NI ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Inilathala ng Bulatlat Maging ang pinakamahimbing nating pagtulog ay hindi mahimbing. Sa pinakatahimik man nating mga gabi, waring walang katapusan ang ingay ng mga buldoser, ng nagkakapira-pirasong mga tabla, ng nagkakayupi-yuping mga...
Ano pa ang kapasidad ng sarili na makapagtatwa ng kahirapan? Sa lente ng buhay ng gitnang uri, ang uring afiliasyon ay nagbabago. Nagkakaroon ng pagtratraidor (betrayal) sa uring pinagmulan (class origin) para ang identifikasyon ay pumanig sa abstraksyon at...
A review of MissBehaving, a two-woman exhibit by Con Cabrera and Bunch Garcia at the Lunduyan Gallery, 88 Kamuning Road, Quezon City from October 4-22, 2008. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA CULTURE Bulatlat According to Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, a Jungian psychoanalyst...
Residents of a village in Kabayan, Benguet opposed the application of a Manila-based proponent to build a mini-hydro electric project in one of their rivers. They say they were never consulted, and the benefits they take from the river would be reduced. BY ARTHUR...
There is a large measure of truth to the observation of an increasing number of analysts that the fundamental reasons for the meltdown we are witnessing today--the fundamental and fatal "unsoundness" of the capitalist system--had long been rigorously and...
Letter of Concern from Filipino Scholars in the US: On the Enforced Disappearance of James Balao (Cordillera People’s Alliance) We are alarmed and disturbed with the enforced disappearance of Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) member James M. Balao since September...
It is true that the financial crisis affecting the US and the other centers of capitalism, including Germany, UK and Japan, would not bring the country down into a recession and crisis. The Philippines is already in a state of crisis, in the first place. What it...
The KMU is tagged as a “rebel group” in a high school textbook; one of its lawyers is slapped with criminal charges in connection with the burning of a cellsite; there was an attempt to break into their national office. All these, says one of the KMU's leaders,...
With members of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) and Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA), the family of missing activist James M. Balao, through counsel National Union of Peoples Lawyers (NUPL), filed a petition for a writ of amparo at the Benguet Regional...
If I recall correctly, the very same US Congress that is considering bailing out the big financial corporations that got the economy into its current mess because of their greed and the government's willingness to forgo any regulation of their doings (and the...
What began as a “War on Terror” with waves of bombing attacks on Kandahar and Kabul October 7, 2001 has long since become a War of Terror, inflicted on the peoples of Southwest Asia, generating and strengthening resistance movements (“insurgencies”), enraging local...
This corporate Congress cannot be expected to issue serious demands, set tough conditions, or impose strict rules on the auto companies to ensure their workers receive fair pay and benefits, and prevent their fat-cat executives from making off big while leaving...
The militant Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operators Nationwide (Piston or Unity of Drivers and Operators’ Associations Nationwide) said that the government should go after what it described as “legal looters” of motorists' money – the giant oil...
Analysts of global economic developments deemed that the US-led 'war on terror' will intensify and escalate as a result of the US financial and economic crisis.
By virtue of a 1991 Deed of Transfer between the DND and the DAR, some 6,000 peasants and other residents in a 3,100-hectare area within a military reservation in Nueva Ecija should have acquired ownership of the land they live on and till. But they have not, and now they face the possibility of being driven away from the area.
Based on the 2004 Inventory of Personnel by CSC, 10.81 percent of the 1.79 million government employees are working as “non-career personnel”. This is equivalent to 159,533 workers who, although doing the equivalent of regular work for the government, are not...
The book ‘Uncounted Lives’ features illustrations, including drawings of soldiers shooting at mosques and houses in the conflict that occurred in 2000, 2001 and 2003. These drawings and pictures offer a more concrete glimpse of the children’s experiences with armed...
Government employees belonging to the Confederation for Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees (Courage) asked the Pasay City Regional Trial Court on Oct. 3 to once and for all junk the libel case filed by Government Service Insurance System...
Street Day Care Center. While other children are in school in day care centers, these children are on their own trying to enjoy themselves – in the process learning about life’s harsh realities. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva)
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