Workers call on people to emulate Andres Bonifacio
(Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea)
By MARYA SALAMAT
Who says lady justice is blindfolded and does not favor anyone? While Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo remains “detained” at the St. Luke’s Hospital, two Karnation workers died in jail and 18 were imprisoned for three years for conducted a strike.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Piston blamed the greed for profits by the oil companies and the greed for the Value-Added Tax (VAT) on oil by the Aquino government as the conjoined reasons why the Aquino administration and the energy department are colluding with the monopoly oil companies.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Given the worsening hunger and poverty in the Philippines and the already soaring prices of commodities, the 'triple threats' of new price hikes may well turn out to be the “straw that would break the camel’s back.” - Lana Linaban, Gabriela
Philippines is a military pawn, not an ally of imperialist US-- CPP
(Photos by Marya Salamat)
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Amid jeers that his government is engaged in “hardcore US puppetry,” President Benigno Aquino III sat at an extended bilateral meeting in Manila held by visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last Wednesday, after...
By MARYA SALAMAT
To continue with the campaign for justice, a "struggle against forgetting" is launched on the first death anniversary of the workaholic, generous scientist and the rest of Kananga 3.
Sidebar: Leonard Co remembered with tree-planting and re-launch of Common Medicinal Plants of Cordillera
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – There is freedom of expression according to the Philippine Constitution, but according to the marchers who protested the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the country, the Aquino government is “giving more...
By Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) may not be the ideal place to gather solutions to the country’s problems, says research group IBON Foundation. The group is reacting to Pres. Noynoy Aquino’s statement that he will listen to...
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Filipino workers are burdened by First-World electricity rates and prices and Third-World wages.” – KMU
Critics dare Aquino to turn 'Mine Safety Week' into reality
(Text and photos by Marya Salamat)
By MARYA SALAMAT
“With the celebration of Mine Safety Week, the mining industry portrays itself as a socially responsible industry, but in truth it is nothing but a self-serving, destructive and exploitative industry.” – Kakay Tolentino, Dumagat spokeswoman of Katribu Partylist.
MEDIA RELEASE Nov 5, 2011 MANILA -- Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) condemned today business groups’ statement of support for the Philippine Airlines management whose treatment of an ongoing labor dispute hasreportedly turned violent last week. "The employers'...
By MARYA SALAMAT
“In the end, this planned sale of Welfareville may just diminish the public mental health services into mere psychiatric desks in various hospitals, or the mental hospital may end up privatized.” - Rey Quinto, employee of National Center for Mental Health
Lung Center employees demand their rightful benefits Halloween trick-or-treat style
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By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – The agricultural towns of Isabela hit the headlines last month when typhoons Pedring and Quiel and the dams in Luzon combined to inundate and damage the province’s nearly ripe crops. But according to the farmers here, even...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Main Story: Create conditions for peace, not all-out war, Aquino told When it comes to addressing the conflict in Mindanao, nothing has really changed in Philippine government policy despite the change from one president and...
By MARYA SALAMAT
The GPH talks whether with the MILF or with the NDFP remain bogged down until today, mired as these are in the GPH’s efforts to “box it in its counter-insurgency program called Oplan Bayanihan.” – Satur Ocampo of Makabayan
Sidebar: A saga of all-out euphemisms vs peace, the Moro and the ordinary people
Ka Roger given tribute at NPA base areas, urban streets and schools
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By MARYA SALAMAT
After decades of what they described as “agrarian reform programs designed to fail,” Filipino peasants continue to suffer from landlessness and worsening poverty.
Sidebar: Lakbayan in Northern Mindanao Region a success – peasants’ groups
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