HE Benigno C Aquino III President, Republic of the Philippines Malacañang Palace JP Laurel Street, San Miguel Manila Philippines By email 17 October 2010 Dear President Aquino, The 43 Health Workers Known as the ‘Morong 43’ I am writing to you as chair of the...
Farmers from Negros, Southern Tagalog, Tungkong Mangga and Hacienda Luisita protested in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform office in Quezon City on Saturday, and blamed the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPer) for causing massive landlessness, poverty and hunger, marking what they dubbed as World “Foodless” Day.
By MARK WEISBROT Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil - In Brazil, as in the United States, most people do not vote for a president on the basis of foreign policy issues. Yet sometimes the result matters for the rest of the world...
By IRA CHERNUS Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com It's a rather ordinary, run-of-the-mill piece of Israeli government propaganda - an op-ed in The New York Times, October 14, by Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. Precisely because it...
by John Pilger Truth-Out.org Posted by Bulatlat.com The rescue of 33 miners in Chile is an extraordinary drama filled with pathos and heroism. It is also a media windfall for the Chilean government, whose every beneficence is recorded by a forest of cameras. One...
Ni RICHARD GAPPI Bulatlat.com Alkansaya ka kung saan isinusuksok Mga larawan ng ligaya at lungkot Habang may awit nang tila nabubulok Halimuyak sa akin kung diwa’y lugmok. Dahil anino kang kambal at kasalo Kung kaya ako ngayo’y nagiging tao Itim sa puti’y tingkad...
Who is The Biggest Gainer?
By GLENN GREENWALD Salon.com/Common Dreams.org International Posted by Bulatlat.com In 2004, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld commissioned a task force to study what causes Terrorism, and it concluded that "Muslims do not 'hate our freedom,' but rather, they hate...
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas-Southern Mindanao (KMP-SMR), together with other peasant groups in the region, slam President Benigno Aquino III and his administration for its anti-farmer and anti-lumad policies, and for being a US puppet. KMP-SMR will hold a 3-day protest action, starting october 21, in line with the celebration of Peasant Month.
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com President Benigno Aquino III’s handling of the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) report on the August hostage-taking fiasco exposes his administration’s lack of...
The bitter plight of Filipino farmers continues past the Aquino administration’s first 100 days and into October which the peasant movement marks as Peasant Month. By IBON Features | IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat.com The First 100 Days Report of Pres. Benigno...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Sen. Joker Arroyo, who served as executive secretary during the Corazon Aquino presidency, said early this week that "lesser legal minds" reviewed the report of the Incident Investigation and...
Ni RICHARD GAPPI Bulatlat.com Winner talaga, lola ko’t Mareng Winnie Na-sens ko sa Youtube ispits mo’t sinabi Kaming mga gradweyt ng isteytyu at U.P. Dapat daw may onor at exelens parati. Dapat din daw na huwag maging sagabal Sa daang tuwid at pag-unlad ng bayan...
Starting October 12, the picket in front of ABS-CBN network's Sgt. Esguerra gate will serve as protest center of the Internal Job Market Workers Union (IJMWU) to further pressure the network management to reinstate the 114 illegally dismissed workers and to hold certification elections, following the Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) decision on their case.
By ANGEL L. TESORERO
They went to Ajman, United Arab Emirates to work as cleaners and office assistants in various schools. Suddenly, their employer left them with unpaid utility bills and two months of salaries. After bearing intense heat and absence of electricity and potable water for more than a month, the 46 Filipina workers ended up in jail.
11 October 2010 Hon. Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III President, Republic of the Philippines Malacanang Palace, Manila Dear Sir, Warm greetings! We have known that as of now there is no RP ambassador to Saudi Arabia after the recall of Ambassador Antonio Villamor, a...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- It was Jean Dasa's aunt who recruited her for work abroad. Without hesitation, she applied as household helper and was accepted. On December 2008, she left the country to work in Jordan. It was only in early 2009 that...
The right to public information suffered with Comelec’s lack of transparency. The poll body failed – and continues to fail – to meet the transparency requirements of the election system by its intransigent and unexplained refusal to deny citizens’ groups access to...
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