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BAGUIO CITY -Baguio students walk by the "soon to be gone" exotic Alnus and Pine Tree patch along Governor Pack Road here if the planned expansion of giant mall chain SM pushes through amidst the uproar and demand for President Benigno Aquino III to stop the tree...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The biggest crime would be to allow the kind of government we have, the kind of system that’s in place, to continue. I think this is the lesson that recent typhoon Sendong and the last series of earthquakes have taught us. A...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today assailed Malacañang’s draft executive order on the mining industry saying “the draft EO is deceptive.” “The anti-people and anti-environment...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The day after their successful National Rice Farmers’ Conference held at the University of the Philippines, farmers from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao led by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), Amihan –...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
KMU deputy secretary-general Leandro Gerodias said the agency's main objectives in pushing for higher contributions is to generate more funds for business projects and investments, and not so much to benefit workers in the long run.
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO
"Under the Aquino administration, public health services are no longer free but they come for a fee." – Alliance of Health Workers
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO
"The growing poverty, unemployment and landless in our country exponentially increase the vulnerability of women and children to sex trafficking." – Rep. Luz Ilagan, Gabriela Women's Party
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – A few months before the 2011-2012 academic year ends, Kabataan Party-List sponsored a consultative assembly in the House of Representatives regarding the issue of increasing tuition and related fees. The activity was...
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY – Arguing that education is a right and not a commodity, students from the Ateneo de Davao University staged a candle-lighting protest against the proposed six percent hike in tuition and energy fee for the incoming...
UP, artists reiterate call for release of Ericson Acosta (Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea and Fred E. Dabu)
Ni ROLAND B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Kulang sa 30 porsyento ang may akses sa Internet sa bansa (2010). Pero ayon sa usual na market segmentation, 20 porsyento ng market ang kategorya’y gitnang uri at isang porsyento ang mataas na uri. Matagumpay ang pagkatagos ng...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"I know that the government is spending so much on the impeachment case. But the government should not forget that there are also other people, mostly poor, who are in need." – Zenaida Espiritu, vendor
The Senate impeachment hearings, with all the antics of the prosecution, defense, and even the Senator-judges is starting to become a tiring diversion, especially since the lives of the Filipino people are getting worse with the spikes in prices, the festering...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“This so-called joint venture smacks of land-grabbing and conflict of interest on the part of President Aquino’s political lieutenant in the Gulf.” – Danilo Ramos, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Every time I troll through the various local news sites, I remind myself that I will not, not read the crime stories or the ones that describe children and/or elderly people/young women being hurt or maimed because of the...
By MARYA SALAMAT
“We do not need the government to once again sell out our sovereignty.” – Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"The government has no right to call Filipinos squatters in their own country. It has the responsibility to provide its citizens with decent social housing and ensure that they have access to social services." – Kadamay
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com If US military presence overseas is about ensuring peace and stability, why did it invade Afghanistan and Iraq, and why is it now provoking Iran? If the US is really serious about pushing for human rights and democracy, why is it...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- During the first year commemoration of the violent demolition of homes in Corazon de Jesus, San Juan last January 23, Mark Louie Aquino, 26, spokesperson and second nominee of Kabataan Parylist, received the loudest...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Urban poor leader Carmen Deunida, more commonly known as Nanay Mameng, celebrated her 84th birthday last February 8. She shares this special day with two known politicians in the country -- the late Senator Claro Recto...
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