By Dabet Castañeda HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH BULATLAT VOL. VII, No. 42, November 25- December 1, 2007 One year and five months after their abduction, a witness testified that he had actually seen and talked to Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño, the two scholars of the...

Sa panahong may malaking pagkukulang ang pamahalaan sa pagpapaunlad ng buhay at kabuhayan ng nakararami, nasa ating lahat ang responsibilidad na huwag hayaan ang mga batang naghihirap tulad ni Mariannet na piliing kitlin ang sariling buhay para lang tumakas sa...

From what I have gathered, the Badjaos used to be living only in Mindanao, as a tribe in the island. They are fisher folks who, over time, with the emergence of more sophisticated and commercial fishing, were displaced, thus the migration in the different islands...

BY MARK ANGELES Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 41, November 18-24, 2007 How small are those fingers, Mariannet, my dear igsoon. They filled pages of paper with strokes of your thoughts. They fizzed with detergent when you helped your mother do your neighbor’s...

BY LALA FANAGEL PASAKA (Confederation of Lumad Organizations in Southern Mindanao) Posted by Bulatlat Democratic Space Vol. VII, No 41, November 18-24, 2007 Twelve-year-olds used to just play “Chinese garters” or patintero on the street, otherwise, they are at home...

BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 40, November 11-17, 2007 Not only Filipinos thumb down the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA). Japanese nationals and organizations have signed a petition asking the Philippine Senate to reject the...

Small single-engine motorized fishing boats are docked at the sea wall in this northern fishing village in Currimao, Ilocos Norte (464 kms north of Manila) as fisherfolk take a break from their work during the observance of All Souls’ Day. After the lull however,...

At the House of Representatives, there seems to be little interest in the impeachment complaints that have thus far been filed against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the wake of testimonies in Senate investigations that no less than the First Family was...

A fourth-year male cadet at the PMA reportedly died of a respiratory tract infection last week at the AFP Medical Center at V. Luna St., Quezon City. This is the second death of a PMA cadet purportedly due to illness this year alone. Last May, a 17-year-old cadet...

The Macapagal-Arroyo administration has used every trick in the book to remain in power: cheat, plunder, kill, suppress, coerce, bomb, confuse, peddle concessions and stonewall. It is the administration with the longest running unsatisfactory rating and the most...

Riyadh-based relatives of Anita Morales Carvajal who was found dead inside the toilet of a Saudi police station in Riyadh are crying for help to find the real cause of death of the Filipina housemaid. BY EDGAR CADANO MIGRANT WATCH Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII,...

Calls to stop the Australian-owned Lafayette Polymetallic Mining Project in Rapu-Rapu island, Albay have grown stronger as thousands of residents are going hungry and even sick after a recent fish kill hit barangays (villages) located near its mining site. BY LISA...

Jocelyn Dulnuan may be dead. But her spirit lives on in the hearts and minds of her compatriots in Canada and in the efforts of community leaders and coalition members of the Jocelyn Dulnuan Support Committee whose calls for policy changes and continuing search for...

The father of Marilou Ranario, an OFW who is on death row in Kuwait for allegedly killing her employer, is disappointed to learn that her daughter is still on death row despite the reported forgiveness by the family of the victim. BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN MIGRANT WATCH...

Gladys Adonis, the wife of jailed Davao Alexander “Lex” Adonis, said her husband has been admitted to the prison hospital in early October. She said Adonis, an anchorman of Bombo Radio-Davao sentenced to four and a half years in prison early this year, had been...

As the Senate is set to conduct public hearings on the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), a newly formed group composed of legislators, researchers and community leaders denounced the JPEPA’s ill-effects on agriculture. BY IBON Foundation...

Senator Ma. Consuelo “Jamby” Madrigal said last week that business interests who will benefit from the controversial Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) are lobbying senators who are presidential hopefuls in the 2010 national elections to...

Filipino workers in Japanese firms based in Southern Tagalog oppose the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA). They shared their stories of struggle against what they deem as “greed for profit of Japanese investors at the expense of labor.” BY...

The 1996 Final Peace Agreement between the GRP and the MNLF is set to be reviewed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in the next few days. The MNLF said it has been demanding such review of the said pact for several years. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Vol. VII, No....

Last Oct. 22-25, various progressive organizations held a fact-finding mission on several coastal communities of Guihulngan City and Vallehermoso in Negros Oriental and San Carlos City and Calatrava in Negros Occidental. The FFM was prompted by the scheduled start,...