The Catholic Church and the Davao City government are waging a fierce battle against each other over contraception. Women like Hazel Baraw get caught in the crossfire. By Germelina A. Lacorte DAVAO CITY -- Life for Hazel Baraw, 28, hardly changed after she got...
How the new value-added tax law adds to the suffering of Davao’s women and mothers. By Grace Uddin DAVAO CITY – Ever since her husband, a house painter, started getting fewer clients last year, Miranda, a 41-year-old mother of one, started working as a bet taker in...
The series of violent incidents in Diwalwal last October - a huge fire, a gas poisoning, and a cave-in - could be part of the plot by vested-interest groups to drive small-scale miners out of Mount Diwalwal. By Daisy C. Gonzales DIWALWAL, the Philippines -- Alma...
As a struggling lesbian writer, where shall I find a literary mother? By Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz Northern Dispatch A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing. -- Nicole Brossard The silence surrounding the lesbian in...
The streets of Davao still seethe with the indignation of the thousands of Nenas, Lydas, Indays and Juanas who, decades before, had given birth to one of the country's most active and determined women's movement. By Cheryll D. Fiel DAVAO CITY -- A boy who must have...
How do you tackle a problem as serious and complex as the various crises afflicting the Philippine environment? Environmental historian Prof. Rowena Boquiren proposes a simple and creative solution: for everyone who has come to learn the true state of the...
Ang Kasalukuyang Panulaang Makabayan sa Panahon ng Krisis at Rebolusyon Ang halaga ng tula ay sinusukat sa sugpungan ng rebolusyong pangkultura at sistemang malakolonyal at malapyudal, ng rebolusyong pangkultura at digmang bayan, ng rebolusyong pangkultura at...
It was at the same time a tribute concert to poet-revolutionary leader Andres Bonifacio – whose 142nd birthday fell that day – and a protest concert calling for the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The concert was organized by the Artists for the...
Review of the CD album Songs of Struggle and Liberation Produced by the Euro-Philippine Inter-Cultural Solidarity (EPICS) Manufactured and distributed in the Philippines by IBON Foundation The artists behind Songs of Love and Struggle are at it again. But this...
The Philippines hosts United States soldiers allegedly tasked with training their counterparts in the Philippine Armed Forces. Six of these soldiers are accused of raping a 22-year old Filipina—an event that has correctly provoked questions on the wisdom of the...
Many municipalities and provinces have suffered financing shortfalls causing the diversion of health funds to other priorities. There was also no prior development of health staff including those retained by the DoH, or local government executives and officials for...
In the last preliminary investigation of the controversial Subic rape case in Olongapo City, prosecution lawyer Katrina Legarda raised alarm over the perceived bias of the country’s justice system for the six U.S. Marines accused of raping a Filipina. A judge who...
“We should be out there and we should be telling everybody else and we should do our part in seeing to it that this does not happen again. Not to another woman, not to another girl, definitely not to our youth,” a participant told the audience. By Angely Chi DAVAO...
Last of three parts A paper by Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan, former Vice-Chancellor for Research of the University of the Philippines-Manila and executive director of the National Institutes of Health-Philippines, entitled “The Brain Drain Phenomenon and Its Implications...
The “How’s my driving” sign appears on public utility vehicles around the country so that motorists would know what number to call when they want to tell on errant drivers. But the baby peeping out from this jeepney in Baguio City, 246 kms. north of Manila, lends...
Ni Gelacio Guillermo Posted by Bulatlat.com Dipa ne ning alte, Gloria Parang reyna ng Pyestang Tugak sa Pampanga Sa kakokokak sa Malakanyang nagdonya Pekeng reyna'y tigre't santa kung umasta Sa palasyo't kampo, sa batasa't korte Nagpipista ang mga palakang mabuni...
“My paintings,” Papo de Asis wrote in 1992, “yearn to be the anguished expression of a people long denied of justice and equality...The convoluted reality of my historical past wrote the scenario to my present sources of sorrow.” By Bobby Tuazon Bulatlat.com In the...
A grand global fight looms in Hong Kong in December—a fight between the rich corporations and governments of the First World, and the vast number of people in the Third World worst hit by the W.T.O. By Joseph Yu Ibon Features Posted by Bulatlat.com With two failed...
Gushes of spray bathed me, and even when I looked down, the water would sting my eyes. After a few minutes, the loud drum roll of the waterfalls faded into light pelting and my vision cleared. We were past the waterfalls and before us was the large green patch of...
Bankerohan and the other public markets in Davao are places to explore, not only for fun but for a few pesos of savings in this increasingly difficult times. By Daisy C. Gonzales davaotoday.com DAVAO CITY -- If you are a first-timer here -- if, let's say, you don't...
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