By KATHRINA MANUEL Bulatlat.com Gloomy weather welcomed me, as I walked the street of Cambridge – not in the United Kingdom –but in Cubao, Quezon City at around 9 a.m. on May 7. I was searching for the place that houses the advocacy group for migrant workers, when...
The Philippine government needs to get serious about protecting human rights defenders, and investigating those who threaten or attack them.
A Bulatlat.com intern meets her future self at a job fair.
Ni Ma. Cecilia de la Rosa Turuan mo akong magtanim, Kapatid Sapagkat hindi ako magbubukid; Hindi ko kayang bungkalin ang karagatan Upang magpunla ng kinabukasan. Hindi ko kilala ang lupa Sa paraang kilala mo ito. Sa akin, lahat ng lupa ay pampang— Daungan ng...
Bulatlat.com asked people at the Liwasang Bonifacio Labor Day program about the status of their employment under President Aquino.
Ni FUDGE TAJAR Binulabog mo ang bayan natin sa iyong pagtangis Isang inang ingrata na gustong maningil sa gobyernong tinalikuran ka Noong mga panahong naghahanap ka ng kasagutan Noong mga panahong ninais mong dugtungan ang buhay ng iyong anak Anong karapatan ng...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The story of Mary Jane Veloso is Flor Contemplacion Part II but for the much happier ending: her execution by firing squad for drug trafficking having been held in abeyance by Indonesian President Jokowi Widodo...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Thanks to her lawyers from the National Union of People’s Lawyers -- and no thanks to the government -- the execution of Mary Jane Veloso has been deferred, hopefully toward its eventually being commuted, or her...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Since my first column piece (this is the sixth) on our maritime dispute with China in the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea, I have consistently urged the Aquino government to stand firm against Chinese...
“Raul Desembrana failed to exercise such prudence, caution and attention when he blindly followed his personal caprice and pursued his fancy of having the P80,000 SOP.”
Dios ti agbabantay, Dios ti tumultulong/
Ti daytoy a bantay lugar naianakan/
Inta’y nakasursuruan iti na Kristiyanoan/
Ugali a napateg iti kaamaan.
People who held vigil at the Indonesian embassy for Mary Jane Veloso are just like her, hopeful to find better lives, and justice.
Bulatlat.com asked participants when was their most memorable Cordillera Day celebration, and what made it memorable.
Ni ABET UMIL Tigsik para kay Mary Jane Veloso, Mula Talavera naghanap ng trabaho, Saudi, Indones salitang mga amo, Inalipin sa komunidad na imahinaryo. Tigsik kay Mary Jane,nangarap na magsasaka, Naniwala sa kapitbahay na si Maria Cristina, Isang recruiter na may...
"If they evict people just for their own interest, then, that is not development. That is tyranny against the people."
October 10, 2013, just over a week after the ceasefire of the standoff between the military and rogue Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) forces in Zamboanga City. Parked in the coast inside the compound of the Western Mindanao Command, is one of the motorboats reportedly used by armed MNLF fighters to enter Brgy. Rio Hondo during the onset of the crisis. The shipwreck lies astoundingly beautiful against the golden sunset in one of the southernmost points of the Mindanao island.
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star It wasn’t just a foolhardy turn (as I wrote here last week) that the Department of Foreign Affairs welcomed with alacrity the Pentagon’s announced intention to deploy in the Philippines “various advanced air...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld As predictable as rain, and as tedious, is the usual response of Philippine newspaper columnists and editorial writers whenever Filipinos end up on death row in foreign prisons for various alleged offenses, including...
In this brief discourse, I sketch an inventory of the U.S. imperial adventure in the Philippines as a background to the work of Carlos Bulosan, the first Filipino writer to gain canonical status, and the ordeal of Filipinos in the era of global capitalism.
Just few days after the landfall of Super Tyhpoon Ruby in December 2014, this kid aboard a parked vessel along the coast of Poblacion, Basey, Samar was crying. His mother was shouting along the coast, retorting him to go home. His mother later told me that the child was having tantrums because he was not permitted to go deep-sea fishing with his father. As the night falls, this bluish grey sky, with a slight tint of apricot, seemingly wept with the boy.
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