By Jetty Ayop-Ohaylan davaotoday.com President Arroyo says Thursday: “The true power of the people is being felt with the signature campaign to change our form of government.” DAVAO CITY – Several progressive groups from this city launched on Thursday a signature campaign against Charter change, in an attempt to counter an alleged deceptive campaign by…
Month: March 2006
February 24, 2006
BY DENNIS ANDREW AGUINALDO Posted by Bulatlat Friday is a fear of weekends, The shadows of monuments, Stones, Sticks. Shield against a Saturday! Water down a rising Sunday. Next week could be different. A next Week? Could be more than seven days. (Bulatlat.com)
Mga Anghel ng Guinsaugon
NI TOTO DIVINO Inilathala ng Bulatlat Kanina lang, kanina lang, nariyan pa sila. Mga halaklak at tawang-anghel sa lupa Dito, dito, o maaaring sa dako pa doon Doon ko huling narinig ang mga awit nila. Bilis, habulin natin ang mga bakas ng tinig Ang buntot ng hagikhik at dulo ng sigawan Idikit ang tenga sa…
Rumsfeld Singled Out as Crisis Deepens in Iraq
By Julian Borger and Jonathan Steele The Guardian UK Posted by Bulatlat Defence chief attacked on war’s third anniversary. Ex-PM Allawi says conflict is tantamount to civil war. A former US army general yesterday called for Donald Rumsfeld to resign on grounds of incompetence in Iraq, hours after Ayad Allawi, the former US-backed Iraqi prime…
Factors behind Guinsaugon Disaster
BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat The crisis facing thousands of survivors of a killer landslide that buried Barangay Guinsaugon in St. Bernard town, Southern Leyte more than three weeks ago refuses to rest. Despite concerted rescue and retrieval operations by the international aid groups, only 152 bodies were unearthed from the sludge zone while more than…
An Alta Village Fights for Life
BY ABNER BOLOS GITNANG LUSON NEWS SERVICE Posted by Bulatlat Barangay Diteki, a forest village in San Luis, Aurora, has battled mining and logging companies for years, and the 49 Alta (an indigenous people’s group) families who live in this sitio are now bearing the hardship of being outcasts in their ancestral land. San Luis,…
Missing Negros Labor Leader in Order of Battle
BY KARL G. OMBION AND RYAN B. LACHICA Bulatlat.com The family of Perseus Geagoni, missing organizer of the Negros Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW), now strongly believes that the Army was responsible for his disappearance. His name is in the military’s list of “rebels” or “enemies of the state,” it has recently been found. BACOLOD…
Laywers Conquer Edsa Shrine
BY AUBREY MAKILAN Posted 12:25 p.m. March 3, 2006 Members of the legal profession conquered Edsa Shrine on March 3, less than an hour before the president lifted the state of emergency at 11:30 a.m. The lawyers and law students, led by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), marched from the IBP grounds to…
Palace Lifts State of Emergency
BY BULATLAT Posted 12:05 p.m. March 3, 2006 President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lifted the state of emergency March 3, a week after she declared it supposedly to quash an alleged coup plot. The lifting was made after her advisers assured her that the coup threat had eased. The defense, justice, and police chiefs said on March…
Beltran Rushed to PNP Hospital
BY BULATLAT Posted 4:00pm March 2, 2006 Anakpawis Rep. Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran, 73, suffered mild hypertension before noon today and is presently confined at the Philippine National Police General Hospital (PNP GH) inside Camp Crame compound in Quezon City. PNP GH head nurse Maj. Geraldine Adaglao said the congressman was rushed to the emergency…
Mamburao 6 Meted Death Sentence
BY BULATLAT Posted 4:30 p.m. March 1, 2006 The six farmers accused of killing brothers Michael and Paul Quintos – sons of a local landlord in Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro – on Dec. 13, 1997 were meted out the death penalty this morning in an 80-page decision by Judge Teresita Yadao of Branch 81, Quezon City…