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BY Bulatlat.com Posted 7:00 p.m., Apr. 24, 2006 Around 500 members of the women’s group GABRIELA, most of them residents of urban poor communities, held a march earlier today to protest against low wages amid the rising prices of prime commodities. Prices of basic...
BY Abner Bolos GLNS/ Bulatlat.com Posted 6:39 p.m., Apr. 27, 2006 City of San Fernando—After almost a year of protest, workers in Hacienda Luisita have succeeded in pushing the government to declare as illegal quarrying operations for the Subic-Clark-Tarlac...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Posted 7:06 p.m., Apr. 27, 2006 A former vice president, a former senator, and a law dean have joined the team working as private counsels for the complainant in the Subic rape case. Former Vice President Teofisto Guingona...
Death Sentence President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo received nods of approval from the influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) – which has been issuing statements increasingly critical of her policies – for her recent declaration commuting...
BY HAIDER RIZVI OneWorld.net NEW YORK - A leading international human rights group is calling for the Bush administration to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged involvement of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior Pentagon officials...
BY GRIFF WITTE The Washington Post Occupation officials got cash and gifts for deals. An American businessman who is at the heart of one of the biggest corruption cases to emerge from the reconstruction of Iraq has pleaded guilty to conspiracy, bribery and...
BY OMAR AL-IBADI Reuters Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGHDAD - Snipers held rooftop positions as masked Sunni Arab insurgents said they were gearing up for another open street battle with pro-government Shi'ite militiamen in Baghdad's Adhamiya district on Tuesday. The...
(Komunikasyon mula kay Mr. Laong-Laan, OFW, para kay Ka Crispin Beltran, bilanggo ng administrasyong Arroyo) “Bilang Commander-in-Chief, kontrolado ko’ng sitwasyon—” “Babala ko, babagsak ang buong bigat ng batas—“ Aruy ko po! Lumalaon bumubuti sumasama kaysa dati...
NI E. SAN JUAN, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com (Komunikasyon mula kay Mr. Laong-Laan, OFW, para kay Ka Crispin Beltran, bilanggo ng administrasyong Arroyo) “Bilang Commander-in-Chief, kontrolado ko’ng sitwasyon—” “Babala ko, babagsak ang buong bigat ng batas—“ Aruy...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com I Antigong prinsipyo’y di kayang igupo Minanang katulad sa lantay na ginto Nagbuwis nang buhay tumagas ay dugo Sa manghihimagsik na aming ninuno II Kaming proletaryo’y hahawak ng armas Ang pakikibaka’y tiyak sasambulat Sa...
NI LOLITO R. GO, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Si Kapitan na kilala rin sa bansag na Pipoy ay buong sigasig na rumonda upang ikampanya ang isang panukalang ni hindi niya naiintindihan Sa nagtitinda ng kikiam: Naiintindihan mo ba ang nakasulat dito? Hindi po. Hindi...
The impending implementation of the National ID System after a Supreme Court ruling upholding its constitutionality will be a major setback for civil liberties according Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) secretary general Renato M. Reyes, Jr, one of the...
BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com There are clumsy attempts to create a bandwagon effect by mobilizing the pro-GMA local government officials to manufacture millions of bogus voters’ signatures; by creating media hype through paid hacks...
BY PINK-JEAN FANGON MELEGRITO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com Everyone who closely follows literature in Filipino knows Jun Cruz Reyes, novelist and short story writer. He is also a painter, photographer, and filmmaker – but he is primarily known as a...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera, literary scholar, social commentator, librettist, and poet has been chosen as 2006 National Artist for Literature. He fully deserves the award, and more so than many of those who had received it...
BY ABNER BOLOS Gitnang Luson News Service Posted by Bulatlat.com Alarmed by the unabated killing of political activists, world labor leaders will visit the country next month to investigate killings of labor leaders and organizers and repression of the labor...
BY JEWELYN MARANAN Contributed to Bulatlat.com Christ’s passion has for years been compared to the present conditions of the Filipino people who have perpetually been under the burden of social ills. This comparison has developed the tradition of Kalbaryo ng Bayan...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com The government, said Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Teddy Casiño, may impose additional taxes to raise the income needed to finance this year’s proposed P1.053 trillion ($20,371,445,153) national budget. In the 2006...
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com Military rebels are “silently observing” the people’s reaction to the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration’s charter change maneuvers. “If the people will strongly react against it, there might be another attempt of military...
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