Nananaginip si Bobet gabi-gabi ng pagbukas niya sa bintana at rumaragasa ang putik at bato. Maitim ang ilog sa bukana ng bahay. Tinatangay ang sumasalungat na tao, manok, baboy at kalabaw. Naghuhimiyaw ang mga ito pero hindi kaya ng dambuhalang tunog ng pagragasa. At araw-araw ay gumigising si Bobet para maglakad, wala namang pinatutunguhan, pero…
Day: February 11, 2007
Ang Pag-unlad ng Sining ng mga Makata ay Salamin ng Karanasan ng Kanilang Audience
Ang pagiging written at spoken art ng tula ay makitid na dimension lamang ng pag-iral nito. Mas malawak ang hamon sa tula na makalampas pa sa mabusising pagkakasulat, mahusay na pagkakabigkas o kaiga-igayang pagkakatanghal, papunta sa pagtanggap ng mambabasa, na makakarinig at makakatunghay dito bilang sarili rin niyang karanasan. NI AXEL PINPIN* Inilathala ng Bulatlat…
P125-Wage Hike and Arroyo’s Economic Boom
If Pres. Arroyo wants to talk about “social payback from the booming economy”, the only acceptable and meaningful social payback that Filipino workers deserve today is a substantial wage increase complemented by price controls, tax reforms, and drastic increases in social services spending BY ARNOLD PADILLA Ibon Foundation Posted by Bulatlat In a televised forum…
The Age of Perpetual Conflict
The U.S.’ leaders are not creating peace or security at home or stability abroad. The reverse is the case: its interventions have been counterproductive and its foreign policy is a disaster. Americans and those people who are the objects of successive administrations’ efforts would be far better off if the U.S. did nothing, closed its…
PGH: Hospital for the Poor No More; Employees, health groups oppose hospital fee increases
The management of the country’s premier public hospital said that there is a need to increase fees to have funds for improving facilities and services. Various groups, however, argued that increasing fees will be done at the expense of the poor who are supposed to be the main beneficiaries of public health services. BY AUBREY…
With Lafayette mine reopening: Gov’t Unleashed Environmental Time Bomb, Group Says
“The mine will only aggravate poverty among the people. DENR has started to unleash an environmental time bomb with the full commercial operation of Lafayette.” – Trixie Concepcion, Defend Patrimony spokesperson and geologist BY LISA ITO Bulatlat In complete disregard of the technical findings and recommendations of the Rapu-Rapu Fact-Finding Commission (RRFFC) issued last May…
Marine General’s ‘Detention’ Provoked by Peace Pact Violations
The “detention” by Moro rebels of a military group led by Muslim convert Brig. Gen. Benjamin Dolorfino last week stemmed from the repeated postponement of a proposed tripartite meeting with the government and the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC). The proposed tripartite meeting was to tackle issues related to the implementation of the 1996 Final…
Elections: A Critical View
Mrs. Arroyo and other reactionaries are bound to fail because they overestimate their own strength and underestimate the people’s intelligence, determination and capacity to take destiny in their own hands. By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat Not a few friends and even fellow activists have asked whether the right thing to do in the…
Electoral Showdown
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has so polarized the country that one is either pro or anti, no in-betweens. The UNO senatorial candidates, in particular, and the anti-Arroyo movement, in general have their political differences, as the administration is wont to point out. But Arroyo has pushed them together against her. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat The battle lines…
Senate Approved Anti-Terror Bill Not Watered Down but More Draconian Than the House Version
District representatives asked to declare no vote during the election CODAL wishes to correct members of the Senate who contend that their version of the anti-terrorism bill is watered down. In this instance, the authors of the House version could not outdo Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile in crafting a bill intended to terrorize legitimate dissenters.…
Congress: A Hall of Injustice
The senators who voted for the anti-terrorism bill have nothing to say against the constitutional anomaly that while the measure gives the chief executive and the military vast authoritarian powers it is silent on Congress’ lack of power as a “check and balance mechanism” to executive abuse. BY BOBBY TUAZON Bulatlat Members of Congress, pro-administration…