Street Shooter: Life and Death
Life and Death
Raymund Villanueva | Oct 26, 2009
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Save as PDFIn Proposals, ILO Puts Burden of Respecting Workers’ Rights on Arroyo Regime
In Proposals, ILO Puts Burden of Respecting Workers’ Rights on Arroyo Regime
By MARYA SALAMAT
A high-level team of the UN’s International Labor Organization has proposed, among others, trainings and "continuing education" for the Philippine police, military, the judiciary and the labor department on how to respect union rights and uphold labor laws.
Sidebar: Responses to ILO High-Level Mission
Class and Ondoy: The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Ideological Distortions
Class and Ondoy: The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Ideological Distortions
By GILL H. BOEHRINGER
By seeking to convince its readers that the effects of Ondoy were “felt equally by rich and poor” and that it was a “great equalizer,” the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the most influential newspaper in the Philippines, was attempting to bolster the view that the Filipino class system had nothing to do with the disaster, and that the lives of all Filipinos are shaped by the same forces of nature, even by fate or by God.
Regime’s Counter-Insurgency Campaign Drives Mindanao Lumads Homeless
Regime’s Counter-Insurgency Campaign Drives Mindanao Lumads Homeless
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Like the Moro in many parts of Mindanao, evacuation has become a way of life for the Lumads . They would rather sleep in schools, at village halls or town gymnasiums than stay in their villages and bear the brunt of military operations.
Back in Their Homes, Manobos of Surigao Face Another Threat
Back in Their Homes, Manobos of Surigao Face Another Threat
Barely a month after the Manobos went back to their homes in Lianga, the soldiers are back again, recruiting them to the Task Force Gantangan, a paramilitary group to fight the government’s war against the insurgents.
The Mansaka and Their Golden Guitar
The Mansaka and Their Golden Guitar
In one of their stories of long ago, the Mansaka, an indigenous tribe from the provinces of Davao del Norte and Compostela Valley, once possessed a golden guitar, which they played when they sang their songs of longing, aspirations and victory.
As Philippines Reels from Calamity, ‘Big Three’ Hike Oil Prices; ‘Greed’ Denounced
As Philippines Reels from Calamity, ‘Big Three’ Hike Oil Prices; ‘Greed’ Denounced
By MARYA SALAMAT
While the government bears down on small businesses and producers, warning them against profiteering in the wake of typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng, it has allowed Shell, Caltex and Petron to increase oil prices at will.
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