This photo of a Muslim community in Quiapo shows poverty and government neglect in graphic detail. Ever wonder why there is an ongoing armed conflict raging in Mindanao, as well as all over the country? Photo by Justin Lapid (Bulatlat.com)
Day: September 12, 2011
Salungguhit: So who’s the boss?
After postponing the planned increases in LRT and MRT fares because of the widespread protest over this, the Aquino government is now hell-bent on pushing through with it. Why? Because of pressure from private investors. By Flon Faurillo (Bulatlat.com)
Stranglehold of the Right
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The world economic crisis has not yet abated and there is still no recovery in sight even after three years. The governments of the advanced capitalist countries had already spent trillions of dollars in bail out programs, and these have resulted in the sovereign debt crisis, but still, nothing has happened.…
Tobacco farmers want an increase in buying price of their harvest to P128 per kilo
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY — Tobacco farmers in three Ilocos Region provinces and in Abra of the Cordillera Administrative Region recently agreed to ask the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) to raise the price of tobacco leaves to P128 per kilo of unclassified leaves. In the peasant organization’s website, the farmers said their…
Guiltless? An activist on vacation
By RAYMUND VILLANUEVA Bulatlat.com An activist’s life can be aptly compared to a dog—a working one. This is truer to full time activists and truest if he or she is a Third World progressive. Sometime soon muscles knot and pain killers are popped like candies to enable tired bodies to even stretch out on the…
News in Pictures: Old fashioned loom weaving
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY ACE ALEGRE