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Hacienda Yulo farmers in Barangay Canlubang, Calamba City in Laguna today warned President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III of a brewing indefinite hunger strike if Malacanang fails to act on their three demands submitted barely a week after Aquino assumed the...
By BULATLAT Youth group Anakbayan denounced today the declaration of President Noynoy Aquino’s house in Times Street, Quezon City as a ‘no-rally zone’ come July 26, when he would deliver his first State of the Nation Address (SONA). The declaration was made by the...
By LUIS TEODORO LuisTeodoro.com/Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com IMPUNITY — OR exemption from punishment — has been correctly called a culture, a way of doing things to which a particular community has become accustomed. It is almost inevitably mentioned as...
Long lines of empty buckets and drums snake along Barangay Commonwealth streets in Quezon City, as frustrated residents wait their turn at commercial deep wells. Many areas of Metro Manila have been without water for nearly a week already.
Press Release 21 July 2010 An alliance of Filipino migrant rights group in the Middle East today expresses alarm on the two reported separate incidents of killings involving OFWs in Kuwait last week. “We could not help but to express apprehension upon knowing the...
Press Statement July 21, 2010 The Comelec decision allowing Mikey Arroyo, presidential son and former district representative, to sit as a partylist representative will ultimately destroy the partylist system. It is a gross violation of the partylist law and...
PRESS RELEASE July 21, 2010 Youth group Anakbayan voiced its concern today over a staunch pro-Noynoy family whose members are now holding influential positions in the new Aquino government. Butch Abad, a former DepEd secretary under Gloria Arroyo, now heads the...
Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino expressed dismay over Commission on Election's (COMELEC) decision today giving multimillionaire and former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's son Mikey Arroyo a seat in Congress as the representative of Ang Galing...
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com Many people recognize The Sorcerer’s Apprentice from an old Walt Disney movie which involved everyone’s favorite mouse, a wizard and a lot of wayward mops. The original story, however, was derived from a German poem written by the poet...
Members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) marched to Chino Roces (formerly Mendiola) bridge this morning calling on President Benigno S. Aquino III to end extrajudicial killings of activists.
By KATHLEEN T. OKUBO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BONTOC, Mt. Province -- “We the people of Mountain Province demand the unconditional and immediate pull-out from our villages of the troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines!" The Cordillera...
By BULATLAT In an attempt to derail the campaign to ban the aerial spraying of pesticides in Southern Philippines, a complaint was filed against those who conducted a scientific study commissioned by the Department of Health (DOH) on the impact of aerial spraying...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by: Bulatlat.com SAGADA, Mountain Province ? People from three municipalities of this province oppose the exploration activities of a subsidiary of Anglo American PLC mining company in their communities. The Cordillera...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“It is unthinkable that Aquino is unaware of the military’s policy on extrajudicial killings of activists. The recent killings bore the DNA of Gen. Jovito Palparan’s shock and terror tactics,” Anakpawis party-list Representative Rafael Mariano said.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
International groups are urging President Benigno Aquino III to comply with the Paris Principles in appointing the next chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
When typhoon Basyang hit Metro Manila, the government was unprepared not only because the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) missed the prediction, but because it simply was not ready to respond to any disaster.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat.com MACO, COMPOSTELA VALLEY – Communist guerillas who captured and released three soldiers and a militiaman in Compostela Valley in June scoffed at the entry of more government troops from Luzon. Anvil Guinto,...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante International reports that from January 2009 to April 2010 alone, 225 Filipinos were stranded, jailed or in deportation centers and shelters in other countries.
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