A call center agent is someone who earns as much as P20, 000 ($446) a month by simply parroting spiels and buffering irate calls. S/he assumes a certain lifestyle to conform with the social strata call center agents occupy. But there is a downside to this seemingly high paying job. A call center agent is…
Month: July 2007
`Atienza Does Not Belong at DENR’ – Environment Groups
Environment groups protested the appointment of former Manila mayor Lito Atienza as secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), listing his litany of sins of commission and omission against the environment. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributed to Bulatlat Vol 7, No. 24, July 22-28, 2007 BAGUIO CITY (246 kms from Manila) – A…
Peasant Leaders Named in 2003 Ilocos Raid Jailed
They voluntary submitted themselves to the local court in the hope of clearing their names. However, instead of being cleared in a September 2003 raid and burning of an Ilocos Sur police station, they were thrown behind bars. BY ROD TAJON Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28, 2007 CANDON CITY,…
Alert Up for Chinese Products Sold in Davao
Health authorities in Davao are intensifying their monitoring of Chinese food products, particularly those being sold along Magsaysay Avenue (Uyanguren), following the decision by the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) to pull out candies and biscuits imported from China. BY TYRONE A. VELEZ Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28,…
Are the Fundamentals of the Economy Strong?
Are the Fundamentals of the Economy Strong? Economics is purportedly the strong point of Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s administration. She has declared that the country is well on its way of achieving “First World” status in the next one to two decades; and the government issued economic statistics to prove her point. But a deeper analysis…
Arroyo’s State of the Nation 2007: A Legacy of Economic Decay
Arroyo’s State of the Nation 2007: A Legacy of Economic Decay In the face of its glaring failures, the Macapagal-Arroyo administration continues to pursue the very same bankrupt economic policies that caused these in the first place By IBON Foundation Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28, 2007 Undoubtedly, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will…
Human Rights Summit and Tensions within Branches of Government
Human Rights Summit and Tensions within Branches of Government The recently held human rights summit took the first agonizing step towards finding solutions to the epidemic of extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances. The solutions proposed will pit those in the judiciary against the forces of resistance in the executive branch and Congress. BY THE CENTER…
Confronting the U.S. Empire: Reviewing Filipino Insurgent Intellectual Production in the United States
On The Presence of Filipinos in the United States and Other Essays by E. San Juan, Jr. (Salinas, California: SRMNK Publishers, 2007. 114 pp., $12.50) BY JEFFREY ARELLANO CABUSAO* Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28, 2007 Toward the end of their 2005 dialogue homegrown: engaged cultural criticism, African-American feminist bell hooks and…
`Pluralist National Language Necessary’ – Hawaii University Prof
The Philippines is a multi-lingual and multi-cultural nation given its 172 languages but emphasis is given only to the two languages. This, said Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoli, is a reminder that we have not done enough. BY MARICAR CINCO Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28, 2007 Los Baños, Laguna (62 kms. south…
Sangay (Namesake)
BY KAREN PAPELLERO Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28, 2007 (alang kang Karen Empeño) (for Karen Empeño*) ang buwan nga mosilang, mosalop the moon that rises and sets sama sa adlaw like the sun, ginatawag nga buwan usab did you also call it as moon ba kaha nimo samtang while you were…
Panata sa Kalawaan
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28, 2007 Bago pa mamatay ang lawa ng Laguna. Aking itataon ang pagtatanong ngayong tag-ulan, Dahil nagtutubig ang aking tainga. Yagit ako at dugyot na laging inaaninaw Ang katanungan sa nakabibinging panata. Saan? Saan? Saan? Walang nagbabadya, walang bumubulong… Bakit? Bakit? Bakit? Ako bang…