Ni AXEL PINPIN Anung hirap lumikha para sa isang manlilikha Kahit anong salamangka ay walang bisa. Nagtangka pa kaming palitan ang kanyang hininga sa gabing tik-a-tik ang ulan inuusal ang kanyang tugma. Nagtangka pa kaming bigyang tunog ang kanyang tawa sa gabing tik-a-tik ang ulan sinasambit ang kanyang kataga. Nagtangka pa kaming bigyang himig ang…
Month: September 2010
Ikaw Na Nagturo Sa Aming Manalamin Sa Harap Ng Hangin
Ni Kislap Alitaptap (Para kay Alexander Martin Remollino) Habang ipinapakilala ka sa amin Ng mapanudyong ulan, Binabantayan mong ‘wag makubkob Ng hanging nakalubog sa dilim Ang silid na kumupkop Sa’yo ng walang pagka-inip. Habang ipinapakilala ka sa amin Ng mga salitang itinanim mo Sa halamanan ng pangamba, Sinasalag mo ang mga mababangis Na atake ng…
Elegy for Alexander Martin Remollino
By Melissa Roxas news of your death arrives like so many unmarked packages no to, or from, just the anticipation of wanting to know why, when; this box carries news I never want to hear, another death of a friend, of a comrade, irreconcilable loss; there are unfinished conversations, messages to you still to be…
For Alex Who Served His Muse Well
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Hi, Alex. I’m still in shock over the news that you’re gone. Jo (Abaya-Santos) had been giving me updates as to how you were doing, and for the last three days I’d been under the relieved impression that you were doing better and on the sure path to recovery. You…
Street Shooter: Anglers
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Cordillera Reds Flatly Reject Localized Talks
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY– Communist rebels in the highland Cordillera region flatly rejected calls by the military for localized peace talks insisting “it is unnecessary” because there is a national level negotiation. Also brushing aside as “just empty talk” 401st Infantry Brigade commander Col. Eliseo Posadas’ promise to guarantee the safety of Cordillera…
Justice for Benjamin Bayles! Justice for all Victims of Human Rights Violations
Dear Mr President: Greetings of Peace based on Justice from Bago City, Negros Occidental. In the outset allow me to qoute the verse: But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! -Amos 5:24 (NIV). This is the passage from the Bible intended to the ruler and king of Judah as…
Indian government rejection of Vedanta bauxite mine a “landmark victory” for Indigenous rights
Amnesty International Posted By: Bulatlat.com Amnesty International today described the Indian government’s decision to reject the bauxite mine project in Orissa’s Niyamgiri Hills as a landmark victory for the human rights of Indigenous communities. India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests today rejected the mine project proposed by a subsidiary of UK-based Vedanta Resources and the…
The Greatest Covert Operation Ever: The Politics of Terror as the Business of Terror
Douglas Valentine Global Research www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20830 Posted by Bulatlat.com The politics of terror are the greatest covert operation ever. In explaining why, I’ll begin by defining some terms, because, when discussing the covert op called “the politics of terror,” words and their management are all important. How are politics and terror actually defined: how are these…
Right to Organize, Best Protection for Contractual Workers
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
“Contractualization is essentially an attack on the right of workers and the people to a living wage, to job security and to exercising trade-union rights. Any form of “protection” under a contractual employment status won’t be enough. Only unionization and regularization will truly protect contractuals.” – KMU
Baguio Teachers Complain Against Unfair GSIS Policies, Push for Representation to GSIS Board
By ALDWIN QUITASOL NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY — As their colleagues trooped to Malacañang to seek audience with President Benigno Aquino III, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers-Metro Baguio and the Confederation of Unity for Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees-Cordillera (COURAGE) last Friday aired their demands and launched a signature campaign urging…