Ni ROMMEL PIPOY LINATOC Maraming simbulo ang Kaalaman. Sinusukat ng gradong Iyong kinalugdan, Itinatak sa pirasong papel ang pangalan. Ngunit, kulang ang mga ito sa karunungan. Ang sinaulong katuruan , madali ang paghiwalay Babansutin ang sarili, mauupos ang iyong...
“The K to 12 program promises three things: work, business and college. It is not even assured that once you graduate from college, you will get a job.”
By GINO ESTELLA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Several progressive youth organizations took to the streets here on Philippine Independence Day to urge incoming President Rodrigo Duterte to take more pro-country steps in his administration. Around a hundred people from...
Incoming President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement about freeing political detainees spurs optimism inside detention cells, and at an art show.
The impending closure of Fabella will not only affect hospital patients and employees, but may also lead to the displacement of families residing nearby.
In a manner of speaking, incoming president Rodrigo Duterte, like the famous durian fruit of Mindanao, is an acquired taste. Many Filipinos, like most Davaoeños, take to him despite his foul mouth, crumpled shirt, and old-fashioned machismo. They swear by the man...
The relationship between media and power -- whether in the form of governments, business corporations, or institutions with large followings such as churches -- has always been problematic. The media are almost always the first targets of repression, whether in...
Ni MARK ANGELES Libo-libong buntis ang peregrinong Pumisan sa silungan mo, Fabella; Hindi man nagsayaw sa Obando O nag-alay ng itlog kay Sta. Clara. Dikit-dikit sa dibdib mong tigulang: Kapwa ina’t inakay na nanlalambot. Nalampasan nila ang kamatayan Ngunit hindi...
Protesters vow to stay vigilant to keep the maternity hospital in its place.
A group of OFWs and their families present their agenda to the incoming Duterte administration.
Ni AXEL PINPIN I. Paano Binuo? Pingkian ng pawisang katawan habol ang halinghing ng digmaan habang tinitiis ang gabing maalinsangan at nang ang kapirasong dugo ay hulmahin ng ulos at tuluyang mabuo. Ito ang bunga ng inyong pagmamahalan (At magkaminsan ay...
“It is an additional two years of working to get my child to graduate. Instead of allowing them to go to college early, they added junior and senior high.”
The publication of the latest volume of Sison’s Selected Writings covering the years 2010-2011 in Build the People’s Power (2016) by the International Network for Philippines Studies reaffirms his place as the emblematic Filipino radical thinker of the last five decades.
Education is a basic right, but why is there a huge number of out-of-school youth? Why is the drop-out rate high?
Joolia Demigillo of Tudla Productions maintains that society hasn’t changed fundamentally and so the struggle that Brocka began must be continued.
By Rey Claro Casambre Philippine Peace Center MANILA -- Perhaps the most unexpected, yet most significant, outcome of the Duterte presidential campaign is the return of the peace negotiations into the national consciousness and discourse. To his credit, Mayor...
Judging by this year’s version of the US-Philippine joint military exercises, Balikatan 2016 has taken a new direction, courtesy of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement. From the declared purpose, since 2002, of “enhancing interoperability” between the two...
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. is leading in the latest surveys on who voters are inclined to choose as vice-president come May 9. The news is troubling as well as perplexing. The very real prospect that the political heirs of the Dictator Marcos will be...
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