By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Somehow, we see justice for our martyrs who struggled hard for this day to come.” – Lito Bais, Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“The value of the hundreds of thousands of tons of Luisita sugar comes from the labor of the farmers and the mill workers. Without them, the Hacienda would have remained a vacant lot.The farmers have already paid for their lands many times over.” – Anakbayan
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Sa workshop ng Malate literary journal, ang makatang si Allan Popa ang matulaing nagsalin ng cotton candy (paksa ng tulang wino-workshop) bilang “minatamis na hangin.” Mayroon itong dalawang lebel ng pagpapakahulugan: ang...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Health workers who sued former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for human rights violations are dismayed at what they described as the slow pace of the local court handling the case. Six of the Morong 43, or the 43 health...
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Relatives of journalists killed in the Ilocos and Cordillera regions supported the call for President Benigno S. Aquino III's administration to work faster towards the achievement of justice especially for the...
Who says everybody is equal under the law? While the poor die of diseases in cramped , unsanitary jails, former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo wallows in the luxurious St. Luke's Hospital. By Flon Faurillo...
40 days after, still no one arrested for killing of Italian priest
(Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea)
By INA ALLECOR. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Members of the Makabayan bloc of progressive party-list groups in the House of Representatives are circulating a draft resolution against special treatment for ex-president and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo....
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The Cojuangcos have long benefited from their illegal and immoral stranglehold of Hacienda Luisita and the farmworkers’ have long paid for the land.”– Randall Echanis, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
By ROBIN BROAD and JOHN CAVANAGH Commondreams.org Shift your gaze for a moment from the lurid headlines of police shutting down Occupy sites in Oakland, New York and other cities to the scene on a sunny day in early November here in Washington, D.C. In front of the...
By MARK WEISBROT Counterpunch.org Imagine that an opposition organizer were murdered in broad daylight in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador or Venezuela by masked gunmen, or kidnapped and murdered by armed guards of a well-known supporter of the government. It would be...
Ni Sonny Mallari Bulatlat.com I Bakit ba nagpapakodak pa ang tao samantalang hindi na niya ito makikita kapag nawala na siya sa mundo? Para sa alaala ng daigdig na dati niyang isinusuka sa kalupitan at kawalang katarungan. “Requiéscant in pace”. II Bakit patuloy...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Now that the SC has decided in favor of Luisita farmers and farm workers, the burden of implementation is with the President's family the Cojuangco-Aquinos and the Department of Agrarian Reform.” – Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano
By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT-QUITASOL Northern Dispatch The Search for justice continues BAGUIO CITY—In commemoration of the first year anniversary of the senseless killing of the topnotch Filipino ethno-botanist, Leonard Co, the Community Heath Education Services...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO and ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Debt servicing remains the priority with next year's debt payments standing at P735.6 billion ($17.1 billion), dwarfing the combined funding of all social services for 2012 amounting to a mere P575.8 billion ($13.39 billion).
By MARYA SALAMAT
Who says lady justice is blindfolded and does not favor anyone? While Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo remains “detained” at the St. Luke’s Hospital, two Karnation workers died in jail and 18 were imprisoned for three years for conducted a strike.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Piston blamed the greed for profits by the oil companies and the greed for the Value-Added Tax (VAT) on oil by the Aquino government as the conjoined reasons why the Aquino administration and the energy department are colluding with the monopoly oil companies.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
All over the world on November 25, women will be holding mobilizations, protest actions and awareness-raising activities such as lectures, conferences, round table discussions, cultural fora and press conferences to condemn violence against women and imperialist aggression.
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The arrest of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a welcome development. Although she is clearly getting preferential treatment with her detention in one of the most luxurious and best hospitals in the country the St. Luke's...
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