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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S WATCH

Baguio: A Tribal War Free-Zone BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW

Water Privatization May Spurt Torrents of Protest BY DENNIS ESPADA

TULA (POETRY)
Pasyon para sa Pagbabago Ni Roberto Ofanda Umil

Personal Essay:
Finding Joy in A Time of Crisis BY DANNY ARAÑA ARAO

NEWS AT A GLANCE

- Bayan Muna solon scores Muslim member’s abduction

- Warning: Further Marcopper mine tailings dam collapse

- Arroyo blacklists California professors, students

- EcoZone exports soar, workers’ conditions plunge - Pamantik

- No honor being APEC anti-terror chair -- Representative Maza

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Sunset in Hiding

DEMOCRATIC SPACE
Government should act on media killings BY the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 94

- APEC: An Instrument of Imperialist Plunder and War
By the International League of Peoples’ Struggle

- Corporate Globalization Chileans Protest APEC
By Roberto Manriquez

- WTO Democracy By Paul Hunt

- WTO Tricks By Devinder Sharma

- World Hunger Summit 2004 By Carl Bloice

Vol. 4, No. 41 November 14-20, 2004

Hacienda Luisita Grinds to a Halt; Workers Vow to Continue Protest BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Ex-President Aquino Locked in Long-Drawn Battle with Hacienda Workers BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Canadian Mining Firms Face Severe Penalties; Mining Watch warns of major disaster in southern Philippines BY EDWIN C. MERCURIO

Lepanto Mines Scored Anew for Polluting Rivers By Kim N. Quitasol

Benguet Residents Buck Water Deal with Gold Producer

By LYN V. RAMO

Ex-AFP Inspector-General Sees Whitewash in Court Martial vs General BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Food for School Is Not the Answer to Child Malnutrition – NGO, Peasant Leader BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

- Highest media death toll since 1986: Mindanao Photo Ed’s Murder Brings to 9 Slain Journalists in Philippines BY BULATLAT

- 3 Cases of Rights Violations Recorded In a Week in Luzon; 10 persons abducted remain missing BY RONALYN V. OLEA

- Unarmed NPA Suspect Tortured, Killed in Kalinga

BY NORTHERN DISPATCH

CULTURE
Angono Remembers Two Homegrown National Artists

BY RICHARD R GAPPI

Belgian Doctor Treads Paths Least Traveled BY RONALYN V. OLEA

A Blue Day for Red Fighters in Western Mindanao BY MARS S. MARATA

NEWS AT A GLANCE

- 'Worst act of terrorism' done by oil companies - KMU

- Bayan Muna solon slams energy secretary over power contracts

- NSO survey reveals high infant mortality rate

- Consumer group accuses Meralco of misleading rate increases

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 94

- Arafat, Father of the Palestinian Cause By Miguel Angel Moratinos

- Arafat Laid to Rest as West Bank Mourns By Mohammed Daraghmeh

- Arafat Irony By Sylvia Shihadeh and Robert Jensen

- The Dreamer Who Relied on Emotion and Failed to Protect His Own People By Robert Fisk

- Letters from Palestine From AxisofLogic.com

- Message of Condolence to the Palestinian People on the Death of Yasser Arafat By the International League of Peoples’ Struggle –Philippines Chapter

- Yasser Arafat will continue to inspire the Palestinian people to struggle for their liberation By the Communist Party of the Philippines

Vol. 4, No. 40 November 7-13, 2004

San Miguel Corp. Accused of Fouling Village’s Water BY RONALD ESCANLAR

MIGRANT WATCH
GMA is Dragging OFWs to War - Migrante BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

The Garcia Scandal: Implications for the Arroyo Administration

BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Cuba Libre! BY RUTH CERVANTES

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S WATCH

Mining Woes in the Cordillera: Guilayon Tribal Villagers Want to Stop Swedish Mining Exploration BY ARTHUR ALLAD-IW

The Roots of Crisis: A Neo-Colonial State BY ALEJANDRO LICHAUCO

The Philippines’ Chronic Financial Crisis and the People’s Struggle BY BOBBY TUAZON

BOOK REVIEW
IBON and Chossudovsky’s Globalization of Poverty BY BOBBY TUAZON

Plunder, Land Suits Haunt Cavite Governor BY DENNIS ESPADA

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Water Firm Manager, 7 Others Charged for AnakPawis Leader’s Slay BY MAUREEN JAPZON

Why Carlos Bulosan Now? BY E. SAN JUAN, JR.

PHOTO ESSAY
'Paradise Island’ TEXT AND PHOTOS BY BOBBY TUAZON

NEWS AT A GLANCE

-Malaysian crackdown on Filipinos condemned

-GRP-NDFP Peace Talks Breakdown Decried

-Children’s Month

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Waiting for the Dusk BY KARL G. OMBION/BULATLAT

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 93

I. On the Philippine Financial Crisis

-The Philippine Financial Crisis and the Neo-Colonial State

By Edberto M. Villegas

- Pro-poor Response to the Fiscal Crisis

By Antonio Tujan, Jr.

and Arnold Padilla

- Ang 'Fiscal Crisis' ng Rehimeng US-Arroyo

By the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research

- Praymer sa “Fiscal Crisis” ng Rehimeng US-Arroyo

By the Kilusang Mayo Uno

- Making Sense of It All By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo

- Repudiation of Marcos’s Illegitimate Debts: A Pro-People Measure to Address the Fiscal Crisis By Ibon Foundation Inc.

II. Another 4 Years of Bush Presidency

- A Four-Year Nightmare

By Mike Marqusee

- The Party is Over - A Fairy Tale

By Robert Thompson

- Someone Bigger Will Save Us*… Or Not

By Beth Moore Henry

- Kerry, How Dare You! By Matthew Rothschild

Vol. 4, No. 39 October 31-November 6, 2004

Poor Man’s Diet: Of Noodles, Chicken Skin and Isaw BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Ka Daning: From the Church to the Parliament of the Streets

BY RONALYN OLEA

Tracing the Colonial Roots of Halloween BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Deregulated Fares Loom in the Wake of Oil Deregulation BY DANILO ARAÑA ARAO

SPECIAL REPORT

Samar Folk Struggle to Regain a Paradise Lost BY MAUREEN JAPZON

PHOTO ESSAY

Homonhon Island: Threatened by Mining TEXT AND PHOTOS BY MAUREEN JAPZON

Canadian Mining in Asia as a Dirty Business BY EDWIN MERCURIO

Marcopper Death Toll Reaches 3; Community, environmental groups press for justice BY BULATLAT

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

NPA Dies in Manila Prison BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Living on Wheels BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN/BULATLAT

DEMOCRATIC SPACE

Resist GMA’s Policy of Plunder in Favor of Mining TNCs! (BY Kalikasan-People’s Network Environment

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 92

- Root of High Oil Prices By Arnold Padilla

- Oil Giants Can Control Surge in World Prices By IBON FOUNDATION

- Kerry/Edwards Follow the Failed Bush/Cheney Policy on the Middle East BY IBON FOUNDATION

2004