Photo by Ace Alegre / Bulatlat Bulatlat.com Craftsman Jonard Balallo, 13, of Vigan City, Ilocos Sur (407 kms. north of Manila) is hard at work demonstrating his skill at making Vigan tiles. The Balallos, who hail from Bulala village – one of the nine villages in Vigan’s Heritage City that is famous for the world-class…
Day: July 16, 2005
The People Are Ready for Bold Reforms
Macapagal-Arroyo’s own political allies who have asked her to resign the presidency now pit themselves against the clamor for a people’s transitional governing council. Not that their call for resignation is a retrogressive move; it’s simply that they loathe the day the aroused masses may suddenly take the reins of government. By Bobby Tuazon Bulatlat…
Peasants Caravan to Metro Set
Two important mass actions in July will happen in Manila and the Southern Tagalog-based protesters are expected to make their voices heard. BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat Bulatlat.com CALAMBA CITY – Protesters from the Southern Tagalog (ST) region are expected to lend their voices to the growing clamor for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s removal from office. Around…
Patriots Calls for New Governance that Will Uphold People’s Agenda
Posted by Bulatlat As calls mount for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s resignation, PATRIOTS enjoins all Filipinos to unite for meaningful alternatives to her government. We join the people’s clamor for GMA to step down for she has totally lost the moral and legal authority to effectively govern. In a post-GMA situation either through constitutional succession or…
A Statement on the Call for President Arroyo’s Resignation
Bulatlat.com The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) and its 13 million constituents along with thevast majority of the Filipino people call for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s resignation on the basis of the so-called “Gloria-gate” tapes. Truth and justice must reign. President Arroyo ended her silence by admitting that, indeed, she made the phone…
Peace and Opposition
BY THE CONCERNED ARTISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES Posted by Bulatlat Bulatlat.com “Peace” is an abstracted word in our society. Perhaps much of this is because “peace time” refers to that point in history when U.S. forces occupied our country. On the outside, the situation then seemed to be quiet (tahimik) as business went on as…
Negros Newsman Gets Death Threats via SMS
Journalists consider the short message service (SMS) feature of mobile phones as an effective tool to communicate with colleagues and their sources. But the experience of a Negros Occidental-based journalist shows that SMS can also be used to send death threats. BY ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Journalists are again under siege.…
People Power Constitutional, Lawyers’ Group Says
The Committee for the Defense of Lawyers (CODAL) July 8 said it finds without legal and constitutional basis the threats by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo against mass actions calling for her to step down. BY BULATLAT Bulatlat.com The Committee for the Defense of Lawyers (CODAL) said July 9 it finds without legal and constitutional basis the…
Mass Walkouts, Strikes Set This Week
Youth alliances to hold daily protests President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has stood firm on her decision to stay, but the organized youth are calling on her to resign. The demand for her removal from office has grown to the point where daily protests are set to be held to force the President to leave Malacañang. BY…
Unabated Murder of Journalists Could Lead to the President’s Ouster
Bulatlat.com The undersigned faculty members of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) strongly condemn the killing last July 3 of radio broadcaster Rolando Morales of DWMD Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) South Cotabato. Morales, 43, is the sixth journalist killed this year and the 69th since democracy was supposedly restored in…
Lepanto Miners Nabbed, Dispersed
While protests against the continued stay of Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo heighten in Metro Manila and key cities nationwide, the workers at Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMCo) continue to fight for their rights and welfare. The management, however, with the help of the police, has only responded with violence at the picket line as the strike…