BY BULATLAT November 29, 2007 - 5:44 p.m. Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, Brig. Gen. Danny Lim announced in a press conference with former vice president Teofisto Guingona, their lawyers and supporters that they decided to leave Manila Peninsula peacefully. Earlier tear...

BY BULATLAT November 29, 2007 - 7:04 p.m. Totally disregarding human rights, police forces arrested former vice president Teofisto Guingona, Bp. Julio Labayen, Fr. Robert Reyes, former UP president Dodong Nemenzo and media people covering the stand-off at Manila...

BY BULATLAT November 29, 2007 - 9:14 p.m. Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno announced that a curfew has been imposed from 12 midnight to 5:00 a.m. tonight in the National Capital Region as well as Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog. The last time curfew was...

BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat November 27, 2007 - 9:05 p.m. Tears flowed with the rain as almost everyone at the picket in front of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) cried, and some even wailed after learning from news reports that the Kuwaiti Court of Cassation...

BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat November 26, 2007 - 5:27 p.m. “Bantay Hatol” was formally launched on November 26, a day before the promulgation of the decision of the Kuwaiti Supreme Court on the case of Marilou Ranario, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Kuwait who...

Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez tried to make himself look like a patriot by pointing fingers at the World Bank over its suspension of the release of $33 million dollars which comprise part of a $232-million loan for road projects. “We cannot allow ourselves to be...

As the family of Marilou Ranario, an OFW in death row in Kuwait, awaits for the promulgation of the decision of the Kuwait's highest court on November 27, they hope that she would eventually be released. They fear that Marilou would not be able to survive life...

Para sa mga kumikita ng dolyar tulad ng overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), sa unang tingin ay hindi mainam ang nangyayari ngayong paglakas ng piso kumpara sa dolyar. NI DANILO ARANA ARAO Konteksto/Pinoy Weekly Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VI, No. 42, November...

Cordillera indigenous peoples and workers' groups condemned the mine safety week celebrations of the Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau-Department of Environment and Natural Resources (MGB-DENR), saying that large-scale corporate mining is unsafe. BY KIM QUITASOL...

In his 2005 inaugural address, President George W. Bush declared that the United States would support democratic movements around the world and work to end tyranny. Furthermore, he pledged to those struggling for freedom that the United States would "not ignore...

Asian Catholic student leaders vowed to take on the fight of the Cordillera’s indigenous peoples for the recognition of their human rights in a press conference last week that capped a week-long conference in La Tridinad, Benguet. BY KIM QUITASOL Northern Dispatch...

ILPS Supports the Strikes of Both the WGA and the Stagehands of For-Profit Broadway Against the Biggest and Greediest Media Behemoths in History BY PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON CHAIRPERSON, INTERNATIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF PEOPLES' STRUGGLE...

Luisito Bustamante had two stories to tell about his ordeal under the custody of the military. He admitted before the court, during the hearing of a writ of amparo filed by his family, that he was a member of the NPA and that he was not tortured. But minutes after...

Botong did murals on historical events, myths, and national heroes – now safe subjects; what the Neo-Angono artists rendered in their now defiled mural is contemporary truth –the social and political reality largely attributable to the person the NPC board wanted...

The Arroyo government has so far been able to rely on its lowly representatives in the House to block all efforts to impeach it; its old but loyal allies in Senate to keep investigations in check; and the chain of command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and...

Filipinos in key agricultural areas in the country are already drinking water contaminated with nitrate, Greenpeace warned adding that drinking water with high levels of nitrate can cause serious health problems, especially in children. BY GREENPEACE Posted by...

Public utility vehicle operators and drivers are facing a bleak Christmas with the latest oil price increase, said a transport group as it aired its sentiments against the government policy of downstream oil industry deregulation. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch...

To students and parents being burdened by annual tuition increases, a bill filed in Senate for the purpose of regulating these increases is a welcome development. But there are enough loopholes in the proposed bill that can defeat the very purpose for which it was...

"The NDFP remains open to the resumption of formal peace talks... But the current anti-national and anti-people policies, the gross human rights violations, the scandals of corruption, do not provide grounds for optimism." - Luis Jalandoni, chairman, NDFP...

Young school boys in La Trinidad, Benguet, donning traditional Igorot garb learn the rigors of tying a handwoven tribal head band. This craft might be already a thing of the past because these head garments are now only worn during traditional festivals and not...