By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The largest Filipino migrant alliance in Hong Kong has challenged the Benigno Aquino III administration to rethink its labor-export program and economic policies. The group said Aquino should do this as a move against “rising xenophobia and social exclusion” in the former British protectorate and other migrant-destination countries. United…
Day: August 21, 2011
Scrap the budget for Angara’s APECO, farmers and tribespeople asked Aquino
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Why is the government funding a project that spells disaster to thousands of farmers, fisherfolks and tribal communities in five villages of Casiguran town in Aurora? That is the question repeatedly asked by leaders and representatives of peoples’ organizations as they appealed to the public, last week, to support…
Photo of the Week: Indigenous smile
Children from indigenous community of Bgy. Yabi Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya greets with their smile the participants of International Solidarity Mission of Defend Patrimony last July 9-11, 2011. Photo by Clemente Bautista (Bulatlat.com)
Tale of two indigenous women: survivors of military abuse
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Two indigenous women, one an Aggay and another a Higaonon, share the yoke of the military abuses inflicted against mountain peoples and indigenous peoples. Their husbands, also from the same indigenous groups, had fallen victims to military and para-military atrocities. Both coming from the peasant masses eking out…
Ang Babae sa Septic Tank and its observations on indie filmmaking
By CYRIL ANNE DAYAO Bulatlat.com In recent years, a lot of Filipino films have been representing our country in various international festivals, and these indie films seem to fall into a certain type. Together with the recognitions abroad, indie filmmakers are being criticized for indulging in, as local critics put it, “poverty porn.” Directed by…
Alliance against impunity formed
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA –Wearing a black dress, Monette Salaysay took the stage and began speaking. Her voice broke and her tears fell the moment she uttered the name of her husband, Napoleon, one of the 32 journalists killed in the Maguindanao massacre on November 23, 2009. “After two years, I thought I…
Attacks on human rights defenders continue
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Remigio Saladero Jr. regrets one thing: after he and six other co-accused in “fabricated criminal charges” were released from prison, they did not file a counter suit against their captors. Saladero is one of the 72 Southern Tagalog activists who were charged with murder and frustrated murder in…
Army intelligence agent, one of the abductors of two UP students – witness

By RONALYN V. OLEA
Witness Wilfred Ramos said Staff Sgt. Edgardo Osorio was the one who hogtied him and his father the day the two students and Merino were taken by some 20 armed men.