For Melchor Deinla, a 64 year-old farmer, the dream of owning the land they have been tilling was already within their reach when it was placed under CARP. But that was more than 13 years ago. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 49, January 20-26, 2008...
The seventh anniversary of what is now known as the EDSA II or People Power II uprising was marked by a coming together of political blocs that were not and could not have been seen talking to each other seven years ago: the EDSA II forces, on the one hand; and the...
The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) urged Congress to look into the reported extension of the Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA). Bayan maintained that the circumstances surrounding the extension of the pact are...
The Arroyo administration was able to log a P12.6-billion ($273.02 million at last year’s average exchange rate of $1:P46.15) budget surplus in the first 11 months of 2007, mainly through revenues generated from the privatization of government assets. But with not...
Independent think-tank IBON Foundation disputes government data on employment, estimating that government statistical manipulation removed over a million Filipinos from the official unemployment count. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 49, January...
As different sectors renew their call for the ouster of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, youth organizations in the National Capital Region (NCR) decided to assemble themselves into one group that will call for “political, economic and social change and reforms in the...
Should one welcome the decision by the Norwegian sovereign fund to sell off its stake in Vedanta Resources? The answer is an affirmative “Yes.” If globalization can facilitate the movement of capital, goods and services across borders, the same instrument could...
After two People Power uprisings, how far have we gone in the struggle for good governance, for democracy, and for a better life and future? BY BENJIE OLIVEROS ANALYSIS Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 49, January 20-26, 2008 EDSA 2 is about the struggle for good governance...
The phenomenon of “people power” cannot be reduced to a purely spontaneous event triggered by some outrage but the result of an accumulation of favorable developments, build-up in the strength of organized forces and in the momentum of the mass movement as well as...
Wala namang masama sa mga babala. Maraming pagkakataong kailangan natin ang mga ito. Pero ibang usapin na kung ang isang tinaguriang babala ay pumipigil sa kalayaan ng isang tao. NI DANILO ARAÑA ARAO Konteksto / Pinoy Weekly Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 49,...
Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse. The nation would be much more secure and productive under a Nixon presidency than with Bush. Indeed, has any administration in our national history been so damaging as the Bush-Cheney era? How could a once-admired, great nation...
With the HSA, the government has redefined, even if unintentionally, the tenet of objectivity in journalism. The powers-that-be have created a condition in the mass media that discourages an exhaustive research on issues and concerns by limiting the sources of...
Torture victim Raymond Manalo identified one of his captors, a military officer, in court during the continuation of the Cadapan-Empeño hearings at the Court of Appeals in Manila, Jan 18. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 49, January 20-26, 2008 Torture...
(A tribute to the peasant martyrs of the Mendiola massacre) We were so scared and shaking and we could not look down at the helpless bodies of peasants, some crying for help and shrieking, others gasping for their last breath. I felt that a part of me died that day...
Ang kapangyarihang mag-xerox ang kagalingan (skill) ng Filipinong singer. Kung gayon, ang karaoke ang pangunahing aparato na nagpapaunlad ng kanyang kagalingan tungo sa kapangyarihang makapag-xerox. NI ROLAND TOLENTINO KULTURANG POPULAR KULTURA Bulatlat Vol. VII,...
NI AXEL PINPIN* Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 49, January 20-26, 2008 Kung punebre na yaring mga awit sa mga suyuan ng magbubukid at ang mga tula nila ay dalit ng pasakit sa tanang panggigipit; aguniyas ang dupikal na himig nitong nangagluluksang mga karit!...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 49, January 20-26, 2008 “Sa Kalsadang nagmumura ang kalapating dala na— h’wag bibili ng ligaya; dahil ang sukli’y pangamba.” Isang dapithapong malambot ang moog Na yapos binalot ang kalsadang lipos Yaong...
NI PAPA OSMUBAL Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 49, January 20-26, 2008 Tila hungkag na bituka ang landas tungong bayan ng San Bartolome. Tanging mga bagay na nandito ay tuyong-tuyong tae ng mga kambing Na gumugulong tuwing iihip nang malakas ang hangin at mga...
Call for review of GMA’s labor export policy While residents of Sagada, Mountain Province (275 km north of Manila) mourn for the death of a community member in a suicide bombing incident in Afghanistan on Jan. 14, they condemn the bombing incident as inhuman and at...
The University of the Cordilleras (UC), formerly known as Baguio Colleges Foundation (BCF), which managed to produce two bar topnotchers within a span of eight years, is allegedly committing union-busting and other unfair labor practices. This has led to the...
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