The removal of the Arroyo regime from power can be a significant step towards a just peace if a new leadership of the GRP would cooperate with the NDFP in resuming the formal talks in the peace negotiations and addressing the roots of the armed conflict through...
BY THE PROMOTION OF CHURCH PEOPLE’S RESPONSE DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 37, October 21-27, 2007 The Promotion of Church People’s Response (PCPR) condemns the deadly bombing of the Glorietta Mall in Makati City, October 19. A thorough and...
I do not find it funny that many of our people think this is not a big deal, because not only are racist and xenophobic remarks reflections of our already shameful colonial past and present, but they will indeed shape public opinion and public policy about Filipino...
Isa sa mga eksperimento ko sa paghawak ng iba’t ibang kurso sa pamamahayag ay ang pagtuturo ng Web authoring o paggawa ng website. Sinimulan ko ito noong 2000 at hanggang ngayon ay positibo pa rin ang pagtanggap ng mga estudyante ng pamamahayag sa Unibersidad ng...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 37, October 21-27, 2007 Pilipinas, nabunyag ang ’yong balangkas, Tinalampas nitong hudas-mandurugas; Umiiyak, nalalagas na ang pakpak Di ba dapat tamang batas ay igawad? Ay, bayan ko, saan ka na paroroon? Lipos...
Knowing that her daughter knew about self defense, mother of slain overseas Filipino worker Jocelyn Dulnuan in Canada believed that there could be more than one person who stabbed and caused the bruises on Jocelyn’s body. BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat MIGRANT WATCH...
BY JANETTE A. SANTOS Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 37, October 21-27, 2007 I am a live-in caregiver. Well, I used to be one until a few months ago. I have finished 24 months of the program and now I am free. Free to go back to the work I was used to doing....
The military continued attacking Muslim communities even during the Ramadan, according to human-rights and Moro groups. “When entire communities get displaced by war, how are you going to celebrate Ramadan?” one of them asked. “Ramadan completely loses its meaning....
Representatives of a London-based mining firm are wooing Benguet town councilors, informing lawmakers of the company’s proposal to conduct a mining exploration. Its exploration permit application (Expa) involves more than 5,000 hectares in three towns. BY LYN V....
Tragic stories of torture and disappearances continue to happen in remote villages. Juliet Fernandez, her husband Manuel Pajarito and a companion were abducted allegedly by soldiers at dawn on May 11, 2007 in Pinabacdao town, Samar island. Jepoy, their companion...
The clamor for freedom for political detainee Jose “Joe” Cawiding took off with last week’s launch of a signature campaign for his immediate release and the dropping of charges against him. BY KIM QUITASOL HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat...
As NUPL secretary-general and CODAL spokesperson Neri Javier Colmenares put it in an Oct. 18 forum at UP, the writ of amparo is a legal remedy that “could pierce the veil of impunity” shrouding human rights violators in the Philippines. Its effectivity as a legal...
"We condemn the charges filed against Josie Guillao by MTL. This is another classic example of a SLAPP suit (Strategic Legal Action Against Public Participation), a form of litigation filed by usually powerful entities against less financially-capable critics with...
The KMP said what it proposes will be a better law than the existing CARP, which failed to end the sufferings of farmers after two decades. The new bill will ensure that farmers will no longer lose control of their land. To do that, the proposed bill will do away...
Seven Asian countries including junta-ruled Burma are at the bottom of a Press Freedom Index released last week by the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF or Reporters Without Borders). BY ACE ALEGRE Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 37, October 21-27,...
With the way they throw hundreds of millions of bribe money away, it’s as if the Filipino people are living in luxury and the economy is overflowing with wealth and capital. With the way they bribe people, it’s as if it is a very normal thing to do for presidents,...
Victims of injustice in foreign lands and abandoned by their own government, Filipinos suffer a system of double jeopardy. BY THE POLICY STUDY, PUBLICATION AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM (PSPA) CENTER FOR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT IN GOVERNANCE (CENPEG) ANALYSIS Posted by Bulatlat...
BY KARL G. OMBION HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 37, October 21-27, 2007 The family and kin of farmer Alano Clerigo, 34, demand justice for his killing. They blamed his military captors for his abduction-torture-murder. Alano Clerigo was a member of a...
The Arroyo regime, beleaguered by dissent from all directions, has reached the heights of desperation. It has shed all pretensions to decency and resorted to the brazen use of the known weapons of regimes desperately clinging to power. On one hand is the gun, with...
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