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DECEMBER 2004

Vol. 4, No. 47 December 26 - January 1, 2005

 

From Jasmine Trias to the Fraudulent Elections: 2004's Top 10 Events By BULATLAT

AFP-NPA Clash in Negros Shatters Christmas Truce

By KARL G. OMBION

Cojuangcos to Face NPA Court  By Dabet Castañeda

‘Reformists’ Instigate Anti-Red Spin  By BULATLAT

Photo Essay: Pasko at Hacienda Luisita  
PHOTOS BY DABET CASTAÑEDA/TEXT BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

TULA

- Dalangin ng Bayan  Ni Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera

- Tulang alay sa Pitong Gatang (kay FPJ) Ni Richard R. Gappi

alternative reader no. 98

Christmas Stories

- Palestine: The Little Town of Bethlehem  By Doris Cadigan

- The Politics of the Christmas Story By James Carroll

- Empires Prefer a Baby and the Cross to the Adult Jesus  By Giles Fraser

- A Christmas Story of Peace and Love By Nick Barbash

PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORN AMID SUGAR

 

Bulatlat Investigative report:

For Land and Wages: Half a century of peasant struggle in Hacienda Luisita (First of two parts) By Dabet Castañeda

 

Poorly-paid Workers Lose Jobs – and Homes, Too

(Last of two parts) By Dabet Castañeda

 

Vol. 4, No. 46 December 19 - 25, 2004

 

Living at the Edge: The Sacadas of Hacienda Luisita

BY Lisa Cariño Ito and Ronalyn Olea

PHOTO ESSAY

In Black and White: The ‘Outsiders’ PHOTOS BY JES AZNAR

Campuses Converted into Military Garrisons - NUSP

BY Ronalyn Olea

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S WATCH

IP Group Scores DENR for Favoring Loggers BY AT BENGWAYAN

Residents Petition for Closure of Alcohol Plant  BY JONG DELA CRUZ

The U.S. Imperialist Role in the Destruction
of the Sierra Madre Mountains

By the Philippine Peasant Support Network-USA

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Regime’s Torture, Other Rights Violations Decried

BY TYRONE VELEZ AND GRACE S. UDDIN

LABOR WATCH
Workers Slam Aboitiz Firm  BY TYRONE VELEZ

A Christmas Wish List for GMA, Kris and others

BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

At Rest 

Vol. 4, No. 45 December 12 - 18, 2004

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Massacre Shooters Go Berserk in Tarlac; Claim 8th Victim

BY ABNER BOLOS

Orphaned by War BY MARS S. MARATA

On International Human Rights Day:
Women Human Rights Defenders Honored  BY BULATLAT

Groups Decry Atrocities in Cordillera  BY ABIGAIL T. BENGWAYAN

LABOR WATCH
Mayhem in Labor Chief’s Power
Workers say ‘assumption of jurisdiction’ is anti-labor

BY DENNIS ESPADA

Desertification in the Making: Philippines has lost 80% of its forest cover   BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Related articles:

- Ang Kilusang Masa Laban sa Logging sa Hilagang Silangang Luzon ng 1990’s at Ang Delubyo ng 2004

- Filipino-Canadians to Raise Funds for Flood Victims

U.S. Imperialism, Europe, and the Middle East  BY SAMIR AMIN

Davao Peace Conference Calls for `New World’  BY COLETTE KUIZON

Opposition to Marijuana Legalization Gets High BY JENN NANGLIHAN

Aiming for People’s Governance  BY BULATLAT

TULA (POETRY)

Lamay sa Piketline  Ni Myke Sotero

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 97

- The President's Real Goal In Iraq By Jay Bookman

- Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: Cluster sample survey  By Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, Gilbert Burnham

- Press Report on Lancet Study: 100,000 Excess Civilian Iraqi Deaths Since War 
By Patricia Reaney

- Doctors' survey of families estimates Iraqi wartime deaths at 100,000  By Emma Ross

- Very, Very Dirty Pictures  By Mark Morford 

- Torture, American Style   By Margaret Power

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

SWEEPING PART OF THE BATTLEGROUND 

Vol. 4, No. 44 December 5 - 11, 2004

 

MIGRANTS WATCH

Modern-day slavery: 93% of Caregivers in Canada are Filipinos

BY EDWIN MERCURIO

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
--
HR Worker, 3 Other Political Prisoners on Death Row

BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

- 2004: Year of ‘Open Terror’: 3 HR workers killed; 6 persons abducted monthly BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN

- Media Death Toll Reaches 28 under PGMA
Baguio reporters unite vs. killings
BY MILENA E. ROQUE

Analysis - High Court Is Courting Disaster BY BOBBY TUAZON

Related story

IPs, Scientists, Rights Groups Slam SC Reversal on Mining Act; Call for a pro-people mineral policy By Lyn V. Ramo

Analysis - Growth Amid Fiscal Crisis  By DANILO ARAÑA ARAO

Danding Lords Over 11 Haciendas in Negros By KARL G. OMBION

Hacienda Luisita dispersal: Shots Were Fired During Lull in Scuffle

BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Visayas Confab Thumbs Down Commodification of Water

By KARL G. OMBION

BOOK REVIEW: A New Democracy: Alternatives to a Bankrupt World Order; The Passage to a New World By JPaul Manzanilla

Corruption in the Military  By Dan Vizmanos

Pre-Christmas Sales and Malling Culture in the Philippines

BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

TULA (POETRY)

- Butas na Batas ng Gubat  Ni Tata Raul G. Funilas

- Sakripisyo (Sa bayan ko) Ni Tata Raul G. Funilas

- Palahaw (Oda sa mga nasawing kababayan) Ni Tata Raul G. Funilas

- Dingalan (Naitagong Paraiso) Ni Tata Raul G. Funilas

- Para kay Cory: Tanda ng Masaker Sa Hacienda Luisita  Ni Mila D. Aguilar

- The Hacinda Luisita party! An Honor to the Martyrs... By Gian Quillo

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 96

- US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev  by Ian Traynor

- Cold War Crisis in The Ukraine:
Control of oil: Key Grand Chessboard "Pivot" at Stake
  
by Larry Chin

Shadow of Anti-Semitism over Ukraine's Disputed Election  by British Helsinki Human Rights Group

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