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By PIERRE SPREY Counterpunch.org The dry dollar numbers in the latest Congressional Research Serviceannual arms sales report paint an ugly new picture. Over the last 5 years, every major arms exporting country has reduced its sales to developing countries–except...
By YANA KUNICHOFF Truthout.org Chicago teachers demonstrate in May, 2012. (Photo: JohnnyGotHisGun)The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is expected to file a ten-day strike notice on Wednesday, say media reports, meaning that the union could call a strike as early as...
Most of the time, the stories we hear about trafficking are of women and girls. But 20% of trafficking victims are men and boys. By CAMERON CONAWAY The Good Men Project / Alternet.org “My very first survivor was a boy. How many of us are looking for boys?” --Sandra...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Renato Reyes of Bayan said the government is heavily subsidizing the MRT and LRT because of the onerous contracts and loan guarantees it entered into with foreign banks and investors as part of a public-private partnership project.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – The Pandayang Lino Brocka has formally opened for this year’s festival with the theme on history and social change. “We want the viewers to remember our history and to encourage them to be a part of social change,” Lady...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Nothing has changed. In two years of the Aquino administration, there are already 11 victims of enforced disappearances.”
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By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Already under fire for alleged plagiarism for his speech attacking the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, senator and actor Tito Sotto is now the target of criticism from the country's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is again going after a journalist who is merely doing his job. This is the charge of the regional farmers' group Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (Amgl, Farmers'...
By MARYA SALAMAT
In recognition of its consistent record in fighting for the people’s welfare against incessant oil price hikes, the Oil Deregulation Law, and the VAT on oil products, the Comelec approved the application for accreditation of transport group Piston as a partylist group.
By BULATLAT STAFF
Until now, there is no existing law in the Philippines criminalizing enforced disappearances despite the fact that hundreds -- from the time of Marcos dictatorship until the present administration -- have been abducted and remain missing.
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Any step taken by the capitalist to take away the past victories of Philsteel workers’ continuing struggle is a blow on the entire labor movement of Southern Tagalog.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Just last week, JL Burgos posted this on his Facebook account: “Yesterday, Edith Burgos, was followed by 'unidentified' men. Despite of my mom's effort to lose the 'unidentified' men (and believe me she's good at it), they would...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) in Southern Mindanao Region is not sending off fireworks anytime soon to welcome the advent of public-private partnership schemes in Davao City. On August 24, the City Council...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"Even as we seek redress for the wrongs that she [Helen Gayta Carumba] has suffered in the hands of the Taiwanese government, we also understand the urgency of facilitating her early release and repatriation to the Philippines. Any amount that you are able to provide will be a moral contribution to Helen’s human rights, as well as those of other, similarly-situated migrant workers." – APMM
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Progressive unions are the Filipino people’s last line of defense against the privatization of government hospitals. The Alliance of Health Workers (AHW), an alliance of unions in government hospitals, together with the...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – The privatization of public hospitals has been going on since the regime of the late president Ferdinand Marcos. The different administrations had different names for it: public-private partnerships, corporatization,...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The costs of health services in earlier corporatized government hospitals such as the Philippine Heart Center, the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP), National Kidney Transplant Institute (NKTI) and Philippine Children’s Medical Center (PCMC) belie the government’s claim that privatization will lead to more “accessible and affordable health care” for the poor.
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Laying the foundations for the privatization of government hospitals
Attacking progressive unions in government hospitals to pave the way for privatization
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“It hurts that we lost our mother. She spent her life fighting for the welfare of families living here. She died here. And this is the same place where we would gather our strength to rise back.” – daughter of slain urban poor leader Marilou Valle
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