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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”...
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...
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.
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...
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...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- “The Department of Tourism is treading on dangerous waters. Marketing the Philippines as a destination for divorcees is practically synonymous to marketing the Philippines as a destination for sex tourists.” This was...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"In Durban, it’s time for governments to listen to the people, not the polluting corporations.” – Greenpeace
With demolition threats, no Christmas for urban poor
(Photos by Janess Ann J. Ellao)
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Urban poor residents living along BIR road in Quezon City remain vigilant after a recent demolition threat in their community. "We were informed that a demolition team would arrive in our community (last Nov. 28) to...
By ALMA B. SINUMLAG NORTHERN DISPATCH BANGUED, Abra – Residents of Mankayan, Benguet who attended the Benguet, Abra, Mt. Province, Ilocos Sur (BAMPIS) Mining Summit held here expressed fears that the plan of Goldfields Far South East to build additional walls to...
By ALMA B. SINUMLAG NORTHERN DISPATCH BAGUED, Abra – “I am very glad to see many people here. It means that we are not the only ones fighting against corporate mining.” This is how Dominga Gaspar, member of the Barangay Council of Gambang, Bakun, Benguet, started...
Workers call on people to emulate Andres Bonifacio
(Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea)
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Somehow, we see justice for our martyrs who struggled hard for this day to come.” – Lito Bais, Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“The value of the hundreds of thousands of tons of Luisita sugar comes from the labor of the farmers and the mill workers. Without them, the Hacienda would have remained a vacant lot.The farmers have already paid for their lands many times over.” – Anakbayan
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Sa workshop ng Malate literary journal, ang makatang si Allan Popa ang matulaing nagsalin ng cotton candy (paksa ng tulang wino-workshop) bilang “minatamis na hangin.” Mayroon itong dalawang lebel ng pagpapakahulugan: ang...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Health workers who sued former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for human rights violations are dismayed at what they described as the slow pace of the local court handling the case. Six of the Morong 43, or the 43 health...
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Relatives of journalists killed in the Ilocos and Cordillera regions supported the call for President Benigno S. Aquino III's administration to work faster towards the achievement of justice especially for the...
Who says everybody is equal under the law? While the poor die of diseases in cramped , unsanitary jails, former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo wallows in the luxurious St. Luke's Hospital. By Flon Faurillo...
40 days after, still no one arrested for killing of Italian priest
(Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea)
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