The nine punks illegally arrested by the Benguet police have welcomed the appointment of a new prosecutor to investigate them reiterating that they being innocent victims detained for eight months now, the investigation should have been done earlier. BY NESTOR...
Many are lured by the promise of high pay for seafarers. But the film Turbulent Waters takes us back to reality by showing how this supposed lucrative profession produced the galley slaves of the 21st century. BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Many are lured by the...
A fully owned subsidiary of US multinational Dole Food Company, DOLE Philippines Inc. (Dolefil), accounts for the bulk of Dole Food Company's total pineapple output. But, said the union, their wages can’t even compare with the salary levels of younger workers in...
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) has enforced a wave of violent dispersals and food blockade against on-strike garment factory workers within the 276-hectare Cavite Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) in Rosario town in Cavite, leaving scores wounded and...
The agreement is biased towards the more powerful Japanese economic interests, so how can JPEPA be positive for the Philippines in terms of trade and investment? BY SONNY AFRICA IBON Features Posted by Bulatlat After negotiating away from public scrutiny for four...
Government and the oil companies are using the series of oil price rollbacks to justify the deregulation policy and make it appear that the fundamentals of free market competition are working. However, the continued overpricing and profiteering of the oil firms...
Isla Puting Bato, located in the breakwater of the North Harbour and the adjacent land of the Philippine Ports Authority, cradles hundreds of families who are becoming more determined to win against the cruel tides that embattle their lives. After a huge fire that...
"Development aggression" and "globalization" have contributed to the destruction of the country's ecosystem (considered one of the richest in the world), traditional protective barriers and once self-sustaining economies that used to enable the people to withstand...
Instead of copies of the Philippine Collegian, there are now several position papers on the bulletin boards of all colleges denouncing the UP administration’s suppression of the publication’s autonomy. By MARK JOSEPH UBALDE Contributed to Bulatlat Copies of the...
The Counsels for the Defense of Liberties (CODAL) urges the Senate to remove Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile as chairman of the Human Rights Committee for his anti-human rights position, shown by ramming the Anti-Terrorism Bill in the Senate and for his lack of respect for...
All of us are in grief and feel a deep sense of loss over the murder of Bishop Ramento. But we are all comforted by the fact that he has lived a full and meaningful life in the service of his faith and the oppressed and exploited people. BY PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON...
Fr. Terry Revollido said the Iglesia Filipino Independiente (IFI) is under attack because it is the church “of the workers, the peasants and other poor people.” In his homily at the wake of Bishop Ramento in Tarlac City he said that the bishop died because he...
“It is a dream come true. Old women in the village are literally crying with happiness when they saw long stretches of palay (unhusked rice grain) being spread on the concrete road to dry under the sun. They say this is what they have been waiting for all these...
For testifying against a fund that never reached them, witnesses to the P728-million fertilizer scam reportedly engineered by former Agriculture Undersecretary and now U.S. immigration detainee Jocelyn “Joc-joc” Bolante, are now being chased by suspicious burly men...
By Will Dunham Reuters October 11, 2006 Posted By Bulatlat.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 655,000 Iraqis have died from the Iraq war, exceeding previous estimates, researchers said on Wednesday, but President George W. Bush called the findings not credible and a...
By Abner Bolos Gitnang Luzon News Service Bulatlat.com Posted 6:20 p.m., Oct. 5, 2006 TARLAC CITY- Bayan Muna party representative Satur Ocampo said on Wednesday that the killing of Bishop Alberto Ramento is part of the long string of extra-judicial executions...
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Kailangang ipaalam sa madla na ang ugat ng mga ideya ng mga naghaharing uri na ipinapakalat ng mga binabayarn nilang mga alagad sa sining at panitikan ay naka-ugat sa kanilang pagnanais na panatiliin ang kaugalian ng kanilang uri. NI EDBERTO M. VILLEGAS Inilathala...
Bangus (milkfish) has given fame to Dagupan – and income to thousands of families and vendors. This may all change when a big fish processing plant rises in the city. BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat DAGUPAN CITY, Pangasinan (212 kms north of Manila) ? No town beats...
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