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As tribes denounce killings of 72 indigenous peoples What could be the reasons for the Philippine government’s refusal to vote for the adoption of the draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples last June? BY JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com In...
BY Bulatlat.com Posted 2:00 p.m., Sept. 20, 2006 Saying that “to forget them is a crime”, civil libertarians today remembered and paid tribute to the martyrs and heroes – those who were killed or abducted –during the Martial Law regime, and under the Arroyo...
BY Bulatlat.com Posted 3:00 p.m. , Sept. 21, 2006 Thousands of Filipino immigrants and migrant workers together with foreign nationals in 15 countries across the globe marked the 34th anniversary of the declaration of martial law on Sept. 21 with protests...
“Until sufficient jobs can be created, overseas workers will have to continue risking physical and psychological abuse, and even death, in order to feed their families and ensure them a decent life.” By Aubrey SC Makilan Bulatlat.com As the poorest island in the...
BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD PHILIPPINE COLLEGIAN, 2006-2007 The Philippine Collegian bears witness to a lasting tradition of independence as a student institution. It is a publication funded solely by the students, and for years has served as a salient representation of...
By Joel Connelly The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted by Bulatlat.com In what I hope was an early-morning miscue, the weekend KPLU newsreader recently told listeners that "labor bosses" were gathering in Wenatchee for the Washington State Labor Council's annual...
2 rights lawyers decry breakdown of law under Arroyo “The poor should have a way to use the justice system for their benefit. The high price of pursuing justice makes the poor choose to evade it.” – FLAG lawyer Jose Manuel Diokno By Jhong dela Cruz Bulatlat.com The...
Constancio “Chandu” Claver, a doctor in Kalinga for the past 25 years, accused the government and the military of masterminding the attack that killed his wife, Alice, and traumatized his seven-year-old daughter Cassandra. “We believe that the killers of my wife...
Instead of a "global war on terror", Washington should employ a "global counterinsurgency" strategy that focuses on global law enforcement, intelligence, and special operations. By Jim Lobe International Press Service (IPS) Sept. 27, 2006 Posted by Bulatlat...
The head of Kalinga provincial police, Chief Supt. Pedro Ramos, is being sought after a supposed rash of unsolved killings including the ambush of Bayan Muna (People First) provincial chairman Dr. Constancio Claver and his family two weeks ago. BY ACE ALEGRE...
President Arroyo may have praised Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan for not backing down on his efforts “to liberate” Central Luzon communities from a “night of terror”, but the military’s counterinsurgency campaign have also spawned a growing number of internal...
By Will Dunham Reuters October 11, 2006 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 655,000 Iraqis have died from the Iraq war, exceeding previous estimates, researchers said on Wednesday, but President George W. Bush called the findings not credible and a top U.S. commander put...
Extra-judicial killings: 145 a year under GMA, 120 a year under FM Based on data from Karapatan (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights), the number of victims of extra-judicial killings has reached 725 since 2001, when Arroyo became president through a...
By Mary Riddell The UK Observer 15 October 2006 General Sir Richard Dannatt, the army's biggest gun, has blown apart Blair's promises and exposed the disaster our leaders try to hide History will forgive the war on Iraq. Or so Tony Blair told the US Congress in...
By BULATLAT Posted 5:08 p.m., Oct. 18, 2006 An urban poor activist was killed in San Pablo City, Laguna while another was wounded in a shooting around 7 a.m. today. Killed was Eduardo Millares, 50, a member of the Samahan ng Magkakapitbahay sa Tabing Riles (SMTR or...
By BULATLAT Posted 3:38 p.m., Oct. 19, 2006 Southbound traffic in Northern Luzon Expressway (NLEx) has been paralyzed as police tried to block 14 vehicles of peasant protesters who were to join their colleagues from Central Luzon in Quezon City. All northbound...
The Bicol Region, located at the southernmost part of Luzon, is one of the places where the battle between the government and communist revolutionaries for winning the hearts and minds of the people is particularly intense. Mang Ricky and Aling Melba, interviewed...
By the Movement of Concerned Citizens for Social Liberties Posted By Bulatlat.com The Movement of Concerned Citizens for Civil Liberties (MCCCL) strongly condemns the gruesome murder of Philippine Independent Church 9th Obispo Maximo BP. ALBERTO RAMENTO in Tarlac...
Last of three parts The issue of political murders is tied to the issue of regime survival. BY BOBBY TUAZON Bulatlat.com The recent directive of Macapagal-Arroyo to the justice department and Philippine National Police (PNP) to solve at least 10 political killings...
By the Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy October 11, 2006 Posted by Bulatlat "Academic freedom" exists among the faculty of the University to some extent because, within our limited sphere of action and thought, all of its members are...
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