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“Ninety-nine percent of the guidelines during strikes expressly provide what the workers are prohibited to do. There is no corresponding magnitude of responsibility that refers to how the management should behave when a strike is declared.”
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The brutal murder of Jeffery “Jennifer” Laude should jolt us all. The murder showed three fatal flaws in society’s culture nowadays. First is the hate culture directed against those who do not conform to the “norms”. The...
“Judging from the statements issued so far by DFA officials, it seems that President Aquino’s emerging position is to kowtow to US interests by invoking legal niceties in the Visiting Forces Agreement. Instead of fighting for our country’s sovereignty and safeguarding the rights of the Philippines and the victim Jennifer, the DFA is lawyering for the US.” – Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Emmi de Jesus
(Para kay Jeffrey Laude ng Olongapo) ni RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA Bulatlat.com Apatnapu’t limang minutong tumagal ang kamatayan Mula ‘Ambyanz’ hanggang ‘Celzon’—mga binantong pangalan Tulad ng pagpapakilala sa marikit na si Jennifer Lalaki, babae, bakla, binabae,...
Five years after the Magna Carta for Women was enacted, much is still wanting in its implementation because of its gaps.
“The fight for justice for Ms. Laude has just begun, but the Aquino government is already backing out. It is clear that the Filipino people have nothing to expect from this administration but continued subservience to Washington’s orders.” -- Kabataan Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon
“With more than a million passengers riding all three lines a day, the MRT and LRT generate more than enough income for their operations and maintenance. That’s the reason why big businesses are drooling over and trying to buy them.”
“No circumstance or reason can justify such deplorable act on a house of worship leading to the death and injury of worshipers.”
The Cojuangco-Aquino-owned firm in Hacienda Luisita has been putting up concrete barriers around farm lots, assaulting and illegally arresting farmers. But 56 years after the Cojuangcos laid claim on the estate, the farmers are not about to give up the fight for their right to the land.
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld His numbers may be falling and those of one of his putative opponents rising, but Jejomar Binay is at this point still the leading candidate for the Presidency in 2016. Binay still topped the list of preferred...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The AFP-PNP counterinsurgency forces have done it again: they arrested two elderly persons in Mexico, Pampanga whom they mistook for “top leaders” of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army....
Whenever allowances were delayed or the reality of scarce resources hit them, Edita Burgos said one of the staff would shout, “Para sa Bayan!” (For the Motherland!) and all of them would continue working.
Pledging to continue the progressive tradition of alternative journalism, media groups banded together to better serve as “voices of the people.”
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“The public must be made aware that the worst atrocities are being committed by no less than the Presidential family against hapless farmers despite – or as cruel retribution for – the Supreme Court ruling for total land distribution in Hacienda Luisita.” – Jobert Pahilga, counsel for the Luisita farmers and executive director of the Sentro para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo (Sentra)
MANILA – Teachers once again stormed Gate 7 of Malacañang Palace on Monday, Oct. 6 to show their rage over President Benigno S. Aquino III’s callousness on their demand for a salary increase. Despite repeated calls by the Alliance of Concerned Teachers for a salary...
The word “Endo,” short for “end of contract,” was declared in “Sawikaan 2014: Pagpili ng Salita ng Taon” as word of the year. This word leaves a bitter taste in the mouth of Filipino workers whose various groups united to protest the incidences of “Endo” on Oct. 7, world day for decent work.
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