By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Biosafety is not the intent of this new government policy. It will only facilitate the entry of more genetically-modified organisms (GMOS) into the country. This is bio-entry, not biosafety.” – RESIST! Agrochemical TNCs Network
By INA ALLECO R. SLVERIO Bulatlat.com There’s no way they are going to allow ROTC training become mandatory again. Kabataan Party-List and the youth and students organization Anakbayan have declared their determination to oppose proposals to once more make ROTC or...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Environmental groups in Batangas are crying foul against dramatic actor and Batangas Provincial Board member Christopher de Leon ’s alleged support for mining operations in the region. Saying that the recent tragedy...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Migrante International has another bone to pick with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). The Commission on Audit (CoA) recently released its report on the POEA’s “Balik Manggagawa Program” and...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The two representatives of Bayan Muna party are calling for investigations into the World Bank fund anomaly involving the Supreme Court. Reps. Teddy Casiño and Neri Colmenares have filed House Resolution 2049 to...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Philippine government should do its best to protect the rights of the country’s 300,000 fishing industry workers. This was the statement made by the Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The student is no different from the teacher. This was the stand of the BagongAlyansangMakabayan (BAYAN) on the exchange of insults between Malacañang and the camp of former president and now under hospital-arrest...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Overseas Filipino workers and their families are up against what they say is yet another ploy to milk them for money: a whopping 150 percent increase in health insurance premiums. Migrante International and its...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The country's urban poor have one more reason to consider President Benigno S. Aquino III an enemy of the poor: he vetoed a provision inserted by the House of Representatives into the 2012 national budget that would have...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
In his veto message on the 2011 national budget, President Aquino said the P5 billion calamity fund should be mainly used by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) for “actual calamities”and not for “preparation of relocation sites/facilities, and training personnel engaged in direct disaster.”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
In the 17 years that the Philippines has been a member of the World Trade Organization, from being a net importer of rice, it became a net exporter as production fell considerably and land grabbing became rampant. Now, even vegetables are being heavily imported and soon imported fish products would flood the country, all in the name of the WTO.
Environmentalists protest against Aboitiz Coal Power Plant in Davao (Photos by Ina Alleco R.Silverio)
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) led by Migrante International and its chapters in at least 20 countries will launch coordinated protests and other forms of action on December 18, which they have dubbed as "Zero Remittance...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Already there are 356 political detainees in the country, with 78 of them having been arrested on the orders of the Aquino administration’s armed and judicial forces. Almost half or 35 of them are women. Also 153 women have already fallen victim to extrajudicial killings since 2001, with six of them killed under the watch of the Benigno Aquino III administration.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Based on evidence presented before it, the Tribunal found the defendant agrochemical TNCs “responsible for gross, widespread and systematic violations of the right to health and life, economic, social and cultural rights, as well as of civil and political rights, and women and children’s rights.”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Environmentalists and fisherfolk rejoice. The Bohol chapter of the fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) Bokkana-Bohol and the alliance Defend Panglao Movement scored...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
According to the Center for Women’s Resources, from October 2010 to October the prices of many, if not all, commodities increased substantially.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Detained artist Ericson Acosta and other political detainees all over the country are on hunger strike. They began their strike last Saturday, December 3, 2011, as part of the campaign to free all political prisoners in the...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA - Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Enrique Ona is homophobic. Or at least his comments at a recent convention were. Gay and lesbian activists are demanding the official’s immediate resignation after he reportedly...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA - Two party-list lawmakers are going against the plan of the Bureau of International Revenue (BIR) to impose new taxes. Antonio Tinio of ACT Teachers Party-List and Luz Ilagan of Gabriela Women’s Party said the...
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