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Dee Ayroso | Sep 23, 2014
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4-day workweek ‘unhealthy’ – labor groups
4-day workweek ‘unhealthy’ – labor groups
The scheme will deny workers at least four days’ worth of salary in a month, in exchange for a dubious overtime pay, which may not adequately pay for their health care should they become sick or meet accidents due to fatigue.
It’s the 21st century and you are still afraid of the Left?
It’s the 21st century and you are still afraid of the Left?
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com According to some intellectuals and their disciples, it is foolish to join the Left or become a Leftist in the 21st century. They sarcastically remind activists that the Berlin Wall already fell in 1989 and it was...
‘Edca soft-launch’ | Environmentalists, solon blast joint Ph-US naval exercises
‘Edca soft-launch’ | Environmentalists, solon blast joint Ph-US naval exercises
Environmentalists and lawmakers denounce the presence of the US Navy warships and the PH-US war games as “threat to sovereignty and security as well as to the environment.”
Luisita peasants, youth activists laud ‘hooligans’ who hounded Aquino in New York
Luisita peasants, youth activists laud ‘hooligans’ who hounded Aquino in New York
“We, the new generation of so-called hooligans, cannot condone hypocrisy and lies.” – League of Filipino Students By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Peasants from Hacienda Luisita and youth activists praised the Filipino-Americans who stood up and...
Palparan files another petition to stop pre-trial hearing
Palparan files another petition to stop pre-trial hearing
"It has been four years and so far we have nothing but motions. Palparan may be long gone but this case would be far from over." – Concepcion Empeño, mother of disappeared UP student Karen
‘People’s General Assembly’ in NY calls for justice
‘People’s General Assembly’ in NY calls for justice
A parallel gathering to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City painted “a more accurate picture of the world,” and called for genuine development for the world’s 99 per cent.
Progressive lawmakers decry railroading of ‘pork-full’ 2015 budget
Progressive lawmakers decry railroading of ‘pork-full’ 2015 budget
Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares summarizes what is wrong with the approved 2015 budget with the acronym PPP: wrong Policies, wrong Priorities, and huge Pork barrel.
Lawyers decry Aquino’s attack on judicial independence
Lawyers decry Aquino’s attack on judicial independence
In a “historic undertaking,” legal luminaries, peoples’ lawyers, judiciary employees and law students raised a joint objection to the Aquino administration’s attack on judicial independence.
Transfer Palparan to civilian jail, victims’ families urge court
Transfer Palparan to civilian jail, victims’ families urge court
“To support a choice of detention facility – as with any other decision in life – there must be validated, adequate, relevant, and objective data. To invoke demons and ghosts from the past, real or imaginary, to avoid the Spartan conditions, rigors and limitations of an ordinary civilian jail – and get away with it with impunity – is to thumb one's nose against the justice system.” – National Union of Peoples Lawyers, in a motion for Palparan’s transfer
Second generation of activists continue fight against Laiban dam
Second generation of activists continue fight against Laiban dam
“I see the need to fight because we will lose our life, our livelihood and our culture. We’re doing this for the generations to come.” Arnel delos Santos, secretary general of Balatik
History teachers, activists teach the youth on the lessons of Martial Law
History teachers, activists teach the youth on the lessons of Martial Law
While many Filipinos are losing sense of the lessons of Martial Law and the Marcos dictatorship, activists and some history teachers are still keeping the light on the subject.
Human rights group suspects int’l humanitarian law violations in Abra killings
Human rights group suspects int’l humanitarian law violations in Abra killings
“There is a probability that rules of engagement were violated, that there could have been excessive use of force and that even if the members of the NPA had no more capacity to fight back, they were still slain or ‘no quarter’ was given during the conduct of the AFP military operations.”-- Cordillera Human Rights Alliance
Women students troop to SM North Edsa, protest vs rape shirt, anti-women fashion show
Women students troop to SM North Edsa, protest vs rape shirt, anti-women fashion show
QUEZON CITY -- On September 25, members of Gabriela-Youth held a protest action in front of SM North Edsa Gate 3 to condemn SM Mall and Bench's recent involvement in discriminatory and derogatory portrayal of women on their respective products and event. The group...
Emergency power seen as mere excuse to plunder Malampaya funds anew
Emergency power seen as mere excuse to plunder Malampaya funds anew
“The Department of Energy (DOE) has not sufficiently laid out the reason for emergency powers because as their own data show, there is enough power supply.” – Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares
Crass, disgusting commodification
Crass, disgusting commodification
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective There is a saying that lightning does not strike twice in the same place. But in this case, it did. On September 20 Saturday, during the Naked Truth and Denim and Underwear show of apparel company Bench, a popular actor...
After the storm, what? | To the radical and unwavering conviction of the Martial Law activists
After the storm, what? | To the radical and unwavering conviction of the Martial Law activists
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass
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