Since two years ago when banana plantation and packing workers began forming unions and agitating for legally mandated minimum wage rates, soldiers from the 28th Infantry Battalion have also started harassing them in their barangays (villages). The harassments took...
It was as if a giant used a shovel to gouge the face of the mountain in Barangay Buhawen, San Marcelino, Zambales. Below the towering rocky façade, reddish-black liquid formed a pool of poison. This is the legacy of open pit mining 15 years ago. And now mining...
Photo by Ace Alegre Bulatlat Gambling appears to be part of life for many people in the Philippines, a country where life has for the most part been harsh enough to make not a few turn to luck and chance for hope. In some areas people are “initiated” into various...
Ni Mykel Andrada Inilathala ng Bulatlat Nung nagsisilbi pa ako bilang Vice-Chairperson ng University Student Council ng U.P. Diliman (2001-2002), dalawang palisiya ng administrasyon ng U.P. laban sa mga estudyante ng unibersidad ang naipatupad. Dalawang bagay ito...
In memory of Rev. Alfredo Faurillo, United Church of Christ in the Philippines [UCCP] pastor and human rights advocate, 1935-2006) BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted by Bulatlat There are those who think they are Christians by their continually speaking out the...
Kahit mayroong mahigit 10 milyong kababayan ang nagtatrabaho sa ibang bansa, nahihirapan pa ring makapangibang-bansa ang mga Pilipino. Makita pa lang ang berdeng pasport, maasahan na ang sangkatutak na tanong ng immigration officer kung bakit gustong umalis ng...
Postcapitalist Politics By J.K. Gibson-Graham University of Minnesota Press, 2006 Reading J.K. Gibson-Graham and their affiliation with Australian imperialism in the light of Edward W. Said's project mentioned at the opening of this review is revealing. Thus we may...
A town in Ilocos Sur tries to promote its products with the holding of the First Buri Festival and the parading of the world’s longest buri mat measuring 2.4 kilometers. BY ACE ALEGRE Northern Dispatch Reposted by Bulatlat SAN JUAN, Ilocos Sur (Dec. 29) — Thousands...
Even if two police officers cannot agree as to the nature of the killing of an Ilocos Norte-based radio journalist, the Philippine National Police (PNP) now considers the case closed with the filing of murder against four suspects. BY ACE ALEGRE Northern Dispatch...
This incident is once more threatening to blow up in Mrs. Arroyo’s face revealing just how shaky her regime is and how fearful it is of losing the backing of the U.S. That is the real meaning of “strategic RP-U.S. relations” for this client regime - as it has been...
BY THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE'S LAWYERS-PHILIPPINES (IAPL) Posted by Bulatlat The Philippine Chapter of the International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) vehemently denounces the recent escape of convicted rapist Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith to the...
BY THE COUNSELS FOR THE DEFENSE OF LIBERTIES (CODAL) Posted by Bulatlat The surreptitious release of Cpl. Daniel Smith, in the middle of the night at that, to the custody of the United States, despite pending litigation in Philippine courts, is not only a violation...
What the US and the Philippine government have connived to teach you is imperialism's most insidious lesson: that whatever you do is an exercise in futility, because you are a citizen of a client state, because your country is a claptrap Third World country without...
The deputy minority leader at the lower House last week linked the recent killing of Rodolfo “Pong” Alvarado – leader of Bayan Muna (BM or People First) – in Ligao City, Albay to the government’s thrust to prevent the party-list group from winning seats in this...
It is bad enough that a public hospital in Negros has become profit oriented, much to the consternation of its poor patients. What proves to be worse is that its workers are deprived of legally mandated benefits despite the hospital’s income and congressional...
BY BULATLAT Posted January 19, 2007, 6:40 p.m. UPDATED January 20, 2007, 1:45 a.m. Prof. Jose Ma. Cui, a history and communication arts professor at the University of Eastern Philippines (UEP), was shot dead by four bonnet clad and motorcycle riding men while...
Photo by Ace Alegre Bulatlat Planting rice may not be fun but this peasant mother uses it to bond with her child. It is also a way of training her child to plant at an early age, especially given that children of peasants are forced to lose their innocence to the...
By Flon Faurillo Bulatlat The opposition and administration camps are now frantically preparing for the May 2007 national and local elections. The Lakas-NUCD-led administration coalition party has been downplaying the opposition’s chances of winning, harping on the...
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