
The Philippines is still a debtor nation, and as Ibon Foundation said, this ‘lending’ to the IMF used to be a sensibly un-hyped part of “management of any country’s international reserves.”
Stories from CCT communities give us a picture that is different from how government describes the positive impact of its anti-poverty program.
By CPA Northern Dispatch RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, 17 JUNE 2012 – The call, “Defend our inherent right to self-determination!” was resounded by 500 indigenous leaders, representatives, and advocates from different countries participating in the World Indigenous...
by ALEXANDER COCKBURN CounterPunch The predictable word is in from Rio: failure. The conference twenty years on from the huge Earth Summit, Rio 92, has been unable to produce even the pretense of an energetic verbal commitment of the world’s community to...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The silence of the Aquino administration is deafening. We believe that influential individuals in government and in the military are coddling Palparan.” – Karapatan
By ISABELLE DE GRAVE, Inter Press Service Truthout United Nations -- U.S. counterterrorism measures are under intense scrutiny from United Nations (U.N.) experts and civil rights groups declaring drone strikes illegal under current frameworks. During the 20th...
By MARYA SALAMAT
“This new mining policy is only more of the same deceptive, destructive, wanton and plunderous mining industry that we now have.” – Katribu partylist
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“I call on Aquino to stand up for us and to put a stop to the demolition. Even if we are poor, we are also humans.” – Eunila Borito, resident of Isla Puting Bato
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Cesar Garganta, 28, merely wanted to earn extra income for the enrolment of his two children. Instead of money, what Garganta got was pain and trauma. On May 28, Garganta and his two friends went to work on a farm in Vista...
Peace mission to record abuses in South Quezon (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / Bulatlat.com)
Ni ROLAND B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Ang magkakumpensyang fashion brands ay gumagamit ng kalakhan ay pambalang lalakeng foreign endorsers para higit na magkaroon ng lamang sa kapwa, at para mapatupad ang pangarap na maging isang global brand. Sa corner ng Penshoppe,...
The proposed ‘Road to Rio’ still looks at nature, people and their products as capital that must be used in the most efficient manner for profit accumulation By ROSARIO BELLA GUZMAN IBON Features / Bulatlat.com IBON Features — Hundreds of heads of states are...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) called on the newly-installed president of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines to heed the demand of at least 180 striking contractual janitors for reinstatement. PUP president...
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