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NINA AXEL PINPIN AT RONALYN OLEA Inilathala ng Bulatlat Ang Pagdalaw sa Libingan ng mga Buhay* Ni Axel Pinpin, sa ngalan ng Tagaytay 5 Iwan n'yo na ang kandila, 'wag nang mag-abala sa bulaklak 'Wag n'yo lang kalilimutan na magbaon ng halakhak, Pagkat kailangan iyan...
Tutok Karapatan (TutoK), a group of artists advocating human rights, will hold a series of upcoming art events starting this month, tackling the spate of extra-judicial killings in the Philippines. TutoK was formed late last year as a response to what the group...
The idea of terrorism is extended to several forms of social fight and protest. Dissident political and trade union opinions become criminalized. An environment movement such as Greenpeace or animal rights activist is even prosecuted as terrorist in some countries....
The coming 12th ASEAN Summit to be held in Cebu this December would continue the neo-liberal liberalization agenda, to the continuing disadvantage of the peoples of Southeast Asia. By IBON Foundation Posted by Bulatlat The US and Japan may use the Association of...
It’s the school needed for our times and it’s for free, without the exorbitant fees and yearly increases. The only requirement is an open mind and a willing spirit to take on a critical and alternative perspective of society and reality. By KAREN PAPELLERO Bulatlat...
The University of the Philippines (UP) as the premier academic institution in the country remains one of the bulwarks of academic freedom. But its students are being harassed and military and police forces are intensifying surveillance operations inside the campus....
The bombings that took place in Mindanao earlier this month are the handiwork of people who want the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to completely collapse, the...
On Nov. 16, 2004, seven strikers were killed at the picket line outside Gate 1 of the sugar mill when soldiers and police fired at thousands of protesters manning the barricades. Eight more – including an acclaimed bishop, a pastor, city councilor – who were active...
Friends and families of the nine punks still languishing at the Benguet Provincial Jail in La Trinidad have asked the fiscal to immediately throw out the case against them. They maintain that the nine punks are innocent and their arrest was “unlawful from the...
14 October 2006 Davao City, Philippines The 3rd Congress of the International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) was successfully held in Davao City from 12-14 October 2006. 7 people’s lawyers from Belgium, Brazil, India, Netherlands and Turkey and 1 activist...
The United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) pastor and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) leader in Ilocos region who survived an assassination attempt by gun-toting men on a motorcycle along Del Pilar Street in Vigan City last...
A peasant leader was shot to death in Baggao, Cagayan (500 kms. north of Manila) on November 11, and a Protestant pastor survived an attempt on his life in Vigan City (407 kms. north of Manila) last November 9. By Emily Vital Bulatlat Two more cases of political...
Army Pfc. Lordger Pastrana, the leader of a group of hooded armed men who tortured and killed Methodist Pastor Isaias Sta. Rosa in Daraga, Albay on the fateful night of Aug. 5 this year was a soldier who had a mission order authorizing him to carry a firearm...
This is the latest in the wave of illegal, criminal assaults by a politically isolated regime against those who have the will and the capacity to bring about the broad united front of political forces necessary in order to rid the country of Mrs. Arroyo's dastardly...
What happened to Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay is not a simple case of implementing the rule of law. It is actually a case of bending the law to suit the self-serving interests of the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the person who should be removed...
The result of the U.S. midterm elections is not so much a vote for the Democrats although it catapulted them to the majority position after 14 years. It is more of an indictment of the Bush administration, specifically its policy on Iraq and the war on terror, its...
Government authorities appear in a hurry to integrate five public hospitals to promote medical tourism. However, there is as yet no law calling for the integration, health authorities are themselves divided on its wisdom and health workers are in protest. BY AUBREY...
Port workers of the Manila North Harbor fear that they will lose their jobs once the port is privatized effective 2007. An executive of the Philippine Ports Authority says about 75 percent of their organic employees will be laid-off once the winning private bidder...
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