By the Gloria Step Down Movement (GSM) Posted by Bulatlat.com In these times of political crisis, turmoil and uncertainty, one thing stands clear: Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) must go. However there is yet no consensus as to how she will be made to step down...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise BusinessWorld, Aug. 5-6, 2005 Posted by Bulatlat.com the supposition that the alternatives to a Gloria presidency are so unpalatable they are practically none existent. The Malacañang propaganda machine and its paid media hacks...
By Larry Chin Online Journal Associate Editor July 27, 2005The Philippines is set to explode, as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo faces impeachment after being caught in the act of rigging her 2004 re-election, sparking outrage and threats of popular revolt....
Migrante hits prospective envoy to Italy Migrante International, an alliance of groups of overseas Filipinos and their families, hit August 4 the possible appointment of former Guimaras Governor Emily Relucio Lopez as the new Philippine Ambassador to Italy. Maita...
Mining giant Lepanto Consolidated, beset by a two-month old strike, filed charges of corrupt practices under Republic Act 3019 against the Mankayan mayor and his secretary because they gave the striking workers permit to rally. BY Artemio A. Dumlao Northern...
At around 5:30 a.m., Aug. 6, over 100 armed police officers led by Maj. Brent Madiaco and Capt. Richard Abon dispersed striking workers picketing the Tubo gate. During the dispersal operations, police arrested Douglas Farnican and Francisco Dida. Workers believe...
Pest management in the Cordillera came from extensive practical and traditional knowledge developed over years of observing natural processes. Called Holok, it entails comprehensive understanding of the entire rice production system and makes use of more than 20...
Pest management in the Cordillera came from extensive practical and traditional knowledge developed over years of observing natural processes. Called Holok, it entails comprehensive understanding of the entire rice production system and makes use of more than 20...
Government’s constant tampering with economic indicators serves to conceal its failed policies that have worsened the country’s economic situation. By IBON Media and Publications Posted by Bulatlat.com Government recently revealed once again how its economic data...
Not only is there a confluence of domestic interests to which Constitutional amendments would be politically and economically advantageous. The United States, a far from disinterested observer of events in its neo-colony, also favors and regards Constitutional...
It will take nothing less than the "turning of the wheel" through arduous people's struggle to liberate the masses from perpetual want and servitude. Only then will they have a chance to exercise genuine people empowerment and determine their own destiny in the...
Lawyers are supposed to act with “cold neutrality,” but a group of legal practitioners in Mindanao has decided to go against this stereotype by pledging to serve poor clients and taking a stand on the current political crisis – aware that they may end up...
A sleepy town in Samar is currently at the receiving end of intensified offensive military operations, driving more than 2,000 people, including women and children, from their homes and sources of livelihood. So alarming have the forced evacuations become that the...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s trip to New York to attend the World Summit of the United Nations, Sept. 15, will not give her a respite from mass actions calling for her resignation. US-based Filipinos, led by BAYAN USA, are gearing up for a major protest...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s trip to New York to attend the World Summit of the United Nations, Sept. 15, will not give her a respite from mass actions calling for her resignation. US-based Filipinos, led by BAYAN USA, are gearing up for a major protest...
If only the government of the Philippines would enact laws on conventions that the country is treaty-bound to comply with, there would be no need to legislate an anti-terrorism bill (ATB). Passing the ATB will only replicate existing international humanitarian laws...
As a politician, Raul S. Roco, 63, has had his share of controversies in the past as he supported anti-people measures like the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Revised Basic Education Curriculum (RBEC). But at his wake in Naga City (449...
As support for the striking workers at the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMC) continues to pour in, soldiers have decided to increase their presence in the area but using as an excuse the sightings of New People’s Army rebels in nearby areas where the...
In the run-up to the 2004 presidential election, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo received flak from several overseas workers’ groups for the transfer of the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Medicare Fund from the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA) to...
Mrs. Arroyo’s Truth Commission is likely to turn into a total war against truth, first because the very government accused of wrong-doing will in effect investigate itself; second because it is likely to be used to exonerate its creator; and third because it will...
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