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Press Release July 13, 2010 Akbayan Rep. Etta Rosales is a “seriously flawed choice” for the Commission on Human Rights chief post, labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno said today, rebutting former Rep. Risa Hontiveros’s claim that Rosales is “perfect” for the job. “We...
Press Release July 13, 2010 “The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has received enough of warnings regarding its culpability for the spate of extra-judicial killings in the country. It now needs a beating,” labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno said today as President...
Mark B. Francisco, 27, a public school teacher of San Isidro Elementary School in Palanas, Masbate, and member of ACT Teachers' Party-list was killed by unidentified gunmen last July 9. Due to continuing threats of violence against teachers, classes have been suspended in 14 schools in Palanas municipality.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Two teachers, where one is a member of the leftist group Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), were killed in just the first 10 days of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III, bringing the number of extrajudicial killings under his watch to four.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Military operations that target civilians in communities did not end with the Arroyo administration. it is still continuing as what is happening in Barangay Pura, Rodriguez, Rizal province just outside Metro Manila.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
A 78-year-old peasant leader was shot dead by two motorcycle-riding men inside his house in San Isidro, Laur town, Nueva Ecija, at around 4:45 p.m. Friday, July 9. He was the second victim of extrajudicial killing under the new administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III.
By Bulatlat.com An overseas Filipino worker who was in Kish Island in the Persian Gulf on a tourist visa was killed on July 1, a chapter of Migrante International in Saudi Arabia reported recently. The victim was waiting for his re-entry visa for the United Arab...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Because of what teachers call as the "the lost decade of Philippine education" during the Arroyo administration, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers is calling for urgent and bold measures.
By LUIS TEODORO LuisTeodoro.com/Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com WHEN Barack Obama was elected US President in 2008, hopes ran high that change was forthcoming both in the United States itself as well as abroad. Obama would decisively address the economic...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Forming his team to set the direction of change or political payback? So far, except for Justice Sec. Leila de Lima, the Cabinet of Pres. Benigno Aquino III is a mixture of key figures in his campaign, representatives of big business, and old hands of the former Arroyo administration.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Even as the 1,644-hectare land was already awarded to the farmers in 1972 through Presidential Decree 27 or the Marcos Land Reform Law, the Araneta family was able to get the Court of Appeals to rule in its favor in 2003. Now the case is before the Supreme Court.
By STEPHAN SALISBURY TomDispatch International Posted by Bulatlat.com Informers have by now become our first line of defense in our battles with the evildoers, the go-to guys in the never-ending domestic war on terror. They regularly do the dirty work -- suggesting...
By ROBERT REICH The Nation / Alternet.org International Posted by Bulatlat.com Wall Street's banditry was the proximate cause of the Great Recession, not its underlying cause. Even if the Street is better controlled in the future (and I have my doubts), the...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
In 1948, a disillusioned American physicist gave up her promising career, left her country and lived with the people of China. She was Joan Hinton, an internationalist, revolutionary scientist and socialist who serves as an inspiration to many Filipino activists.
By LYN V. RAMO
With their small parcels of land no longer producing enough for their families, peasant women and men try to make do with odd jobs.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Karapatan, Kilusang Mayo Uno and Anakbayan point out that Akbayan's Etta Rosales had, in the past, mouthed the military line that the extrajudicial killings were part of "internal purges" in the CPP-NPA. “Appointing her to the commission is highly unreasonable, if not insane,” the KMU said.
PRESS RELEASE July 9, 2010 This was the question posed by youth group Anakbayan today in reaction to several statements this week by Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and several officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. In particular, the group expressed...
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