PRESS RELEASE May 6, 2011 26 union officers and members of KTS faced demotion Davao City- Twenty six workers of Superstar Coconut Products Inc. who are all officers and members of the union, Kahugpungan ng mga Trabahante sa Superstar (KTS) were demoted by the company management from their work in the face of an impending…
Day: May 6, 2011
The long road to justice for union leader Ka Fort continues
A six-year span of time could make a child out of an infant after he or she is able to crawl, stand, walk, run, read, write and even tie shoe laces. However, the nearly six-year-old campaign for justice for the killing of Diosdado “Ka Fort” Fortuna has long been taking baby steps when a flawed report almost pushed the campaign back to square one.
When journalism seeks to enlighten and not to trivialize
by KRIZZIA DALE A. VILLAFLOR Bulatlat.com MANILA — Last week, I had the great privilege of attending a lecture of columnist, journalist and college professor Luis V. Teodoro on alternative journalism. Prof. Teodoro recently retired from teaching journalism in University of the Philippines where he was a dean of the College of Communications for two…
What subsidy? Public utility drivers still demand for an oil price rollback
By MARYA SALAMAT
There are 214,596 registered public utility jeepneys in the country, but when the Aquino Government’s Pantawid Pasada program was finally begun first week of May, only 3,000 fuel cards loaded with P1,050 ($34.95) each had been prepared for distribution by the government.
Seeking justice for Jonas Burgos
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Mrs. Burgos told Bulatlat.com that for three consecutive nights, a van with tinted windows parked in front of their house in Quezon City for 15 minutes.
The people of Lacub’s continuing struggle for land
By JOAN GARCIA
Their history of resistance against the plunder of their resources is as rich as their mountains.
Sidebar: Cordillera elders form pact against mining, militarization
Cordillera elders form pact against mining, militarization
Main Story: The people of Lacub’s continuing struggle for land By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com In commemoration of Cordillera Day 2011, around 70 elders representing the different indigenous groups in the region sat together and discussed the issues that they are facing. Each tribe was given an opportunity to speak about their problems- most of which…
NDFP asks UN Special Representative on Children to look into human rights violations against children in Samar
by INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com A few weeks after the visit of United Nations Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy in the Philippines, the the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) called on her office to investigate an incident that took place last March 4 in Matuguinao, Samar. According to the…
Now That Bin Laden Is Dead, Can We Have Our Freedoms Back?
By Karen Greenberg Alternet Osama bin Laden’s death removes the single focal point that has dominated American foreign affairs – and much of American politics at home – for a decade. And certainly, the United States and the world can breathe a sigh of relief that a dreaded enemy no longer needs to be countered.…
The Killing of Bin Laden: Justice or Vengeance?
Does the killing of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden represent ultimate justice, or even an end to the “unfinished business” of 9/11? By Phyllis Bennis Alternet (Amman, Jordan) U.S. agents killed bin Laden in Pakistan, apparently without cooperation from the government in Islamabad. The al Qaeda leader was responsible for great suffering, and I…
Bin Laden killing won’t settle debate over enhanced interrogations
By Zachary Roth Reposted by Bulatlat.com The killing of Osama bin Laden has reignited a heated political debate over the value of “enhanced interrogation techniques”–what many call torture–in the fight against terrorism. The harsh techniques were authorized under the Bush administration and championed over the last decade by several Bush officials as crucial tools in…