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By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Main Story: Create conditions for peace, not all-out war, Aquino told When it comes to addressing the conflict in Mindanao, nothing has really changed in Philippine government policy despite the change from one president and...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA - Filipino-Americans led by two alliances based in the United States of America belied the Aquino administration's claims that human trafficking has ceased to be a problem in the Philippines. They held a rally against...
Letter to the Editor October 27, 2011 It is not enough that the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) upheld the agency’s 2004 decision imposing a 20% final withholding tax on the P24-billion income that investors earned from the Poverty Eradication and Alleviation...
Press Release October 26, 2011 After over five decades of flawed policy advice and US$14.7-billion loans from the World Bank, the Philippines remains poor in every sector of the economy, according to independent think-tank IBON, as World Bank president Robert...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR October 25, 2011 The Christians for National Liberation (CNL), the revolutionary organization of clergy, pastors, sisters and formands from Catholic and Protestant churches join the multitude who cry out for justice for Fr. Fausto Tentorio. As...
By MARYA SALAMAT
The GPH talks whether with the MILF or with the NDFP remain bogged down until today, mired as these are in the GPH’s efforts to “box it in its counter-insurgency program called Oplan Bayanihan.” – Satur Ocampo of Makabayan
Sidebar: A saga of all-out euphemisms vs peace, the Moro and the ordinary people
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"Our income as coconut farmers is only enough to cover our expenses for a few days. To survive on the other days, we eat bananas and sweet potatoes."
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Ordinary people like me do not understand why our judicial system is like this. Can it be reformed? It is difficult to accept it would take 20 years or 200 years for the case to be resolved.”
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Urban poor groups trooped to the government housing agency to protest the massive demolition of homes in North and East Triangle areas to give way to the Quezon City Central Business District project. In a statement,...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"Real development must be based on social justice. It cannot be achieved by forcibly evicting and throwing us to the countryside and to remote places without decisively resolving the roots of our poverty and oppression."
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com Main Story: Peasants all over the country march for land, rights, social justice CAGAYAN DE ORO, Misamis Oriental -- Peasant groups in Northern Mindanao Region said the march of peasants here was a success with the overwhelming...
Ka Roger given tribute at NPA base areas, urban streets and schools
(Click to view larger image. Photos by Raymund Villanueva et al)
In 1985 when the Marcos dictatorship was at its most desperate at clinging to power, an anticommunist paramilitary group called Tadtad led by Norberto Manero killed the Italian priest Fr Tullio Favali, PIME, on April 15, 1985. It shattered a belief that in this...
By MARYA SALAMAT
After decades of what they described as “agrarian reform programs designed to fail,” Filipino peasants continue to suffer from landlessness and worsening poverty.
Sidebar: Lakbayan in Northern Mindanao Region a success – peasants’ groups
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com “Occupy Wall Street.” At matapos ay naangkat na rin sa iba’t iba pang sityo sa mga syudad sa U.S., pati sa London, Athens, Milan, Frankfurt at Madrid. Laban sa corporate greed ang occupation. Sa Filipinas, tinangka na rin ang...
By MARYA SALAMAT
“It was a well-planned raid, considering that the Army Special Forces were involved,” said Mohagher Iqbal, chairman of MILF peace panel, in an interview with Bulatlat.com.
A group of OFWs practice their dance moves as their way to pass their time and they day off. (Central, Hong Kong)
Arts and fun run for children's rights!
(Click to view larger image. Photos by Maki Macaspac)
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The destruction of the country’s institutions is proceeding apace. But it’s not the “enemies of the state” who’re subverting them; it’s the very institutions themselves, including those mandated to protect the state,...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The cold-blooded murder of 59-year-old Italian missionary priest, Fr. Fausto “Pops” Tentorio, who was a champion of indigenous people’s rights, an anti-mining campaigner and a human rights defender, jolts us all...
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