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By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld May 3 was proclaimed in 1993 by the United Nations General Assembly as World Press Freedom Day on the recommendation of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It has since been celebrated...
By KATHRINA MANUEL Bulatlat.com Gloomy weather welcomed me, as I walked the street of Cambridge – not in the United Kingdom –but in Cubao, Quezon City at around 9 a.m. on May 7. I was searching for the place that houses the advocacy group for migrant workers, when...
“The Aquino administration has never increased our salaries, and worse, the number of contractual health workers increased.”
Mary Jane Veloso’s pro bono lawyer Edre Olalia questioned the factual basis for the Public Attorney’s Office to represent the arrested recruiters Ma. Kristina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao as they do not appear to be indigents.
Bowe Cabaluna, TAG president, sums up their one-year old struggle as “masayang mahirap” (happy but difficult).
How ready is the government to implement K to 12’s Senior High School in 2016?
Migrante International’s leader goes on leave as he turns 45.
MANILA – Filipino journalists marked the World Press Freedom Day, May 6, with the theme “Walang tunay na kalayaan kung sikmura’y kumakalam” (No real freedom if the stomach is growling). Journalists and media workers gathered for a Press Jam at Ngongis Bar in Quezon...
“We cannot do anything. But just the same, this is completely a fabricated, planted and manufactured case. This is meant to demonize us and the mass movement.” -- Benito Tiamzon
The Philippine government needs to get serious about protecting human rights defenders, and investigating those who threaten or attack them.
“President Aquino’s government abandons its responsibility to provide free education to the youth while pushing students to enroll in private schools, thus ensuring profits for private school administrators.”
Kagabi, habang nakikinig sa iyong pananalita ang mga nagmartsa tungong Mendiola, binuo ng pangamba, dalamhati at katatagan ng loob ang aming diwa. Binanlawan ng mga palakpak at hiyaw ang hinagpis na pasan ng iyong pamilya. Habang ang bawat mong kataga ng...
Inay, gumising ako sa malamig na banig, Dumilat, sumilip, ngunit walang natatap ni katiting mong tinig. Tumungo sa kusina pero ni anino mo'y hindi ko nakita. Inay, nasaan ka ba? Tayo'y kumain na. Sa bawat paghalik ng kubyertos sa aking plato, Ramdam ko ang dampi ng...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective Filipinos are known for their hospitality. But hospitality and graciousness are not the only values being taught to Filipino children. Filipinos also value respect. Children could never tell their parents to “shut up” or “I...
“There is relief that we were able to finally see her arrested.”
A Bulatlat.com intern meets her future self at a job fair.
Noticeably, the government timeline showed a one-year gap, from April 23, 2012 to April 25, 2013, when government officials had no clear action on Mary Jane’s case.
On Labor Day, Filipino workers call for the resignation of President Benigno Aquino III for failing to provide adequate jobs, for refusing to grant substantial wage hike, for betraying national sovereignty, among others. Photos by Dee Ayroso, Kathrina Manuel and...
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