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By INA ALLECOR. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Members of the Makabayan bloc of progressive party-list groups in the House of Representatives are circulating a draft resolution against special treatment for ex-president and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo....
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The Cojuangcos have long benefited from their illegal and immoral stranglehold of Hacienda Luisita and the farmworkers’ have long paid for the land.”– Randall Echanis, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
Ni Sonny Mallari Bulatlat.com It was no ordinary image in black and white… Of desecrated body and trampled soul, Of flesh mangled into pieces by modern-day beasts. Of empty head carved into a gory dungeon, Of nightmares and broken dreams. A revolting colorless...
By ROBIN BROAD and JOHN CAVANAGH Commondreams.org Shift your gaze for a moment from the lurid headlines of police shutting down Occupy sites in Oakland, New York and other cities to the scene on a sunny day in early November here in Washington, D.C. In front of the...
By MARK WEISBROT Counterpunch.org Imagine that an opposition organizer were murdered in broad daylight in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador or Venezuela by masked gunmen, or kidnapped and murdered by armed guards of a well-known supporter of the government. It would be...
Ni Sonny Mallari Bulatlat.com I Bakit ba nagpapakodak pa ang tao samantalang hindi na niya ito makikita kapag nawala na siya sa mundo? Para sa alaala ng daigdig na dati niyang isinusuka sa kalupitan at kawalang katarungan. “Requiéscant in pace”. II Bakit patuloy...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Now that the SC has decided in favor of Luisita farmers and farm workers, the burden of implementation is with the President's family the Cojuangco-Aquinos and the Department of Agrarian Reform.” – Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano
By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT-QUITASOL Northern Dispatch The Search for justice continues BAGUIO CITY—In commemoration of the first year anniversary of the senseless killing of the topnotch Filipino ethno-botanist, Leonard Co, the Community Heath Education Services...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO and ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Debt servicing remains the priority with next year's debt payments standing at P735.6 billion ($17.1 billion), dwarfing the combined funding of all social services for 2012 amounting to a mere P575.8 billion ($13.39 billion).
By MARYA SALAMAT
Who says lady justice is blindfolded and does not favor anyone? While Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo remains “detained” at the St. Luke’s Hospital, two Karnation workers died in jail and 18 were imprisoned for three years for conducted a strike.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Piston blamed the greed for profits by the oil companies and the greed for the Value-Added Tax (VAT) on oil by the Aquino government as the conjoined reasons why the Aquino administration and the energy department are colluding with the monopoly oil companies.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
All over the world on November 25, women will be holding mobilizations, protest actions and awareness-raising activities such as lectures, conferences, round table discussions, cultural fora and press conferences to condemn violence against women and imperialist aggression.
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The arrest of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a welcome development. Although she is clearly getting preferential treatment with her detention in one of the most luxurious and best hospitals in the country the St. Luke's...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Next time overseas Filipino workers complain that they are not benefitting from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), they will know at least one reason why: their contributions might have been pocketed by...
Two construction workers use buckets to drain a government road repair project of unwanted floodwater instead of a more efficient mechanized water pump. Habitually done during typhoon seasons Philippine public works are slow to complete but quick to deteriorate....
Statement of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication On the second anniversary of the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre November 22, 2011 DESPITE President Benigno Aquino III’s pledge that his administration will stop the killing of...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star This piece was written before the Supreme Court held a special en banc session yesterday to hear the oral arguments on various pleadings pertaining to the Justice Department order stopping Gloria M. Arroyo...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The overriding and unstated premise in the controversy over the “constitutional crisis” provoked by the Supreme Court order allowing former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former First Gentleman Miguel...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The eyes of the whole world are on the Philippines because of this crime and especially because until now, there is no justice and the killings, enforced disappearances and other human rights violations continue.” – Nestor Burgos, National Union of Journalists of the Philippines
Sidebar: Groups laud filing of case vs Arroyo for Ampatuan massacre
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