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By Antonio Tujan Jr. Ibon Features Posted by Bulatlat.com The current people’s initiative for charter change is itself a mockery of genuine people’s governance because it reportedly involves bribing voters and local government officials—a classic example of graft...
BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat “Medyo bagong karanasan pero obligadong matutunan (It is a rather new experience and I’m obliged to learn it).” This was how 34-year-old poet Axel Alejandro Pinpin described his 30-day ordeal under police custody. “Medyo bagong karanasan...
BY DEE AYROSO Bulatlat It’s now mid-2006, and the killings and abductions, as well as the AFP and Malacañang’s lies have yet to stop. In March 1989, Honor Ayroso, then a 21-year-old leader of the League of Filipino Students, was abducted. That week, nine other...
Clueless on Cha-cha People’s Initiative Signatures exchanged for sardines, P20, Philhealth cards By BULATLAT TEAM Bulatlat provincial correspondents interviewed barangay (village) officials and residents who were clueless about issues related to changing the 1987...
By Jetty Ayop-Ohaylan davaotoday.com President Arroyo says Thursday: “The true power of the people is being felt with the signature campaign to change our form of government." DAVAO CITY - Several progressive groups from this city launched on Thursday a signature...
BY ANGEL AYALA Bulatlat In a recently-passed resolution, the Sorsogon provincial board stated that the political killings in the said province have already reached “horrific proportions” and that it has “sent fear” among Sorsogueños, “whose character were...
By Emily Vital Bulatlat.com Members of organizations under the People's Movement Against Arroyo's Charter Change (People's March) and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) have revived a signature drive opposing charter change and calling for...
Photo by Ace Alegre / Bulatlat.com Two tourists welcome the summer by frolicking in the freshness of the waters in Currimao, Ilocos Norte (464 kms north of Manila). Underneath where they are lie the majestic coral reef formations extending kilometer after kilometer...
By Flon Faurillo / Bulatlat.com President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo likens charter change as a train that would take the nation to progress, and that those who support get a ticket to Paradise. But given her blueprint for charter change -- no elections in 2007, the...
BY LISA ITO Bulatlat The IPU Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians, meanwhile, said it will continue to examine Beltran's case and will issue a report to the IPU Governing Council at the 115th IPU Assembly scheduled in October. Other foreign lawmakers have...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat Seven years after the concurrence by the Philippine Senate of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), critics reiterate the demand for the junking of the said agreement. They also hit the new RP-US accord which they say will further strengthen...
Writers' Manifesto of Unity on the Freedom of Expression BY THE AMADO V. HERNANDEZ RESOURCE CENTER Posted by Bulatlat.com Writers now are troubled by the suppression of the freedom of the press along with the freedom of assembly and speech. We maintain that our...
By Nadia Martinez In These Times Latin America challenges the Washington Consensus. The presidential palaces of Latin America are famous for their imposing Spanish colonial grandeur. Not long ago these marble edifices on grand plazas were inhabited mostly by...
By Paul Rockwell In Motion Magazine "Sir, No Sir," A timely film, premiers week of 4/3/2006. "General, your tank is a mighty vehicle. It shatters the forest and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs drivers. General, a man is quite expendable. He...
By Larry C. Johnson t r u t h o u t | Report Clearly smarting under charges that they are "failing" to tell the good news in Iraq, the major TV network and cable channels appear to have abandoned any effort to report what is going on in Iraq. Fearful of being...
BY TRINA FEDERIS Bulatlat Peasants are usually depicted as a hardworking people, perpetually hunched over their crops, their limbs half-buried in mud. Under the scorching heat of the sun, or the lashings of the rain, they stay on, either protecting their crops, or...
NI LOLITO R. GO, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Sa ikaanim na milyon, pitong daan, walumpu't siyam na libo, isang daan at dalawampu't apat na pagkakatao'y magtatagisan na naman ang mga bilang at titik Tumitilamsik ang init ng tanghali, makapanikip-dibdib ang sikip,...
Bayan Muna-Southern Mindanao Region expressed fears that the P1.06-trillion 2006 budget, now in the Senate for approval, will be used by Malacañang allegedly for the charter change drive. Bayan Muna-SMR spokesperson Jeppie Ramada criticized what he described as the...
BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat Fr. Felino Bugauisan, assistant parish priest of Rapu-Rapu and chair of Sagip-Isla (Save the island), a multi-sectoral organization opposed to mining operations in the island off Legazpi City in Albay, threatened to file charges against...
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