By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective If you live in Manila, you most probably have not read any article during the last few months about the victims of Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan). Of course, almost three years have passed since that fateful day...
Behind the bluster and expletive-laced pronouncements of President Duterte, he is gradually giving shape to his avowed independent foreign policy – away from dependence on the United States. In this regard, his back-to-back official visits to China and Japan, and...
It was painful to watch the video footage of a police van mowing down protesting indigenous and Moro people in front of the US embassy last Wednesday. The zeal and brutality with which the police inflicted injury on anyone they could lay their hands on and arrest...
On Nov. 8, or barely two weeks from today, US voters -- or at least those who will bother to vote, most Americans being too cynical of the process to go to the polls, let alone be politically engaged enough to care about how they’re governed -- will choose their...
“Skeletal remains were supposedly dug up in 2006 in Inopacan, Leyte and before that was another digging made in 2000.”
MANILA -- In Barangay Tinoto, Maasim, Sarangani, local and international paragliders prepare for the National Paragliding Fun Fly/Costume Flying and accuracy landing competition slated for October 29 to 31. Sarangani is increasingly becoming popular not only...
The women’s partylist hoped that with President Duterte’s statement, no woman will have the same fate as Irma Jotojot.
Indigenous and Moro protesters march back to the US embassy to declare their verdict: “Death to imperialism!”
“Natural resources are being plundered from the ancestral lands of our national minorities.”
Who are the injured protesters who sued the Manila Police over the US Embassy violent dispersal? They are indigenous peoples, peasant, worker, medical practitioners, youth, and jeepney driver – just ordinary folk fighting for their rights.
Ni IPE SOCO Rumagasa ang hangin Tangay ang kanilang awit Papalayo sa tahanang Tinutungkab ng dayuhan Humalo ang sariwang taghoy Sa alingasaw ng urbanidad Tinahak ng mga paang bihasa Sa pagtawid sa mga ilog Sapa, pilapil, at dawag Ang aspalto ng lungsod Na...
“If the AFP continues to violate the ceasefire, it will not be long and it is highly probable that the NPA would retract its unilateral ceasefire.”
"They should pay for what they did...they treated us like animals."
“The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) must draw the line between appeasing big businesses like SIDC and responding to the needs of the workers.”
In a ceremony, leaders of Sandugo, an alliance of national minorities, express their gratitude to peace consultants of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) for upholding their rights in the peace negotiations with the government.
“Let us condemn the continuing injustice against peasants, and the PNP’s use of the so-called war against drugs to infringe on the rights of the peasants and delegitimize their struggle for a genuine land reform policy.”
In a dialogue, indigenous peoples and Moro asked Environment Secretary Gina Lopez to shut down destructive large-scale mining.
A humanitarian NGO had to cancel its relief operations after threats from soldiers in the community.
“We hope that our complaint filed before the GRP-NDFP JMC would raise the continuing state-sponsored violence against our people and ancestral lands as a flashpoint concern in the pursuit for a peace based on justice.” -- Piya Malayao
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