BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Contributed to Bulatlat Posted 6:28 p.m., July 8, 2008 MAKATI CITY — Manila Auxiliary Bishop and Episcopal Commission on Social Action, Justice and Peace , Broderick Pabillo, D.D., grilled a Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) official...
While the Big Three oil firms in the Philippines claim losses due to under-recoveries, their mother companies abroad continue to report record billions in profits, according to independent-think tank IBON Foundation. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII,...
Last Thursday, July 10, students from various colleges and universities marched towards Morayta to hold a program culminating the day’s events, which they dubbed as National Youth Action Day. The day began with simultaneous walkouts and programs in all...
As part of the campaign against off-shore mining, a top official of the militant fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Pamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) personally wrote Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd requesting the Australian premier to...
An Outsider’s View of the University of the Philippines delivered as part of the UP Centennial Lecture Series on July 10, 2008 at the NISMED, UP Diliman “…the University can maintain its social relevance only by continuously taking part in the dynamics of the...
There is a growing clamor for the removal of the VAT on petroleum products to ease local prices, especially since it adds from P4 to P6 peso to pump prices. Just recently, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines echoed the same demand. But the Arroyo...
As Ingrid Betancourt emerged after six-and-a-half years- sunken and shriveled but radiant with courage – one of the first people she thanked was Hugo Chavez. What? If you follow the news coverage, you have been told that the Venezuelan President supports the Farc...
After OFWs were summarily rounded up, detained and forcibly deported in Sabah, Malaysia and in Saudi Arabia, now it’s the OFWs in South Korea who are being chased, manhandled, and are languishing in detention cells. To fulfill their monthly quota of 3,000...
They were victims of illegal recruitment. Then, they were forced to work 30 hours straight and allowed to eat only once a day. When they complained, they were falsely accused and detained for four months. After the case against them has been dismissed, they waited...
Four out of six Cordillera provinces are among the country’s poorest, with three towns in two of its other provinces belonging to the poorest 100 towns in the Philippines. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 23, July 13-19, 2008...
Ibuyanyang na lang natin ito bilang “Arroyo disease.” Mga sintomas: pananahimik kapag nasa gitna ng skandalo, pagtago sa poder ng Malacanang imbes na makiugnay sa mga tao, pagharap lamang sa mga kausap na elitistang negosyante at dignitaryo, at pag-aantay na...
Songs, skits, photo exhibits, editorial cartoons, performance poetry filled the room as progressive artists showcased their talents and works of art. But it was not an ordinary cultural event, it was a protest activity that showed the creativity of the youth in...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Posted 9:35 a.m., July 8, 2008 The five political prisoners known as the Tagaytay 5 have protested the postponement of their first bail hearing, which was scheduled on July 4. They described the postponement as a “deliberate...
BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Contributed to Bulatlat Posted 5:00 p.m., July 7, 2008 MAKATI CITY — Manila Auxiliary Bishop and National Rural Congress II (NRC II) vice-chair Broderick S. Pabillo fears that government doleouts on food and electricity for the urban poor...
Three overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Saudi Arabia were arrested and allegedly tortured to force them to admit to a crime they did not commit. They have been sentenced to death by beheading. BY ANGIE DE LARA MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 22, July 6-12,...
BULATLAT Posted 11:40 a.m., July 7, 2008 Members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan and allied organizations asserted that the G-8 Summit is but a “futile attempt to cover up the culpability of the United States and other imperialist countries in the escalating fuel and...
BY BULATLAT Posted 2:25 p.m., July 4, 2008 After South African Leader Nelson Mandela was dropped off from the United States immigration watchlist of possible terrorists, an activist group called on the US government to eliminate Prof. Jose Maria Sison from the...
The arrest and investigation of media practitioners who covered the Manila Peninsula incident by the police were justified, said a Makati regional trial court judge. He even said that journalists were “so lucky for not being charged with criminal cases.” Media...
More than one month after Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced a moratorium on tuition and other fee increases, students in four of Metro Manila’s state universities and colleges (SUCs) have not received any refund yet from tuition and other fee hikes. The rising...
Since it came to power more than seven years ago, the Arroyo administration has, among other feats, earned the distinction of bringing down the elementary school level participation rate to a 16-year low. The secondary school participation rate, meanwhile, has...
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