NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Mimosa Pudica ang bansag ng mga Pantas. Andibaing sa Pangasinan, Babain o Dilgansusu sa Ilokos at Damohia sa Tagalog. Dikut-malamarine sa Pampanga at Harupai o Kirom-kirom sa Samar-Leyte Bisaya. Huya-huya o Tuyag-tuyag sa...
Making Way For The Dead
The living makes way for the dead. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva)
Sa krisis-tala na ito, walang superhero na Kristala o Krisis-tala na makakatubos sa kolektibong kinasasadlakan. Ito ang panahon ng politikal na pagkilos, pagpapatibay at pagpapalawak ng hanay. Tanging sa politikal na pagbabalikwas mabubura ang in-on na krisis at...
A national alliance of public school teachers called for the scrapping of a government plan to subject teachers and students to random drug testing. The Department of Education (DepEd) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) have announced that they will...
Detained peasant activist Randall Echanis and his colleagues from the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP or Peasant Movement of the Philippines), Pamalakaya, the Amihan Peasant Women's Association, Anakpawis Party-list, and the Rural Missionaries of the...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Members of the women's groups GABRIELA and Gabriela Women's Party (GWP) this morning staged a picket at the House of Representatives to protest moves to amend the Constitution. The House Committee on Coonstitutional Amendments...
BY BULATLAT Legislators want to investigate the use of Social Security System (SSS) funds for the Arroyo administration’s economic stimulus package. Recently, SSS President Romulo Neri committed P12.5 billion to the economic stimulus fund. Assistant Minority Leader...
Environmental groups said that corporate lobby, especially from the oil and energy industries, have a strong voice even among the ranks of civil society organizations during the recent United Nations (UN) conference on climate change. Green groups are therefore...
“The experience of our Asian neighbors proves that the relationship between foreign land ownership and overall levels of investment is weak,” said IBON research head Sonny Africa. “This reinforces the suspicion that HR 737 is a ruse to justify charter change for...
It is wonderful and historic that the American electorate put a black family in the White House. Still, Barack Obama is no magical exception to the rule observed last spring by Howard Zinn: "Let's remember that even when there is a 'better' candidate (yes, better...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO (Bulatlat.com) Parallels Sixty years have the Palestinians spent away from Palestine, herded into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as the Jews were in the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Europe. For sixty years they have been fleeing from...
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. - C.S....
The American people did not elect the Pentagon. They elected Barack Obama based a good deal on his promise to get US troops out of Iraq sooner rather than later. Since he was elected, Mr. Obama has hedged on this promise. Since he was inaugurated, the Pentagon and...
May kinalaman ang lugar at tao sa uri ng pagkain kanilang inihahanda.Ang pagkain sa partikular na mga lugar ay pagkilala sa etnisidad ng mga taong lumilikha nito, pati na rin ng heograpiyang pinaghalawan ng kondisyon ng paglikha. NI ROLAND TOLENTINO KULTURANG...
Overseas Filipino workers have expressed support for a bill seeking to expand legal services for OFWs in distress. BY RONALYN V. OLEA MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat Overseas Filipino workers have expressed support for a bill seeking to expand legal services for OFWs in...
A Regional Trial Court in Benguet found substantial evidence to link Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and state security forces to the abduction of missing activist James Balao. BY BULATLAT HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat LA TRINIDAD, Benguet (263 kms. North of Manila)– A...
Students filed complaints before the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for cases of harassment and surveillance allegedly perpetrated by elements of Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). BY BULATLAT HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Students filed complaints before the...
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