BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Immigrants in the United States are said to be the targets of a new bill in the U.S. Congress which essentially criminalizes undocumented persons and penalizes those who will take care of them. Given that there are four million...
BY KIM QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com Residents of San Carlos Heights, Irisan, Baguio City have prevented the Holy Family Housing Project Association, Inc. from holding a dialogue regarding a joint relocation survey with 12 affected residents on...
BY TYRONE VELEZ Bulatlat.com For two years, Timuay (tribal chief) Jose Anoy has not been able to set foot at his home. Home is Mt. Canatuan, the most sacred place for the 2,000 Subanen people, which has been occupied and encroached upon by the Canadian mining firm...
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com The 11 punks accused of being members of the clandestine New People’s Army (NPA) and raiding a military detachment in Cabiten, Mankayan, Benguet have found an ally in Senate Minority Leader Aquilino...
BY KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat.com Various media organizations in Bacolod City have condemned the inclusion of Julius Mariveles, news director of DYEZ Aksyon Radyo-Bacolod in the list of top communist and New People’s Army leaders allegedly drawn up by the Armed Forces...
BY DEE AYROSO Bulatlat.com Eighteen years ago, Lila and her brother Arman were among the thousands of Communist Party members wrongly accused of being government “deep penetration agents” in a hysteria in the underground movement. Now 42, Lila speaks about the pain...
By Gerry Albert Corpuz Bulatlat.com Can a foreigner be barred for entering the Philippines because of his or her previous participation in a protest action here? The answer is yes, going by the experience of a Bangladeshi peasant leader who was deported last March...
BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat.com When Jaime Fuentes, a witness of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in the rebellion charges against six representatives and six other officials of progressive party-lists, removed his disguise, he was immediately recognized by...
By Johann Hein B. Arpon Bulatlat.com A farming village in the Visayas disappeared from the map on February 17 due to a killer landslide. The tragedy left a long trail death and destruction. The ordeal that the residents there went through cannot be effectively put...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Many a young officer learns soon enough the yawning gap between the ideals that he learned in the military or police academy – courage, integrity, loyalty and the reality of military and police...
BY ZOFI LEAL Bulatlat.com Job fairs supposedly offer job seekers with an opportunity to explore companies and jobs that suit their qualifications, in terms of education, training, and experience, in order to harness their potentials. But choices in terms of types...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Trade Secretary Peter Favila said that the Philippines is not lacking in work.Unemployed Filipinos are just choosy. He cited applicants in call centers who supposedly back out after learning that they would have to start...
BY MARYA G. SALAMAT Bulatlat.com While the unemployed have very limited options under the employment generation plan of the Macapagal-Arroyo administration, employed workers are being battered by labor contractualization and other flexible work arrangements. The...
By Antonio Tujan Jr. Ibon Features Posted by Bulatlat.com The current people’s initiative for charter change is itself a mockery of genuine people’s governance because it reportedly involves bribing voters and local government officials—a classic example of graft...
Clueless on Cha-cha People’s Initiative Signatures exchanged for sardines, P20, Philhealth cards By BULATLAT TEAM Bulatlat provincial correspondents interviewed barangay (village) officials and residents who were clueless about issues related to changing the 1987...
By Emily Vital Bulatlat.com Members of organizations under the People's Movement Against Arroyo's Charter Change (People's March) and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) have revived a signature drive opposing charter change and calling for...
Photo by Ace Alegre / Bulatlat.com Two tourists welcome the summer by frolicking in the freshness of the waters in Currimao, Ilocos Norte (464 kms north of Manila). Underneath where they are lie the majestic coral reef formations extending kilometer after kilometer...
By Flon Faurillo / Bulatlat.com President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo likens charter change as a train that would take the nation to progress, and that those who support get a ticket to Paradise. But given her blueprint for charter change -- no elections in 2007, the...
Writers' Manifesto of Unity on the Freedom of Expression BY THE AMADO V. HERNANDEZ RESOURCE CENTER Posted by Bulatlat.com Writers now are troubled by the suppression of the freedom of the press along with the freedom of assembly and speech. We maintain that our...
By Nadia Martinez In These Times Latin America challenges the Washington Consensus. The presidential palaces of Latin America are famous for their imposing Spanish colonial grandeur. Not long ago these marble edifices on grand plazas were inhabited mostly by...
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