Martyrs of the Filipino People
Day: September 11, 2010
Street Shooter: Tondo Hilton
Tondo Hilton
Will Our Generals Ever Shut Up? The Military’s Media Megaphone and the US Global Military Presence
By TOM ENGELHARDT TomDispatch International Posted by Bulatlat.com The fall issue of Foreign Policy magazine features Fred Kaplan’s “The Transformer,” an article-cum-interview with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. It received a flurry of attention because Gates indicated he might leave his post “sometime in 2011.” The most significant two lines in the piece, however, were…
Benjie Oliveros | Solving Poverty the Wrong Way
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com In a big urban poor community in Quezon City, mothers, with children in tow, could be seen lining up at the local health center. Most of the children being brought to the center were not sick. They were there so that the mothers could get a certification that the children…
Photo of the Week: Helping Hand
Helping Hand
For ABS-CBN, Six to 16 Years of Service to the Company Does Not Seem to Matter
By MARYA SALAMAT
Her labor case took seven years before the DOLE issued a decision saying Wheng Hidalgo is supposed to be treated as regular employee at ABS-CBN. But instead of gaining job security, Hidalgo was moved around from graveyard to late afternoon shift, and later terminated for rejecting the company’s insulting, long-delayed regularization offer. “I cannot understand why…I gave ABS-CBN my service, love, loyalty,” Hidalgo said.
NPA Condemns AFP Lies and Use of Civilians as Shield (PR)
Press Statement September 10, 2010 The Alejandro Lanaja Command-Front 3 Operations Command of the New People’s Army issued a statement to shed light on “another half-truth” that they said the Armed Forces of the Philippines fed to the media. It was regarding a civilian who was wounded in an encounter between the Front 3 Operations…
Why Millions March in France, but Not in the US
By RICK WOLFF Truthout / MR Zine International Posted by Bulatlat.com The basic issue is the same there and here. Capitalism generates another of its regular, periodic crises, only this one is really bad. It begins, as often happens, in the financial sector where credit invites the competition-driven speculation, the excess risk-taking, and the corruption…
Budget Cut on Legal Assistance for OFWs, Illegal – Migrante
By BULATLAT MANILA — An overseas Filipino workers alliance called on the House of Representatives to oppose Malacanang’s proposal to slash by half the budget for legal assistance to OFWs in distress. “It seems that OFWs can no longer rely on (President Benigno S. Aquino III),” Migrante International chairperson Garry Martinez said, “If we are…
Inspiring Pioneer of Philippine Drivers’ Movement Gave His Final ‘Boundary’
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
and MARYA SALAMAT
Medardo “Ka Roda” Roda, a towering presence in the struggle for the just treatment of transport workers and of the marginalized sectors for more than three decades, is unarguably the most famous and most well-loved transport leader this country has ever had. He inspires the younger progressive transport leaders and stymies the yellow transport leaders into ignominy by comparison.
Sali Na Bayan!: Amplifying the People’s Voice
By RONALYN V. OLEA
A triumph of press freedom, Kodao Production’s radio program is again on the air, now entitled ‘Sali Na Bayan!’ from 2 to 3 p.m. at DZUP 1602 KhZ AM radio.