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By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Main Story: People’s organizations present list of demands to Government, NDFP panels MANILA – Echoing the oft-repeated excuse of the Aquino government when pressed for the release of political prisoners, Ednar Dayanghirang, chair of...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Controversial TV host Willie Revillame returned big time on primetime TV in a revamped variety and game show with many firsts, promises and thanks to its viewers and supporters. Without delving in detail into the issue that...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld MEDIA ADVOCACY and journalists’ groups marked World Press Freedom Day last May 3 after a year (May 3, 2010- May 2, 2011) of continuing violence against the media. Iraq and Afghanistan, where they faced the usual...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “Cases of extrajudicial killings need to be solved, not just identify the perpetrators but have them captured and sent to jail.” This was Noynoy Aquino’s statement in a meeting with European Union ambassadors...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com “May the odds be ever in your favor.” This salutation is from the Hunger Games, the first of three books by Suzanne Collins about a young girl, Katniss Everdeen who lives Panem, an imagined country/world where Northern America...
PRESS STATEMENT 15 May 2011 For the militant student group League of the Filipino Students (LFS), the visit of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III along with senior members of his Cabinet to the USS Carl Vinson currently docked in Manila Bay is an open declaration...
Press Release May 15, 2011 The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today denounced the "shameless display of master-puppet relationship" when Pres. Benigno Aquino was flown by a US military aircraft to international waters for an unscheduled and unannounced...
May 15, 2011 Press Release “The Environmental Heroes Award given by the administration to the six environment workers is welcome. However, awards are not enough to honor the sacrifices made by environmental defenders who were killed in the line of duty. The...
PRESS RELEASE May 15, 2011 In the face of a major reshuffle in President Noynoy Aquino’s Cabinet to accommodate his losing senatorial bets from the 2010 national elections, the militant youth group Anakbayan is calling on the government to ‘spare’ the people from...
Press Release May 12, 2011 The group Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) today criticized the remarks of health secretary Enrique Ona for discouraging students from study nursing and for blaming parents for the glut in the nursing profession. Dr. Geneve Rivera,...
PRESS STATEMENT 13 May 2011 The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas said today that extra-legal killings and enforced disappearances will not be solved by the Multi-Sectoral Quick Reaction Team (MSQRT) called “Kasugbong” in Western Samar and involving the...
PRESS STATEMENT 13 May 2011 Guerillas belonging to the 3rd Pulang Bagani Company of the Merardo Arce Command-Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command of the New People’s Army (3rd PBC-MAC-SMROC-NPA) disarmed a security unit of the RACEL Mines and Minerals --...
PRESS RELEASE MAY 14, 2011 Pilgrims for Peace holds National Assembly on GPH-NDFP Peace Talks Presenting concrete proposals on economic and social reforms to address the roots of the armed conflict, representatives of various sectors expressed their full support...
The death on Friday of Lourdes E. Simbulan, a UP journalism professor and one of the country's outstanding journalists, has brought to the fore yet again the issue of road safety, specifically road accidents on major highways caused mostly by bus drivers. While there is no doubt that these reckless drivers should be held criminally liable for their actions, there is also the matter of their working conditions that, for all practical purposes, ensure that accidents like the one that killed Simbulan would occur.
Workers' conditions worsen under Aquino
MANILA -- Employees of the National Housing Authority (NHA) are against plans of the Benigno Aquino government to privatize housing services and to create a Department of Housing and Urban Development. NHA employees and urban poor organizations under the Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) have been fighting against moves to privatize public housing and legislative proposals on the same since the year 2000 and since the 9th Congress. (Text by Ina Alleco R. Silverio; Photos courtesy of Consolidated Union of Employees (CUE-NHA) / bulatlat.com)
By Paul Craig Roberts Trends Research Institute Until the decline of the dollar reached the breaking point, Osama bin Laden, who many experts believe to have been dead for years, was a useful bogeyman to use to feed the profits of the US military/security complex....
May 5, 2011 H.E. Jejomar Binay Vice President Republic of the Philippines Dear Vice President Jejomar Binay, Greetings from Tanggol Bayi, an organization of women human rights defenders in the Philippines! I wrote to express our organization’s strong and vehement...
By Joshua Holland AlterNet The Obama administration deftly shaped the media coverage of its prized kill by detailing a picture-perfect, morally unambiguous special forces operation, which culminated in the death of Osama bin Laden. Most of the details of that...
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