QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com There are competing conceptions of the good life, but mainstream institutions bombard us with the dangerous ideology that the only way to achieve happiness and success is to acquire material possessions or gain fame in society. In schools and workplaces, we are told to get ahead of others or else…
PRESS RELEASE November 17, 2010 DAVAO CITY – Human rights group Karapatan says today that the peace and development teams of the Armed Forces of the Philippines now going around some parts of the city are meant to harass civilians and sow fear among the residents. “The concept pf Peace and development teams in the…
“It is my strongest hope that no one sees violence as a way to peace,” she said. These were the words of US Ambassador Kristie Kenney on Tuesday, Aug. 19, commenting on skirmishes between government forces and Moro rebels in Mindanao. It is an interesting statement coming from the highest-level representative of the US government…
BY Bulatlat.com August 12, 2008 – 5:18 p.m. “Power, perpetuation in power, not peace in Mindanao is Mrs. Arroyo’s true agenda in the renewed bid to change the charter.” This is how the party list representatives of Bayan Muna, Anakpawis and Gabriela deemed the renewed bid of Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her allies in Congress…
By the Ecumenical Bishops Forum Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Volume VIII, No. 26, August 3 – 9, 2008 Longing for food, many are hungry… Longing for water, many still thirst… Longing for peace, our world is troubled… Longing for hope, many despair… Christ be our Light! Shine in our hearts, shine in the darkness… We, Bishops,…
The bishops want peace, but the military seems to want something else. By GERRY ALBERT CORPUZ Posted by Bulatlat ANALYSIS Vol. VIII, No. 2, February 10-16, 2008 The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) last week called on the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) to resume peace talks. It…