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(First of three parts) On the way to completing its second term, the Leonardia administration is already battered by dozens of accusations of graft and corruption and bad governance. Worse, Bacolodnons are still baffled by what the Leonardia administration is...
(Second of three parts) The lack of jobs, unstable income, and decent housing, as well as high crime rates – problems exacerbated by the city government’s lack of a pro-people development paradigm - are just among the manifestations that Bacolod is unlikely to grow...
(Conclusion) Although calls for greater people participation in governance and development are commonly heard and even “recognized” by the Leonardia administration, in reality, its programs and projects rarely involved, if any at all, the people’s meaningful...
On December 5, 2008, over 200 recently fired workers at the Republic Window and Doors factory in Chicago occupied their plant, demanding they be paid their vacation and severance checks. The occupation ended victoriously six days later when the Bank of America and...
A new direction in labor requires linking unions with other social and economic justice movements. Defending immigrants from raids and helping them win legal status is just as important to the growth of unions as passing the Employee Free Choice Act. U.S. workers...
Even as the administration continues to deny that the global economic turmoil will push the country into a deeper crisis, the Philippines has effectively started to enter a recession. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat Even as the administration continues to...
What is most insidious about the credit agency warnings is the "fallacy of composition" follies it provokes. If collectively countries and investors follow their advice and governments - especially in the largest countries - fail to engage in large enough fiscal...
Israel has been carved out like a U.S. military base in the Middle East. The United States uses Israel to lay its claim over vital oilfields for U.S. and other Western companies. In other words, Israel's role as an imperial base of the United States must provide...
For those who are following the careers of Filipino-Americans who have made a name in Hollywood, Dr. Ramon Sison may well be remembered as among the ranks of versatile Filipinos who have made their mark not only as Asian character actors in Hollywood, but also as...
Who is the Eldest and Who is the Youngest? It should be fairly easy to tell who among any number of siblings is older and who is younger….
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When the sessions of Congress resume on January 19, the progressive party list bloc in the House of Representatives would push anew for House Bill 3059 or the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill (GARB). Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano said they expect to encounter rough sailing when they push for the bill, but they are not afraid to lose. Mariano believes that the ensuing debate on the bill could put the long-standing demand of the peasantry for a genuine and thoroughgoing land reform program in the national agenda.
For lawyer Theodore Te, the bid to impeach Chief Justice Reynato Puno smells of “political maneuverings” that would benefit the current Malacañang occupant.
Additional requirements for the selection of the student representative to the Board of Regents – as stipulated in the new UP Charter- have endangered the representation of students in the highest policy-making body of the country's premier state university. BY...
Contrary to popular perception that UP is a free zone, a liberated space, what Sarah’s case reveals is that UP is a site of fierce ideological struggle, where those who advocate radical convictions are isolated and marginalized, even terminated, for unjust reasons....
Small vendors in Baguio City have been opposing the city’s anti-vending policy, which they claim would deny them their right to earn a living for their families. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW REGIONS Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY (246 kms. North of...
As the Baguio Flower Festival Foundation, Inc. (BFFFI) is preparing for the upcoming 14th Panagbenga, the city’s festival was not spared from criticisms from different groups. Critics hit the ‘commercialization and bastardization of the Cordillera culture’ through...
Advocacy work for the propagation of bamboo, both as a forest cover and ornamental foliage, is gaining a foothold nationwide with the creation of bamboo development councils. BY LYN V. RAMO REGIONS Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat LA TRINIDAD, Benguet (263 kms....
Since the Arroyo government has shown that it would do anything - lie, cheat, bribe, harass, and kill - to pursue its naked self-interest, only a strong moral force and revolution would be able to make it answer for its crimes, reverse the continuous deterioration...
Seven of the 168 retrenched workers were able to clinch some of their demands because of their assertion of their rights. BY BULATLAT MIGRANT WATCH Seven of the 168 retrenched workers of Walton Advanced Engineering Inc. in Taiwan were able to clinch some of their...
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