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2006
FEBRUARY
Vol. VI, No. 3
February 19-25, 2006
BREAKING NEWS:
Bayan Muna Member Shot Dead in Pasay
Another Escaped Magdalo Officer Captured
Court Releases Alleged Coddlers of Recaptured Magdalo
Arroyo Declares State of Emergency
70% of AFP
Poised to Strike vs. GMA
BY
DABET CASTAÑEDA
Analysis
Promises, Promises
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
On the 20th anniversary of the EDSA
I uprising:
Twenty People Who Made EDSA I
Possible
BY
ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Rice Crisis
Looms
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
MIGRANT WATCH
Mass
Arrest of Undocumented Immigrants in U.S. Looms
By
Nicanor Segovia
Cartoons
Meant to Provoke - UP Prof
BY
AUBREY SC MAKILAN
Rainfall,
Quake Triggered Leyte Landslide
By Maureen Japzon
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Sagada-bound ‘Backpacker’ Escapes Police ‘Tormentors’
BY ACE ALEGRE
Farmers’
Homes Bulldozed to Pave Way for Revilla-owned Housing Project
BY DENNIS ESPADA
Negros
Folk Gear for War with Mining Companies
BY KARL G. OMBION
MIGRANT WATCH
Counter-initiative vs Cha-Cha Launched
BY EMILY VITAL
LABOR WATCH
Workers Wear
Red Armbands, Rally for Wage Hike
BY TRISTAM DE CASTRO
A Village
Girding for Attack
BY TYLL LABUNG
Letter
Shows Lafayette Mining Corporation Ordering PGMA
BY JEREMIAHS ANTONIO
III
Truckers
Set to Strike Again Over Regulations
By
Jhong dela Cruz
TULA
(POETRY)
Sugal ng
Buhay
NI PAUL PRUEL
alternative reader no. 124
Ability to Wage 'Long War' Is Key to Pentagon Plan
By Ann Scott Tyson
Snooping Docs During Ford's Administration Released
By Margaret Ebrahim
Democratic
SPace
Wowowee
Tragedy: Hardly A Bolt from the Blue
By Sarah Raymundo*
Missionary Benedictine Sisters
Protest Reyes' Appointment to DENR
By Mo. Mary
John Mananzan, OSB
Prioress,
St. Scholatica's Priory
Salungghit
At the Sidelines
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
The Stars Are on Him
Vol. VI, No. 2
February 12-18, 2006
Analysis
Strange Bedfellows Indeed
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
Garci
Failed to Resolve Search for Truth, Says Bishop
BY
ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Wowowee Tragedy Investigation Politicized
Lawyer’s group calls for the
formation of an independent body
BY
DABET CASTAÑEDA
Cabinet
Revamp: Part of a Grand Design?
By
Jhong dela Cruz
LABOR WATCH
GMA's P1,000 monthly allowance for government
workers:
Too Little and Too Late
BY LISA ITO
LABOR WATCH
Port Workers
Set to Strike over Privatization Scheme
By
Jhong dela Cruz
Batagueños
Ask SC to Reverse CA Decision on CARP Land
BY MARICRISTH MAGALING
Lafayette's 100% Foreign Ownership Shocks House Probers, Mine Spill
Victims
Militant
solon, victims say 2-year-old operations illegal, unconstitutional
By Gerry Albert Corpuz
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Rights
Group Blame Soldiers for Bulacan Massacre
BY
DABET CASTAÑEDA
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
19 years after the
Lupao Massacre:
Rights
Violations Continue in Lupao
BY EMILY VITAL
Bila
Fruit Wines: Beyond the Boundaries
BY
FLORENCE BATAWANG
Streetwise
Culpability
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo
LABOR WATCH
Lepanto
Workers’ Woes Not Yet Over
BY ALDWIN
QUITASOL
LABOR WATCH
Legislate a
P125 Wage Hike, Instead of Treating Workers Like Animals – KMU
By MARIA SALAMAT
TULA
(POETRY)
Wowowoweeeee!
NI E. SAN
JUAN, JR.
Sino'ng
Di Mawiwili?
NI
LOLITO R. GO, JR.
