Homonhon Island is known for its abundant reserves of nickel and chromite. It has been subjected to open-pit mining since the 1990s despite opposition from many of the island’s 4,413 residents and the local diocese.
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Ibon research flags tragic gov’t responses in post-Haiyan rehabilitation
“The government is over-achieving in the reconstruction of roads and bridges and totally neglecting the needs of the victims.”
Protest caravan from Visayas arrives in Manila
Typhoon Yolanda survivors and farmers are in Manila for a series of protest until Dec. 10.
Groups hail UNSR report on internal refugees
“We are two different entities that looked into the same picture and drew the same conclusions.”
Marathon
Photo by Makoi Popioco
One year after Yolanda|Leytenos rebuild homes, communities through bayanihan
The strongest typhoon to make landfall in the Philippines, November 8, 2013, damaged over a million houses and left over four million people homeless. Bayanihan, the Filipino spirit of helping each other, literally builds homes and communities in this Yolanda-stricken area.
Fil-am probe team ‘dismayed’ over government negligence
“It’s a common trend that we’ve seen in different communities in Mindanao that the government is not doing its job like providing social services and upholding peasants’ rights and protecting the environment.”
6 months after Typhoon Haiyan, victims still nowhere near recovery
Despite the claims of the Aquino government that they are doing their best, typhoon survivors still dwell on tents today; they still suffer from hunger; there is still no meaningful program for reconstructing their livelihood; and worse, they are called various names by officials of the Aquino government.
Filipino women hold Aquino accountable for their sufferings
During the International Women’s Day, thousands of Filipino women in Manila marched toward Malacanang to demand accountability from President Benigno Aquino III for his ‘criminal neglect’ of Yolanda victims, unabated spike in prices of basic commodities, denial of social services, subservience to US dictates, among others. In Baguio City, a similar protest action was led…
Ang madre
Ni RICHARD R. GAPPI Bulatlat.com “Nais ng Pangulo na makadaupang palad ang mga biktima ng kalamidad,’ wika ng tagapagsalita ng Pangulo na si Edwin Lacierda kung bakit hindi sa EDSA gagawin ang pagggunita sa People Power 1. Apat na araw pa lamang ang nakakalipas, nagpunta sa Malacanang ang mga survivor ng bagyong Yolanda. Nais nilang…
Waray as battlecry
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com Waray, which refers to both the lingua franca and the people of Samar and Leyte, literally means nothing. It is interesting and also quite strange that this term is also used to signify nothingness. But can there be something out of nothing? Can nothing produce something? Today, the word Waray…