By DAVID BACON Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Early in the morning of July 21, police stormed the offices of the Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union in Basra, the poverty-stricken capital of Iraq’s oil-rich south. A shamefaced officer told Hashmeya Muhsin, the first woman to head a national union in Iraq, that they’d come to…
Month: August 2010
Sidebar: Three Months Not Enough for Nursing Mom, Newborn
Main story: Court Orders Hospital Detention for Morong 43 Mom, Newborn By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA–Breastfeeding advocates and children’s rights NGOs found the court decision allowing the hospital detention of Morong 43 mother and her newborn to be wanting. Carina Judilyn Oliveros, one of the 43 health workers arrested on Feb. 6 in Morong,…
Court Orders Hospital Detention for Morong 43 Mom, Newborn
By RONALYN V. OLEA
After initially denying the petition for temporary release of Morong 43 mother Carina Judilyn Oliveros, the court, in deciding on the appeal filed by Oliveros’s counsel, ordered her and her son’s transfer to a hospital where she would be detained for a period of three months.
Photo of the Week: Wildlife for Sale
Wildlife for Sale
Street Shooter: Garbage Collector
Garbage Collector
Benjie Oliveros | Who Is to Blame for the Ineptness and Vulnerabilities Exposed by Hostage-Taking Incident?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com It is shocking how a single hostage-taking incident has shook the country and exposed its problems and vulnerabilities, as well as the ineptness of government and police officials. The late Senior Police Inspector Rolando Mendoza merely wanted to clear his name of corruption charges – by using unarguably condemnable means…
US Behind Bloody Oplan Bantay Laya, Book Reveals
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The book Oplan Bantay Laya: The US-Arroyo Campaign of Terror and Counterinsurgency in the Philippines not only explains why Oplan Bantay Laya is the most vicious counterinsurgency campaign but also puts in proper context the role of the US government in the state’s brutal campaign against the Filipino people.
Economic Growth Remains Unstable, Unable to Create Jobs
Bulatlat.com The 7.9% growth in gross domestic product (GDP) is welcome at least for appearing to be mainly driven by domestic investors, according to research group IBON. Net foreign capital inflows in the first five months of 2010 were earlier reported to be 68% lower than in the same period last year. However, the group…
Aquino’s Reaction To Facebook Criticism Shows “A Disturbing Trend of Intolerance” – Anakbayan
Bulatlat.com “Major repression in response to major incompetence” This was the reaction of youth group Anakbayan to moves by the Aquino administration to suppress anti-government criticism in the popular social networking site Facebook. Following the atrocious handling of Tuesday’s hostage-taking which resulted in the death of eight Hong Kong nationals, President Noynoy Aquino’s official Facebook…
Looming MRT Fare Hike a Telling Sign of Hard Life To Come – CWR
The P25-fare hike for railway MRT is a telling sign of more hard life for women, according to the Center for Women’s Resources (CWR), a research and training institute. “The proposed fare hike is not only unjust, it is insensitive to the conditions of the people and partial only to big business and foreign capital,”…
KMU Hails Labor Secretary’s Decision on ABS-CBN Workers’ Case
Bulatlat.com Labor center KMU (May First Movement) hailed today Labor secretary Rosalinda Baldoz’s August 13 decision giving a nod to the petition for certification elections filed by ABS-CBN’s contractual workers, calling it a “positive development in the struggle against contractualization.” The decision affirmed the existence of an employer-employee relationship between the workers and the company…