By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – If there is a subject dedicated to national hero Jose Rizal in the collegiate curricula, why not have one on the life and contributions of Gat Andres Bonifacio? Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raymond Palatino called on Congress to pass House Bill 4353, which seeks to provide for the…
Month: November 2012
Witness recounts ‘clean-up’, cover-up of Olalia, Alay-ay murders by soldiers
By MARYA SALAMAT
“When Gil Galicia was released from the custody of the crime investigators of Camp Crame, Col. Kapunan talked to me and asked ‘Di pa ba pwedeng iligpit iyan?’ (Can he not be silenced?)” – state witness Medardo Dumlao Baretto
UP Manila students slam ‘no late payment’ memo
UP Manila students slam ‘no late payment’ memo (Photo courtesy of Anakbayan-UP Manila / Bulatlat.com)
Witness recounts torture of 2 UP students
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MALOLOS, Bulacan – For the third time, a key witness to the torture of University of the Philippines (UP) students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan, faced two of the accused and answered all the questions hurled at him by the defense. Raymond Manalo once again took the witness stand in…
NLRC sequesters Dominion buses in favor of workers
By ROD TAJON and KYLE EDWARD FRANCISCO Northern Dispatch VIGAN CITY — Times Employees Union (TEU) scores yet another victory as the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) sequestered four buses of the Dominion Bus Lines after serving the Writ of Execution for a Supreme Court ruling ordering the said bus line to pay its workers…
Women’s groups slam government’s role in increasing cases of violence against women
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“As wars and development aggression ravage our world, rape as a tool of war and imperialist expansion is used as a tactic of submission against women who resist.” – International Women’s Alliance
Labor dept, Aquino, blamed for employer’s hostility to unions, wage hike
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Capitalists’ profits have steadily increased over the years because wages have largely been frozen and contractual employment has been assiduously promoted.” – KPMM
Calls for justice mark 3rd year of Ampatuan Massacre
Various media organizations, progressive groups and the academe commemorated the third anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre that claimed the lives of 58 individuals, of whom 32 are media workers. Photos by POM CAHILOG-VILLANUEVA, RONALYN V. OLEA, ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL, JANESS ANN J. ELLAO and FRED DABU Produced by BULATLAT MULTIMEDIA
Morning salutation
The dog might not have struck a “Downward Facing Dog” yoga pose as it enjoys the rising sun, but its shadow did resemble the Sphinx. (Digos City)
Student journalists mark 3rd year of massacre
By SIDLANGAN NATIVIDAD Bulatlat.com MANILA– Student journalists from different student publications under the banner of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines-NCR (CEGP) held a protest action in front of the Mendiola Peace Arch a day before the November 23 Ampatuan Massacre commemoration. Campus journalists hold protest at the Mendiola Peace Arch marking the third…
3 years after Ampatuan Massacre, kin, groups dissatisfied with Aquino’s actions
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Taken together, the acts of commission and omission by the Aquino administration betray sheer lip service to justice and press freedom, and a dangerous tendency to sacrifice both to the exigencies of power.” – media groups
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