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...
A global alliance of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) branded the Arroyo administration's economic resiliency plan for OFWs as a grand hoax. BY ANGIE DE LARA AND RONALYN OLEA MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat Evanessa Valmadrid is one of the retrenched OFWs from Taiwan who...
Filipino migrant organizations in the United States and Canada condemned what they called the “brutal” treatment of activists marching to the US Embassy in Manila on Feb. 25. BY AUBREY MAKILAN-DELA CRUZ MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat Filipino migrant organizations in the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Following the release of the 2008 US State Department report on the Philippines, the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) called on the Obama administration to cut military and other aid to the Arroyo government. Released February 25, the US State Department country...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Retrenched workers and those in danger of being retrenched, as well as long-time contractual workers gathered today at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani in Quezon City to launch an association that, they say, would defend their...
By Noel Sales Barcelona Correspondent Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Angel N. Lagdameo issued a pastoral statement against the issue the planned revival of the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). “We join the...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat The multi-secrtoral group Bagong Alyansang makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance), together with other cause-oriented groups and individual petitioners, filed today a motion for reconsideration on the custody of L/Cpl....
By Noel Sales Barcelona Correspondent The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Manila, Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal B. Rosales, joined calls asking schools not to increase their tuition this coming school year. In a news report over Church-run Radio Veritas today,...
Seven out of ten Filipinos want Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo out of Malacañang, a survey showed. A survey by independent think-tank IBON Foundation revealed that 66.7 percent of respondents believe that Arroyo should be removed as president. Yesterday, Arroyo said...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Members of the groups Kilusan ng Manggagawang Kababaihan (KMK or Movement of Women Workers and GABRIELA staged a protest action against retrenchments this afternoon at the Boy Scouts' Circle along Tomas Morato Avenue in Quezon...
BY BULATLAT OZAMIZ CITY - Misamis Occidental broadcaster Ernie Rollin was shot dead early morning Monday in Oroquieta city while on his way to work in a radio station here, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines reported. His live-in partner...
“It has helped me make a resolution that the peddlers of lies cannot go on and be left unchecked. Yes, they may be Goliath but the presence of Goliath also gives birth to little Davids.” Edith Burgos, mother of missing activist Jonas Burgos, said this at the...
No Fear of Falling
The possibility of suffering a bad fall from this wall in Smokey Mountain, Tondo, Manila is apparently the least of this boy’s worries. (Photo by Eric Sales)
A lawyers’ group has denounced the Philippine government for “lawyering for a foreign government” on the transfer of convicted rapist L/Cpl. Daniel Smith of the US Marines to Philippine prison facilities. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat A lawyers’ group has...
As the country faces uncertainty in the face of the global economic downturn, the latest IBON survey shows that majority of Filipinos doubt that the administration will be able to address the crisis well. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat As the country faces...
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