#BulatlatAsks: Can you feel that PH is independent?
With poverty, suppression of rights and a government that is weak against foreign powers, how can one say that the country is free?
#BulatlatAsks: Can you feel that PH is independent?
Elections: They’re all about money
Elections: They’re all about money
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Do those television advertisements trumpeting the virtues of individuals who have either announced their intention to run for elective office in 2016, or whom many assume will be candidates next year -- or even those...
The only deterrent to China’s aggression: Taking a cue from Vietnam
The only deterrent to China’s aggression: Taking a cue from Vietnam
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld In recent months, China’s flurry of reclamation work and building of military installations on several of the islets and reefs in the disputed portions of the West Philippine Sea/South China Sea have set alarm...
Tondo urban poor protest illegal coal dust stockpiles
Tondo urban poor protest illegal coal dust stockpiles
“People who make a living selling cooked food and making shrimp paste complain that their customers stopped buying their wares because of the coal dust.”
Group decries killings, harassment in demolition sites
Group decries killings, harassment in demolition sites
Kadamay said 16 urban poor leaders had been killed under the Aquino administration. The latest victim, Benilda Santos, was shot dead in Quezon City on May 22.
Amending the Charter: More of the same?
Amending the Charter: More of the same?
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Even some members of the House of Representatives and of the Senate were themselves surprised by House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte’s and Senate President Franklin Drilon’s announcement that they would convene both...
A new stab at solving the housing backlog?
A new stab at solving the housing backlog?
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star After 23 years of the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992 (RA 7279), the backlog in providing housing units for those needing them has burgeoned to at least 5.5 million today; the number is projected to...
World Environment Day | Groups protest DMCI projects
World Environment Day | Groups protest DMCI projects
“The Filipino people must demonstrate on World Environment Day our commitment to protect our natural heritage and ecology by opposing DMCI’s coal-fired power plant in the globally-renowned ecological treasure that is the province of Palawan.”
Labor 101| From the eyes of one who is about to enter the labor force
Labor 101| From the eyes of one who is about to enter the labor force
By BETTINA CATLI Bulatlat.com The main concern of students, especially college students, is to pass subjects and finally be handed a diploma – the fruit of four or five years’ work, borne out of tears and sleepless nights. Once this is done, scores of fresh...
BulatlatAsks #How was your first day of school?
BulatlatAsks #How was your first day of school?
June 1 marks the start of school calendar in public schools in the Philippines. It is also a day of protest for critics of the government’s K to 12 program.
Kay Nanay Celia
Kay Nanay Celia
Kagabi, habang nakikinig sa iyong pananalita ang mga nagmartsa tungong Mendiola, binuo ng pangamba, dalamhati at katatagan ng loob ang aming diwa. Binanlawan ng mga palakpak at hiyaw ang hinagpis na pasan ng iyong pamilya. Habang ang bawat mong kataga ng...
#SaveMaryJane Alliance launched
#SaveMaryJane Alliance launched
"They don't know my daughter, they don't know us, but still, they're helping us.”
Blatant Censorship: House of Representatives blacklists media officers, campus journalists and activists
Blatant Censorship: House of Representatives blacklists media officers, campus journalists and activists
Altermidya expresses grave concern over the House of Representatives’ (HOR) blacklisting of at least 50 individuals including sectoral leaders and activists, a journalism professor, campus journalists, and media liaison officers of national student organizations, among others.
A rightful land reform
A rightful land reform
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star A “moral imperative and a political necessity” is how a militant peasant organization and advocates of genuine agrarian reform described the launching yesterday of a Philippine Land Reform Movement at the UP...
In the Philippines: Education or indoctrination?
In the Philippines: Education or indoctrination?
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld As in several years past, the start of classes in June was preceded by two announcements unwelcome to those who have to pay for their own or their children’s education. Although bad enough in themselves, these...
How to water down an already watered-down Bangsamoro Basic Law
How to water down an already watered-down Bangsamoro Basic Law
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Malacañang’s damage-control measures for the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) after the Mamasapano fiasco is going full throttle. No less than President Benigno S. C. Aquino has applied carrot-and-stick pressure...
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