By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Residents of Pantukan, a coastal town in Compostela Valley province, are locked in battle against two large-scale mining companies attempting to wrest full control of the area’s mineral resources. They also bewail the unfair advantage the government gives to these companies at the expense of small-scale miners.
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By SATUR C. OCAMPO At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Posted by Bulatlat.com The people’s uprising in Egypt seeking to oust President Hosni Mubarak provides interesting insights and aspects that I wish to share as concisely as our limited space allows. First,...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Former military budget officer Lt. Col. George Rabusa’s revelations of big-bucks, institutionalized corruption within the Armed Forces of the Philippines during the Senate investigation...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com At some point during her interminable occupancy of Malacañang, Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said something to the effect that the police and military are charged with preserving "our way of...
By PROF. JUAN COLE Informed Content | Reader Supported News Posted by Bulatlat.com Alarms have been raised by those observing the popular uprising in Egypt that, while it is not itself a Muslim fundamentalist movement, the Muslim fundamentalists could take it over...
Reader Supported News Posted by Bulatlat.com Toll mounts as pro-democracy supporters apparently come under attack from Mubarak loyalists in the Egyptian capital. Heavy gunfire is being heard in Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square as pro-democracy demonstrators...
By JAMES R. KING CounterPunch Posted by Bulatlat.com The dramatic scenes from Tunis, Sana’a and especially Cairo continue to exhilarate observers across the globe. These images of men, women and children braving riot police, tear gas and decades of authoritarianism...
By KATHLEEN CHRISTISON CounterPunch Posted by Bulatlat.com The United States has had it in for al-Jazeera at least since 2000, when the Qatar-based news network began reporting on Israel’s harsh treatment of Palestinians during the intifada and, a year later,...
Marking the first year since the death of Gregan Cardeño, a Filipino who died inside Camp Ranao in Marawi City while working as an interpreter for the US troops, various groups held a memorial rally on Wednesday to demand justice and to hold those behind the incident accountable. (Photo courtesy of Patriotiko Mindanao / bulatlat.com)
By RICHARD R. GAPPI Bulatlat.com The road is speaking in tongues and even the crevices of the city whisper; moaning the pain which the power-hungry leader has suppressed for years. When I saw you kissed an anti-riot police, a branch of tree suddenly spread its...
By RICHARD R. GAPPI Bulatlat.com As I saw you planting a kiss on a soldier’s cheek your son joining the plank of anti-riot policemen a twig of some sort grew out of the scene reaching out to me. I heard a melodic song tugging at my heart like words from your mouth...
MANILA -- Member organizations of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan staged a protest action at Plaza Ferguson near the United States embassy today, February 1, to express their “steadfast solidarity with the Egyptian peoples’ struggle" against the "US-backed regime" of Hosni Mubarak. (Photo by Gregorio B. Dantes Jr. / bulatlat.com)
Media Release 31 January 2011 Global alliance of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) Migrante International today urged the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to employ all urgent measures to stop illegal deployment of OFWs to countries that had not...
ni MARK ANGELES Nagkasya sa kulungan ng manok ang naghihikahos na bayan mo, Jose Corazon de Jesus. Pugad na sa luha at dalita ay itinindig, walang habas na giniba. Sinong binibihag ang hindi hahawak ng kutsilyo at tabak?
MANILA -- Residents of Brgy. Corazon de Jesus in San Juan and their supporters marched to Don Chino Roces Bridge in Manila on January 28, to protest the violent demolition of their community on January 25 and to challenge President Benigno Aquino III to conduct a swift investigation. (Photo by Tudla Productions / bulatlat.com)
By SATUR C. OCAMPO At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Posted by Bulatlat.com A high sense of optimism enlivened the hundred or so participants of the Mindanao Leaders Peace Conference convened early this week by Inpeace Mindanao in Cagayan de Oro City. Their...
By MAUREEN A. HERMITANIO
The 10 who fell to their death at Lucio Tan’s construction site were contractual workers. Subcontracting and labor-only contracting are a common practice in the construction industry, where workers are thoroughly exploited.
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