By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Manila -- The proposal of Rep. Raymond Palatino of the Kabataan party-list group for the Department of Education to develop and include a subject on the life, works, and ideals of Gat Andres Bonifacio in the college curriculum is...
By Bulatlat.com MANILA – The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) took the occasion of the birthday of Andres Bonifacio on November 30, which is also National Heroes’ day, to call for the intensification of its people’s war. In anticipation of the celebration...
Ni ANDRES BONIFACIO Mga kasadores dito ay padala Sanhi raw ng gulo'y lilipulin nila Ngunit hindi laban yaong kinikita Kundi ang mang-umit ng manok at baka. Yaong mga bayang sa tahimik kanlong Sa mga Kastila'y siyang hinahayon, Ang bawat makita nilang malalamon...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO and RONALYN V. OLEA
Do mining companies really bring about development? Do they generate sufficient employment to uplift the people from poverty? Do they practice ‘responsible mining,’ as they claim to be doing, to protect the environment? These are the very same questions the International Fact-Finding and Environmental Mission did seek to answer as the team members visited and conducted dialogues in the northern and southern parts of Negros Occidental.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO and RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental – Mining companies operating in the southern and northern parts of Negros Occidental wield two weapons to be able to operate with impunity: deception and force. This is what the...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com HINOBAAN, Negros Occidental – For years, 64-year-old Gregorio Cordova and his family have relied on farming for survival. A tenant-farmer working on a 1.5-hectare of land near the Bacuyangan River, Cordova gets one-fourth share of...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com SIPALAY, Negros Occidental – Mining corporations and the Aquino government always say that mining contributes to the growth of the economy. Contrary to such claim, data from no less than the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE),...
'Stop killing women human rights defenders,’ groups tell Aquino (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / Bulatlat.com)
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com SAGAY CITY, Negros Occidental – As the fishing boat was nearing the site where Aspac Dredging and Restoration Inc. was believed to be operating, a group of men shooed the fact finding team away. One of them even ran at the edge...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com HINOBA-AN, Negros Occidental – Rahmat Ajiguna has often been mistaken for a Filipino and this Indonesian would just smile whenever someone approaches him and speak in the local language. Rahmat, deputy secretary general of the Asian...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – If there is a subject dedicated to national hero Jose Rizal in the collegiate curricula, why not have one on the life and contributions of Gat Andres Bonifacio? Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raymond Palatino called on...
By MARYA SALAMAT
“When Gil Galicia was released from the custody of the crime investigators of Camp Crame, Col. Kapunan talked to me and asked ‘Di pa ba pwedeng iligpit iyan?’ (Can he not be silenced?)” – state witness Medardo Dumlao Baretto
UP Manila students slam ‘no late payment’ memo (Photo courtesy of Anakbayan-UP Manila / Bulatlat.com)
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MALOLOS, Bulacan – For the third time, a key witness to the torture of University of the Philippines (UP) students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan, faced two of the accused and answered all the questions hurled at him by the...
By ROD TAJON and KYLE EDWARD FRANCISCO Northern Dispatch VIGAN CITY — Times Employees Union (TEU) scores yet another victory as the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) sequestered four buses of the Dominion Bus Lines after serving the Writ of Execution for a...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"As wars and development aggression ravage our world, rape as a tool of war and imperialist expansion is used as a tactic of submission against women who resist." – International Women's Alliance
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Capitalists’ profits have steadily increased over the years because wages have largely been frozen and contractual employment has been assiduously promoted.” – KPMM
Various media organizations, progressive groups and the academe commemorated the third anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre that claimed the lives of 58 individuals, of whom 32 are media workers. Photos by POM CAHILOG-VILLANUEVA, RONALYN V. OLEA, ANNE MARXZE D....
The dog might not have struck a "Downward Facing Dog" yoga pose as it enjoys the rising sun, but its shadow did resemble the Sphinx. (Digos City)
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