By CPA Northern Dispatch RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, 17 JUNE 2012 – The call, “Defend our inherent right to self-determination!” was resounded by 500 indigenous leaders, representatives, and advocates from different countries participating in the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Territories, Rights and Sustainable Development, also known as Kari-Oca II, here from June 14-22 at…
Month: June 2012
US drone strikes setting dangerous global precedent
By ISABELLE DE GRAVE, Inter Press Service Truthout United Nations — U.S. counterterrorism measures are under intense scrutiny from United Nations (U.N.) experts and civil rights groups declaring drone strikes illegal under current frameworks. During the 20th Session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva from Jun. 18 to Jul. 6, these experts declared…
Failure in Rio
by ALEXANDER COCKBURN CounterPunch The predictable word is in from Rio: failure. The conference twenty years on from the huge Earth Summit, Rio 92, has been unable to produce even the pretense of an energetic verbal commitment of the world’s community to “sustainable principles.” The reason? These conferences have always been pretty fraudulent affairs, lofted…
‘New mining EO to promote more foreign, large-scale mining’ – environmental groups
By MARYA SALAMAT
“This new mining policy is only more of the same deceptive, destructive, wanton and plunderous mining industry that we now have.” – Katribu partylist
Isla Puting Bato residents to rebuild lives, homes after fire
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“I call on Aquino to stand up for us and to put a stop to the demolition. Even if we are poor, we are also humans.” – Eunila Borito, resident of Isla Puting Bato
Peace mission to record abuses in South Quezon
Peace mission to record abuses in South Quezon (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / Bulatlat.com)
Military ops terrorize farmers in South Quezon
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Cesar Garganta, 28, merely wanted to earn extra income for the enrolment of his two children. Instead of money, what Garganta got was pain and trauma. On May 28, Garganta and his two friends went to work on a farm in Vista Hermosa village, Macalelon, Quezon. At around…
Foreign endorsers ng Bench at Penshoppe at queer racialization ng kita
Ni ROLAND B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Ang magkakumpensyang fashion brands ay gumagamit ng kalakhan ay pambalang lalakeng foreign endorsers para higit na magkaroon ng lamang sa kapwa, at para mapatupad ang pangarap na maging isang global brand. Sa corner ng Penshoppe, ang powerhouse team ay kinalalahukan nina Mario Maurer, isang Thai matinee idol; Zac Efron, isa…
Rights group slams military for pressuring victim to recant testimony
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
After giving a testimony regarding his abduction and torture by the military, the victim, after a few days, disappeared again only to resurface later to file a case against the NPA and a human rights group that assisted him.
Green economy and the road to Rio
The proposed ‘Road to Rio’ still looks at nature, people and their products as capital that must be used in the most efficient manner for profit accumulation By ROSARIO BELLA GUZMAN IBON Features / Bulatlat.com IBON Features — Hundreds of heads of states are expected to attend the Earth Summit on June 20 to 22,…
New PUP president urged to regularize striking janitors
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) called on the newly-installed president of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines to heed the demand of at least 180 striking contractual janitors for reinstatement. PUP president Emmanuel de Guzman assumed office amid a labor dispute in the university’s Sta. Mesa campus. The…