Street Shooter: Coach or Couch?
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Luis V. Teodoro | Tattered Democracy
Luis V. Teodoro | Tattered Democracy
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com The Philippine ranking fell from 122nd in 2009 to 156th in the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres’ (RSF -- Reporters Without Borders) 2010 Press Freedom Index released on October 20. The...
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | On Amnesty and Other Intriguing Questions
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | On Amnesty and Other Intriguing Questions
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com The debate on whether President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s amnesty proclamation for soldiers who had rebelled against the government of Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is justified begs for...
Benjie Oliveros | What is Wrong With K+12 Education Program?
Benjie Oliveros | What is Wrong With K+12 Education Program?
The objective of this grand plan is to align the public school system to the need to produce and sell cheap, skilled labor locally and internationally. Will the K+12 program solve the problems confronting Philippine education? What will be its impact on the...
They Grieved Then Took on the Struggle for Justice
They Grieved Then Took on the Struggle for Justice
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Who would continue their tasks? The dead could no longer speak. It is us, the ones they left behind, who must carry on what they had started,” said Evangeline Hernandez, mother of slain human rights defender Benjaline “Beng” Hernandez and chairwoman of Hustisya!
Kin of Victims of Killings, Disappearances Hit Aquino Gov’t for Inaction on Rights Cases
Kin of Victims of Killings, Disappearances Hit Aquino Gov’t for Inaction on Rights Cases
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“I had hoped that my father’s case would be the first and the last case of extrajudicial killing but the culture of impunity is still here. There has been no effort from the President to stop the killings. His inaction has allowed the killings to go on,” Ernan, son of Fernando Baldomero, first victim of extrajudicial killing under the Aquino government, said.
News in Pictures: Thousands of Peasants Converge in front of DAR; All Set for Protest March to Mendiola
News in Pictures: Thousands of Peasants Converge in front of DAR; All Set for Protest March to Mendiola
arrying lit torches, thousands of peasants and agricultural workers from all over country converge in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform office in Quezon City on Wednesday, marking the third day of “Lakbayan ng mga Magsasaka Laban sa Hacienderong Rehimen ni Aquino” (Long March of Farmers Against the Hacienda Regime of Aquino).
News in Pictures: Baguio Folk Flee Homes Due to Typhoon Juan
News in Pictures: Baguio Folk Flee Homes Due to Typhoon Juan
Some 23 families were evacuated from their homes at City Camp Lagoon Monday morning, as floodwaters begin to rise at the city's lowest part. Evacuees, numbering to at least 100 individuals, are staying in Aguinaldo Elementary School in Barangay QM. However, some residents in Little Kibungan in La Trinidad, Benguet, refuse to leave their homes, despite being declared as a hazardous area by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau of the DENR.
News in Pictures: Peasants Say CARPer Root Cause of Landlessness, Poverty and Hunger
News in Pictures: Peasants Say CARPer Root Cause of Landlessness, Poverty and Hunger
Farmers from Negros, Southern Tagalog, Tungkong Mangga and Hacienda Luisita protested in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform office in Quezon City on Saturday, and blamed the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPer) for causing massive landlessness, poverty and hunger, marking what they dubbed as World “Foodless” Day.
Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers letter for President Aquino Regarding the Case of Morong 43
Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers letter for President Aquino Regarding the Case of Morong 43
HE Benigno C Aquino III President, Republic of the Philippines Malacañang Palace JP Laurel Street, San Miguel Manila Philippines By email 17 October 2010 Dear President Aquino, The 43 Health Workers Known as the ‘Morong 43’ I am writing to you as chair of the...
Sa Kabila ng Banta ng Super-bagyong Juan, Lakbayan ng Magsasaka Inilunsad!
Sa Kabila ng Banta ng Super-bagyong Juan, Lakbayan ng Magsasaka Inilunsad!
PRESS RELEASE October 18, 2010 STA.ROSA, LAGUNA –Sa kabila ng bantang pananalanta ng bagyong Juan, magiting at walang alinlangang nagmartsa ang humigit-kumulang isang libong mga magsasaka upang simulan ang apat na araw na kilos-protesta patungong Mediola na...
Demolition of Shanties Are Also Happening in Baguio City
Demolition of Shanties Are Also Happening in Baguio City
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Without any place to stay right after the demolition of some 400 shanties, residents of the urban poor community decided to spend the night on the streets while others asked relatives and friends to accommodate them...
Foreign Mining Companies Deceive, Force People to Agree to Operations
Foreign Mining Companies Deceive, Force People to Agree to Operations
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The results of two environmental investigative missions belie the declaration of President Benigno Aquino III that local communities would decide whether to allow mining operations in their area or not. In South Cotabato, Aquino was reported to have mediated to reverse the decision of the local government disallowing mining in their jurisdiction.
‘Punish Soldiers Who Killed Negros Labor Organizer,’ Aquino Told
‘Punish Soldiers Who Killed Negros Labor Organizer,’ Aquino Told
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The Department of National Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines, which often dismiss accusations that soldiers are involved in extrajudicial killings, admitted that the suspected perpetrators in the extra judicial killing of Bayan Muna Negros member Benjamin Bayles are members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines(AFP). But this happened, Karapatan said, only after their own investigation revealed the true identities of the suspects.
Brazil’s Elections Will Matter for the Rest of the World
Brazil’s Elections Will Matter for the Rest of the World
By MARK WEISBROT Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil - In Brazil, as in the United States, most people do not vote for a president on the basis of foreign policy issues. Yet sometimes the result matters for the rest of the world...
Deconstructing Israeli Media Distortions
Deconstructing Israeli Media Distortions
By IRA CHERNUS Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com It's a rather ordinary, run-of-the-mill piece of Israeli government propaganda - an op-ed in The New York Times, October 14, by Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. Precisely because it...
Chile’s Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued
Chile’s Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued
by John Pilger Truth-Out.org Posted by Bulatlat.com The rescue of 33 miners in Chile is an extraordinary drama filled with pathos and heroism. It is also a media windfall for the Chilean government, whose every beneficence is recorded by a forest of cameras. One...
Soneto sa Anino
Soneto sa Anino
Ni RICHARD GAPPI Bulatlat.com Alkansaya ka kung saan isinusuksok Mga larawan ng ligaya at lungkot Habang may awit nang tila nabubulok Halimuyak sa akin kung diwa’y lugmok. Dahil anino kang kambal at kasalo Kung kaya ako ngayo’y nagiging tao Itim sa puti’y tingkad...
Salungguhit: Who is The Biggest Gainer?
Salungguhit: Who is The Biggest Gainer?
Who is The Biggest Gainer?
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