By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Are stockholders subjected to exploitation and abuse? Are stockholders deliberately kept in the dark and excluded from all pertinent discussions regarding how a business is run?” — Lito Bais, president of United Luisita Workers Union (Ulwu)
By RONALYN V. OLEA
In her speech after the hearing, Mrs. Erlinda Cadapan called on President Benigno S. Aquino III, the commander in chief of the AFP, to pay attention to the cases of enforced disappearances. “These are serious crimes committed by the armed forces.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – It has been five years but Wilfredo Ramos could still remember the face of one of those who took Karen Empeño, Sherlyn Cadapan and Manuel Merino on June 26, 2006. During the second hearing of the preliminary investigation on the criminal complaint filed by the mothers of the…
By TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com At last year’s Cinemalaya Film Festival, the First Quarter Storm drama Sigwa directed by Joel Lamangan and written by Bonifacio Ilagan was one of the featured full-length films. This year, two progressive documentary films are being featured in the documentary section of the festival, running currently until July 24…
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – What does it take to fix the world? Two activists Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano tried to fix the world from its endemic defects in the documentary film The Yes Men Fix the World (2009). Given the current global crisis that the present “free market” ideology has…