By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
Despite the deplorable conditions, the evacuees were unable to return to their homes because of the climate of fear that prevails to this day. Although heavily militarized, reports of the continued presence of the Ampatuan clan’s private army still persist.
A Vow to Seek Justice and Peace
By KARLOS MANLUPIG Regional Spokesperson League of Filipino Students-Southern Mindanao Posted by Bulatlat.com One would visualize a butcher as a person covered with blood after meticulously chopping and carving an animal in a slaughterhouse. For a man to be labeled a butcher, that person must have done something really brutal. “Berdugo” in the native language,…
Ni ROLAND TOLENTINO Kulturang Popular Kultura Bulatlat.com Media ang pangunahing lagusan ng kolektibong persepsyon ng individual tungo sa kolektibong relihiyosidad. Popular itong relihiyosidad dahil katuwang ang media sa paghulma at pagsubstansya ng kalidad ng partisipasyon at debosyon nito. Kapag may potensyal sa kita, ito ang nagiging kulturang popular ng relihiyosidad. Kapag ito ay nananatiling sa…
By MARYA SALAMAT
Among those who participated in the recent Lakbayan, the national peasant caravan, were members of the Aberlin Aetas, a tribe in Tarlac whose communities and livelihood are being threatened by a mega-dam project started by the administration of Cory Aquino and now being pursued by the Arroyo regime.
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By MARYA SALAMAT
The first time Rep. Luis Villafuerte went up and asked the farmers to meet with him in April, “he hoodwinked us to sign a paper which we thought was just an attendance sheet, but later turned out to be our supposed agreement to donate the lands we have been tilling to Green Earth,” members of Lingap Magsasaka, the farmers’ group, told Bulatlat during the northern leg of the 10-day Lakbayan.