The debate over the reproductive health bill is heating up. Absence in the debate is the voice of women who would be greatly affected by the rejection or enactment of a reproductive health bill.
The death on Friday of Lourdes E. Simbulan, a UP journalism professor and one of the country's outstanding journalists, has brought to the fore yet again the issue of road safety, specifically road accidents on major highways caused mostly by bus drivers. While there is no doubt that these reckless drivers should be held criminally liable for their actions, there is also the matter of their working conditions that, for all practical purposes, ensure that accidents like the one that killed Simbulan would occur.
By Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The profits of the Big Three oil firms are rising as rapidly as the increasing oil prices, with a record of at least Php141.7 billion in profits in the last decade. This is more than the combined income of the country’s poorest 2.36...
Posted By Bulatlat.com PANABO City, Davao del Norte -- Bien Sumuroy, spokesman of Amoran Saripada Command of the New People's Army in Southern Mindanao, said the "the criminal Panabo City police" arrested and severely mauled Toto Ancahas and Gerald Robles last...
By Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY-- Some 300 workers and their families from the Superstar Coconut Products Inc. held a picket rally in front of the company plant in Barangay Maa on Apr 1 to denounce the company's bribery, intimidation and harassment. According to the...
“Something strange is happening in the labor department of Region 7,” a group of priests noted recently. In a petition, a nationwide group of priests presented to President Benigno Aquino III and Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz last week a “demand” for...
Bulatlat.com will provide live updates on the 2nd day of the House Committee on Justice hearings on the impeachment cases filed against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez.
Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (Selda), the group that represents thousands of the victims in their efforts to hold the Marcoses accountable for their crimes, led a protest march today in front of the offices of Rodrigo Domingo, the Filipino lawyer who has been collaborating with court-appointed lawyer Robert Swift in the class suit.
In these times of inhumanity, the thin line between being a journalist and an activist is blurred even more. I know in my heart that I owe no one an apology.
Financial crooks brought down the world's economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them. By MATT TAIBBI Reader Supported News | Rolling Stone Magazine Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a...
Jorge “Ka Oris” Madlos, the spokesman of the NDFP in Mindanao, enumerated today several incidents that he described as “blatant violations” of the mutually agreed ceasefire between Manila and the NDFP, whose panels have been holding peace negotiations in Oslo, Norway, since Feb. 15.
The New People's Army in Southern Mindanao released today a sergeant in the Philippine Army after it cleared him of "counter-revolutionary" activities, the guerrilla group said in a statement.
MANILA -- An overseas Filipino worker reportedly died after she apparently "threw" herself from the fourth floor balcony of a building in Fanar, Lebanon. Migrante International's chapter in the Middle East is calling on the Department of Foreign Affairs and the...
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My arrest on the very eve of the NDFP-GPH peace talks by combined forces of the AFP and PNP is an outright and arrogant mockery and sabotage of the peace process.
An Inauspicious Start to a New Year
Members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-National Capital Region held a protest action against LRT-MRT fare increase outside LRT Recto Station Friday. After the public consultation on Friday, progressive youth groups held a protest action outside LRT2 Santolan station, calling on the Aquino administration to withdraw the proposed fare hikes. (Photos by Tudla Productions and Alvin Joseph Tenedero / bulatlat.com)
The recent protests in Tunisia and Egypt have shown that social media can be a driving force for social and political change.
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