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NI AXEL PINPIN Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 30, August 31-September 6, 2008 Kumupas at kumupis ang kalendaryo Kumalampag at ipininid ang kandado Kumupad at bumilis ang oras Nagasgas at numipis ang rehas Dumatal at umalis ang lamig Sumagad at umibis ang...
Hindi naman ako nawawalan ng tulog kapag nagdedesisyon ako tungkol sa katawan. Napag-isipan kong magpatubo ng goatee. Hindi naman ako tinutubuan ng kumpletong bigote kaya hanggang goatee na lang. Maraming referensya ang banggit ng mga tao hinggil sa goatee ko. Ang...
Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMCo) is facing a government probe for allegedly polluting rivers in Mankayan, Benguet, Cervantes, Ilocos Sur and communities along Abra River, one of the five biggest rivers in the country. BY ACE ALEGRE Northern Dispatch...
The June 4 decision of the Japan Supreme Court will reverse the old law which only grants nationality to Japanese-Filipino children whose parents were married legally. The new law will include children whose parents are not legally married. BY GERMELINA A. LACORTE...
BY ATTY. BEVERLY SELIM-MUSNI Initiatives for Peace In Mindanao DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat.com Volume VIII, Number 30, August 31 – September 6, 2008 Mrs. Arroyo's policy-shift in her administration's peace negotiations to 'disarmament, demobilization, and...
The Meralco case is not about public interest; it is all about conflicting business interests. And it is being decided not on the basis of the strength of arguments but by the power of money and influence. This is the depth by which our system of governance, and of...
The peace process can bring about a simulated peace – but not the final solution to the Bangsamoro people's historic and just grievances. BY THE POLICY STUDY, PUBLICATION, AND ADVOCACY Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) ANALYSIS Posted by Bulatlat...
As the global economic crisis reaches new lows this first half and with worse to follow in the coming months or even years, the Philippine labor force is being battered by one gut-level whammy after another. While the effects of the surge in prices of petroleum...
Being jailed is not new to KMP leader Randall Echanis, 60. His detention in January this year following his arrest in Bago City, Negros Occidental is his third already. It is the prison conditions he is now in that are new to him. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO...
How does one cope when a loved one was involuntarily disappeared? How does one go on searching for days, weeks, months, years, decades? BY BULATLAT HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Vol. VIII, No. 30, August 31-September 6, 2008 How does one cope when a loved one was...
After 859 days (two years and four months) of agony, the Tagaytay 5 (T5) are now free and vow to continue their crusade against injustices and to free other prisoners from the much-bigger “cage” of an unjust society. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH...
I think no one will disagree with the proposition that our problems in the judiciary, in the legislature, in the executive branch, in the rest of our institutions and processes are inextricably intertwined and will defy lasting solutions unless we dismantle the...
Edita Burgos, mother of the disappeared activist Jonas and General Manager of the We Forum, called on journalists to rise above the “more dangerous barrier” to pursuing a story: that which is self-imposed. BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Volume VIII, Number 30,...
“The OceanaGold Corporation and Lafayette mining projects are both anti-people and anti-environment. These are the main reasons why OGC will not prosper and will fail.” Bulatlat.com Volume VIII, Number 30, August 31 - September 6, 2008 Environmentalists, indigenous...
Four of the largest rural-based organizations in the Philippines have issued a statement opposing five proposed farmland-as-collateral bills in the House of Representatives, claiming they would lead to massive cancellations of land titles currently held by farmers...
As Malacañang forwarded to Congress the proposed P1.4-trillion national budget for 2009 last Aug. 26, the Confederation for Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees (Courage) said that Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is really preparing for the...
Political payback. That is how the members of the Water System Employees’ Response (WATER), the largest federation of water district workers in the country, see the appointment of former Surigao del Norte (1st District) representative and defeated administration...
Four elements of the Philippine Army were recently caught in the act of spying on students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Student leaders criticized surveillance and other tactics employed by state agents to disrupt the student movement....
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