It’s just like a scene in a cartoon where the characters stumble on one another in a comic display of ineptness. After bungling the handling of the investigation of the Glorietta 2 explosion, and the siege of the Manila Peninsula during the Trillanes-Lim standoff, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has once again showed its programmed…
Day: January 26, 2008
Vying for the Presidency in 2010
Glossed over in the frenzy to see who the leading presidentiables are is what political agenda they are bringing into this race for power, what they stand for with regard to issues most urgent to the people, and who the probable major beneficiaries are from their candidacies. The electorate deserves no less than the whole…
A Call for Moral Leadership*
Whatever be the final judgment on Cardinal Sin’s controversial intervention in the political arena, the fact is the bishops cannot isolate themselves from what is going on and cannot continue to remain silent, wittingly or unwittingly serving as props to a regime widely perceived to be illegitimate, morally bankrupt and the cause of intolerable hardships…
Missionary Priest Sees Same Deplorable Conditions, Hits Church Apathy
A Columban priest who stole headlines in local and international media in the 1970s and 1980s for his staunch defense of the poor especially the sugar workers said that the social, economic and political conditions of Negros today remain substantially the same. By KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 50, January 27-February 2, 2008…
A Trip Well Worth the Effort for Ilocos Region Peasants
The Lakbayan gave us renewed strength to continue on fighting for our land in the knowledge that we are not alone in the struggle and in fact, one with the majority of the people,” said Zaldy Alfiler, a farmer from Ilocos and secretary general of Solidarity of Peasants Against Exploitation. BY ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat Vol.…
DOLE Assumes Jurisdiction on UC Strike; Union calls move suppression of constitutional rights
The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) issued an order Monday assuming jurisdiction for compulsory arbitration over the labor conflict between the University of the Cordilleras’ (UC) employees’ union and the management. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 50, January 27-February 2, 2008 BAGUIO CITY (246 kms. north of…
A Philippine University
Its doors’ being open to as many Filipinos as possible is a major factor in its lead as an educational institution. But there’s also the fact that as a state university, UP’s educating the poor would seem to be a considerable part of its mandate. BY LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point / Business World Posted…
‘I Turn a Bad Thing into a Good Thing’ – Sison
NDFP chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison’s listing as a “foreign terrorist” in 2002 brought about the suspension of his benefits and pension, and restrictions on his right to travel. “But I turn a bad thing into a good thing,” he said. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 50, January 27-February 2, 2008…
Pulitika at Peligro ng Agresibong Pagmamaneho
Hindi man katanggap-tanggap ang klase ng pagmamanehong maaaring makaabala o makadisgrasya sa iba, kailangan ding isaisip ang panlipunang kalagayang nagtutulak sa mga drayber na gawin ang sa tingin nila’y nararapat para lang kumita. Sa madaling salita, may konteksto ang anarkiyang nakikita sa mga lansangan, at may dahilan ang desperasyong nakikita sa agresibong paghawak sa manibela.…
Travel for Health: A Sell-out of Philippine Health Care
Medical tourism is but one form of globalization of health care – foreign doctors, foreign owned hospitals and medical facilities catering to foreign clients: a sell-out of the country’s health care system to foreign big business that spells government abandonment of its responsibility to provide much needed health services to the people. BY PHILIP PARAAN…
RP Call Centers, OFWs to be Hit Worst by U.S. Slowdown
Call centers and overseas Filipino workers, both lauded by the Arroyo government as economic winners, are seen to be the worst hit by an anticipated U.S. recession and general slowdown in the world economy. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 50, January 27-February 2, 2008 Call centers and overseas Filipino workers, both…