It’s time for the US to re-examine the consequences of its dehumanizing, deadly attacks in Pakistan. By JENNIFER ROBINSON Commondreams.org This weekend, Pakistan ordered the closure of the US drone base after a US attack killed 26 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border. This news will be welcomed by the people of Waziristan, where communities…
Month: December 2011
Approved 2012 budget skewed vs peoples’ needs
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Meager spending for social services show that the 2012 budget is anti-people and far from being a ‘reform budget’.” – Vencer Crisostomo, national chairman of Anakbayan.
Sidebar: Filipinos get P1.25 for health, P6.55 for education per day
Filipinos get P1.25 for health, P6.55 for education per day
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Main story: Approved 2012 budget skewed vs peoples’ needs MANILA — Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raymond “Mong” Palatino criticized the Congress-ratified 2012 national budget of P1.816 trillion ($41.61 billion) as “unhealthy and ignorant” because it gave Filipino a mere P1.25 ($.03) for health and P6.55 ($.15) for education per day. “The…
Tragic hero
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld MANILA — Tondo is in the popular mind Manila’s workers’ district, although some sociologists point out, as they did when Manuel Villar was running for President in 2010 and hoping to win by passing himself off as poor, that it has never been all-proletarian, being home also…
Battle for justice
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Forces in the Philippine political landscape are gearing up for a major legal and political battle. Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her husband’s attempts to leave the country and escape the proverbial long arm of the law, ironically by utilizing a favorable Supreme Court order, were foiled by Justice…
Women human rights defenders rally for justice
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – She has been waiting for years but justice still remains elusive. Erlinda Cadapan, mother of the missing UP student Sherlyn Cadapan who has been missing since June 26, 2006, would never tire in her quest for justice. On International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, mothers, including Cadapan…
Labor, business back measures vs. high electricity rates
By MARYA SALAMAT
Small Filipino businessmen reportedly concede that it is not wage which is eating up a huge chunk of their profits, but energy costs.
PATULOY…
Ni Sonny Mallari Bulatlat.com I Kinakalawang na ang antigong makinilya sa ilalim ng teheras… Nababalot na rin ng lumot ang gasgas na pluma sa ibabaw ng maalikabok na lamesa… Nanginginig na rin ang kamay at daliri sa bawat pagtipa ng letra… Pero patuloy pa ring nakatangan sa bote ng tinta… Na ngayon ay binubukalan ng…
Workers call on people to emulate Andres Bonifacio
Workers call on people to emulate Andres Bonifacio
(Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea)
Legal but unjust compensation
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com MANILA — “Just compensation” when referring to agrarian reform is an oxymoron. All agrarian reform programs of Philippine presidents provide for “just compensation” for landlords whose lands are taken by the government for distribution to farmers. But this does not make it just. “How could you own that which will outlive…
DAR, Luisita farmworkers disagree on issue of compensation
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – The farm workers of the Hacienda Luisita and officials of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) do not see eye-to-eye with regard the implementation of a recent Supreme Court decision. The Supreme Court recently issued a decision ordering the distribution of 4,916 hectares of land to the original…