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...
NI MARYJANE ALEJO Bulatlat.com pasan na krus ang pag-aalala sa anak ng isang ina. at sa tuwing may pagkilos sa mendiola, hindi mapigilan ang kabog ng kaba. ilang ina na ba ang nangatog sa takot sa mga balita ng kabi-kabilang pagdukot? ilang ina na ba ang lumuha ng...
“Until sufficient jobs can be created, overseas workers will have to continue risking physical and psychological abuse, and even death, in order to feed their families and ensure them a decent life.” By Aubrey SC Makilan Bulatlat.com As the poorest island in the...
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...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Bulatlat.com Bayang ginawaran ng banal na halik, Apat na haligi'y hindi matutumba; Naisin man nilang lagim ay ihasik Sa lahat ng sulok at hangad mabura Ay di matutupad. Pagkat nakatitik Na ito sa bato't Banal na Bibliya. (Gulat din ang Hudyong...
President Arroyo may have praised Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan for not backing down on his efforts “to liberate” Central Luzon communities from a “night of terror”, but the military’s counterinsurgency campaign have also spawned a growing number of internal...
2 rights lawyers decry breakdown of law under Arroyo “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...
Central Luzon region is attracting mining investors, with its rich deposits of asphalt, basalt, gold, silver, copper and zinc. Indigenous peoples, however, say the mining explorations are driving them out of their ancestral lands. BY JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com...
Bulatlat.com We church leaders, gathered here in Manila, July 12-16, 2006, represent churches throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, and North America. We have been gathered here in prayer and for critical reflection on the way military,...
Extra-judicial killings: 145 a year under GMA, 120 a year under FM Based on data from Karapatan (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights), the number of victims of extra-judicial killings has reached 725 since 2001, when Arroyo became president through a...
By Flon Faurillo Bulatlat.com Involuntary disappearances, one of the cruelest forms of human rights violations, are becoming a cause for concern under the Arroyo administration. Even the Supreme Court has taken up the issue, in a number of cases ordering the...
Let us zero in specifically on the question of violations of civil and political rights under Mrs. Arroyo's watch. Why is it that we know that this government is not to be believed when it says it will stop political killings? BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO...
OFWs, many of them women, are fleeing strife-ridden Mindanao to look for jobs in war-torn Middle East. For salaries that hardly uplift their lives at home, is government exporting OFWs abroad only to be in harm’s way again? BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat.com The...
Bulatlat.com On April 28, 2006, the writer Axel Alejandro Pinpin and four companions were abducted in Sungay village, Tagaytay City, by the Philippine National Police and charged with rebellion. Pinpin's companions, researchers Aristedes Sarmiento and Riel...
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...
BY SHAWN GARCIA Party for Socialism and Liberation Bulatlat.com The World Trade Organization Doha Development Agenda was suspended on July 24, 2006. The decision to halt the "Doha Round" of trade talks came after the major imperialist powers—the United States and...
Photo by Voltaire Domingo/ NPPA Images Bulatlat.com This is not a terrorist plot, but merely a process by which used liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanks are cleared of gas residues prior to reconditioning. A worker in a LPG factory in Valenzuela City puts a used...
Some 138 janitors fired by the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman campus are protesting their retrenchment. Some of them have worked in UP for as long as 16 years. BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com Those who used to clean up the mess are now protesting how they...
“Until sufficient jobs can be created, overseas workers will have to continue risking physical and psychological abuse, and even death, in order to feed their families and ensure them a decent life.” By Aubrey SC Makilan Bulatlat.com As the poorest island in the...
Second of three parts The deliberate use of terror is “a legitimate and highly effective tactical tool of unconventional warfare.” This unconventional warfare is designated as a “national policy” with the military assigned the primary responsibility in “the conduct...
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