The Trades and Labour Council (Unions WA) representing 17 unions and 20 percent of West Australia’s labour force wants to send a fact-finding delegation to the Philippines to investigate the assassinations of over 700 civilians including party-list and community leaders, and the abductions of at least 184 others. BY ANIBETH DESIERTO Bulatlat.com The Trades and…
Month: September 2006
Political Killings in RP Draw Int’l Condemnation
From Europe to the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo received relentless criticisms for the unabated extrajudicial killings under her regime. BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com From Europe to the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo received relentless criticisms for the unabated extrajudicial killings under her regime. Disgraced During her recent trip to Europe, leaders of various countries expressed concern over the…
UN Rights Body Hears Raps vs Arroyo Government
The complaints could go all the way to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and thereafter for appropriate action. As an organ of the UN General Assembly, the 47-member UNHRC may vote to suspend the membership of the Philippines in the council for gross and systematic violations of human rights. By BULATLAT The United Nations…
Dengue Remains a National Threat – DoH
The Department of Health warned that dengue remains to be a major threat among Filipinos even as this year’s figures is represent a 21 percent slide in the number of cases compared to last year. Health Sec. Francisco Duque III said that the mosquito-borne disease is still a problem because the National Capital Region, Region…
Nicole’s Grit, Key to Her Search for Justice
As the trial of the Subic Rape Case approaches judgment, the complainant’s private prosecutor Evalyn Ursua hopes for a conviction for the four U.S. Marines sued for allegedly raping Nicole in November last year. On her client’s 23rd birthday celebration, the lawyer says that the case’s greatest strength is Nicole’s grit and determination to pursue…
Bush and the Law
By Le Monde Editorial Posted by Bulatlat.com Defenders of human rights in the United States and elsewhere may rejoice over the speech George Bush pronounced Wednesday, September 6. The American president acknowledged the existence of “secret prisons,” in which the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) locked up proven or presumed terrorists outside the United States, in…
9/11: Katrina Started at Ground Zero
By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz Posted by Bulatlat.com Nothing else worked that day. The President was flying haplessly around the country looking distinctly unpresidential; the Vice President was in a bunkered panic. The military couldn’t scramble armed jets and anything else that could go wrong did. But one thing worked, and it worked splendidly…
Bush’s Plan Allows Coerced Evidence
By Maura Reynolds, Richard B. Schmitt and David G. Savage The Los Angeles Times Posted by Bulatlat Convictions could also be based on material unseen by the accused. The Senate may object. Washington — President Bush asked Congress Wednesday to approve a new system of military-style justice for terrorism suspects that would, for the first…
The Fallen Still Stand with Us
BY MALAYA AREVALO Posted by Bulatlat.com there is a whisper of memories rising in the fields, the earth wet, warm with tears, names rambling in the shivering hollow of bullet shells, something is certainly swelling, the furious stirring of want, the clamoring grumble of discontent, we the farmers and workers; landless and displaced; widowed and…
Por Dios por Santo (Por Dies Porsiyento)
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Por dios por santo naman, Ano na ba’ng nangyayari sa ating bayan? Ganito na lamang, ganire na lamang ang lamangan Kahit saang departamento ng pamahalaan. Ang sabi nila’y nangaglilingkod, Por dios por santo! himig nakalulugod.(At nakasusulasok!) Ang problema, lahat ng ahensiya… nangangungurakot… Lahat yata e por dies porsiyento! Ang…
Zap at Static
Habang nanonood ang mga tao sa kanilang mga telebisyon, bigla na lamang nag-zap sa tuldok ang mukha ni Marcos. At biglang naglabasan ang mga abong static, tila naglipanang gamu-gamo sa matimyas na tuldok na tumapos sa pagkapangulo ni Marcos. Ni Roland Tolentino Bulatlat.com Ang alaala ko sa deklarasyon ng martial law noong 1972 ay isang…