By BULATLAT MANILA -- A Filipino migrants’ rights body based in Saudi Arabia is urging the Philippine Embassy and the Philippine Consulate General to take the opportunity of the granting of a blanket royal pardon to all illegal and undocumented migrants in the...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – For the first time since he became president, Benigno S. Aquino III’s effigy was burned to the ground by thousands of students who gathered at Plaza Miranda in Manila. For the first time since Aquino became president,...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com Imelda Bondocoy lost her house and her sister-in-law when typhoon Ondoy struck the country last year. Fire and flood hit the urban poor community in Agno, Tatalon, Quezon City where Bondocoy lives. The Manila Electric Company did...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
When the hype about relief and relocation efforts for victims of Ondoy, especially the poor in vulnerable communities, had died down, the urban poor were left to rebuild their houses and their lives, without any outside assistance. A year after, they are in a worse state than before Ondoy hit the country.
Sidebar: Memories of Ondoy, Government Neglect Push Residents to Prepare Themselves
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Filipinos have nothing to applaud but plenty to fear from its new president’s US trip and the bacon it’s supposed to bring home soon, based on statements of workers, migrants, youth and students’ organizations and economic...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com The award-winning novel Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco follows the tradition of ‘the great Filipino novel': it is political and outwardly rooting for social change. Its title alone is pregnant with possibilities of exhortation and...
By Bulatlat.com MANILA – A Filipino migrants’ rights body based in Saudi Arabia is urging the Philippine Embassy and the Philippine Consulate General to take the opportunity of the granting of a blanket royal pardon to all illegal and undocumented migrants in the...
After the extension of Oplan Bantay Laya last month, four members of the local chapter of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas in Masbate and a member of the local chapter of party-list group Bayan Muna in Mindanao became the latest victims of extrajudicial killings under the Aquino administration.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Both PALEA and FASAP are seeking to finally ink a new, improved CBA with PAL. But PALEA has been met with mass termination notices, while FASAP has been forced to file a notice of strike as PAL firmly refuses to put the discriminatory retirement provision on the negotiating table.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Governments are only instruments. The peoples must exercise their power. The peoples are masters of international society. Law is a struggle of the peoples.” -- Roland Weyl, IADL first vice president and dean of the Paris Bar Association
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Not a single victim of human-rights violation during the Marcos dictatorship has achieved justice nor received any compensation from the government.
Urban Poor Resist Demolition
Ni RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA Bulatlat.com Magandang gabi, Pilipinas Dumaan ang araw na walang demolisyon Ngunit nagsunog na naman Ng mga barong-barong Sa gilid ng Trinoma Kanina. Samantala Walang katigil-tigil ang paninisi Ng mga burgis sa mahihirap. Kawawang mga...
Ni RICHARD GAPPI Bulatlat.com Dayo kang dumalaw sa akin isang araw. At ngayon, nababakat ko pa ang lapat ng iyong bigat. Basag na salaming humihiwa sa aking balikat ang iyong mabibigat na lakad. Milya-milya na ang inikid ng iyong buntung-hininga. At ang buhol ng...
Ni RICHARD GAPPI Bulatlat.com Kaninang umaga, dinemolish ng pinagsama-samang pwersa ng Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) at QCPD anti-riot team ang mga naninirahan sa Sitio San Roque, Barangay Bagong Pag-asa, Quezon City. Ayon sa mga ginoo’t...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com A budget reveals the intent, priorities, and programs of an organization a business, or a government. Thus, the 2011 budget, which was submitted by the Aquino government to Congress for approval, reflects what it is bent on...
The First Christmas Redux
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The 49-page document contained the farm workers' final stand regarding the agrarian dispute, which has been going on for more than a century already. "The justices would be able to find every answer to their questions (in this memorandum)," ULWU acting president and Ambala vice chairmain Lito Bais said.
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