By ALDWIN QUITASOL NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY -- As their colleagues trooped to Malacañang to seek audience with President Benigno Aquino III, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers-Metro Baguio and the Confederation of Unity for Recognition...
By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT-QUITASOL NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted By: Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – In its effort to correct prevailing misconceptions and misrepresentations of indigenous peoples (IPs), the Program for Indigenous Cultures (PIC-USC) of the University of the...
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY— Hundreds of affected vendors vow to block another demolition of an area at the public market here after the tearing down of 700 stalls at the public market’s Block 3, Aug. 22. Pablito Gumnad, a vendor, said the development by...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com The 10th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army has revived the vigilante group ‘Alsa Lumad’ in its campaign against the New People’s Army (NPA). The NPA, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), has been...
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The European Union through its Manila office, the Delegation of the European Union in the Philippines, and Dinteg, the Cordillera Indigenous Peoples' Legal Rights Center, recently launched a five-year project that will enhance...
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- A review of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA), a mining moratorium and to put a stop to the counterinsurgency program Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL) became the rallying calls for more than 200 delegates representing the...
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com LEGAZPI CITY -- The tribal leader said he lives nearby. Speaking in Tagalog, he said, “Diyan lang (nearby),” when asked where he would go home to. To indigenous peoples, the phrase “Diyan lang,” is as simple as pointing to the back with...
By ML MARIGZA NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY — Farmers groups have protested the field testing of genetically modified (GM) eggplants in the Philippines. Known as the Philippine Fruit and Shoot Borer (FSB)-resistant eggplants (Bt brinjal) or...
By: www.nordis.net Posted by: Bulatlat.com MANILA — Over 50 indigenous leaders and representatives from different parts of the country including the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) marched to Mendiola August 9 to submit the Indigenous People’s Agenda to President...
By NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted by Bulatlat.com MANILA — There’s another curious house call for the President. A group of indigenous peoples from different parts of the country, dressed in their traditional garb of g-strings and colorful headgear attempted to enter...
By Artemio A. Dumlao By Bulatlat.com Tuba, Benguet–The environment department is blaming a Marcos decree on why townsfolk in at least six towns of La Union are still landless. These residents could only avail of the government’s Handog Titulo (Gift of Title)...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR August 2, 2010 Dear President Noynoy Aquino, I would like to congratulate you for standing your ground when people asked you to stop smoking. The non-smokers do not understand how important it is for people like us to puff our daily dose of...
By NORTHERN DISPATCH BAGUIO CITY — The 5th Infantry Division is imposing a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the local government units that violates the principle of civilian supremacy over the military, Simon “Ka Filiw” Naogsan, spokesman of the the Cordillera...
By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Women representatives from Asia Pacific countries shared their experiences on the impact of militarism in their homes at a conference on “Women Resisting Violence And War” held at the Igorot...
By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today Posted by: Bulatlat.com MACO, COMPOSTELA VALLEY – Communist guerillas who captured and released three soldiers and a militiaman in Compostela Valley in June scoffed at the deployment of more government troops from Luzon. Anvil Guinto,...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Residents of Casiguran municipality, Aurora province are urging President Benigno Aquino III to stop the development of Aurora Ecozone, which they said had resulted in human-rights violations. A vocal critic of the project...
By KATHLEEN T. OKUBO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BONTOC, Mt. Province -- “We the people of Mountain Province demand the unconditional and immediate pull-out from our villages of the troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines!" The Cordillera...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by: Bulatlat.com SAGADA, Mountain Province ? People from three municipalities of this province oppose the exploration activities of a subsidiary of Anglo American PLC mining company in their communities. The Cordillera...
By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat.com MACO, COMPOSTELA VALLEY – Communist guerillas who captured and released three soldiers and a militiaman in Compostela Valley in June scoffed at the entry of more government troops from Luzon. Anvil Guinto,...
By GERMELINA LACORTE / Davao Today
Cardeno’s unexplained death while working for the US troops in February and the death of the Philippine Army officer a month later have renewed calls among militant groups to junk the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between the US and the Philippines.
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