Salungguhit: What About Us?
What About Us?
Bulatlat Contributors | Aug 7, 2010
News in Pictures: Progressive Partylist Files Bill Upgrading Teachers’ Salary
News in Pictures: Progressive Partylist Files Bill Upgrading Teachers’ Salary
ACT Teachers Party-List on Wednesday filed House Bill 2142, "The Public School Teachers' Salary Upgrading Act," mandating an increase in salary grade level of public school teachers from Salary Grade 11 to Salary Grade 15.
Photo Essay: Overpopulation in the Philippines and the Need for an RH Law
Photo Essay: Overpopulation in the Philippines and the Need for an RH Law
Overpopulation and the Need for an RH Law
Solon Tells Truth Commission to Hold Office at Batasan; Offers Own Room if No Space Available (PR)
Solon Tells Truth Commission to Hold Office at Batasan; Offers Own Room if No Space Available (PR)
Press Release 2 August 2010 Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino today asked House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte to host the newly-formed Truth Commission tasked to ferret out the truth with regard to the abuses committed by the previous regime. The...
Open Letter of Dr. Chandu Claver to President Benigno Aquino III
Open Letter of Dr. Chandu Claver to President Benigno Aquino III
Letter to the Editor August 2, 2010 I am Chandu Claver. My family was the target of an ambush by suspected State agents nearly four years today on July 31, 2006 in the province of Kalinga. My wife Alice was killed, as a result. Because of continuing threats on what...
Dear Noynoy, From a Fellow Smoker
Dear Noynoy, From a Fellow Smoker
LETTER TO THE EDITOR August 2, 2010 Dear President Noynoy Aquino, I would like to congratulate you for standing your ground when people asked you to stop smoking. The non-smokers do not understand how important it is for people like us to puff our daily dose of...
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Smoke and Mirrors
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Smoke and Mirrors
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise Posted by Bulatlat.com “Pnoy the Magician” in bright yellow. This was how activists depicted President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino in effigy in last Monday’s annual State-of-the-Nation street demonstration. They were proven...
Correcting the Historical Lies Being Peddled By Etta Rosales and Company
Correcting the Historical Lies Being Peddled By Etta Rosales and Company
LETTER TO THE EDITOR July 25, 2010 It is a travesty of history when one distorts and denies it. It is doubly insulting when the real and historical role of the people and martyrs are diluted and denied to suit one’s self-interest for an appointment for a government...
SONA: Truth or Spectacle?
SONA: Truth or Spectacle?
By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) Posted by Bulatlat.com The true state of the nation is in the people who live under the harshest of conditions in the margins of society yet see in collective...
NPAs Unfazed by Soldier Imports from Luzon
NPAs Unfazed by Soldier Imports from Luzon
By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today Posted by: Bulatlat.com MACO, COMPOSTELA VALLEY – Communist guerillas who captured and released three soldiers and a militiaman in Compostela Valley in June scoffed at the deployment of more government troops from Luzon. Anvil Guinto,...
ILPS Condemns US and ROK FOR Anti-DPRK Provocations As Attack on Korean Sovereignty and Peace in East Asia
ILPS Condemns US and ROK FOR Anti-DPRK Provocations As Attack on Korean Sovereignty and Peace in East Asia
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee International League of Peoples' Struggle The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) hereby condemns in the strongest terms the US and its South Korean puppet government for a...
From Corporate Bailouts To Austerity Measures: Shifting Further The Burden Of Crisis To The People
From Corporate Bailouts To Austerity Measures: Shifting Further The Burden Of Crisis To The People
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle July 7, 2010 Since 2008 the major capitalist powers have wantonly used public money to bail out the big banks and corporations, thus allowing these to show profits on their balance...
Disappointed in ‘The Last Air Bender’
Disappointed in ‘The Last Air Bender’
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com Almost everyone who went to see The Last Air Bender had a feeling that it would not live up to the original Nickelodeon series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. With M. Night Shyamalan leading the project, it was...
Luis Teodoro | Impunity’s Roots
Luis Teodoro | Impunity’s Roots
By LUIS TEODORO LuisTeodoro.com/Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com IMPUNITY — OR exemption from punishment — has been correctly called a culture, a way of doing things to which a particular community has become accustomed. It is almost inevitably mentioned as...
Mt. Province Folks Demand Pullout of Soldiers
Mt. Province Folks Demand Pullout of Soldiers
By KATHLEEN T. OKUBO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BONTOC, Mt. Province -- “We the people of Mountain Province demand the unconditional and immediate pull-out from our villages of the troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines!" The Cordillera...
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