While the conflict between the GRP and the MILF has escalated with the aborted signing of the ancestral domain agreement, previous agreements signed with the MNLF have yet to be properly implemented. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 29,...
The Memorandum of Agreemment on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) that was supposed to be signed by the GRP and the MILF has a trap laid by the U.S. for the Moro revolutionary group, a progressive legislator said. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No....
NI ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 Hindi nila pag-aari ang lupang kanilang pag-aari. Paano magiging kanila ang di man lamang nahawakan ng malalambot nilang palad? Ang tanging pinagmumulan ng kanilang...
One would never have thought the literary/lifestyle magazine Rogue, which published its first issue sometime last year, would find its way into any police or military list of “propaganda” (read: subversive) materials, but that was just what happened to a copy of it...
We hope that our testimony in honor of Popoy can help to define the legacy that he has bequeathed to his people. He had a tender soul and was troubled by the unkind world that he lived in but he sought to understand it and welcomed the revolutionary efforts to...
Heroes are known not by how they died, but by how they lived in the service of the people to the very end. Dr. Aloysius "Ochie" Baes, 58, former Rapu-Rapu Fact-Finding Commissioner and environmentalist, consistently embodied this principle until he died. By Lisa C....
Alter Trade Corporation began as an alternative enterprise promoting the principles of fair trade. However, it is now accused of having further impoverished the lives of farm workers. BY KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat BACOLOD CITY –Alter Trade Corporation (ATC) general...
Affected residents in Itogon and Benguet local officials have criticized the Land Management Services of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (LMS-DENR)-Cordillera for approving the survey plan of a housing cooperative involving some officials and...
In a counter-affidavit, Army Captain Joel Castro, tagged by no less than the Ilocos Sur police as the gunman in the killing of Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) staff member Jose Manegdeg in San Esteban town, Ilocos Sur on Nov. 28, 2005 denied having a...
The pen is indeed mightier than the sword. And the 130 pens of student journalists from the National Capital Region (NCR) chapter of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) proved to be mightier than the repression of campus press. BY REYNA MAE TABBADA...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted Feb. 7, 2007, 3:36 p.m. Security at the Senate grounds has tightened as the controversial Anti-Terrorism Bill is set to go through final reading. As of this writing, police at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CPP) grounds...
The most recent armed clashes between members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have temporarily stopped, but residents of Midsayap, North Cotabato still refuse to return to their homes despite their squalid...
The Philippines has the notorious distinction of being the second most dangerous country for journalists topped only by Iraq. It is also one of the most dangerous places for workers and political activists. Now it has been adjudged as the most dangerous place for...
Seven lawyers slain in RP this year The Philippines has the notorious distinction of being the second most dangerous country for journalists topped only by Iraq. It is also one of the most dangerous places for workers and political activists. Now it has been...
Kasaysayan ang Magpapawalang-sala sa Akin Filipino translation of Fidel Castro’s History will Absolve Me by Carl C. Ala Published by AMISTAD 63 pages 2006 carries a double significance for AMISTAD. Aside from marking the 80th birthday of Cuban president Fidel...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Posted 8:35 p.m., Dec. 12, “They will ram it through at the first chance of doing so – in the middle of the night, while we are sleeping – if we don’t exercise vigilance.” These were the words of Bayan Muna (People First)...
‘Constituent assembly without the Senate is usurpation of authority’ The constitutional amendments being pushed by the administration camp at the House of Representatives will make impeachment impossible, the spokesperson of a broad-based group of lawyers,...
The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) has called for a “complete pullout” of Army troops from the Bicol Region amid what he described as “the alarming number of tortures and extrajudicial killings” in the area. This call comes in the wake of the...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Posted 8:55 p.m., Dec. 3, 2006 “Ensuring justice for our aggrieved fellow Filipino should come first before what President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo perceives as good relations between the Philippines and the U.S.” This was...
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