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By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BACACAY, Albay -- The main road from Cagraray Island port to the village of Cabasan in this town was beautifully lined with mats, the leaves still green, some with neon strips of yellow, pink and green. Like the Central Luzon highways...
Men push their recalcitrant ride to a parking spot. The vehicle was totally submerged in Ondoy floodwaters. (Commonwealth, Quezon City)
By MARYA SALAMAT
Years of slashed budgets have resulted in the severely reduced servicing of indigent patients, the reduced benefits of the hospital employees, and, as health workers fear, the risk of final or formal privatization of the Philippine Heart Center.
By ALMA B. SINUMLAG NORDIS (Northern Dispatch) WEEKLY Diaryo ti umili ti amianan PARACELIS, Mt. Province – Women of Banga-banga, Aguinaldo, Ifugao trooped to witness a hearing at the village of Botigue’s Lupon Tagapamayapa on a case they filed against an AFP second...
by INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com It's not every day that one gets to hear about a society where workers are given the respect they so well deserve as creators of society's wealth. Last July 12, the Philippine Chapter of the International League of Peoples'...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The government says without the NPA, there would be peace. That is not true. It is the situation that gives life to the NPA.” – Coni Ledesma-Jalandoni
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"It's never right to live in fear. Those who attack the civil, political and human rights of the Filipino people thrive on fear and persist in their attacks because of a culture of impunity. To remain silent is to play along with your own victimization." -human rights advocate Ma. Isabel Aquino
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"We are workers, we are not slaves. It is time for labor power to lead and guide the world for it gives and sustains life, unlike finance capital which is a grave-digger of both human life and nature."
By RONALYN V. OLEA
They were arrested without a warrant and tortured to admit to being members of the Abu Sayyaf. And they have been suffering in jail for years while the wheels of justice move slowly.
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Invoking the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) between the Philippines and the US is just “a useless crutch” the Philippines cannot rely on based on US jurisprudence, Bayan Muna’s Satur Ocampo said in a forum held at the University...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com There seems to be no relief in sight , even temporarily, to the world economic crisis that imploded in 2008. While economists declare every seemingly positive sign, such as an increase in stock prices or in consumption expenditures,...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Defy the Supreme Court This is the standing call of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and the Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (Amgl, Peasant Alliance in Central Luzon) to both farmworkers in Hacienda Luisita and...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld BENIGNO AQUINO III has an approval rating of between 68 and 70 percent, most probably because he hasn’t done anything scandalous or controversial. That says something about how low Filipinos’ expectations of their...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star We began this column in August last year with two pieces that dwelt on the historical background of the protracted land dispute in Hacienda Luisita Inc. and the oral arguments before the Supreme Court over...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Four hundred thirty participants from two hundred organizations and forty three countries, territories and autonomous regions from all continents packed the plenary hall of the 4th International Assembly of the...
The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today said the 8th Infantry Division is exploiting the bishops of the Catholic Church in Samar like chess pieces in Oplan Bayanihan's game of war. “It is reprehensible for 8th ID chief Gen. Mario Chan to exploit the...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com Main Story: Progressive women from 20 countries vow to fight imperialist attacks against women MANILA – Four women from different parts of the world were recognized as “Women of Valor” during the first general assembly of the...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The International Women’s Alliance (IWA) is waging a fight against widespread hunger, poverty, deterioration of social welfare, unemployment, landlessness, human rights abuses, and militarization, on top of discrimination and different forms of violence against women.
Sidebar: International Women’s Alliance recognizes exemplary women in the struggle
In the Philippines, the absence of social services forces even the elderly to work to eke out a living. And the elderly woman in the photo looks prepared, with umbrella and all. But what she may have not prepared for is the probability that her income from selling...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com During its 4th International Assembly from July 7-9, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) renewed its commitment to defend Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights as human rights. In the gathering...
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