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POSTS FOR "Day: May 26, 2007"
Election-time Adventures

Election-time Adventures

I had volunteered twice before as poll watcher for the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting during the 2001 and 2004 polls. But nothing prepared me for the grueling tasks I had to do as poll watcher for Kabataan Party-list. And yet, more than a week after...

A Sickness Called Garci

A Sickness Called Garci

The reports of massive fraud are staring the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the face and Comelec Chair Benjamin Abalos, Sr. and Commissioner Rene Sarmiento still refuse to conduct a thorough investigation and act swiftly to prevent further damage. And they...

Wrong Medication

Wrong Medication

The issue regarding the signing of Republic Act 9439 into law is not so much on the greed for profit, nor people trying to escape from their responsibility to pay, but the issue is more anchored to the fact that it is the consequence of government’s failure to...

Damdamin para sa Bayan

Damdamin para sa Bayan

NI OLIVER CARLOS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 16 May 27-June 2, 2007 May mga damdaming pilit mang iwaksi Nukal di’t sisibol at di maikubli. Pag-ibig sa bayan pilit mang itanggi Mabibigkas pa rin nitong mga labi.. Pag-ibig na ito sa lupang nagkanlong Sa mga...

Oy, Jonas!

Oy, Jonas!

(Kay Jonas Burgos, desaparecido) NI MARK ANGELES Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 16 May 27-June 2, 2007 Noong mawala ang susi ng aparador, itinaob namin ang buong bahay. Bakit hindi kita hahanapin, Jonas, ngayong dinukot ka ng mga operatiba ni Arroyo? Waring...

Not for the Nearsighted

Not for the Nearsighted

The thing the person in the picture is pointing to in Tatalon, an urban poor community in Quezon City, is not a state-of-the art transformer or electric equipment. Those are actually electric meters of the households in the community. The meter reader from Meralco,...

Centerstage: ARMM

Centerstage: ARMM

As the national canvassing of votes for the recently-concluded senatorial and local elections continues to go full-swing, all eyes are on the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) – as massive fraud is alleged to have taken place in two of the region’s...

RPA-ABB Headed for Split?

RPA-ABB Headed for Split?

The leaders of the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa-Pilipinas/Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPM-P/RPA-ABB), a group that split from the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) in the 1990s, have begun accusing...

Political Fiefdoms Dig In

Political Fiefdoms Dig In

A look at the election outcome in some of the political turfs would show whether the geopolitical balance of power has changed without necessarily shaking the infrastructures of political dynasties in those areas. By the Policy Study, Publication and Advocacy...

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