Photo by Dabet Castañeda / Bulatlat Bulatlat.com The cedula (community tax certificate) was the symbol of the subjugation of the Filipino people during the Spanish colonial period. Revolutionary forces under the banner of the Katipunan led by Andres Bonifacio tore...
NI RICHARD R. GAPPI Bulatlat.com Sa mga gabing di makatulog, iniisip ko ang mga kaklaseng siguro, siguro isinilid sa drum at pagkatapos sinimentuhan; ang mga kakilalang ang mga mukha ay pinasabog ng pasistang mga bigwas, bala at putok; ang mga kapwa makata at...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com At around 10 am today, the House of Representatives voted 173-32 upholding the decision of the Committee on Justice junking the impeachment complaint filed against Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for “insufficiency in substance”. Justice...
By Jhong dela Cruz Bulatlat.com The parents of two missing students allegedly abducted by the military asked the Court of Appeals to issue a warrant of arrest for Army commander Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan, who again failed to appear at the habeas corpus petition...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com Eight members of the human rights group Karapatan- Southern Tagalog were abducted today while on a fact finding mission in Catanauan, Quezon. The fact finding mission team was on their way home at around 10-11a.m. when soldiers from the...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com On the eve of Benigno Aquino Jr.’s death anniversary, Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed an order creating “A Commission to Conduct an Independent Probe of the Killings of Media Practitioners and Militant Activists.” The commission will...
BY THE COUNSELS FOR THE DEFENSE OF LIBERTIES Bulatlat.com CODAL finds unacceptable Pres. Arroyo’s creation of a probe body to investigate political killings without any consultation from the victims and the human rights sector to assure the public that the body is...
First of three parts In the long-drawn war against the Marxist guerrillas where force takes the lead, the country’s security forces have had a reproachable record in human rights threatening even legitimate political dissent, the peaceful advocacy of radical reform...
Last of three parts The issue of political murders is tied to the issue of regime survival. BY BOBBY TUAZON Bulatlat.com The recent directive of Macapagal-Arroyo to the justice department and Philippine National Police (PNP) to solve at least 10 political killings...
Top nursing educators and former CHED authorities say that the recent nursing board exam leakage is just the tip of a bigger problem – the deterioration in the country’s nursing education and government’s export of nurses abroad. By Arthur L. Allad-iw Northern...
“The poor should have a way to use the justice system for their benefit. The high price of pursuing justice makes the poor choose to evade it.” – FLAG lawyer Jose Manuel Diokno By Jhong dela Cruz Bulatlat.com The relatives of 21-year-old Jonas “Chukoy” Nucum and...
As tribes denounce killings of 72 indigenous peoples What could be the reasons for the Philippine government’s refusal to vote for the adoption of the draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples last June? BY JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com In...
Certain things stand out despite the inevitable fog of war, including the accompanying lop-sided propaganda war being waged, that a fair-minded and serious person can make out. And that is, it is overwhelmingly the Lebanese people – civilians who are getting killed...
The good news is that all regional wage boards in the country have granted wage increases. This obviously means that private sector workers nationwide are now entitled to higher wages. The bad news, however, is that the increase in wages is not enough to offset the...
The head of Kalinga provincial police, Chief Supt. Pedro Ramos, is being sought after a supposed rash of unsolved killings including the ambush of Bayan Muna (People First) provincial chairman Dr. Constancio Claver and his family two weeks ago. BY ACE ALEGRE...
Facing risks to their personal safety amid the spate of political killings and forcible abductions, and confronting a Department of Justice, which violates the rule of law in order to protect the interests of the administration and prosecute its critics, makes work...
The diminutive dilis (Philippine anchovy) plays a big role in the lives of villagers in Dimasalang town in the island-province of Masbate. Native folks here say it is the only fish variety that can be processed in two ways and is useful, rain or shine. BY DABET...
"Government" here also means ordinary people, not an impersonal bureaucratic state, for indeed Chavez has many times called upon the historically-disenfranchised majority to take power into their own hands. By Delia D. Aguilar Bulatlat.com CARACAS, Venezuela - The...
Only 2 of 6 CAR provinces not bald, environment official says Pine forests in Baguio City and the rest of the Cordillera mountains have thinned at alarming levels as the environment department here rang a bell to everyone to reclaim its lost grandeur. BY ACE ALEGRE...
NI MARK ANGELES Bulatlat.com Doon po sa Philippines may Mama San na Gloring. Peyborit komoditi mga Bagong Bayani. Primerang isusulong pabrika ng katulong. Skilled workers ay for upgrade to serve global kabarets. Magyaya sa umaga, sa gabi ay maestra. Scrubber ng...
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