‘PPE’
By TILDE ACUÑA
Bulatlat Contributors | Sep 7, 2021
POSTS FOR "Year: 2021"
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‘Uncaring,’ med students say of the decision to go on with licensure exam
‘Uncaring,’ med students say of the decision to go on with licensure exam
“We must not endanger the lives of PLE takers over a 4-day face-to-face examination in the middle of highly unsafe conditions just so that they may be added to our health workforce.”
The trauma and struggle that loved ones of slain farmers have to live with everyday
The trauma and struggle that loved ones of slain farmers have to live with everyday
Trauma continues to haunt women relatives of farmers and activists who fell victims to extrajudicial killings in the last five years of the Duterte presidency. The pain they have to live with never really goes away and has turned their lives around.
Balik-Tanaw | Kalagan ang tali, magsalita nang malinaw
Balik-Tanaw | Kalagan ang tali, magsalita nang malinaw
Wala na tayong pera. 'Yan ang sabi ng madamot at malupit na pangulo. Kagaya ng babae at lalaking nakaranas ng pagdaloy ng kapangyarihan ng Diyos, huwag tayong pumayag na ipagkait sa atin at sa ating mga mahal sa buhay ang yaman ng ating sariling bansa.
Mon Ramirez (1944-2021), the geek who dedicated his life in the service of the Filipino people
Mon Ramirez (1944-2021), the geek who dedicated his life in the service of the Filipino people
As topnotcher of the 1967 board exams for electric engineering, MonRam could have enriched himself by making a career in the corporate world. He chose a life serving the poor instead.
Lawyer Rex Fernandez and his heart for the marginalized
Lawyer Rex Fernandez and his heart for the marginalized
“During our meetings, he told us of his experience in Carbon during his younger years as an activist. He would sleep at Carbon,” a vendor said in Cebuano. “His enthusiasm in helping us was clear to us because he was always early and the first to arrive during our meetings.”
Despite attacks, Filipino women strive to help the poor
Despite attacks, Filipino women strive to help the poor
A year on, community- and women-led efforts that responded to the Filipino poor’s needs continued to face harassment.
Community kitchens feed the hungry during lockdown
Community kitchens feed the hungry during lockdown
Mimi Doringo of Kadamay said these community kitchens were a testament to the poor pandemic response of the government. They also coupled it with calls for better response as seen in Sitio San Roque.
Community kitchens serve warm meals, show govt negligence
Community kitchens serve warm meals, show govt negligence
While waiting for the government’s stingy and slow aid, they have to activate their survival mode by pooling their resources to help each other. All these, the people have to do amid militaristic community quarantines. And as they say when it rains it pours, calamities from typhoons, earthquakes, farm infestation, among others, did not stop afflicting communities.
‘We waited for nothing’ | Fight for due benefits is also a struggle for justice – health workers
‘We waited for nothing’ | Fight for due benefits is also a struggle for justice – health workers
Described by the health department as “the first batch of fund transfers,” the P311.79-million ($6.2 million) SRA funds is a measly 2.6 percent of the unused P11.9-billion ($238.2 million) allocated for health workers’ Special Risk Allowance and Hazard Pay, which the Commission on Audit recently flagged.
‘Overwhelming support’ for ICC probe against Duterte may lead to formal investigation
‘Overwhelming support’ for ICC probe against Duterte may lead to formal investigation
A group of human rights lawyers in the Philippines said that the “overwhelming support” that the International Criminal Court received from approximately 1,530 individual victims and 1,050 families who fell victims of the government’s “war on drugs” may lead to a formal investigation.
Red-tagging constitutes human rights violation — CHR Cordillera
Red-tagging constitutes human rights violation — CHR Cordillera
“There is no excuse for the State to commit any form of human rights violation against any of its citizens, including Human Rights Defenders. Thus, the red-tagging of Northern Dispatch as a creation of the CPP and its personnel as communist front personalities constitutes human rights violations.”
Groups say corruption amid pandemic ‘most immoral of its kind’
Groups say corruption amid pandemic ‘most immoral of its kind’
On National Heroes' Day, various groups held a protest caravan assailing the irregularities in the government's COVID-19 pandemic response. They declared that corruption amid a pandemic is the "most immoral of its kind."
Kin, human rights defenders remember the ‘disappeared’
Kin, human rights defenders remember the ‘disappeared’
Human rights group Karapatan documented 19 victims of enforced disappearances under the Duterte administration. This despite the Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012 supposedly in force.
Abducted Cebu development worker reported dead in a Manila hospital
Abducted Cebu development worker reported dead in a Manila hospital
“Karapatan-Central Visayas expresses indignation over another attempt of the state to withhold the body of a peasant rights advocate from her family..."
Kerima Lorena Tariman: Hero of the landless and rural poor
Kerima Lorena Tariman: Hero of the landless and rural poor
Kerima, after witnessing so much brutality wielded by the state against the rural poor, decided to take up arms. “She might have chosen a different form of struggle but she had the same revolutionary objective: to break the land monopoly of landlords and big corporations,” UMA said.
Groups look into public spending, politicizing of gov’t programs amid pandemic response, looming elections
Groups look into public spending, politicizing of gov’t programs amid pandemic response, looming elections
Various groups have called on the public to remain vigilant over public spending and the politicizing of government programs amid the still poor pandemic response and the looming national elections next year.
Remembering HIS-story
Remembering HIS-story
Years thereafter,
you have remained steadfast,
unwavering in your commitment
to build better,
fighting against ensuing tyrants,
and in making science and technology
work for the people,
wherever, whenever.
Para kay #KerimaLorenaTariman: Makata at mandirigma
Para kay #KerimaLorenaTariman: Makata at mandirigma
Ang koleksyong ito ay mga tulang naisulat ng kanyang mga kapamilya, mga kaibigan at mga nakasama at mga tulang isinulat mismo ni Kerima Lorena Tariman.
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