Why Desmond Tutu is Right About Bush & Blair by VIJAY PRASHAD Counterpunch Last week, Bishop Desmond Tutu was to sit beside former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair at the cringingly named Discovery Invest Leadership Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. Tutu, one of...
BAUKO, Mt. Province -- Photo enthusiasts reach the peak of Mt. Bandilaan just in time for the bursting of colors in the skyline. Photo by CHRIS LINAG (Bulatlat.com)
By JANICE LEE MONTE-HERNANDEZ Bulatlat.com MANILA -- “We are so happy. I never expected that I could be a radio anchor and I could speak over the radio. All of us come from poor communities and this is a big opportunity for us.” Salome Nanoz, 15, is a high school...
Rebyu ng “Walang Sugat” Produksyon ng Tanghalang Pilipino Tampok sina Cris Villonco, Antonio Ferrer at Noemi Manikan-Gomez Direksyon ni Carlos Siguion-Reyna Agosto 26, 10 am, Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino Sentrong Pangkultura ng Pilipinas Ni MARIJOE MONUMENTO...
By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com ILOCOS SUR -- With the theme “Today’s Youth, Tomorrow’s Leaders”, the 2012 Ilocos Youth Summit was able to gather more than 200 youth and students in the region last August 25 at the Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College (ISPSC) in Sta....
By PIERRE SPREY Counterpunch.org The dry dollar numbers in the latest Congressional Research Serviceannual arms sales report paint an ugly new picture. Over the last 5 years, every major arms exporting country has reduced its sales to developing countries–except...
By YANA KUNICHOFF Truthout.org Chicago teachers demonstrate in May, 2012. (Photo: JohnnyGotHisGun)The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is expected to file a ten-day strike notice on Wednesday, say media reports, meaning that the union could call a strike as early as...
Most of the time, the stories we hear about trafficking are of women and girls. But 20% of trafficking victims are men and boys. By CAMERON CONAWAY The Good Men Project / Alternet.org “My very first survivor was a boy. How many of us are looking for boys?” --Sandra...
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today DAVAO CITY -- Wives of New People’s Army (NPA) members were allegedly arrested and detained by the Philippine Army’s 39th Infantry Battalion under Lt. Col. Norman Zuniega on two separate incidents, August 6 and 7, in Sta....
By David Bacon TruthOut Report SAN FRANCISCO, CA (8/9/12) - The national confrontation between janitors and some of the world's richest property owners has arrived San Francisco, where on Wednesday over two thousand building cleaners shut down the city's main...
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
At the wake of Totong Mabinsi, six soldiers came. “They talked to me, and one of them admitted that they killed Totong by mistake,” Manuel, the victim's brother, said.
Ni RICHARD R. GAPPI Bulatlat.com Intoy, ipinagkaloob ng tatay sa mga nasa evacuation center ang iyong mga pinagliitan: ang sapatos na unang sumapo sa iyong bigat noong pinag-aaralang mamaybay at lumakad ang mga bolang nagpatahan sa iyong iyak at nagpatalbog sa puso...
The Mindanao Lumad Alliance, Kalumaran, urges Aquino to “put an end to the killings, abuses, and military recruitment of Lumad paramilitaries in our communities that failed to bring peace and development” as it called to “stop this deception that mines, dams, and agribusiness will bring in development.”
Dagok blocked the backhoe operator’s view as she finds this the only way she could stop the machine from gnashing its teeth on the land -- the land where they have lived and tilled for years; the land they call home in Bariquit Compound, Purok 13, Bugac in Maa village.
“In the public hearing, we strongly opposed the entry of Nadecor and its planned operations here. Now, we’re surprised why this resolution is approved through a special session.” -- Rogelio Simbajon, a small-scale miner in Pantukan town By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today...
The Philippines seemed closer to reaching the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing poverty by half than if the old poverty methodology were used
“Now, we can hardly buy rice, we can’t even gather root crops for fear that soldiers might caught us,” -- George, a lumad peasant in Magpet By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today MAGPET, North Cotabato -- “You’re prohibited to go to your farms within 40 days,” George...
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