News in Pictures: Wooden go carts
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY ACE ALEGRE
Bulatlat Contributors | Aug 24, 2011
Photo of the Week: Indigenous smile
Photo of the Week: Indigenous smile
Children from indigenous community of Bgy. Yabi Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya greets with their smile the participants of International Solidarity Mission of Defend Patrimony last July 9-11, 2011. Photo by Clemente Bautista...
Ang Babae sa Septic Tank and its observations on indie filmmaking
Ang Babae sa Septic Tank and its observations on indie filmmaking
By CYRIL ANNE DAYAO Bulatlat.com In recent years, a lot of Filipino films have been representing our country in various international festivals, and these indie films seem to fall into a certain type. Together with the recognitions abroad, indie filmmakers are...
Salungguhit: A brother’s keeper
Salungguhit: A brother’s keeper
Iggy Arroyo has done it again: he has come to the rescue of his older brother Miguel Arroyo, husband of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, by owning up to the crime of his brother. The script has been the same, after there seems to be no escape for older...
Satur C. Ocampo | Blaans fight for their rights
Satur C. Ocampo | Blaans fight for their rights
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Let me share with you this heart-tugging story, still unfolding, of six Blaan tribal communities in Malapatan, Sarangani province: Dlumay, Datalnay, Dungan Bahay, Alna, Q-gam, and Siman. These communities are...
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Poisoning the air
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Poisoning the air
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Of late the Aquino government’s peace panel negotiating with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has aggressively stepped up its propaganda offensive against the NDFP and the latter’s main...
Photo of the Week: Still stuck with the basics
Photo of the Week: Still stuck with the basics
In this age of computers and electronics, this woman still cooks the old way: with the use of firewood and blowing at the embers to make the flames stronger. This photo was taken not in a remote area in one of the Philippine provinces, but in the heart of Metro...
Satur C. Ocampo | Green and delicious
Satur C. Ocampo | Green and delicious
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Neuroscientist Custer Deocaris’ decision to return to his home country, under the DOST “balik-scientist” program, is good news. His having launched a campaign to convince fellow Fili-pinos to eat brown rice...
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Lack of conviction
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Lack of conviction
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld In conventional Philippine politics, grave accusations about graft and corruption, electoral fraud and other anomalies, including heinous crimes like extrajudicial killings, massacres and other atrocities, are...
News in Pictures: Los Angeles janitors fight For their jobs
News in Pictures: Los Angeles janitors fight For their jobs
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY DAVID BACON
Famed Baguio City “ukay-ukay” briskier on Internet
Famed Baguio City “ukay-ukay” briskier on Internet
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY (July 19, 2011) – Baguio’s famed “ukay-ukay” (second-hand or pre-loved clothes and commercial items) is enjoying hundred-folds of brisk business via internet. With just a digital camera and a Facebook account, “Mitch”, who has...
Salungguhit: Ghosts of the past
Salungguhit: Ghosts of the past
It must have been christmas everyday for nine years for the Arroyo family. They have done everything – corruption, election fraud, political killings, enforced disappearances and other human rights violations – with impunity. But their sins in the past are now...
Cordillera farmers study alternatives to rice
Cordillera farmers study alternatives to rice
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com La Trinidad, Benguet -- Adlai may become the alternative to rice. Adlai is known also as “Job’s tears”, with a scientific name of Coix lacryma-jobi L.. It is a freely branching upright plant that grows up to three feet tall and is being...
Nanay Lolit and 9/11
Nanay Lolit and 9/11
By JOE PENNEY
When I witnessed the Twin Towers falling while we were evacuated from school, I was in a state of shock and awe...Little did I know that 10 years later I would meet a woman whose suffering was caused by the Bush administration’s response to 9/11—not in Afghanistan nor Baghdad, but in Manila.
Somalia, when the US tried to ‘save’ the country from Somalis
Somalia, when the US tried to ‘save’ the country from Somalis
By JOE PENNEY Bulatlat.com Last week I wrote an article describing how food aid has wrought havoc on Somalia’s economy for nearly four decades, and why policies of neoliberal humanitarian agencies and the corrupt semblance of a Somali government they work with have...
Satur C. Ocampo | Looking for answers
Satur C. Ocampo | Looking for answers
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “Where’s the vision?” “Where’s the road map?” These have been the common reactions to P-Noy’s second state of the nation address last Monday. The tones have ranged from disappointment on the part of those...
Luis V. Teodoro | Understanding
Luis V. Teodoro | Understanding
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld NOT all of them bought Pajeros, a sport utility vehicle ( SUV) manufactured by Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors; some bought even more expensive SUVs and pick-up trucks, and others cheaper Asian utility vehicles (AUVs) with...
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Broken peace
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Broken peace
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld I have only been to Norway twice -- the first time in 2001 when peace negotiations between the GRP (now GPH) and the NDFP were resumed after they were terminated in 1999. The second time was last February, again...
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