BY ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat.com This coming school year, students and their parents will have to face another round of tuition fee increases. The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) issued Memorandum No. 14 allowing private schools and universities to raise tuition by 7.6 percent, consistent with the current inflation rate, without prior consultation. This coming school…
Day: May 27, 2006
Space for Progressives in Parliamentary Arena is Constricting – Casiño
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com For Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Teddy Casiño, there is indeed space for progressive groups in the electoral and parliamentary arena, but it is now constricting. “It is getting smaller and smaller because the Arroyo government, which represents the status quo, is afraid of change,” he told Bulatlat in an…
Rights Groups Blame Killings on Military’s Oplan Bantay Laya
BY DABET CASTANEDA Bulatlat.com Of the 601 victims of political killings in the last five years, many were felled by motorcycle-riding assasins. The Armed Forces of the Philippines claims a “purge” within the revolutionary movement is to be blamed. But human rights watch groups point to death squads formed under Oplan Bantay Laya, the Arroyo…
Justice Still Eludes Slain UCCP Pastor
BY JOHANN HEIN B. ARPON Bulatlat.com Emma Lapuz laments the fact that one year after the assassination of her husband, Rev. Edison Lapuz, conference minister of the North East Leyte Conference, United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP), the killers have yet to be brought to justice. Emma Lapuz laments the fact that one…
Time to Call Bush on Lawbreaking
By Jesse Jackson The Chicago Sun-Times Posted by Bulatlat.com The National Security Agency has created “the largest database ever” with the phone records of millions of Americans provided to the NSA by AT&T, Verizon and Bell South for a price. The NSA says it used the records to trace patterns – data mining – in…
Vendors Resist Eviction in Tacloban City
BY JOHANN ARPON Bulatlat.com They were able to protect their picket line but the vendors of the Tacloban City market knows that it was a temporary victory and that they are in for a long struggle. Meanwhile, they have reconstructed their picket line and candles continue to light their nightly vigil. They are convinced that…
CPDF Call in Kalinga: Fetad vs. the AFP, Mining Transnationals
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.com The Kalinga provincial section of the Cordillera People’s Democratic Front (CPDF), a regional organization under the umbrella of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), announced that they will heighten their tactical offensives against the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and reiterated their call for fetad,…
They Track Journalists, Don’t They?
By Amy Goodman Democracy Now! Posted by Bulatlat.com ABC News reported on Monday that a senior federal law enforcement had revealed that the government is now tracking phone calls made by journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post and ABC News. We speak with Brian Ross, chief investigative reporter at ABC News. On Monday,…
European NGO Asks DND for IP Leader’s Protection
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.com The International Hydropower Association , an international non-government organization (NGO) based in the United Kingdom, urged the Department of National Defense (DND) to extend protection to leaders of the Cordillera People’s Alliance and investigate the threats on their lives. BAGUIO CITY (246 kms. north of Manila)— A letter…
Politiko sa Pinas
NI REY TAMAYO, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Hindi tayo makatakas sa mga nakatutulig na pangungusap Mga mapang-usig at nakaririnding mga pangako Ng mga politikong bihasa sa maiinam na talumpati Na waring mga bulong na umaali-aligid sa ating kamalayan. Kung papaanong kinutkot ng kalawang ang talim ng ating pagkatao. At tuluyang lumalalim ang sugat ng kahapong…
Chinese Revolutionists Salute Filipino Comrades
BY GO BON JUAN Posted by Bulatlat.com Little do Filipinos know that our own heroes and martyrs were among those who inspired the Chinese revolutionists and encouraged them to continue their struggle. The Chinese revolutionists, in turn, stoked in their Filipino comrades the same ideals to achieve freedom even at the cost of their lives.…