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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....
BY AUBREY MAKILAN Posted 12:25 p.m. March 3, 2006 Members of the legal profession conquered Edsa Shrine on March 3, less than an hour before the president lifted the state of emergency at 11:30 a.m. The lawyers and law students, led by the Integrated Bar of the...
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...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera, literary scholar, social commentator, librettist, and poet has been chosen as 2006 National Artist for Literature. He fully deserves the award, and more so than many of those who had received it...
BY BULATLAT Posted 12:05 p.m. March 3, 2006 President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lifted the state of emergency March 3, a week after she declared it supposedly to quash an alleged coup plot. The lifting was made after her advisers assured her that the coup threat had...
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...
BY BULATLAT Posted 4:00pm March 2, 2006 Anakpawis Rep. Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran, 73, suffered mild hypertension before noon today and is presently confined at the Philippine National Police General Hospital (PNP GH) inside Camp Crame compound in Quezon City. PNP GH...
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...
BY ABNER BOLOS Gitnang Luson News Service Posted by Bulatlat.com Alarmed by the unabated killing of political activists, world labor leaders will visit the country next month to investigate killings of labor leaders and organizers and repression of the labor...
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....
BY BULATLAT Posted 4:30 p.m. March 1, 2006 The six farmers accused of killing brothers Michael and Paul Quintos – sons of a local landlord in Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro – on Dec. 13, 1997 were meted out the death penalty this morning in an 80-page decision by...
BY JEWELYN MARANAN Contributed to Bulatlat.com Christ’s passion has for years been compared to the present conditions of the Filipino people who have perpetually been under the burden of social ills. This comparison has developed the tradition of Kalbaryo ng Bayan...
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