Workers press DOLE anew to support P125 wage hike (Photo by Melvin Pollero)
Month: April 2012
Environmental groups slam midnight approval of coal power plants in Mindanao
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“It’s obvious that Aquino is coddling private energy corporations, particularly those using dirty fuels.”
Call centers can and should increase employees’ wages – KMU
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Since the entry of the call center industry into the country in the early 2000s, there is a downward trend in the salaries being received by the majority of call center agents.”
Energy department cooking results of upcoming power summit – Casiño
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Will anything good come out of the Mindanao Power Summit? Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño is apprehensive that the upcoming Mindanao Power Summit will all be for naught when it comes to furthering the interest of consumers. He said there are signs that the summit’s projected results…
Child rights advocates continue campaign for breastfeeding
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Breastmilk is and will always be best for babies. This is the message of the Association for the Rights of Children in Southeast Asia (ARCSEA) delivered in a recent milk letting activity in Manila as it appealed to the public and to all Filipino mothers with newborns…
Environmentalists hail Baguio City’s ‘ban’ on SM tree-cutting
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – The green group Kalikasan Partylist welcomed the Baguio Regional Trial Court’s Temporary Environmental Protection Order (TEPO) issued today on SM Baguio Mall’s planned cutting of close to 200 trees on Luneta Hill. At the same time, the environmentalist group urged the same court to make this ban permanent. The…
Income inequality in US wider than anywhere else
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star In the past weeks I have tracked news reports and analyses on the phenomenon of income inequality — or the gap between the few rich and “everybody else” — in the United States, the bastion of world capitalism. The conclusion: in the last 20…
Telebisyon, exorsismo at semana santa
Ni ROLAND TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Ito ang ritwal sa telebisyon kapag semana santa, ang bombahin ang mga manonood ng biblikal at moralistikong (“inspiring,” “motivational,” “reflective”) palabas at programa. Alam mong patay si Hesus dahil sa media: buhay ang tradisyonal na media ng pabasa ng pasyon, patay ang radyo at telebisyon, at ngayon, buhay ang internet at…
Philippines: Military Leadership Should Act on Abuses (PR)
Armed Forces Chief Should Ensure Rights Violators are Held Accountable April 1, 2012 New York – The leadership of the Armed Forces of the Philippines should take concrete steps to hold accountable soldiers responsible for human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a letter released today to the military’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen.…
Torture, an anathema to democracy
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com “Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain ‘indicator species’ of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that it is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.” – Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine…
Urban poor likens President Aquino to Pontius Pilate
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Urban poor residents held a senakulo to protest against the “three crosses” they have been bearing namely, massive demolition of communities, oil price increases and power rate hikes.