By BULATLAT MANILA – Various sectoral groups staged a protest near the US embassy here on Nov. 10, the second day in a row, in anticipation of the first visit by US President Donald Trump in time for the Asean summit on Nov. 12. Hundreds of anti-riot police men blocked the rallyists led by Bagong…
Month: November 2017
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By DEE AYROSO
‘Eastern Visayas a looming political volcano’ – Anakpawis
The lack of support to agriculture has forced farmers to accept low pay, insecure informal work or odd jobs.
Ibon research flags tragic gov’t responses in post-Haiyan rehabilitation
“The government is over-achieving in the reconstruction of roads and bridges and totally neglecting the needs of the victims.”
Global confab asks ASEAN to stop attacks vs women journalists
The conference said threats to press freedom and attacks against women journalists come from all directions, including Southeast Asian governments.
Filipino women say ‘no’ to Trump, neoliberal policies
Women activists protest US President Donald Trump’s visit.
Caught up in loans | A teacher’s story
“It would be good if she [Education Secretary Eleanor Briones] would go to the ground and see our condition herself.”
Kontra-modernidad: Ilang Mungkahi sa Pagbabagong Radikal ng Lipunan
“Walang mang-aapi kung walang nagpapaapi…”—Jose Rizal “Walang himagsikang nabibigo. Bawat isa ay hakbang sa wastong direksiyon” —Salud Algabre, lider ng Sakdalista Ni E. SAN JUAN, JR. Polytechnic University of the Philippines LAGOM: Salungat at tahasang lihis sa Kanluraning tipo ng modernidad, ang alternatibong uri ng pakamakabago sa Pilipinas ay natatangi. Dahilan nito ang kolonyal/neokolonyal na…
#BanTrump protests to hound visiting US president in Manila
“Trump represents the worst aspects of US imperialism. His visit to the Philippines will bring more harm than good.”
Northern Samar farmers want soldiers out of their village
Residents of San Miguel village in Las Navas are making a stand against soldiers who encamped in their community.
If these walls could talk | San Agustin Museum and Catholicism’s beginnings in the Philippines through the Augustinians
The building which the museum currently occupies was a former monastery of the Order of St. Augustine or Augustinians, the first Catholic religious order to set foot in the Philippines. Augustinian missionaries from Mexico were brought along by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in his expedition to the Philippines to colonize the archipelago during the expansion of the Spanish Empire.