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Promised Land?

Promised Land?

In July 2000, a typhoon that ravaged parts of the Philippines caused a huge garbage dump in Payatas, Quezon City to collapse, crushing more than a hundred nearby shanties and burying more than 500 residents. The tragedy shocked the nation and Payatas came to be...

Impending Breakdown?

Impending Breakdown?

The Filipino people have been badly bruised so far by three repressive measures – the calibrated preemptive response policy (CPR), which discarded the maximum tolerance policy in dealing with protest actions; Presidential Proclamation No. 1017, which declared a...

Lenang Hihibok-hibok*

Lenang Hihibok-hibok*

NI MARK ANGELES** Inilathala ng Bulatlat Si Lena ng Perpetual naging intern isang araw sa pampublikong ospital sa isang malayong bayan. Mapuputing mga g’wantes kaniya lamang ginamit sa pag-ahit at paglinis ng p’werta ng mga buntis. Nayamot itong si Lena sa...

One Hundred Years of Denial

One Hundred Years of Denial

Filipinos waited 300 years before they wielded their bolos in 1896, then waited another 90 years to revolt against a dictatorship in 1986, and are still waiting now, 111 years later. By Rosalinda N. Olsen Contributed to Bulatlat After more than 300 years of...

A Bullet in the Head

A Bullet in the Head

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE davaotoday.com DAVAO CITY – All the gunman had to do was pump one bullet into the head of Renato Pacaide. His death would have been quick, perhaps relatively less brutal. But it took more than a bullet to kill a man known as “Ka Atong” to many...

Beyond the TV Ads

Beyond the TV Ads

Television is generally acknowledged to have the longest reach of all the media today, with audience access estimated at 96 percent of all Filipinos nationwide. Much has thus been said about TV's being the political battleground in the campaign for this year's...

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