By MARYA SALAMAT
Labor groups slammed the Aquino government’s two tiered wage system saying that it would effect wage cuts, prompt massive layoffs and contractualization, and legalize violations against the minimum wage law.
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com A new study by Dana Carney of Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University, as reported in The Economist, sheds light on how people can be brainwashed or greenwashed, and therefore manipulated to hold certain views. Well, this is not exactly how the researchers worded their findings.…
By MARYA SALAMAT
Despite evidences and eyewitnesses, the accused killers of Olalia and Alay-ay, thirteen known members of RAM, have so far evaded arrest by invoking the amnesty granted them after their failed coups.
Ni ROLAND B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com May bagong ordinance (SP-2130) na naipasa sa Quezon City. Simula Setyembre 1, 2012, ipinagbawal na ang plastic bag bilang lagayan ng pinamili. Inaakalang panpantulong ito sa pangkalahatang pagligtas sa kalikasan, lalo na sa pinagdaanan na karanasan sa malawakang pagbaha dahil sa habagat. Kwento ng kaibigan ko sa unang beses nang…
The entire National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) deeply mourns the passing away of Atty. Romeo T. Capulong, its Chief Legal Counsel and champion of the exploited and oppressed. The leadership of the NDFP, all its allied organizations, and the NDFP Negotiating Panel, its consultants and staff, express our deepest gratitude for the invaluable…
Ni Edre U. Olalia 20 September 2012 Bakit nga ba abugado ng bayan, at abugado ng mga abugado ng bayan si RTC? Kasi very human siya. At nakakahawa ang katapangan niya. Hindi mahal ang mura niya kapag siya ay iniinsulto ng mga makapangyarihan at nakakakita ng inhustisya. At ang sharpness ng memory niya, nakakamangha. Hanggang…
Dear Sir, Our generation is known for having a sense of entitlement that goes with our excellent command of social media and technology. We complained about the rigors of law school: difficult examinations, endless readings, classroom terrorism, and insufferable professors. We were attracted by the lucrative prospects of the legal profession and its promises of…
By RONALYN V. OLEA
How can one summarize the life of a man who has done so much for the people?
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Letter to RTC
Bakit nga ba Abugado ng Bayan, at Abugado ng Abugado ng Bayan si RTC?
NDFP mourns the passing away of Atty. Romeo T. Capulong
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The poor are still poor, exploited and oppressed. Today, social justice remains elusive, and the culture of impunity prevails, like it was under martial law.” – Karapatan
Sidebar: Aquino urged to indemnify victims, free all political prisoners
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Like President Benigno S. Aquino III’s father, they too were imprisoned, even worse, tortured during the dark days of martial law. Unlike Commission on Human Rights chairwoman Loretta Ann Rosales, they did not call on the youth to go to the library to learn the lessons of martial…
Teachers and Education Workers: Persist in the struggle for national freedom and democracy! ACT Statement on the 40th year of the imposition of martial law September 20, 2012 It was in the 23rd of September 1972 and not the 21st when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law. Marcos supposedly signed the declaration on the 21st, but…