It’s the school needed for our times and it’s for free, without the exorbitant fees and yearly increases. The only requirement is an open mind and a willing spirit to take on a critical and alternative perspective of society and reality. By KAREN PAPELLERO Bulatlat...
The University of the Philippines (UP) as the premier academic institution in the country remains one of the bulwarks of academic freedom. But its students are being harassed and military and police forces are intensifying surveillance operations inside the campus....
On Nov. 16, 2004, seven strikers were killed at the picket line outside Gate 1 of the sugar mill when soldiers and police fired at thousands of protesters manning the barricades. Eight more – including an acclaimed bishop, a pastor, city councilor – who were active...
Friends and families of the nine punks still languishing at the Benguet Provincial Jail in La Trinidad have asked the fiscal to immediately throw out the case against them. They maintain that the nine punks are innocent and their arrest was “unlawful from the...
Army Pfc. Lordger Pastrana, the leader of a group of hooded armed men who tortured and killed Methodist Pastor Isaias Sta. Rosa in Daraga, Albay on the fateful night of Aug. 5 this year was a soldier who had a mission order authorizing him to carry a firearm...
The result of the U.S. midterm elections is not so much a vote for the Democrats although it catapulted them to the majority position after 14 years. It is more of an indictment of the Bush administration, specifically its policy on Iraq and the war on terror, its...
Government authorities appear in a hurry to integrate five public hospitals to promote medical tourism. However, there is as yet no law calling for the integration, health authorities are themselves divided on its wisdom and health workers are in protest. BY AUBREY...
Port workers of the Manila North Harbor fear that they will lose their jobs once the port is privatized effective 2007. An executive of the Philippine Ports Authority says about 75 percent of their organic employees will be laid-off once the winning private bidder...
NI PHILIP ANORICO Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Dito iyon, sa bulwagang ipinangalan kay Pepe. Siya na buong tapang na sumaksak sa dibdib ng yabang ng mga prayleng may tiyang bundat, gamit ang salita, talinghaga, at pamamahayag. Anupa’t ninais niyang paghilumin ang...
NI AXEL PINPIN Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Kung: Kakambal niya ang puyat at panaginip bihasa s’ya sapag-aalinlangan at pagkakahimbing Sumisigla at pangahas ang kanyang kabataan nag-aanyaya ng pagkalunod ang kanyang lalim Matiyaga siyang magbantay sa magnanakaw...
BY ANAKPAWIS PARTY-LIST Posted by Bulatlat.com Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran last week expressed alarm that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was seriously hallucinating. Given this, he said that she "must immediately step down on the grounds of mental...
Not only in the Philippines! Even in Australia, Filipino workers could get fired for joining unions as experienced by three welders in Queensland. By CAESAR BEN BASAN BAROÑA Bulatlat.com Three Filipino welders in Queensland, Australia were fired last week for...
Will Nicole get justice? The U.S. government and the Arroyo administration have done all they can to deny her justice in a court of law. Perhaps only the court of public opinion and the triumph of the Filipino people's struggle against foreign, imperialist...
When a country fails in its obligation to protect the lives of human rights defenders but is elected to such a prestigious UN body, it dishonors the UN as an institution and makes a mockery of its ability to promote and protect human rights. By Asian Human Rights...
The PPT Second Session indictment shows that the Philippines has not substantially moved away from political repression and military abuse despite the ouster of a military-backed, U.S.-propped dictatorship nor has it broken free of its neocolonial status despite...
This is a country where seeking justice leads to further injustice, where the culture of impunity is aggravated by a culture of fear and defenselessness, where a corrupt and lawless government in all its brazenness invokes the “rule of law” to justify assaults on...
Is tourism more important than job security for the Macapagal-Arroyo administration? Enlightened workers of public hospitals think so. By PHILIP PARAAN Bulatlat.com The Macapagal-Arroyo administration is currently promoting medical tourism to have an “effective and...
With its trade, mining, and economic interests in the Philippines, it is no wonder that Australia is pushing for the signing of military treaties with the Philippine government. There were reports that even without a treaty, 20 soldiers from the elite Australian...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com Pastor Billy Austin, chairperson of the militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance or Bayan) Ilocos chapter, was shot by still unidentified men around 9 p.m. last night in Vigan City (407kms north of Manila). Austin was...
By Johann Hein B. Arpon Bulatlat.com A death squad in Eastern Samar claimed another victim with the brutal murder of Rodrigo Catayong, PhD., 55 years old, chairperson of KARAPATAN-Eastern Samar yesterday morning just in front of the McArthur, E. Samar Catholic...
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