By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
According to Anakbayan, one youth or student leader is being victimized every week.
Two UP students harassed during Holy Week
Day: April 13, 2012
Amended law decriminalizing vagrancy attacks exploited women – Gabriela
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO
“The amended law turns a blind eye to the realities of poverty and unemployment that heightens women’s vulnerability to trafficking, prostitution and slavery.” – Rep. Luz Ilagan, Gabriela Women’s Party
‘Power crisis in Mindanao rehashed, contrived’
By MARYA SLAMAT
People’s organizations and green groups accuse the Aquino government not only of reneging on its promise to pursue renewable sources of energy but also of contriving the power crisis in Mindanao to railroad the construction of coal-fired power plants.
Verses and music for National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – During rallies and other political gatherings, National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera usually performs his poems. For a change, on his 80th birthday, the literary giant just listened and savored the verses sang and recited for him. In the evening of April 11, loved ones and dearest friends…
OFW saved from execution in Saudi Arabia
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – An overseas Filipino worker who is in the death row will be released from prison. Rodelio Dondon Lanuza, 39, was granted freedom by the Saudi Reconciliation Committee (SRC) after his family and supporters raised the blood money or “diya” amounting to 35-million needed to pay the family…
US, Aquino govts accused of hypocrisy over nuke issue
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA — Progressive labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) criticized the Aquino government’s echoing of “US imperialism’s” opposition to and misrepresentation of North Korea’s planned satellite launch. In a strongly worded statement, Elmer “Bong” Labog, chairman of KMU, pointed to numerous cases of hypocrisy of the United States and the Aquino…
Philippine govt compromises own Scarborough claim
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – “Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo should be jailed not just for plunder but also for treason.” This was the statement of Terry Ridon, spokesperson and general counsel of Kabataan Partylist, as he blamed the past administration— and dared the current Aquino government— to revise the downgrading of the Scarborough Shoal…
Laguna peasant leader abducted by military
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“The enforced disappearance of Ka Alex clearly demonstrates the Aquino government’s continuing attacks against farmers demanding their rights to the lands they till.” – KMP
Fomenting anti-Korean, anti-Chinese sentiments meant to justify increased US presence?
By MARYA SALAMAT
Why is the Aquino government suddenly being combative against China, over the disputed Spratly Islands, and North Korea over its satellite launch?
Child rights groups outraged over disparaging US military article on the Philippines
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
First was the comment of US Ambassador Harry Thomas that a big percentage of tourists go to the Philippines for sex tourism, now its an article in a US Marine Corps publication which describes the country as being known for its “raunchy party atmosphere…where alcohol and scantily clad women have attracted Marines and sailors over the years.”