KALIBUTAN By LEON DULCE It was a classic ‘David and Goliath’ scenario in more ways than one: A small contingent of activists from environmental group Kalikasan PNE and progressive party Bayan Muna staged a protest outside the glass-and-concrete facade of the Chinese Consulate’s building in Makati. We called on the gargantuan Chinese government to respect…
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective Bulatlat.com The country has not yet fully recovered from the impact of super typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan), which hit the country two and a half years ago, and yet disasters seem to be looming in the horizon. Nepal was hit by another strong earthquake, May 12, with a magnitude…
The workers had nowhere to jump to, and they also could not have escaped the building because of the steel windows, the thick glass, and a layer of ‘chicken’ wire.
“We are not criminals! We are humans and we have the right to livelihood!”
“Louie Jalandoni’s illustrated biography could leave the reader stunned by the double impact of its edifying and insurgent message — in its account of a youth who was a witness to the greed of traditional Negros landowners and their callous indifference to the plight of their workers.”
REVIEW | Panels of Negotiation: Komiks as chronicle of change
By LISA ITO Bulatlat.com Book review of Louie Jalandoni, Revolutionary: An Illustrated Biography (2015), launched on 25 April 2015 at the Bahay ng Alumni, University of the Philippines Diliman I first heard of the name Luis Jalandoni as a young campus journalist, assigned to cover a university forum on the peace negotiations between the GRP…
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino I keep silent every time I am tagged a communist. It’s not embarrassment but more of disbelief that in this day and age, a red baiter still thinks that this kind of witch hunt is politically legitimate or even persuasive. How dangerous it is to live in a society where people…
The soldiers clipped farmer Ruben Wating’s left thumbnail with pliers. Then, another soldier pulled out a .45-caliber gun, aimed it at his forehead, and threatened to kill him.