On Nov. 21 last year, they were fired upon by soldiers just as they were preparing to till a land that had just been awarded to them by the Department of Agrarian Reform. Many of them were killed and eight of those who survived the carnage were hauled off to jail and swamped with criminal…
Month: November 2006
Moog na Prinsipyo
NI RADO CERVO Inilathala ng Bulatlat Ang moog sa bundok ay di matitinag kung bawat prinsipyo’y ating iyayakap nang buo’t mahigpit sa katawang kaltab ng labanang hindi kailanman mapupuknat sa mahal kong bayang sintang Pilipinas. Inilathala ng(Bulatlat.com)
Magpapatuloy ang Kahapon
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Hindi ito ang wakas ng aking kahapon. Naputol man ang sanga ko ay mayroong uusbong Na palumpong at muling tilanghad ang pagbangon Sa mga layuning dapat pang ipagpatuloy. At kung ang nabakling sanga’y magsungay sa sapa Ng hindi nadilig ni minsan ng patak na dagta, Huwag yayapakan o kaya…
How did I Spend My First Interrogation Night?
NI AXEL PINPIN Inilathala ng Bulatlat Madilim. Alangang mapusyaw na abuhin at itim. Madilim. Madilim na madilim ang dulot ng piring. Tumutulo ang aking uhog sa sangsang ng amoy ng tinta Ng dyaryong ‘pinantakip at ipinulupot sa aking mukha At saka waring pinalitadahan ng pagkit ng teyp Na siyang tuluyang gumapi sa nalalabing ilaw. Malamig.…
Trivia ‘bout Diff’rent Universities, Colleges in RP (Walang Pikunan. Joke Joke Joke Lang!)
NI ROLAND TOLENTINO Bulatlat Mahirap Lahat Sa UP, mahirap ang Math. Sa Ateneo, mahirap ang English. Sa La Salle, mahirap ang parking. Sa Assumption, mahirap ang walang pera. Sa UST, mahirap umuwi kapag baha. Sa St. Scho, mahirap sumakay sa LRT. Sa San Beda, mahirap maging lalaki. Sa bayan, mahirap ang buhay. Where To Go…
Shared Perspectives
The works in Perspektiba attest to the growing discontent and clamor among the visual arts community against the assaults on human rights under the Arroyo administration. By Lisa Ito Bulatlat Up in arms over the assassinations of activists and civilians under the Arroyo administration, visual and performance artists have joined hands to organize Tutok Karapatan,…
Radio Plugs to Educate Women on Their Rights, End Violence
Women’s groups are resorting to more creative forms of getting their message across. There are currently radio plugs that seek to shed light on various issues confronting women today. BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat Liz Almoro, Willie Revillame’s wife, is said to be undergoing therapy for battered wife syndrome. Almoro recently filed for the annulment…
Furor Over JPEPA: Will Davao’s Banana Workers Benefit From It?
A controversial bilateral trade agreement between the Philippines and Japan promises enormous economic opportunities for Filipinos, among them agricultural producers such as the banana workers and growers in the Davao regions. That, at least, is the Arroyo administration’s line. What they’re not telling the public is that, apart from the environmental hazards it poses, the…
As ASEAN Summit nears Rights Abuses Intensify in Cebu
Progressive organizations based in Cebu City decried the overkill in the security preparations for the coming ASEAN Summit. “Frantic preparations for the upcoming ASEAN Summit in Cebu have thrown the provincial government in a militarist state of panic,” said lawyer Alfonso Cinco, chairperson of Karapatan-Cebu. BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat Progressive organizations based in Cebu City…
ASEAN and the U.S. Agenda in Asia
With the onset of the “war on terror” and the increasing political and economic importance of ASEAN to the whole of Asia and the Pacific, the U.S. appears to be out to increasingly use the organization as a region-wide mechanism for meeting its objectives in the sub-region and beyond BY SONNY AFRICA IBON Foundation Posted…
UP Manila Wears Black in Fight vs Tuition, Other Increases
Black was the color of the day for students at the University of the Philippines (UP) Manila last November 23. The death of the university, after all, is said to result from the plan of the UP administration to increase tuition and other fees. BY REYNA MAE TABBADA Bulatlat It was a day of fighting,…