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The walk to the Rizal Park before dusk in 1975 proved to be not just a stroll for 46-year old Amparo Diaz, an organizer of the urban poor in Tondo, Manila. She found herself picked up by armed men and herded into a jeep. BY DABET CASTANEDA Bulatlat.com The walk to...
A local human rights group cast doubts on what the military claims to be a mass grave of the communist movement’s purge victims. They said the site was actually a “no-man’s land”, where the village population evacuated to escape military operations. BY JOHANN HEIN...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in Negros has described the arrest by government soldiers of a group of 11 theater members as “illegal.” It will investigate the case. By Karl G. Ombion Bulatlat.com BACOLOD City – In these days of politically-motivated...
It’s now mid-2006, and the killings and abductions, as well as the AFP and Malacañang’s lies have yet to stop. BY DEE AYROSO (Bulatlat.com) In March 1989, Honor Ayroso, then a 21-year-old leader of the League of Filipino Students, was abducted. That week, nine...
The Arroyo regime’s “total war” is not only victimizing progressive party lists, lawyers, church workers, teachers, students, and peasants. It is also victimizing workers who are peacefully exercising their union rights as the experience of the Samahan ng mga...
Seven Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) lawyers representing the punks, who have been in jail at the Benguet Provincial Jail for more than a month now, argued that the “honorable Court has no jurisdiction over the accused” and that the punks were illegally...
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 inherently God-fearing and...
Cordillera overseas workers contributed at least $11.7 million of the $917 million remittances of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) posted this January by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP or the Central Bank of the Philippines). BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern...
Exactly three months have passed since Anakpawis (toiling masses) Party List Rep. Crispin Beltran was arbitrarily detained by the Arroyo administration. And the nationwide and international protests over the progressive parliamentarian's illegal and...
DAVAO CITY — An environmental activist from Cebu City has warned about the wanton destruction of the upland watershed areas of Davao City disguised as development, saying this could deplete the city?s supply of clean and fresh water. ?You want to lose water? Put up...
What does a merger of two banks have to do with members of the Social Security System (SSS) and the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS)? A lot, according to two labor groups. BY JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat The so-called mall magnate is increasing his economic...
An interfaith organization called Friend of Moro Detainees (Friends) was launched during the first year commemoration of the Camp Bagong Diwa siege, which claimed the lives of 22 Moro inmates. By May Vargas Contributed to Bulatlat An interfaith organization called...
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 and widen the scope of...
A land dispute over a quarrying operation may have led to the March 20 ambush here that nearly killed Zambales Anakpawis (Toiling Masses) coordinator Amante Abelon and caused the death of his 35-year old wife, Agnes, and five-year old son, Ervy John. by A. Mangampo...
By Cheryll D. Fiel davaotoday.com DAVAO CITY ? A young activist was forcibly taken Friday night by men believed to be government agents and was interrogated inside a van for an hour. Raunil Mortejo, chairman of the progressive youth group Anakbayan in Davao City,...
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 harvesting. But who will...
Paquibato leaders decry continued harassment of residents despite military's assurance By Cheryll D. Fiel davaotoday.com DAVAO CITY - The disbandment of paramilitary units and the withdrawal of the firearms issued to them by the Philippine Army are some of the...
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 LGU officials who allegedly...
Twenty-year old Cris Hugo was a small – only 4’11” tall – and humble person who led an exemplary life. He fearlessly fought for quality education and students’ rights – until bullets felled him last March 19. BY LINO D. INTERINO III Bulatlat I was aghast when my...
“Even as Filipinos now have reached the summit of Mt. Everest, the youth remained at the bottom under the administration of Arroyo. Education has become harder to reach and achieve,” says League of Filipino Students (LFS) High School chair Hiyas Garduce says of the...
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