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BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Posted 5:55 p.m. Feb. 28, 2006 The ex parte inquest (inquest without the respondents) proceedings held at the House of Representatives (HOR) around 3:30 p.m. today regarding the rebellion charge filed against five party-list representatives was...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Posted 8:35 p.m., Dec. 12, “They will ram it through at the first chance of doing so – in the middle of the night, while we are sleeping – if we don’t exercise vigilance.” These were the words of Bayan Muna (People First)...
BY Bulatlat.com Posted 2:50 p.m., Dec. 13, 2006 A barangay (village) captain was gunned down by hooded and motorcycle-riding men in Malolos City, Bulacan at around 6:30 p.m. last night. Based on reports reaching Bulatlat, Renato Estrella, 58, barangay captain of...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted 6:50 p.m. Feb. 27, 2006 Four progressive party-list representatives – Satur Ocampo and Teddy Casiño of Bayan Muna (People First), Rafael Mariano of Anakpawis (Toiling Masses), and Liza Maza of Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) who...
BY Bulatlat.com Posted 2:30 p.m., Dec. 14, 2006 Representatives of various women’s groups and other women personalities gathered in a press conference at Quezon City, Dec. 15, to register their participation in the mounting protests against the government’s moves...
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Posted 6:45 p.m. Feb. 27, 2006 Anakpawis Representative Crispin Beltran and his lawyer, Justice Romeo Capulong, walked out of the inquest proceedings for a new charge of rebellion filed against Beltran at the conference room of the Criminal...
NI JESSA MEI JAMILA Inilathala ng Gusto ko po sanang magbigay ng aking opinyon tungol sa nakaraang usaping hinggil sa Hacienda Luisita. Ang aming guro po sa Araling Panlipunan ay pinapanood kami ng isang dokumentaryong talagang nagpabuhay sa nag-aalab kong dugo at...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted 6:00 p.m. Feb. 27, 2006 Two leaders of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU or May First Movement) were arrested this morning as they and close to a hundred members of the said labor federation trooped to Camp Crame, the national...
Kasaysayan ang Magpapawalang-sala sa Akin Filipino translation of Fidel Castro’s History will Absolve Me by Carl C. Ala Published by AMISTAD 63 pages 2006 carries a double significance for AMISTAD. Aside from marking the 80th birthday of Cuban president Fidel...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com The government, said Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Teddy Casiño, may impose additional taxes to raise the income needed to finance this year’s proposed P1.053 trillion ($20,371,445,153) national budget. In the 2006...
Citing the danger of a repressive regime using an Anti-Terror Bill to create a shadow criminal justice system which, in turn, will be used as an instrument of a greater terror perpetrated by people in power against their critics and political opponents, Sen. Jamby...
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com Military rebels are “silently observing” the people’s reaction to the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration’s charter change maneuvers. “If the people will strongly react against it, there might be another attempt of military...
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The country is again facing the prospect of oil price spikes. Why? Can nothing be done about it? The country, and the world, are again being threatened with the probability of run-away increases in the prices of oil, gas, and its...
BY TRINA FEDERIS Bulatlat.com GUESS? clothing sold locally is actually sewed here in the Philippines. And while it is put up for sale at exorbitant prices, the workers just earn a pittance for their hard work. GUESS? clothing sold locally is actually sewed here in...
Out of studies on the Roman Empire in the New Testament especially the Book of Revelation, I follow a thesis that the United States of America has become today’s New Roman Empire. BY BP. ERME R. CAMBA United Church of Christ in the Philippines Posted by...
BY ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat.com In her 2001 State of the Nation Address, President Arroyo mentioned microfinance as the cornerstone strategy of the government’s fight against poverty. The year 2005 was also declared as the Year of Microfinance in the Philippines. But...
BY AURA IRENE SEMANERO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com Uma, Lubuagan, Kalinga is this year’s host community for the Cordillera Day celebration from April 23 to 24. In a meeting last February the Uma Tribal Elders and Leaders Conference pointed out the...
BY MARIE CONIE DUERME Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com The commemoration of the Cordillera Day is an event that has become the biggest annual political solidarity gathering of indigenous peoples not only in the Cordillera Region but also worldwide. This day...
BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Despite President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s moves to abolish the death penalty, human rights lawyers noted that extrajudicial and political killings continue contradicting the image of “kindness and compassion” she wants to portray....
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