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Even as they did not always see eye to eye with her politically, several progressive groups and party-list representatives have paid tribute to former President Corazon Aquino. They recognize her role in the people’s struggles against tyranny, corruption, and greed for power.
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Kulturang Popular Kultura Bulatlat.com Nabuhay akong nagkaroon ng politikal na kamulatan sa kasagsagan ng diktaduryang Marcos. At bahagi ng kamulatang ito, ang pag-challenge ni Cory Aquino sa diktadurya. Bago siya pumasok sa asasinasyon ng...
The failures of her presidency notwithstanding, Cory Aquino will be remembered for helping restore democracy in the Philippines and dismantle the vestiges of the Marcos dictatorship. When the Arroyo regime increasingly became corrupt and autocratic, she again rose to the challenge. Cory fought tyranny to the very end.
Editors’ Note: For four days from Nov. 16-20 this year, Ted Alcuitas, a Filipino-Canadian journalist, traveled to the Central Luzon provinces of Nueva Ecija and Bulacan as part of a nine-member Canadian fact-finding mission to investigate the human rights situation...
Among other provisions, the CARPER bill mandates that private agricultural lands – the type that the Arroyos and the Cojuangcos own – can only be distributed if the original CARP managed to distribute 90 percent of its target. But CARP, despite the two decades it had, only distributed less than half of it. It’s an impossible provision that only underscores what progressive farmers have been saying all along – that CARPER is bogus.
By ABNER BOLOS Gitnang Luson News Service Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 13 May 6- 12, 2007 TARLAC CITY (125 kms. north of Manila)- Emy Ladera-Facunla, sister of slain Tarlac city councilor Abelardo Ladera went up the back of the truck that served as a makeshift...
On Nov. 16, 2004, seven strikers were killed at the picket line outside Gate 1 of the sugar mill when soldiers and police fired at thousands of protesters manning the barricades. Eight more – including an acclaimed bishop, a pastor, city councilor – who were active...
BY THE CHRISTIAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIP UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST IN THE PHILIPPINES Posted by Bulatlat On Nov. 16, 2004, the heat of the sun was scorching, and the Hacienda Luisita workers matched the sun’s intensity with their passion and determination for just...
They came back, not in the thousands as they did when the massacre occurred two years ago, but with the same fervor to continue their struggle for land and justice in Hacienda Luisita. BY ABNER BOLOS Gitnang Luzon News Service Posted by Bulatlat TARLAC CITY - They...
They did not die in vain. The families and co-workers of the Hacienda Luisita martyrs said that in spite of the tragedy, they are slowly benefiting from what their kin and comrades gave their lives for.
“Ang DAR naka-TRO, ang bungkalan hindi,” (The Department of Agrarian Reform [DAR] is under a temporary restraining order [TRO], cultivation is not.) Jorge Gatus, 47, president of the farm workers’ cooperative in Barangay Mapalacsiao, Hacienda Luisita told DAR...
The works in Perspektiba attest to the growing discontent and clamor among the visual arts community against the assaults on human rights under the Arroyo administration. By Lisa Ito Bulatlat Up in arms over the assassinations of activists and civilians under the...
BY ANNA KRISTINA P. VIRTUSIO Bulatlat MANILA -- Farmers' groups trooped to the House of Representatives in Quezon City Tuesday to denounce the violent dispersal of their camp-out outside the south gate of the Batasan Pambansa Complex last Friday. “We condemn the...
It’s now almost two years since December 22, 2005 when the government declared with finality that the land in Hacienda Luisita should be distributed to the farm workers. Meanwhile, the Cojuangco family has not stopped in its effort to sabotage land distribution. BY...
A government which is not serious in implementing a genuine agrarian reform program with a weak law such as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988 is a recipe for more feudal exploitation and peasant unrest. A government which is not serious in agrarian...
Jolito Divinagracia and Ranel Enoc are among the farmers in Tamugan, Calinan district, whose parents are beneficiaries of the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). But almost 20 years into the program, both their families are still having a...
After the strike ended more than two years ago, the HLI farm workers have been planting rice and vegetables providing them with income and food. But more than the earnings, they find fulfillment in cultivating the land that is rightfully theirs. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA...
The year 2007 saw more of the same for this marvelous but tragic country: extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances; increasing poverty and very substantial hunger; widespread corruption across the entire system of governance and the “market”; and an...
Kung sa Minamata, mamamatay muna ang mga biktima at ang sibilyang nagkaso bago makatamo ng katarungan, sa Pilipinas, paano mo aantaying mamatay ang pinakamaraming bilang ng mamamayan? Hindi na nga inaantay mabawasan ang bilang, minamasaker pa ang mga nag-aaklas na...
Notwithstanding CARP’s goal of land redistribution, full land ownership has continued to decline, owing to the intensification of tenancy and lease arrangements. BY ALAYSA TAGUMPAY E. ESCANDOR Philippine Collegian Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 50, January...
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