NEWS AT A GLANCE
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Peasant group reveals Ombudsman's fertilizer scam case record
missing
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Big rally to mark
20th anniversary of People Power I
-
ProGay calls
on Indian president to repeal anti-gay laws
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Solon presses for urgent probe on GSIS E-card anomaly
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Solon files bill to earmark RVAT for basic services
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Bayan scores solons' flip-flop on VFA
-
Migrant groups urge repatriation of OFWs in Taiwan
alternative reader no. 124
Ability to Wage 'Long War' Is Key to Pentagon Plan
By Ann Scott Tyson
Snooping Docs During Ford's Administration Released
By Margaret Ebrahim
Democratic
SPace
A
Petition for Press Freedom
Proposed
amendment to Bill of Rights:
A menace to Philippine democracy
By THE
NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES (NUJP)
Salungghit
Network War Casualties
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Picture-perfect
Vol. VI, No. 1
February 5-11, 2006
Cha-cha for Whom?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
Going
Strong After Five Years:
Bulatlat ranks 4th among Philippine online magazines
BY
ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
An eyewitness account:
The Major Elequin Release
By Abner Bolos
Barely Surviving
in
Sitio Payong BY
AUBREY SC MAKILAN
HUMAN
RIGHTS WATCH
As RP-U.S. military exercises draw near
Rights Violations on the
Rise in Jolo
BY CHERYLL FIEL
New
Regulation to Ease Out Small Forwarders
By
Jhong dela Cruz
Pamalakaya:
Cut DENR Budget from P5 B to P1
By Gerry Albert Corpuz
3
of 10 Killed in Encounter Are
Civilians
BY
DABET CASTAÑEDA
UP
Study Finds Toxic Metals in Rapu-Rapu Mine Spill
By Dennis Espada
‘Senator’s Village’ Render 172 Peasants Homeless
By Dennis Espada
Up Close:
Bolosan’s Migratory Birds
By Nicanor Segovia
TULA
(POETRY)
Pulitiko,
Sundalo at Boksingero
BY RAUL FUNILAS
Masaker
sa Mendiola: Enero 22, 1987
BY E. SAN JUAN, Jr.
NEWS AT A GLANCE
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Migrants’ group urges probe of P30 million fund transfer to president’s
office
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Solon dares DA, DTI, SRA to name “new” sugar cartel
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Consumer groups call for refund, ask ERC officials to resign
alternative reader no. 124
Democratic
SPace
A
Petition for Press Freedom
Proposed
amendment to Bill of Rights:
A menace to Philippine democracy
By THE
NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES (NUJP)
Salungghit
Damnation Notwithstanding
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
A Different ‘Three-in-One’
Vol. V, No. 50 January
29 - February 4, 2006
Relocation without Housing:
Bulacan poor end up tent
dwellers as NorthRail project begins February
BY
DABET CASTAÑEDA
New VAT
Eats into Consumers’ Already Scanty Budget
BY
ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
VAT Rate Hike Benefits Creditors, Not the Public By IBON
Foundation
Lower
Budget Deficit Not an Achievement – Ibon
BY
IBON FOUNDATION
Analysis
Politicization of the AFP By BENJIE OLIVEROS
N. Cotabato
Officials Reject U.S.-RP War Exercises
BY
JHONG DELA CRUZ
CULTURE
Youth
Activism Extolled in FQS Mural BY VANESSA
CORSIGA
LABOR WATCH
HUMAN
RIGHTS WATCH
Cebu, Bohol
Fishers Protest vs Oil Exploration
By Gerry Albert Corpuz
Rare
Marine Mammal Dies in Waters Contaminated by Mine Tailings
By Gerry Albert Corpuz
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S WATCH
Cordillera Peasants, Indigenous Groups Oppose Cha-cha
BY KIM QUITASOL
Two
Flower Fests in Baguio Gear for Showdown
BY ACE ALEGRE
STREETWISE
Modern-day David and Goliath By Carolina Pagaduan-Araullo
CULTURE
Images from the Margins
The Mangyan struggle
against dispossession in the documentary-photography of Raymond Panaligan
By Lisa C. Ito
alternative reader no. 123
Democratic
SPace
Call for genuine and lasting
change for the people by the people
By Amirah
Ali Lidasan, Secretary
General
Moro-Christian Peoples Alliance (MCPA)
Salungghit
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Young ‘Pacmen’
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