While staging a lightning rally at the foot of the Chino Roces Bridge, also known as the Mendiola Bridge last Sept 26, doctors and other health workers led by Health Action for Human Rights (HAHR) were violently dispersed by police, who also arrested one of the group’s leaders. BY PHILIP PARAAN HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Contributed…
Day: September 29, 2007
Fourteen Ways of Remembering the 1807 Basi Revolt
Who could have imagined that native sugarcane wine would become a trigger for a Ilocos-wide revolt, which bicentennial we are commemorating this month? And why is it that all we have got to show for it, after 200 years, are 14 paintings that only few ordinary Filipinos have seen? BY PIO VERZOLA, JR. Northern Dispatch…
Vigan’s Traditional Burnay Hurdles the Odds
or as long as there are people interested in the local folk artists’ crafts, the pottery industry will continue to sustain Vigan potters as well as the ordinary burnay laborer. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 34, September 30-October 6, 2007 Filipino-Chinese mestizo Fidel Go, 68, immediately sat beside…
Sayrin and Her Long Trip to School
She left school before she started her second year in college to join the New People’s Army in Aurora province. Sayrin fondly calls this as her long trip to her new school – the school of life in the countryside. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 34, September 30-October 6, 2007 AURORA PROVINCE –…
awit kina benjamin abalos at mike arroyo
NI KAYAN LIWARI Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 34, September 30-October 6, 2007 (pasintabi sa mga pinakamasahol na burukrata-kapitalistang nag-uunahang humalik sa kanilang paanan. akin ang unang pagpupugay.) akala ko ako’y makata ngunit ngayon, napakatabang kahit ng pinakamaanghang kong taludtod at birheng walang galos ang hubo’t hubad kong talinhagang ginagahasa ng puyos. baboy! salaula!…
Umiiyak… Sumisigaw ang Lupa!
NI OLIVER CARLOS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 34, September 30-October 6, 2007 Umiiyak ang lupa. Tumatangis. Bumabalong… ang pulang luha ng paghibik. May pagsamo’t panambitan ang mga bitak ng palayan; na naging libingan… Sa dibdib niya’y sumisibol… sumasamo’t humihiyaw ang mga mga patak ng dugo… Itinigis nilang hamak na nagtangkang sumigaw… nagtampisaw sa…
Maleta, Kahon, at Karatula
NI ROMMEL PIPOY LINATOC* Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 34, September 30-October 6, 2007 Amoy-bagong-bago ang maletang pinili Bughaw ang kulay, may dilaw na palamuti Pinaganda ang kalooban ng telang pula Tinahi ang bawat sulok ng sinulid na puti Inilagay nang maayos ang mga kagamitan Pati mga ala-ala ng pamilya’t kabigan Bumukal ang luha,…
The Native Clearing: Deceiving Indigenous Peoples through IPRA
An exhibit, dubbed Aeta’s Trail at the Zoobic Safari entertains visitors with a grand show of native dances and war rituals. But behind the contrived performances lies a deeper story: one of continuing abuse against a marginalized culture that has faced oppression throughout history. BY JOHN RAPHAEL FULGAR Philippine Collegian Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII,…
Export Processing Zone Workers Victims of Unfair Labor Practices
The minimum wage in the CEZ is pegged at P272 ($6.03 at an exchange rate of $1=P45.04) barely providing for the family’s basic needs even if both husband and wife works; workers labor under extreme conditions such as working non-stop for 48 hours, not being allowed to eat or go to the toilet during working…
Rising Valleys: Women of Nueva Vizcaya Stand Up Against Large-Scale Mining
For mining companies, Nueva Vizcaya is just another gold mine. But for women whose children were nourished from its valleys and rivers, the fight against large-scale mining is a fight for life. BY LISA ITO Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 34, September 30-October 6, 2007 Her serene face is as furrowed as an ancient valley, but…
OFW on Death Row Still Full of Hope
Though clueless about the status of her case, Marilou Ranario, the overseas Filipino worker (OFW) sentenced to death in Kuwait is still full of hope she could pass this test of her life. BY AUBREY MAKILAN MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 34, September 30-October 6, 2007 Though clueless about the status of her case,…