Special Coverage: 2009 State of the Nation Address
POSTS FOR "Month: July 2009"
Video: Melissa Roxas to Other Victims: “This Is For All of Us!”
Video: Melissa Roxas to Other Victims: “This Is For All of Us!”
Video: "This Is For All of Us!" -- Melissa Roxas
Filipino Groups, Cuban Embassy Pay Tribute to Cuban Five
Filipino Groups, Cuban Embassy Pay Tribute to Cuban Five
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Groups promoting Philippine-Cuban solidarity and the Cuban embassy in Manila paid tribute to the Cuban Five – Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who have been languishing in US jails for a decade – in an activity...
Groups Protest Obama-Arroyo Meeting
Groups Protest Obama-Arroyo Meeting
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Chants of “US imperialist, No. 1 terrorist!” and “Death to imperialism!” reverberated through the streets as over a hundred activists marched toward the US embassy in Manila earlier today to protest the meeting...
Video: CHR Hearing on Melissa Roxas Torture Turns Into a Witchhunt
Video: CHR Hearing on Melissa Roxas Torture Turns Into a Witchhunt
Video: Melissa Hearing Turns Into a Witchhunt
In Outburst Vs Palparan, Torture Victim Vents Frustration Over Continuing Injustice
In Outburst Vs Palparan, Torture Victim Vents Frustration Over Continuing Injustice
When Raymond Manalo suddenly stood up and shouted invectives at former general and now congressman Jovito Palparan during a hearing yesterday at the Commission on Human Rights, he was only venting his frustration that the man he had accused of abducting him and torturing him for 18 long months has not been punished.
Video: Arroyo’s Sona — A Litany of Lies
Video: Arroyo’s Sona — A Litany of Lies
Video: Arroyo's Sona: A Litany of Lies
News in Pictures: Melissa Roxas Testifies Before Congress
News in Pictures: Melissa Roxas Testifies Before Congress
For a running account of Melissa Roxas's testimony, read Bulatlat's Twitter feed. Read her opening statement in Congress here. Melissa Roxas takes her oath right before making her opening statement. (Photo by Fred E. Dabu) CHR chair Leila de Lima (right) was also...
Melissa Roxas Testifies in Congress: ‘I Will Not Tire to Tell the Truth’
Melissa Roxas Testifies in Congress: ‘I Will Not Tire to Tell the Truth’
"I have reason to believe that the Philippine military were the ones who abducted and tortured me, and held me captive for six days. I do not like to dignify the allegations being hurled at me now as they only echo what my abductors have been forcing me to admit during my interrogation and illegal, incommunicado detention."
Video: The Making of the Last Gloria Effigy
Video: The Making of the Last Gloria Effigy
Video: The Making of the Last Gloria Effigy
Peasants and Workers in Long March for Land, Decent Jobs
Peasants and Workers in Long March for Land, Decent Jobs
Days before the Sona, thousands of farmers, workers, students and activists braved the heat and the rain as they marched from the provinces of Southern Tagalog to Commonwealth Avenue. The march, called Lakbayan, is their way of fighting the regime’s abuses and asserting their basic rights.
Outside Manila, Thousands Denounce Arroyo
Outside Manila, Thousands Denounce Arroyo
Thousands converged in other key cities across the country to denounce the Arroyo regime for the poverty, corruption, deception and repression in the Philippines.
In Sona, Arroyo Paints a Different Picture
In Sona, Arroyo Paints a Different Picture
In her ninth State of the Nation Address, President Arroyo painted a rosy picture of the Philippines – a world so much different from the one most Filipinos live in, her critics say.
Drenched But in High Spirits, Filipinos Gather Against a Hated Regime
Drenched But in High Spirits, Filipinos Gather Against a Hated Regime
Ordinary Filipinos – the perennially jobless, out-of-school teenagers, recently retrenched factory workers, vegetable vendors, proud homosexuals, among others – braved the heavy rain on the day of the Sona to let it be known that they have had enough of Gloria.
Benjie Oliveros | After Sona, It’s Business as Usual for Arroyo
Benjie Oliveros | After Sona, It’s Business as Usual for Arroyo
The regime would not veer away from the economic policies that Arroyo has implemented in the past. These are the very same policies that made the Filipino people vulnerable to the world economic crisis and to price manipulations and speculative attacks by corporations wanting to pass on the burden of the crisis to the people.
‘I Did Not Become President to Be Popular’ — Arroyo
‘I Did Not Become President to Be Popular’ — Arroyo
Below is the transcript of President Arroyo's State of Nation Address, July 27, 2009 Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Before I begin my report to the nation, please join me first in a moment of prayer for President Cory Aquino. Thank you, Speaker...
Arroyo’s Last Sona: 9 Years of Scandals, Corruption and Repression
Arroyo’s Last Sona: 9 Years of Scandals, Corruption and Repression
Anti-Sona Protests in Manila, Provinces
UP Diliman Survey on Arroyo Presidency
UP Diliman Survey on Arroyo Presidency
89% opposes a Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo presidency after 2010 88% says that the education sector did not improve under PGMA's eight years 88% says that Arroyo should be charged with cases of corruption, electoral fraud and human rights violations 69% says that...
Sona Report Card
Sona Report Card
Alliance of Concerned Teachers Name: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Position: President of the...
“Arroyo An Inveterate Liar, SONA Accomplishments No Value for the People”
“Arroyo An Inveterate Liar, SONA Accomplishments No Value for the People”
Anakpawis Rep. Joel Maglunsod said he is not expecting President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to tell the truth in her last State of the Nation Address (SONA). “An inveterate liar like Mrs. Arroyo will not listen even to Archibishop Gaudencio Rosales. For the longest...
SUPPORT BULATLAT.
BE A PATRON.
A community of readers and supporters that help us sustain our operations through microdonations for as low as $1.