BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 40, November 11-17, 2007 Not only Filipinos thumb down the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA). Japanese nationals and organizations have signed a petition asking the Philippine Senate to reject the agreement. Japanese citizens vs JPEPA In a list sent through email to No Deal! JPEPA, Movement against Unequal…

Small single-engine motorized fishing boats are docked at the sea wall in this northern fishing village in Currimao, Ilocos Norte (464 kms north of Manila) as fisherfolk take a break from their work during the observance of All Souls’ Day. After the lull however, the fisherfolk went back to the daily business of earning a…

At the House of Representatives, there seems to be little interest in the impeachment complaints that have thus far been filed against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the wake of testimonies in Senate investigations that no less than the First Family was involved in the rigged and overpriced National Broadband Network (NBN) deal between the Philippine…

A fourth-year male cadet at the PMA reportedly died of a respiratory tract infection last week at the AFP Medical Center at V. Luna St., Quezon City. This is the second death of a PMA cadet purportedly due to illness this year alone. Last May, a 17-year-old cadet also died, allegedly because of pneumonia. BY…

The Macapagal-Arroyo administration has used every trick in the book to remain in power: cheat, plunder, kill, suppress, coerce, bomb, confuse, peddle concessions and stonewall. It is the administration with the longest running unsatisfactory rating and the most number of impeachment complaints filed against it. The fact that it has been successful so far in…

Riyadh-based relatives of Anita Morales Carvajal who was found dead inside the toilet of a Saudi police station in Riyadh are crying for help to find the real cause of death of the Filipina housemaid. BY EDGAR CADANO MIGRANT WATCH Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 40, November 11-17, 2007 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia–Riyadh-based relatives of…

Calls to stop the Australian-owned Lafayette Polymetallic Mining Project in Rapu-Rapu island, Albay have grown stronger as thousands of residents are going hungry and even sick after a recent fish kill hit barangays (villages) located near its mining site. BY LISA ITO Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 40, November 11-17, 2007 Calls to stop the Australian-owned…

Jocelyn Dulnuan may be dead. But her spirit lives on in the hearts and minds of her compatriots in Canada and in the efforts of community leaders and coalition members of the Jocelyn Dulnuan Support Committee whose calls for policy changes and continuing search for justice are echoing in various memorial services across Ontario. She…

The father of Marilou Ranario, an OFW who is on death row in Kuwait for allegedly killing her employer, is disappointed to learn that her daughter is still on death row despite the reported forgiveness by the family of the victim. BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 40, Nov. 11-17, 2007…

Gladys Adonis, the wife of jailed Davao Alexander “Lex” Adonis, said her husband has been admitted to the prison hospital in early October. She said Adonis, an anchorman of Bombo Radio-Davao sentenced to four and a half years in prison early this year, had been feeling utterly “abandoned and depressed,” and is thinking of ending…

As the Senate is set to conduct public hearings on the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), a newly formed group composed of legislators, researchers and community leaders denounced the JPEPA’s ill-effects on agriculture. BY IBON Foundation Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 40, November 11-17, 2007 Members of No Deal! JPEPA, a movement against unequal…