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By MARYA SALAMAT
More than 60-percent of Filipino workers today suffer job insecurity and persistent case of “endo,” short for end of contract, every three to five months.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Migrante International continues to call on the Benigno Aquino III administration to hasten its process of repatriating overseas Filipino workers (OFW) caught in internal conflict-ridden Syria. It called the...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
We continue to say, ‘yes’ to a comprehensive and pro-poor reproductive health bill and ‘no’ to population control.” – GWP Rep. Emmi de Jesus
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com There is a debate among runners whether weights training and running could go together. I would like to add my voice to the debate. However, I do not claim to be an expert. I would just express my opinion based on my experience and...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- On Fridays, Naneth Pascual, an employee of the Department of Agrarian Reform, said most of the rank and file employees of the government agency hop from one table to another, hoping that they could borrow money from...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA -- From business reports, it is his strategy of lowering prices to get a niche in the market that has made businessman Alfredo Yao richer and bigger. Since starting in the 80s with Zest-O fruit juices, he has successfully...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com When Benigno Aquino III centered his presidential campaign on his slogan "Kung walang korap, walang mahirap," nobody thought that his government would do just that. Worse, not only does the Aquino government appear to be...
By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com ILOCOS Sur -- As couples around the world celebrated Valentine’s Day, students from Ilocos Sur led by the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP)- Ilocos Sur, Anakbayan- Ilocos Sur and Kabataan Partylist called for a...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"I would like to start all over again. I want to go back to school and become a nurse." – one of the victims
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“It is getting clearer and clearer by the day that the government’s drive to impeach Corona is mainly about Hacienda Luisita…" – Kilusang Mayo Uno
By RONALYN V. OLEA
"We used to call Hacienda Looc a paradise, with its fertile soil and rich marine resources. The outsiders came and saw its beauty and our problems began." – Isabelo Cailaya, fisherfolk leader.
“The military's mind is shallow, if they will campaign against the school just because of the streamer. I see the streamer as the school’s sympathy for Fr. Pops; the nuns sympathy for a priest, their fellow Church member.” - 44-year old mother of two Assumption...
“Stand Firm! Persevere! Proclaim the Gospel of Peace!” Betania Retreat House, Lahug, Cebu City February 6-8, 2012 “This is what Yahweh asks of you, only this: that you act justly, that you love tenderly, that you walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6:8) We are...
Hacienda Baldevia farmers hold two-day camp out (Photos by OWEN SEGOVIA BAYOG)
By Alan Jazmines February 14, 2012 It has been exactly a year now since I was treacherously arrested – on February 14, 2011, just a few hours before the resumption of the long-delayed formal talks between the peace panels of the National Democratic Front of the...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“Closing Philippine embassies and consulates abroad is like abandoning Filipinos abroad,.” – Garry Martinez, Migrante International
Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) Ano ang kailangang gawin? Punan ang mga patlang At ilakip ang bio-data Kahit pa gaano kahaba ang buhay, Ang bio-data ay dapat panatilihing maigsi. Piliing mabuti ang isusulat na impormasyon. Bawasan ang borloloy at mga paliguy-ligoy....
By MARYA SALAMAT
"If the House can fast track the impeachment of Chief Justice Corona, I'm sure we can also fast track the various measures that would halt the incessant oil price hikes and possibly even reduce prices of oil and petroleum products." – Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño.
Watermelon vendors wait for some business in a street corner that does not seem to have many customers. (Villongco St. corner Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City)
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