Community groups working with the fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) and the Save Laguna Lake Movement (SLLM) have reacted in the negative to reports that the Aquino government has accepted a $ 10-million loan from World Bank in connection with Laguna Lake rehabilitation project.
Central Luzon farmers on Feb. 16 trooped to the House of Representatives to attend the Committee on Agrarian Reform’s public hearing of House Bill 374 or Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill (GARB).
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Satur Ocampo laments the statements made by the AFP about the peace talks that were mostly disparaging or negative. He says there were designed to sabotage the peace process.
I support the peace talks because I believe that the armed conflict in the country can only begin to be resolved if the two sides, the two governments of the GPH and the NDFP, sit and talk and come up with solutions to the problems that precisely resulted in the conflict.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The cancellation of mining applications is not enough to save Palawan from environmental destruction. This was the stand of activist environmental group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment in reaction to...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“The armed conflict is deeply rooted in extreme poverty and social injustice suffered by the Filipino people and should be addressed by concrete measures A just and lasting peace cannot be achieved through abstract and empty peace rhetoric.” –Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
They met at a time when the Philippines was awakening to a revolution that sought to empower the poor against their exploiters. He was a priest, she was a nun, and the time was 1971, a year before the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos declared martial law.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Community residents in Bohol recently petitioned the local government to dismantle 23 bioethanol farms previously cultivated in 23 coastal towns of the province. Led by the fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan expressed disappointment after Malacañang reently announced that it is excluding the Reproductive Health Bill from the list of priority bills for 2011 because it does...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- After their successful strike last year, members of the Bleustar Workers Labor Union (BWLU) face more challenges as the union prepares for a certificate election (CE) on February 18. This, despite finalizing a...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Pamalakaya, the fisherfolk group, said the government should stop “the national auction of coastal resources to multinationals and transnational corporation," saying such a policy would worsen the impact of climate change.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Posted by Bulatlat.com MANILA -- A progressive lawmaker takes up the cudgels for Filipinos stranded in Saudi Arabia, saying that they did not go abroad to live under bridges like storm-drain rats. Last February 7, Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy A....
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Privatizing the National Food Authority (NFA) will endanger food security and lead to greater price destabilization. Transferring the NFA’s functions to the DSWD will put food security issues at the hands of big...
As per records of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), there are 630 Filipinos languishing in various jails in Asia, the United States, and in the Middle East. By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Bayan Muna lawmaker Neri Colmenares recently...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANIla -- A Lanao del Sur-based electoral watchdog expressed strong opposition to proposals to postpone the August 8 2011 elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Healing Democracy, a Maranao grassroots...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
A new poverty index that reconfigured the method of determining the extent of poverty in the Philippines has been criticized as deceptive and can be exploited by the government to declare that life has become better under the Aquino administration, critics said the other day.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Activist environmental group Kalikasan-PNE welcomed President Benigno S. Aquino III's Executive Order No. 23 saying that if genuinely implemented, the order can stop large commercial logging operations and slow down...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
For all its claims of trying to make society better and healthier by providing it with quality medicines, milk and other products, Wyeth-Pfizer Philippines is making its own workers ill because of its countless anti-labor acts.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“We cannot rehabilitate the lake without the participation of the people sourcing their livelihood and living along lake shore.” – Save the Laguna Lake Movement.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Employees of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) led by the Alliance of COMELEC Employees in Service (ACES) called on newly-appointed Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes to heed their appeal that they immediately be...
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