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In Davao, Military Uses Vigilante Groups Against NPA
In Davao, Military Uses Vigilante Groups Against NPA
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com The 10th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army has revived the vigilante group ‘Alsa Lumad’ in its campaign against the New People’s Army (NPA). The NPA, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), has been...
A Record of War Crimes by the Bush and Obama Administrations
A Record of War Crimes by the Bush and Obama Administrations
Bill Van Auken http://www.wsws. org/articles/ 2010/jul2010/ pers-j27. shtml The tens of thousands of documents posted online by WikiLeaks Sunday have provided a detailed and searing indictment of a criminal colonial war that the Obama administration has made its...
This is What Success Looks Like
This is What Success Looks Like
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN http://www.counterpunch.org/ Posted by Bulatlat.com The last American combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, so the Pentagon announced this week. The 40,000 personnel from 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division began crossing into...
Profits Are Way Up at General Motors … So Why Aren’t They Hiring?
Profits Are Way Up at General Motors … So Why Aren’t They Hiring?
By MICHAEL MOORE Alternet.org Posted by Bulatlat.com "If we want a life worth living for ourselves and our kids, we have to go get it ourselves. We can’t keep waiting for the cavalry to come. That’s because we’re the cavalry." So General Motors is back to making...
Morong 43’s New Mom Asserts Her Rights and That of Her Child
Morong 43’s New Mom Asserts Her Rights and That of Her Child
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Twenty armed men in three vehicles took her from her hospital room in handcuffs. She was separated from her baby. They took her away swiftly while her mother was settling her hospital bills. This detainee is not a high profile, dangerous criminal, but a health worker and political detainee.
Isla de Mabanlas: A Family of Artists
Isla de Mabanlas: A Family of Artists
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com BALINGASAG, Misamis Oriental -- Francesca Salim, 46, and the rest of her family are not known for their surnames - a usual scenario in small towns in the country. Their family, instead, is more known now for their collective...
Women’s Groups Push for Divorce Bill
Women’s Groups Push for Divorce Bill
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Amid the heated public debate regarding the divorce bill filed recently by Gabriela, battered women such as Maricon Reazo await its passage to be given another chance at having a happy family life.
KMU Supports The Struggle of ABS-CBN IJM Workers For Their Rights
KMU Supports The Struggle of ABS-CBN IJM Workers For Their Rights
We in the Kilusang Mayo Uno fully support the struggle of the employees of ABS-CBN in its Internal Job Market to form their union and collectively bargain with the ABS-CBN management, and to become regular employees of the television network. We raise our clenched...
A Caring, Dedicated Public School Teacher
A Caring, Dedicated Public School Teacher
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Dilapidated, crowded classrooms, shortages in textbooks, overworked and underpaid teachers, and stinking comfort rooms characterize most public schools in the country. But a grade one classroom in Talusan Elementary Schools stands out because entering it would make one feel that he is inside one of the more expensive private schools in the country.
International Defend Committee Condemns Yearly Slander Against Prof. Jose Maria Sison (PR)
International Defend Committee Condemns Yearly Slander Against Prof. Jose Maria Sison (PR)
Press Statement August 20, 2010 We wish to remind the public and the mass media that in 1994 the office of the Manila prosecutor's office approved and issued a resolution dated March 2, 1994 dismissing as based on sheer speculation the charge of multiple murder...
Benjie Oliveros | Unfulfilled Promises Piling Up
Benjie Oliveros | Unfulfilled Promises Piling Up
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com As the country approaches the first 100 days of the second Aquino administration, unfulfilled campaign promises seem to be piling up. During his campaign for the presidency, the Hacienda Luisita issue haunted Benigno Simeon...
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