Special Report | Second of Three Parts A significant impact of an Alcadev education is that it “bridges the knowledge between students and parents.” It thus helps the development of Lumad communities. But the military is suspicious, branding the school and what it does as communist, harassing not just the teachers and students but its foreign supporters and visitors as well.
By Bulatlat An organizer of agricultural workers was killed by suspected elements of the paramilitary group Revolutionary Proletarian Army- Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA- ABB), August 21. Carlito B. Dacudao, 49, is a member of the National Federation of Sugar Workers...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-PARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her cabal are at the end of their rope and they don’t know it, or pretend not to. They are so isolated, so inured from criticism and have so far gotten away...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Ariel Guanlao was told that New Zealand was "the right choice" if one wants to work abroad. So after 16 long years working for the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), he went to New Zealand to work as a...
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Kulturang Popular Kultura Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Limang taon pa lamang ang indie cinema sa bansa, pero malinaw na ang demographics ng indie filmmaker: kabataan, edad na di tatanda sa 40, kalakhan ay lalake ang direktor, tapos ng degree sa...
Progressive Filipino-American youths from Anakbayan New York/New Jersey, USA joined striking workers of at least four nursing home facilities in New Jersey and New York in their fight for justice in the workplace. With members of allied organizations from Bagong...
By RITCHE T. SALGADO Bulatlat.com CEBU CITY – A new broad alliance in Cebu initiated the gathering of 10-million signatures for the environment. The Visayas Climate Action Network (Visayas CAN) aims to convince the public to start becoming more responsible for...
By RITCHE T. SALGADO Bulatlat.com CEBU CITY - Gov. Gwendolyn F. Garcia recently apologized to Cebuanos for lack of discretion in purchasing a property that will be used as a dump for coal ash that will be generated by a coal-fired power plant being built in Naga....
MANILA -- While President Arroyo dined for $20,000 in New York, Manobo children only have lugaw, bread and food rations at the evacuation center at the Diocese Pastoral Center in Tandag, Surigao del Sur. (Photo courtesy of Mapasu and Kalumaran / bulatlat.com) Some...
Not Quite Le Cirque. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her party spent nearly one million pesos on dinner during their recent visit to New York, ordering such items as caviar and expensive wine. In the meantime, poor Filipinos -- like this little girl having lunch, or what passes for it, in Isla Puting Bato, a slum area in Manila -- have to make do with what they have, which is often not enough. (By Ayi Muallam)
Ni RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Ang huling tunog ng tambuli Ay badya ng matagalang paghimbing Sa sinapupunan ng Panginoon. Sundalo kang hindi tumunog Ang panganib at buga ng tinggang apoy Sa digmaan ng katotohanan. Ang kislap ng butil ng Rosaryo Ang bumulag...
Ni RICHARD R. GAPPI Inilathala ng Bulatlat ''We told Mom that we are so guilty that we're letting her suffer a lot. That is why we've decided that we'll let her join dad (Ninoy),'' Kris Aquino recalled. The day after, the former president told them that she saw her...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-PARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat In death as in life, former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino continues to be a political phenomenon. The Aquino family themselves had not anticipated the people’s outpouring of love, adulation...
Press statement The Ecumenical Movement for Justice and Peace together with the Ecumenical Mission for Peace and Development support the demand of the Lumad people in Surigao del Sur for the immediate pull out of the 58th Infantry Battalion from their communities...
The 11-hour dialogue between the Lumad leaders of MAPASU (Malahutayong Pakigbigsog Alang sa Sumusunod), Church, military officers and the office of the Governor ended in a deadlock when the military led by 401st Infantry Brigade commander Col. Danilo Fabian and...
By PHILIP PARAAN Culture Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The State of the Nation Address (Sona) in many years has become a fashion event for legislators, their spouses and families. Touted to celebrate local fashion, even the media makes a staple of it and allots a special...
Even in her death, former President Cory Aquino inspires the nation. This was how Bro. Eddie Villanueva described the outpouring of support for the bereaved Aquino family even as he joined the nation in mourning President Aquino’s death. But he said that while the...
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF THE PHILIPPINES NEGOTIATING PANEL 2 August 2009 NDFP MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE ON THE DEATH OF FORMER PRESIDENT CORAZON AQUINO The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Negotiating Panel and its Consultants convey their...
By the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP) The Concerned Artists of the Philippines joins much of the Filipino arts and cultural community in expressing indignation over the unprecedented brazen use by the Arroyo regime of the National Artists awards for its...
“Keeping silent is like silencing forever all the voices that have been silenced,” says Melissa Roxas. A writer, poet, community health worker and, incidentally, an American citizen of Filipino ancestry, Melissa Roxas is altogether something else. Last May, she and...
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