By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
President Aquino’s electoral platform, inaugural speech and State of the Nation Address (SONA) contain no clear environmental agenda and position on major issues such as mining, climate change and the garbage problem, said Clemente Bautista of Kalikasan.
While the debate on carbon emissions and credits rages, an alternative solution is being offered by a woman professor and environmentalist: Live well by emulating the practices and coping mechanisms of grassroots communities. By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY –- Living well might can be one of the appropriate solutions to the climate crisis,…
By RONALYN V. OLEA
After the attempt on his brother-in-law’s life, peasant leader Dario Tomada fled to Luzon and took on different jobs to support his family back in Leyte. Five years later, he was arrested by soldiers for 15 counts of murder that allegedly took place in 1984 — when he was still peacefully tilling a small piece of land and was not involved in any organization.
By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Women representatives from Asia Pacific countries shared their experiences on the impact of militarism in their homes at a conference on “Women Resisting Violence And War” held at the Igorot Lodge, Camp John Hay from July 19 to 21. In the conference workshop…
PRESS RELEASE July 27, 2010 Talaingod, Davao Del Norte — An outbreak of rash, fever and colds, and diarrhea – all symptoms of measles disease have been reported to be spreading in the remote Ata-Manobo villages of here. This was the alarming report received by the PASAKA Regional Confederation of Indigenous Peoples in Southern Mindanao…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR July 25, 2010 It is a travesty of history when one distorts and denies it. It is doubly insulting when the real and historical role of the people and martyrs are diluted and denied to suit one’s self-interest for an appointment for a government position. The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban…
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Nearly six months since the Morong 43 were arrested and the wheels of justice have been grinding slow on our detained colleagues. For these innocent health workers, being held each day more in detention is a continuing torture and a serious injustice.”
By ARNOLD PADILLA
Aquino’s promotion of PPPs and privatization in his SONA has further reinforced the view that his administration is incapable of introducing new policies that will reverse the old pro-business, pro-market neoliberal policies of the past administrations, including the Arroyo administration.
By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) Posted by Bulatlat.com The true state of the nation is in the people who live under the harshest of conditions in the margins of society yet see in collective strength the power to make their lives better. Aquino III says, “We…
Priorities?
NEWS RELEASE 28 July 2010 Necessary, yes. But lacking and superficial. This is how GABRIELA finds the formation of an investigative body to look into the irregularities in the rice procurement of the National Food Authority (NFA). According to the group, Aquino’s posturing in his first State of the Nation Address can be likened to…