BY CHERYL DAYTEC-YAÑGOT Posted by Bulatlat.com We were born rich in an abundant land. Then they saw us and all of a sudden We were invisible. They did not see us When they came to vandalize the burial grounds of our ancestors to herald the fabrication of...
Ang sa susunod na henerasyon? Ano ang kanilang magiging claim sa pagiging bayani? Lahat halos ng dekada ay minamarkahan ng kasaysayan ng hamon – batas militar at diktadura ng 1970s, People Power ng 1980s, EDSA Dos ng 2000s. Kabataang Filipino, ano na? NI ROLAND...
The author interviews Jose Maria Sison to see if there is something human about a so-called “terrorist” who is considered legendary or notorious, depending on one’s beliefs. BY RUDY D. LIPORADA Contributed to Bulatlat.com In 2005, I went to Europe for a month-long...
Retrieving the dead to give them decent burial has become extra painful for families, especially if one is an armed dissident in Quezon, a province now battered by escalated combat operations by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against the communist-led...
Our country is in dire need of doctors for the people. The starkest indicator of this dilemma is the state of community medicine practice in the country and likewise the dwindling number of community physicians. BY PHILIP PARAAN Bulatlat.com Our country is in dire...
Donning white blazers, many doctors stay in air-conditioned clinics serving well-off patients. Some work abroad for higher financial rewards. There are even those who trade their blazers for nurse’s uniforms just to be able to seek employment abroad and bring their...
The national leadership of a militant group of government employees and a labor group in the Cordillera, on separate occasions, assailed the anti-labor stance of the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that keeps mum on clamors for P3,000...
Filipinos comprise Hong Kong’s biggest migrant community. Migrant workers among them stay on for years to work hard for their children’s future; others come home after a short stay as their dreams of buying a piece of land in their country of origin are shattered....
Members of Migrante Melbourne joined the tens of thousands of workers in the National Day of Action protest against the Howard Government’s Industrial Relations (IR) laws at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Nov. 30. The challenge on the day of the rally is to...
The activist pastor who survived an assassination attempt last month in Ilocos Sur urged the Arroyo administration to stop political killings and repression. This developed as human rights advocates and relatives of victims gathered last week to commemorate the...
To the doubting Thomases out there who insist that we are a bona fide republic and that the U.S. is not in the habit of interfering in the country’s domestic affairs, think again. But one may well ask, isn’t this kind of interference, a good-intentioned and...
The family and friends of desaparecido Leopoldo Ancheta remembers him as a loving father, husband, brother, and a dedicated activist. As they marked his 59th birthday – also the 158th day of his disappearance –they voiced out their call to government abductors to...
The impending verdict in the trial of four U.S. servicemen for the alleged rape of “Nicole” should be an occasion to reflect on how defense agreements with the U.S. infringe on the country’s sovereignty. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat.com The impending...
People simply do not buy repeated hectoring by the President and her allies that charter change will bring the country to paradise and news that she is sick generates further expectations for her to step down. The survival options for the besieged President have...
In six years, the Arroyo administration has reversed the gains of the Filipino people, no matter how small, when it toppled the Marcos fascist dictatorship. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com It has been a little more than 20 years since the Filipino people toppled...
A senator says patriotism is dying in the country because of the decline in the number of ROTC reservists. He and a House member have filed bills reviving ROTC as mandatory to college students. Student groups are once again in uproar saying that all that ROTC does...
The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) has called for a “complete pullout” of Army troops from the Bicol Region amid what he described as “the alarming number of tortures and extrajudicial killings” in the area. This call comes in the wake of the...
Around 849,000 individuals face eviction due to the privatization of the Manila North Harbor, the urban poor organization Kadamay said. Yet, the port modernization project’s Terms of Reference is silent on relocation plans for the soon-to-be evicted families. BY...
Two environmental groups in the Philippines have raised the alarm on what they described as “impending disasters” in the aftermath of supertyphoon “Reming,” which hit the archipelago – particularly the southern part of its biggest island Luzon – over the weekend....
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