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The situation OFWs are now facing is a wake-up call for government which has mythologized overseas remittances as some kind of magic bullet for development BY SONNY AFRICA IBON Features Posted by Bulatlat Even as overseas Filipino workers’ (OFW) remittances grew by...
According to the January 2009 IBON Nationwide Survey, 62.5 percent of the 1,500 respondents said that the government subsidy package did not reach them, while 18.1 percent said that it did. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat Malacañang released this week the...
The proponents of the bill say a law is necessary to protect women’s and families’ health, but its opponents say the bill not only endangers women’s health but family ties, too. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent Bulatlat Who will win the fiery battle on the...
My memories of UP are registers of cognitive and affective experiences. And If I believe in rebirth, then UP to me is like a way station before the quarters of pleasures and pains. Where I am now, remembering is the only answer to dismemberment. BY TOMAS T....
In the midst of the global financial crisis and the resulting job losses in the Philippines, a new labor group is expected to be launched before this month ends. At the same time, the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU or May 1st Movement) has declared that it will continue to push for a P125 across-the-board, nationwide wage increase.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly A basic problem is that the economic stimulus program is mainly targeting the private sector for job creation. Businesses will not begin to hire until they see more profits to be made. But the government’s efforts to make private...
Trouble at Treasury The Obama Team has a big problem on its hands; Timothy Geithner. Geithner was picked as Treasury Secretary because he is a trusted ally of the big banks and has a good grasp of the intricacies of the financial system. Geithner has assembled a...
Since he took office, President Obama has instituted many changes that break with the policies of the Bush administration. The new president has ordered that no government agency will be allowed to torture, that the U.S. prison at Guantánamo will be shuttered, and...
A multisectoral consumers’ group was recently formed to assert the people’s access to safe, affordable, quality, and effective medicines. Its first move was to criticize the loopholes in the Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008 or RA 9502.
BY SR. STELLA MATUTINA, OSB DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat I am Sr. Stella Matutina, a member of Order of St. Benedict (OSB) assigned in Dawan Parish, Mati, Davao Oriental. This year will be my second year of staying here in the Philippines. Previously, I was...
STATEMENT OF CONTEND-U.P. 6 February 2009 DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat Let us call it for what it is: political repression. Dr. Clemen Aquino, Chairperson of the Department of Sociology of U.P. Diliman, has yet to explain why her department has decided not...
As SN Aboitiz Power-Benguet, Inc announced its two year rehabilitation work on the Ambuklao Hydroelectric Power Plant, residents of Bokod also ask the company for support in livelihood and forest conservation-related projects of the area which serves as the...
The play was one of the most daring critiques of Martial Law at the time it was first staged in 1977. It was the height of Martial Law, and the Filipino people was beginning to awaken. The play “Pagsambang Bayan” (People’s Worship) helped facilitate this process of...
As the letter of Fr. Rex Reyes reads, this book that we launch today is “our small contribution in the furtherance of the quest for justice for all victims of human rights violations.” I ask you now – can there be anything more than our small contribution to a...
Too many problems have been confronting the Filipino people. To effectively confront these problems and issues, tough but obvious solutions can be implemented. However, the Arroyo government refuses to act decisively, claiming it could not do anything about it or...
(First of two parts) No country in the developing world has ever reached progress and equal treatment without fighting for self-determination and choosing an independent foreign policy. BY THE CENTER FOR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT IN GOVERNANCE (CENPEG) ANALYSIS Posted by...
(Conclusion) From the U.S. national security lens, the Philippines belongs to the "arc of instability" where social unrest, challenges to the weak regime, and "extremism" will likely increase in the short term. Thus the country will remain a major chip of the U.S....
BY BULATLAT AUCKLAND – A group of New Zealanders and Filipinos advocating human rights in the Philippines has condemned the filing of new murder charges against labor lawyer Remigio Saladero, Jr. and five union organizers. The new murder charges come barely a week...
BY BULATLAT An environmental group denounced the attacks against four anti-mining advocates, including a Benedictine nun, in Davao Oriental. Four members of Panalipdan- Davao Oriental were allegedly subjected to illegal search, illegal detention, harassment,...
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