2006
APRIL
Vol. VI, No. 11 April 23-29, 2006
HUMAN RIGHTS
WATCH
Rights
Lawyers Decry Continuous Political Killings
Despite Arroyo’s Position vs. Death Penalty
BY AUBREY MAKILAN
The
Cordillera Day: A Continuing Struggle
BY MARIE CONIE DUERME
Uma Hosts Codillera Day ‘06
BY AURA
IRENE SEMANERO
Alleviating Poverty: Is Microfinance the Solution?
BY
ZOFIA LEAL
Only in
the Philippines
BY TRINA FIDERIS
ANALYSIS
Oil Squeeze
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Military Rebels Say No to Cha-Cha
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
On the proposed 2006 national budget:
More
Taxes, Less Services this Year
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
International Mission to Probe Labor Killings
BY ABNER BOLOS
Bien
Lumbera: Activist, National Artist for Literature
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Painting
a King’s Lexis
BY PINK-JEAN FANGON MELEGRITO
STREETWISE
Railroading Charter Change
BY CAROL
PAGADUAN-ARAULLO
NEWS AT A GLANCE
-National ID system a major setback for civil liberties - Bayan
-Militants hit
Gonzales for reducing charges vs. 3 U.S. Marines
TULA (POETRY)
Pipoy’s Initiative
NI LOLITO R. GO, JR.
Awit ng Proletaryo
NI RAUL FUNILAS
Sabwatan sa Kataksilan?
Sabat
Natin: Hustisya Muna!
NI E. SAN JUAN, JR.
alternative reader no. 129
-Baghdad
Street Battle
Smacks of Open Civil
War
BY OMAR AL-IBADI
-US Contractor Admits Bribery for Jobs in Iraq
BY GRIFF WITTE
-Rumsfeld Linked to Guantanamo Torture
BY HAIDER RIZVI
Salungghit
Death Sentence
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Free Swim
BREAKING NEWS
-Ex-VP, Ex-Senator, Law Dean
Join Counsel for Subic Rape Victim
-Gov't
to Stop Illegal Quarry Operations in Luisita
-Women
Activists Protest Price Increases, Low Wages
-Abducted Youth Leader under
NOLCOM Custody
Vol. VI, No. 10 April 9-15, 2006
People’s Initiative Is Palace Initiative
– Ex-Comelec Exec
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN
REMOLLINO
Ex-Comelec Exec Says 2004 Poll Fraud Not Yet Closed
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Analysis
Who’s to Blame for
the Country’s Woes?
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Photo Essay
Reclaiming Mendiola, Water Cannons and Truncheons
Notwithstanding
BY ZOFI LEAL
Anti-Terror Bill May Improperly Extradite Joma
Sison, Others
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
Transfer Ka Bel to a Hospital outside Camp Crame,
Doctors Recommend to Court
BY LISA C. ITO
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Tirso
Cruz:
14th Luisita Martyr
BY ABNER BOLOS
Migrant Watch
Filipino Priests Flock
to U.S.
BY NICANOR SEGOVIA
Filipinos Count Cost
of Remittance Society
BY DAVAOTODAY
Related stories
-Overseas
Workers Benefit Least from ‘Strong’ Peso
-Billions
of OFW Remittance Destroy RP’s Basic Industries
In Valencia, Mayor Gags Critical Commentator
By Grace Cantal-Albasin
People's Initiative under
Pretenses:
The experience of
Barangay 865 in Pandacan
By Michael Goyagoy
Mining Disaster
Looms
in Sipalay City
BY KARL G. OMBION
Blind Poet among CAR’s 10 Outstanding Students
BY MAYETTE INIGUID AND
ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
POETRY
RP Ice Cream Companies Compete vs MNCs by Lowering
Prices
By Trina Melissa Federis
CULTURE
A Passion for Pasyon
BY DEE
AYROSO
nEWS AT A gLANCE
Bayan Muna warns of
misuse of 2006 budget for Cha-cha
Media groups hit
Valencia mayor’s order to close radio station
Migrant groups slam
plan to use P1 B OWWA funds for OFW bank
1 of 4 2006 college
graduates
will be jobless – Ibon
TULA (POETRY)
Sa Unang Limang Oras ng
Pagdinig sa Di-matapus-tapos na Tagisan ng Argumento sa Pagitan ng mga
Numero at Alpabeto tungkol sa Kung Maaari Nga Ba na Bigkasing O(OW) ang
0(Zero)
NI LOLITO R. GO, JR.
alternative reader no. 128
-Five
Days of April in Iraq
By Larry
C. Johnson
-How
GI Resistance Altered the Course of History
By Paul Rockwell
-Political
Upheaval
By Nadia Martinez
-Taliban
on the Front Line at the Pakistan Border
By
Françoise Chipaux
Democratic
SPace
Writers' Manifesto of Unity on
the Freedom of Expression
BY THE AMADO V. HERNANDEZ RESOURCE CENTER
Salungghit
Ticket to Hell
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Cooling Off Safely
Vol. VI, No. 9 April 2-8, 2006
Petition
to Junk Charter Change, Arroyo Revived
By
Emily Vital
Related
article:
POOLED REPORT
Related
articles:
Analysis
For Better or for Worse?
On
charter
change,
Arroyo style
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Analysis
People’s Governance,
Not Arroyo’s Charter Change
Solution to
corruption
By Antonio Tujan Jr.
LABOR WATCH
Odd Jobs
under the Arroyo administration
BY MARYA G. SALAMAT
Call Center Jobs:
Hope for the Unemployed?
BY
ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Job Fairs:
Not for the Choosy
BY ZOFI LEAL
STREETWISE
To Rebel Is
Justified
BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO
Photo Essay
Victims of
the Killer Landslide
by Johann Hein B. Arpon
Anti-DPA Hysteria victim speaks out after 18 years
Hysteria, Healing and the Correctness of Armed Struggle
BY DEE AYROSO
Negros
Media Demands Broadcaster’s Delisting from AFP Order of Battle
BY KARL G. OMBION
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Missing
Negros Labor Leader in Order of Battle
BY KARL G. OMBION AND RYAN B.
LACHICA
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Pimentel
Urges Release of ‘Sagada 11’
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
Interfaith
Pilgrimage Holds Rites to Oppose Mining in Siocon
BY
TYRONE VELEZ
MIGRANT WATCH
Filipinos in
U.S. Denounce Anti-immigrant Bill
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
TULA (POETRY)
Corrido
(Sa Ngayong Ulinig)
NI RAUL FUNILAS
alternative reader no. 125
-
Philippines: The Killing Fields of Asia
By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya
-
Fear Brings McCarthy, Orwell Back Into
Spotlight
By Ed Rampell
Democratic
SPace
So What's Wrong with Being a Nationalist Artist?
By
Joi Barrios, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, University of the Philippines
Salungghit
She
Could Almost Taste It
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Hair Tricks
BREAKING NEWS
-Protesters Reach Mendiola,
Clash with Police
-Luisita
Youth Leader Abducted, Missing
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