‘Saboy’
Lemery, Batangas--"Saboy" is the term used by farmers in Batangas when sowing palay seeds. After sowing seeds, the land will be plowed and then they will wait for the rain. Photo by CHANTAL ECO...
‘Saboy’
69 nations have more US troops than Olympic athletes
69 nations have more US troops than Olympic athletes
By David Swanson, WarIsACrime.org | Report Truthout Here is a link to a list of U.S. troops deployed to various nations around the world: US troops. These are permanent deployments openly admitted to by the U.S. military. When U.S. Special Forces drive off a bridge...
Dead asylum seeker shows dark side of company securing Olympics
Dead asylum seeker shows dark side of company securing Olympics
By SAMIRA SHACKLE AlterNet It is said that no publicity is bad publicity, but the bosses of G4S, currently the most hated company in Britain, would have to disagree. In fact, chief executive Nick Buckles was forced to do so publicly. Hauled in front of Parliament...
Large, profitable companies employ most minimum-wage earners
Large, profitable companies employ most minimum-wage earners
By GEORGE ZORNICK, The Nation | Report Truthout If you’ve ever had a conversation about the minimum wage with friends and family, you invariably hear an argument about how raising it would hurt small businesses. There is compelling academic research that increasing...
SONA 2012: Reporting housekeeping and half-truths
SONA 2012: Reporting housekeeping and half-truths
By SONNY AFRICA/IBON Foundation
In closing the 2012 SONA, President Aquino asked rhetorically: “Isn’t the agenda for change moving forward?” Unfortunately after two years, there is clearly no fundamental change and no systematic economic reforms taking place.
Protesting Aquino’s Sona fashionably
Protesting Aquino’s Sona fashionably
While many of the members of the Congress have their attire haute couture and not a few designed by the country’s top fashion (read: expensive) designers like Pitoy Moreno , nationalist lawmakers like Ilagan opted to stay grounded just like the people she vowed to...
Silang mga nilalait pagkatapos ng SONA
Silang mga nilalait pagkatapos ng SONA
Ni RICHARD R. GAPPI Pagkatapos ng SONA, si Arturo Capellan ng Anakbayan-Marikina ay ikinulong at walang pampiyansa. Siya ang kakarga sa lahat ng kaso sa SONA na isasampa ng pulisya laban umano sa mga raliyista. Si Arturo ay galing sa maralitang pamilya, natigil sa...
The boon and bane of Aquino’s new mining policies
The boon and bane of Aquino’s new mining policies
“EO 79 lacks in social justice. It claims it’s good for the mining industry, but it’s very half-baked.” -- Ateneo de Davao University President Joel Tabora
Liham sa lahat ng nanlait sa mga rallyista sa Sona
Liham sa lahat ng nanlait sa mga rallyista sa Sona
Ni Joi Barrios Kumusta naman ang iyong kape sa umaga, Habang nanonood o nagbabasa ng balita, Sa mga naganap sa huling SONA? A, oo, isisi natin ang lahat sa raliyista. Isisi natin ang trapik, nasirang gamit, Dumi sa kalyeng hindi nailigpit. Oo, pati kasawain natin...
Exclusionary economics: How Aquino and Arroyos economics are the same
Exclusionary economics: How Aquino and Arroyos economics are the same
By IBON Features In his upcoming third State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Benigno Aquino III will surely attempt to highlight how the Philippine economy has improved under his watch to show how his administration is an improvement over its predecessor....
Ilocos environmental advocates face harassment
Ilocos environmental advocates face harassment
By JOAN GARCIA ILOCOS -- Political activists and journalists are endangered species in the country. With the renewed push of the Aquino government for the encouragement of foreign, large-scale mining operations in the country coupled with the president’s order for...
Davao radio union wins strike
Davao radio union wins strike
By JOHN RIZLE SALIGUMBA
Radio workers union hailed the strike as pivotal to the resolution of the labor dispute saying that the “weight of workers’ strike (is) a valid and only option to defend the workers” interest, especially with the current “rampant wage freeze and wage hike moratorium among the yellow traditional labor unions.”
Maita Gomez (1947-2012): Beauty transfigured
Maita Gomez (1947-2012): Beauty transfigured
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO “The new woman, the new Filipina, is first and foremost a militant…She is a woman who has discovered the exalting realm of responsibility, a woman fully engaged in the making of history…” - Ma. Lorena Barros, “Liberated Women II” I only...
Handog kay Maita Gomez, armadong paraluman
Handog kay Maita Gomez, armadong paraluman
Ni E. SAN JUAN JR. Bulatlat.com Mahal, Nagliliyab ang lansangan ng Islang Puting Bato nang ikaw’y lumisan Sa iyong balintataw nagtalik ang liwanag at dilim Nagtipan ang luha’t ngiti sa hanggahan ng pangako’t alaala Saang likong landas tayo naghiwalay,...
A radio worker’s fight: A Davao Today short narrative
A radio worker’s fight: A Davao Today short narrative
By MICK M. BASA Davao Today Reposted by...
US in Mali: Disintegration of a State
US in Mali: Disintegration of a State
By JOE PENNEY english.al-akhbar.com Dakar/Bamako - At the Bamako bus station, tales of trepidation from besieged northern towns like Gao and Timbuktu, where Tuareg and Islamist rebels have taken power following a coup d’état in Bamako in late March, are...
Revolution and counterrevolution
Revolution and counterrevolution
The current oppressive regime, now presided over by Mr. Benigno Aquino III, escalates its senseless, bloody counterinsurgency campaigns in a futile attempt to suppress the people's protest.
Sa ika-120 taon nang pagkatatag ng Katipunan ngayong Hulyo 7, 2012
Sa ika-120 taon nang pagkatatag ng Katipunan ngayong Hulyo 7, 2012
Ni Richard R. Gappi Bulatlat.com Pinatay ang kanyang tatay. Pinatay ang kanyang nanay. At tulad ng batang makulit na kinikilala ang daigdig, nagtanong siya kung bakit. Nang matutuhan at matanto niya ang mga sagot, sinagot siya ng ganito: bakit ka nagtatanong? Kaya...
Ka Arman: victim, fighter, martyr
Ka Arman: victim, fighter, martyr
Gawin na lang nila ang gusto nilang gawin sa akin tulad ng kanilang ginawa sa aking mga magulang. Hinding-hindi ako titigil sa paghahanap ng hustisya para sa aking pamilya at buong sambayanan.” – Arman Albarillo (1978 - 2012), human rights victim; New People’s Army...
Corporate profits at all-time high; wages at all-time low: can we call it class war yet?
Corporate profits at all-time high; wages at all-time low: can we call it class war yet?
The middle class is being hollowed out; increasingly, there are the super-super-rich, and there are the rest of us.
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