Photo of the Week: Water provider
A vendor sells potable water to food stalls in a street near Sto. Nino Church Cebu City. Photo by Clemente Bautista (Bulatlat.com)
Photo of the Week: Water provider
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Lawyers of detained artist Ericson Acosta ask DOJ to review case, cite rights violations
Lawyers of detained artist Ericson Acosta ask DOJ to review case, cite rights violations
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – The family and lawyers of detained cultural worker, poet and freelance journalist Ericson Acosta filed a petition for review at the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Manila on September 1. Acosta's counsels led by Julian...
Street Shooter: In A Rut
Street Shooter: In A Rut
Desperate to free their ambulance from waist-high ruts an emergency health worker hopes that one added man power will accomplish what hundreds of horsepower failed to do. This, in a country where politicians shamelessly plaster their names everywhere to remind...
Satur C. Ocampo | Super-rich man with a conscience
Satur C. Ocampo | Super-rich man with a conscience
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star In the Philippines, tax evasion through “sophisticated accounting” by the very rich individuals and corporations explains, to a large extent, the perennially low BIR income tax collections. The wage-earners,...
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Who’s afraid of an immediate peace?
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Who’s afraid of an immediate peace?
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld In marked contrast to the positive and hopeful outcome of the GPH-NDFP peace talks that resumed in February of this year, an impasse has now indefinitely delayed the holding of the second round of formal talks...
Luis V. Teodoro | Hold your breath
Luis V. Teodoro | Hold your breath
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld WHAT “grave injustice and irreparable injury” would anyone suffer if prevented from smoking in public, or from inhaling the smoke from a burning cigarette and the smoke smokers exhale? Judge Carlos Valenzuela of...
Proof of military sabotage of party-list elections exposed
Proof of military sabotage of party-list elections exposed
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Reports of how the AFP has been attacking and preventing the victory of progressive party-list groups abound. But the smoking gun that would prove these allegations was finally discovered: it was contained in the testimonies that the Mayuga report suppressed.
Mothers, lawyers of 2 missing UP students incredulous over soldier’s denial
Mothers, lawyers of 2 missing UP students incredulous over soldier’s denial
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – One of the security escorts of retired Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. denied any involvement in the abduction of University of the Philippines (UP) students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan and farmer Manuel Merino. In his...
Bird Flu Resurgence
Bird Flu Resurgence
ByDr. Giovanni Tapang Prometheus Bound / Manila Times We spent the long break back at my hometown in Malolos where my ten year old nephew keeps his pets around. He has several of them including a brood of bantam chickens, a flock of pigeons, three dogs, and their...
Cagayan folk opposed to magnetite mining
Cagayan folk opposed to magnetite mining
By MARY LOU MARIGZA Northern Dispatch APARRI, Cagayan – Community dialogues in magnetite mining affected communities expressed strong opposition to foreign companies mining the Rio Grande de Cagayan and the beaches of the Babuyan channel. A documentation mission...
Groups renew commitment to save Abra River basin
Groups renew commitment to save Abra River basin
By ALMA SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – “Sana'y hindi maging kuwento na lamang, at kupas-kupas na mga larawan. Ang mamanahin ng susunod na salinlahi. Mundo nila'y ating buuing muli” (I hope the inheritance of the next generations will not only be tales and...
Migrants group slams US, Nato-led attacks against Libya and Syria
Migrants group slams US, Nato-led attacks against Libya and Syria
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – The largest alliance of migrant groups and families declared their strong opposition to the continuing attacks of the United States government and the Northern Alliance Treaty Organization (NATO) against Libya....
Teachers march for higher budget
Teachers march for higher budget
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY – Public school teachers demand a higher budget allocation for education as they joined here the nationally coordinated action that coincided with the budget deliberations in Congress. Some 300 mentors...
Media urged to help end vilification
Media urged to help end vilification
By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CTIY—Activists and progressive organizations urged media practitioners to join them in the campaign to put an end to vilification due to political beliefs through fair and responsible reporting. In a...
Three UP Students in Cebu arrested for joining farmers protest camp
Three UP Students in Cebu arrested for joining farmers protest camp
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – On August 29, three students of the University of the Philippines in Cebu have been arrested by the Philippine National Police (PNP) for supporting farmers calling for genuine agrarian reform. The three students,...
Kin of victims mark Int’l Day of the Disappeared by calling for justice anew
Kin of victims mark Int’l Day of the Disappeared by calling for justice anew
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Marking the International Day of the Disappeared, more than a hundred relatives and colleagues of missing activists gathered today in front of a mall in Quezon City where Jonas Burgos was taken. Protesters put up a signage...
Residents of San Roque remain vigilant amid threat of demolition
Residents of San Roque remain vigilant amid threat of demolition
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Residents of Sitio San Roque in Quezon City remain vigilant even after Mayor Herbert Bautista have extended the deadline for the demolition of their homes. "It is hard to be poor because we are always neglected by our...
Serious impediments hinder GPH-NDFP peace talks
Serious impediments hinder GPH-NDFP peace talks
By RONALYN V. OLEA and INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"We would like to appeal to both panels to iron out their differences and proceed with the formal peace talks. We believe that it is better to engage in principled debate over the negotiating table rather than other venues.” – Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform
Gabriela calls on Butuan Bishop to stop coddling priest charged with rape of minor
Gabriela calls on Butuan Bishop to stop coddling priest charged with rape of minor
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Gabriela said the CBCP should issue specific directives to Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos to stop coddling the accused priest. It also welcomed the statement earlier made by Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz, head of the Catholic Bishops National Tribunal of Appeals, that it is the duty of the Diocese of Butuan to commence Cabonce’s trial under canon law.
Nationwide peoples’ protest, regional transport strike vs oil overpricing and deregulation slated on August 31
Nationwide peoples’ protest, regional transport strike vs oil overpricing and deregulation slated on August 31
By MARYA SALAMAT
There would be at least 300 protesters in about 50 protest centers in communities, highways and factory belts in Metro Manila alone on Aug 31, said Elmer ‘Bong’ Labog, chairman of progressive labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU).
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