By DEEPA PANCHANG and BEVERLY BELL Commondreams.org "I am optimistic that in 18 months, yes, we will be autonomous in our decisions. But right now I have to assume... that we are not." With these words, Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive watched a swath of...
Workers, women hit contractualization in labor (Photo by Jhun Dantes)
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Tomorrow marks the 90th birthday of Jose “Ka Pepe” Diokno: nationalist, human rights defender, progressive intellectual, and more. Had he lived as long as his colleague, Lorenzo “Ka Tanny” Tanada who, at 91,...
By JACK RANDOM Counterpunch.org "When you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the...
Panagbenga Festival highlights its Cordillera history and heritage (Photo by Artemio A. Dumlao)
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last Thursday I received an emailed letter from an Australian who was in Manila last February 4 and read my column piece that day, about the new US defense plan calling for expanded American role and military...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Despite its failure to deliver on its promises, some Filipinos still hail the 1986 EDSA uprising as a model of how peacefully change can be achieved. The shift in Thailand from military rule to democracy in 1992, and...
By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com ILOCOS Sur -- As couples around the world celebrated Valentine’s Day, students from Ilocos Sur led by the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP)- Ilocos Sur, Anakbayan- Ilocos Sur and Kabataan Partylist called for a...
BAGUIO CITY -Baguio students walk by the "soon to be gone" exotic Alnus and Pine Tree patch along Governor Pack Road here if the planned expansion of giant mall chain SM pushes through amidst the uproar and demand for President Benigno Aquino III to stop the tree...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“It is getting clearer and clearer by the day that the government’s drive to impeach Corona is mainly about Hacienda Luisita…" – Kilusang Mayo Uno
“The military's mind is shallow, if they will campaign against the school just because of the streamer. I see the streamer as the school’s sympathy for Fr. Pops; the nuns sympathy for a priest, their fellow Church member.” - 44-year old mother of two Assumption...
By Alan Jazmines February 14, 2012 It has been exactly a year now since I was treacherously arrested – on February 14, 2011, just a few hours before the resumption of the long-delayed formal talks between the peace panels of the National Democratic Front of the...
Hacienda Baldevia farmers hold two-day camp out (Photos by OWEN SEGOVIA BAYOG)
Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) Ano ang kailangang gawin? Punan ang mga patlang At ilakip ang bio-data Kahit pa gaano kahaba ang buhay, Ang bio-data ay dapat panatilihing maigsi. Piliing mabuti ang isusulat na impormasyon. Bawasan ang borloloy at mga paliguy-ligoy....
The Senate impeachment hearings, with all the antics of the prosecution, defense, and even the Senator-judges is starting to become a tiring diversion, especially since the lives of the Filipino people are getting worse with the spikes in prices, the festering...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The administration of Benigno Aquino III must review Philippine libel law, decriminalize libel, and compensate a Filipino journalist for the time he was imprisoned for libel. These are the recommendations of the...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star February 4 marks the start of the Philippine-American war 113 years ago, instigated by supposedly friendly US troops who fired at Filipino soldiers of the nascent First Philippine Republic. Through superior...
A jobless counts himself part of the vast army of dispossessed worldwide. He belongs to one in three workers globally either unemployed or living in poverty. In this country, his testimony appears to show unrealized promises made by President Benigno Aquino III to...
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today Reposted by Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY, Philippines -- The Philippines was recently reported to be the third country in the world that has the lowest salary increases. And that news is not farfetched when Davao workers say they...
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