BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH / BREAKING NEWS May 14, 2007 - 1:58pm The Moro human rights group Kawagib disclosed that election returns are being sold in Mindanao for P40,000-60,000 ($847.82-1,271.72 based on a $1:P47.18 exchange rate as of...

TEXT AND PHOTOS BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 16, 2007 - 1:44pm Due to shortage in manpower, the canvassing of votes in Manila could take a week. Jovencio Balangquit, chair of the Commission on Elections Board of Canvassers of...

U.S. troops are suspected of having been involved in the April 30 bombings of Barangays Buansa and Cagay in Indanan, Sulu. The suspicion stems from the use of so-called smart bombs in the attack, which has forced some 360 families to evacuate to nearby barangays....

Peace activists and human rights advocates in Manila last week opposed the proposal that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair help Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo clinch a peace agreement with political armed groups currently waging their...

To generations of labour activists, Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran is an iconic figure – a towering model who has survived five presidents in his fight for the working poor. The 75-year old aging warrior is still very much in the fray, albeit a bit slower in gait and a...

"The Department of Agriculture (DA) was either lying or uninformed when it assured consumers that U.S. GMO rice has the seal of approval of international food safety agencies.” BY GREENPEACE Posted by Bulatlat Vol/ VIII, No. 13, May 4-10, 2008 Greenpeace debunked...

"The Department of Agriculture (DA) was either lying or uninformed when it assured consumers that U.S. GMO rice has the seal of approval of international food safety agencies.” BY GREENPEACE Posted by Bulatlat Vol/ VIII, No. 13, May 4-10, 2008 Greenpeace debunked...

Lex Adonis, the former anchorman of Bombo Radyo-Davao jailed for libel, filed a complaint addressed to the UN High Commission on Human Rights, challenging the legality of the criminal libel laws in the Philippines. BY GERMELINA A. LACORTE AND CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao...

Women’s participation in the course of history has been invisible and largely unnoticed. This motivated Prof. Judy Taguiwalo to focus her doctoral dissertation on the role that women workers played in the labor movement. Her findings? “Andun sila sa iba’t-ibang...

BY MICHAEL T. KLARE The Nation/Truthout Posted by Bulatlat ALTERNATIVE READER Vol. VIII, No. 13, May 4-10, 2008 While the day-to-day focus of US military planning remains Iraq and Afghanistan, American strategists are increasingly looking beyond these two conflicts...

With the increases in the prices of rice, bread, pork, electricity, oil, liquid petroleum gas, and other basic commodities, the need for and the urgency of wage increases are no longer debatable. The only question is how and how much. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS ANALYSIS...

BY MICHAEL T. KLARE The Nation/Truthout Posted by Bulatlat ALTERNATIVE READER Vol. VIII, No. 13, May 4-10, 2008 While the day-to-day focus of US military planning remains Iraq and Afghanistan, American strategists are increasingly looking beyond these two conflicts...

Totoo namang mababawasan ang tubo ng mga kapitalista oras na magkaroon ng substansiyal na pagtataas ng sahod. Pero hindi ba’t kailangan ito ng mga manggagawa lalo na sa panahong ito? NI DANILO ARAÑA ARAO Konteksto / Pinoy Weekly Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VIII,...

BY MELCHIZEDEK MAQUISO DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 13, May 4-10, 2008 Dear Editor: Mabuhay! I'm an OFW under the live-in caregiver program working and living at the same time in Stouffville, Ontario, a northern Toronto suburb. I'm writing to...

Commencement has been an occasion for personages to give their views on burning issues like independence or party-less democracy before the war and the Cold War and post-colonial issues after the war. Nowadays commencement organizers are wary about manifestations...

The higher the level of corruption in a country, the greater the destruction of the environment; likewise, the lower the level of environmental sustainability. BY THE CENTER FOR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT IN GOVERNANCE Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 13, May 4-10, 2008...

Close to a hundred midwifery licensure examinees from Northern and Central Luzon hoped they would be able to take the examinations after spending tens of thousands of pesos for the review. Unfortunately, they would have to wait several months more because the...

A YouTube video entitled “The Adventures of Isko Palaban” was posted in the internet. It shows the problems being faced by the Tandem and the students of the University of Northern Philippines (UNP) from the increase in tuition and other fees to the closure of the...

Indigenous peoples of Brgy. Lamag, in Quirino, Ilocos Sur have rejected an application for mining exploration, asserting their preference for traditional resource utilization. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 13, May 4-10,...

“We the elders, leaders and peace pact holders of the tribe of Binongan, bind and reaffirm as a matter of life and death very important agreements to oppose large and destructive mines...and its ill effects on the future of the people of Licuan-Baay, the tribes of...