While the International Seafarers’ Action Center (ISAC) Philippines Foundation, Inc. and other seafarers’ groups such as the progressive Filipino Seafarers’ Movement (FSM) are pushing hard for the ratification of the 2006 Maritime Labor Convention (MLC), the Philippine government seems not to bother. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat Two years after the adoption…
Day: February 28, 2009
Closing the Door
Students Intensify Efforts to Stop Hikes in Tuition, Other Fees
Students from various state and private higher education institutions held a series of protests against another impending round of fee hikes for the coming school year. In the midst of the global financial crisis, students argued that increasing the cost of education will drive them out of schools. BY JEFFREY OCAMPO Contributor Bulatlat Students from…
Revising History
Ironically, the more Mrs. Arroyo dismisses, degrades and tries to consign to oblivion the legacy of people power uprisings – of a people moving as one to overthrow the current Chief Executive Officer of the unjust and exploitative ruling system – the more she underscores its vitality, its correctness and its historical necessity. BY CAROL…
Toast to Summer
Ang summer lang ang tino-toast dahil ang tag-ulan ay magkatambal na biyaya at sigalot ang kaakibat na dulot. Tino-toast ang singularidad ng panahon—mainit lang forever—at ang singularidad ng homogenisadong karanasan ng gitnang uri. Toast to summer, tostadong tag-init gayong ito rin ay dead summer, patay na tag-init. NI ROLAND TOLENTINO KULTURANG POPULAR KULTURA Bulatlat Ito…
The Smith Custody Battle, a Question of Power and Interests
Perhaps people are wondering why the US is so hell-bent on protecting a rapist and why the Arroyo government is so willing to oblige. If a Filipino committed the same crime in the US, he would surely rot in a US jail and not while away the time in the Philippine embassy. It is because…