Various religious formations, people’s organizations and artist groups organized a cultural event dubbed as the “Truth Festival” which aimed to “expose the liability of Arroyo government” in the worsening economic condition of the country and the armed conflict in...
The proposed Department of Housing and Urban Development (DHUD) is not the answer to the current housing problem in the Philippines: it will even create a monstrous problem: soaring housing prices and land-use conversions that would result to food insecurity. BY...
The traditional role of lawyers has been challenged in recent decades by the growth of social movement lawyering which emerged from two developments. First, the radical lawyer movements of the mid-sixties and seventies4 and, second, the emergence of human rights...
Georgia unleashed the aggression against South Ossetia and against the Russian peacekeeping force there by raining artillery fire, missiles and bombs on the capital city of Tskhinvali and sending an invasionary armored force against it on August 7 and 8. Hundreds...
Poland is just the latest fall guy for an American foreign policy dictated by military industrial lobbyists in Washington BY GEORGE MONBIOT The Guardian ALTERNATIVE READER Posted by Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 29, August 24-30, 2008 It's a novel way to take your...
From Nigeria to the Philippines, Mexico to India, insurgents are finding new ways to mobilise rage. It is in Afghanistan that the tactical impact will be most sharply felt. BY PAUL ROGERS Open Democracy ALTERNATIVE READER Posted by Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 29,...
Nineteen students of Jose Rizal University (JRU) in Mandaluyong were suspended after organizing a snake rally on the afternoon of July 17. These students are dismayed over the “blatant campus repression.” BY JEFFREY OCAMPO Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 29, August...
“It is my strongest hope that no one sees violence as a way to peace,” she said. These were the words of US Ambassador Kristie Kenney on Tuesday, Aug. 19, commenting on skirmishes between government forces and Moro rebels in Mindanao. It is an interesting statement...
NI ROMMEL PIPOY LINATOC Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 29, August 24-30, 2008 Hayaan mong isaysay ko ang pighating nararamdaman Hatid ng palalong, baluktot na kasaysayan Sino ang makakalimot sa litanya ng kamusmusan Sinagpang ng bangungot, niluray ng...
BY CHERYL DAYTEC-YAÑGOT Posted by Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 29, August 24-30, 2008 On this day, we remember the women and men All too aware that death was their destiny certain When in darkness and doom they scattered flames A big number without faces, many...
NI TERENCE KRISHNA LOPEZ Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 29, August 24-30, 2008 ano nga ba’t lungkot ang hatid nitong paglalakad sa mababaw pang gabi sa mga kalsada’t iskinita nitong lungsod na anong liwanag? ninais maibsan ang bigat na dala mula sa maghapong...
For 34 years, the Kalabaklabakan Mountain Clinic has provided continuous health services to the people, expanding its reach to more communities, and training a substantial number of community health workers. But instead of getting recognition from the government,...
The US-Arroyo game plan aims merely to ensnare the MILF into a prolonged ceasefire; confuse as well as raise the hopes of the Moro people that the GRP, with US prodding, will grant their aspirations for a Bangsamoro homeland and self-rule; and coopt the MILF...
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chief Political Consultant, National Democratic Front of the Philippines DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 29, August 24-30, 2008 Contrary to the propaganda issued by the psywar experts of the Arroyo regime, I am not...
Last Thursday, Aug, 21, 500 Cebuanos marched to the Department of Energy (DoE) Visayas Field Office to denounce the rampant increase in oil price since Republic Act No. 8479 or the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Law, which took effect in July 1998. In a press...
A review of the 15th Solo Exhibition of Ms. Camille Jean Verdelaire D. de la Rosa, entitled Moods and Moments at the Renaissance Gallery, The Art Walk, 4/F Bldg. A, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Opened on August 22, the show will run up to the 31st of this month....
BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Bulatlat.com August 22, 2008 - 3:15 p.m. For joining a rally to protest alleged unfair labor practices, casual employees of the Intramuros Administration were threatened with dismissal. Ma. Ana Harper, chief of the Intramuros Administration...
BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Bulatlat.com Posted 1:00 p.m., Aug. 21, 2008 QUEZON CITY – Members of the newly formed alliance Concerned Organizations Opposed to Transfer, Layoff and Privatization for the Quezon City Central Business District (Contra-CBD) staged a picket...
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