BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Contributed to Bulatlat Posted 6:28 p.m., July 8, 2008 MAKATI CITY — Manila Auxiliary Bishop and Episcopal Commission on Social Action, Justice and Peace , Broderick Pabillo, D.D., grilled a Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) official during a press conference held at the San Carlos Seminary here by asking him where…
Day: July 12, 2008
Despite Claims of Under-Recoveries: Big Three Rake in Billions in Global Oil Profits
While the Big Three oil firms in the Philippines claim losses due to under-recoveries, their mother companies abroad continue to report record billions in profits, according to independent-think tank IBON Foundation. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 23, July 13-19, 2008 While the Big Three oil firms in the Philippines claim losses…
Students Mark National Youth Action Day with Walkouts, March
Last Thursday, July 10, students from various colleges and universities marched towards Morayta to hold a program culminating the day’s events, which they dubbed as National Youth Action Day. The day began with simultaneous walkouts and programs in all participating schools. BY JEFF OCAMPO Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 23, July 13-19, 2008 Last…
Fishers Group Spearheads Campaign Against Off-Shore Mining
As part of the campaign against off-shore mining, a top official of the militant fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Pamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) personally wrote Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd requesting the Australian premier to persuade its’ offshore mining company—NorAsia Energy Limited to back out from oil and gas exploration in the Visayan Sea.…
UP will forge through Risk-filled Neoliberal Terrain; so will Militant Activism Persist
An Outsider’s View of the University of the Philippines delivered as part of the UP Centennial Lecture Series on July 10, 2008 at the NISMED, UP Diliman “…the University can maintain its social relevance only by continuously taking part in the dynamics of the larger society. It must do this not only through the militant…
The Sacred VAT
There is a growing clamor for the removal of the VAT on petroleum products to ease local prices, especially since it adds from P4 to P6 peso to pump prices. Just recently, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines echoed the same demand. But the Arroyo government flatly rejected it. What is it with the…
Lies, Kidnapping and a Mysterious Laptop
As Ingrid Betancourt emerged after six-and-a-half years- sunken and shriveled but radiant with courage – one of the first people she thanked was Hugo Chavez. What? If you follow the news coverage, you have been told that the Venezuelan President supports the Farc thugs who have been holding her hostage. He paid them $300m to…
Gestapo-like Arrests Victimize OFWs in South Korea
After OFWs were summarily rounded up, detained and forcibly deported in Sabah, Malaysia and in Saudi Arabia, now it’s the OFWs in South Korea who are being chased, manhandled, and are languishing in detention cells. To fulfill their monthly quota of 3,000 deportations, immigration authorities and the police raid workplaces, train stations, and churches arresting,…
3 OFWs from Dubai Recount Agony
They were victims of illegal recruitment. Then, they were forced to work 30 hours straight and allowed to eat only once a day. When they complained, they were falsely accused and detained for four months. After the case against them has been dismissed, they waited in jail for more than a month before they were…
4 of 6 Cordi Provinces are Food-Poor
Four out of six Cordillera provinces are among the country’s poorest, with three towns in two of its other provinces belonging to the poorest 100 towns in the Philippines. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 23, July 13-19, 2008 BAGUIO CITY (246 kms. North of Mannila) – Four out…
Gloria Arroyo bilang Panlipunang Sakit
Ibuyanyang na lang natin ito bilang “Arroyo disease.” Mga sintomas: pananahimik kapag nasa gitna ng skandalo, pagtago sa poder ng Malacanang imbes na makiugnay sa mga tao, pagharap lamang sa mga kausap na elitistang negosyante at dignitaryo, at pag-aantay na humupa ang alingasngas. NI ROLAND TOLENTINO KULTURANG POPULAR KULTURA Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 23, July…