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100% barat sa manggagawa When President Aquino took over as president, our living conditions were evidently at the lowest levels as evinced by an all-time high disparity of wage levels with the cost of living. Government data show that a family in Metro Manila...
With yellow euphoria rapidly dissipating, the first 100 days of Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has clearly been a foray into consolidating for the interests of both foreign monopoly capitalists and the local ruling class of landlords and big bourgeois compradors, and...
Davao City – Following the successful citywide protest led by POWER DABAW against the recently implemented P0.33 power rate increase by the Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC), more protests are set to bombard the company. “We will not stop unless the management...
More than a hundred peasants who attempted to hold their two-day vigil at the foot Don Chino Roces Bridge (formerly Mendiola Bridge), marking President Benigno Aquino III's 100th day in power, were dispersed by police around 7:30 p.m. on October 6.
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Question: What do you call people who use the rhythm method? Answer: Parents. It’s an old joke that in the context of the country’s many problems wasn’t funny even when first heard decades ago....
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Last week’s violent demolition of shanties in a sprawling urban poor community in Quezon City highlighted once more the intractable problems of homelessness and urban blight and...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA -- A bishop of the poor, of peasants and workers. This was how former Iglesia Filipinas Independiente (IFI) Supreme Bishop Alberto B. Ramento was described by family members and colleagues in a liturgical commemoration on...
“The Philippine government is boasting that it is a signatory to the nine core conventions of the UN and yet, it violates these conventions,” Marie Hilao-Enriquez, chairwoman of Karapatan, said. By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The case of Benjaline “Beng”...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The main perpetrator in the extrajudicial killing of human rights defender Benjaline Hernandez was granted bail by a local court and was reportedly acquitted recently. But the United Nations Human Rights Committee found the Philippine government accountable for her death.
Sidebar: Philippine Government Told to Enforce UN Rulings on Rights Cases
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
It appeared like any other birthday party of a child, except that it was celebrated inside a prison camp.
6 October 2010 The RP embassy's move of sending a follow-up letter to the Provincial government of Dammam, Eastern region, is an indication that our Embassy officials are having a problem obtaining the police report on the death of OFW Erroy-Ibanez. It could be...
Alejandro Lanaja Command Guerilla Front 3 Operations Command New People’s Army-Southern Mindanao Press Statement 6 October 2010 The 3rd Special Forces Battalion (3rd SF Bn) of the 10th Infantry Division is again weaving a tall tale showing without doubt that the...
Press Statement The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today assailed the regional office of the Commission on Human Rights for participating in a psywar campaign against the NPA after its successful Aug. 21 tactical offensive in Catarman, Northern Samar....
Media Release October 6, 2010 Health groups today trooped to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to cry justice and freedom for their illegally detained colleagues and relatives. They pressed DOJ and Malacañang to hold true to their promise of immediate review of the...
Press Statement 06 September 2010 October 3 – Department of Labor and Employment secretary Rosalinda Baldoz announces that the government will assume jurisdiction over the labor dispute in the Philippine Airlines should mediation talks fail. (Assumption of...
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Ni RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA Naka-chat ko minsan si Middle Class Nalilito raw siya Bakit daw ba gustong-gusto ng mga pobre Ang ituring silang mahirap? Poverty mentality raw ang tawag doon. (Kita mo nga naman, pinasiklaban pa ako nire) Ako namang si Simple Mind Ay...
By MARK ANGELES Bulatlat.com “Kokak!” said the frog when it high jumped from the well. “Kokak!”said the frog when a roguish hand seized it by the neck. “Kokak!” said the frog when it was laid on the table. “Kokak!” said the frog when a lateral cut was made from its...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Poetry is the written soul of the poet. It cannot be imprisoned.” – Mark Angeles, Palanca awardee
Agustito “Tito” Ladera, 38, and Renato Deliguer, 21, were last seen by their relatives tending their farms before they went missing. Witnesses point to soldiers of the 36th Infantry Battalion who were seen arresting two farmers.
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