Nitong Setyembre 13, sumapit ang ika-100 anibersaryo ng kamatayan ni Macario Sakay. Isa sa mga orihinal na kasapi ng Katipunan na itinatag ni Andres Bonifacio, si Sakay ay isa sa mga namuno sa himagsikan laban sa pag-agaw ng Estados Unidos sa kasarinlang naipagwagi...
BY EMMANUEL ORTIZ Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 32, September 16-22, 2007 Before I start this poem, I’d like to ask you to join me in a moment of silence in honour of those who died in the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon last September 11th. I would also...
NI OLIVER CARLOS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 32, September 16-22, 2007 Tumangis kayo mga inang inagawan… Kayo na nagluluksa at naninikluhod… na sana’y matabunan na lang ng lupa… O bumuka ang langit upang kayo’y higupin; pailanlang sa kung saan… Tumangis...
The Arroyo administration is patting itself on the back with the recent conviction of former President Joseph Estrada, who was ousted in 2001 through a popular uprising, for plunder. But President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has no reason to congratulate herself. While...
Three peasant leaders implicated in the 2003 raid and burning of Sta. Lucia Municipal Police Station (MPS) have high hopes that they will soon be released as the verdict on the cases filed by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) of the Philippine...
The Ilocos Sur Provincial Prosecution Service provisionally dismissed the murder case against a peasant for insufficient evidence. BY ROD TAJON Northern Dispatch Human Rights Watch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 32, September 16-22, 2007 VIGAN CITY (407 km north...
Dismissing the threat by UNESCO to remove the Banawe Rice Terraces from the list of Heritage sites, Ifugao Gov. Teodoro Baguilat said, “The Ifugao people who are actually the stakeholders of the Heritage site must unify in the efforts to maintain the terraces as an...
Indigenous leaders and representatives have reason to be euphoric after the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was finally adopted on Sept. 13 before the UN concluded its 61st General Assembly. BY MAURICE MALANES Northern Dispatch Human...
Loom-weaving, to the Ilocano, has been a way of life, especially in those times before the war, when people had to spin cotton yarn out of the raw cotton plant to be able to weave a blanket or a meter of cloth to make a camisa-chino. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat September 13, 2007 - 9:47 p.m. Prof. Jose Maria Sison would be released from the National Penitentiary in Scheveningen, The Hague in the Netherlands around 6:30 p.m. (Philippine time) today, Sept. 13, according to Connie Ledesma, a member of...
The arrest of NDFP chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison by Dutch police has brought attention to Dutch interests in the country. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 31, September 9-15, 2007 The arrest of NDFP chief political consultant Jose...
It may seem that the arrest of Jose Maria Sison, August 28, was a simple case of the Dutch police enforcing its laws; it may also seem that the announcement of the Philippine National Police, also last August 28, that it is the New People’s Army who abducted Jonas...
Both the Arroyo administration and the opposition were blaming the media in the aftermath of the May elections: the former for the defeat of most of its candidates for senator, the latter for its disastrous performance in the local elections. None of them blamed...
On the morning of Aug. 28, 2007, Sison was arrested in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on trumped-up murder charges. The Dutch police kicked down doors and ransacked Sison's apartment. The Dutch police also raided the houses of several NDFP staff members and confiscated...
The national office of the Land Registration Authority (LRA) was criticized by indigenous peoples in this American-established city for “sitting on” the registration of their Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) for more than a year now. BY ARTHUR L....
The National Union of People’s Lawyers, a newly-formed organization of over 100 lawyers, said the Anti-Terror Council, which it calls a virtual civilian-military junta, usurps the power of the judiciary to determine probable cause and issue warrants, and violates...
Under the 2008 budget proposal, the Department of Health (DOH) is allocated P16.3 billion ($350,311,626 at an exchange rate of $1=P46.53). Based on an estimated population of 90.5 million for 2008, this means that government will allocate just P180.29 ($3.87) per...
The United Nations (UN) is funding a mapping study of the country's 27 provinces, among which are the most geologically hazardous like the six provinces of the highland Cordillera region. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 31, September 9-15, 2007...
Sison’s arrest is not about some "murders" in the Philippines. It's about cracking down on the People's War in the Philippines, which has made some major strides in the last few years. It's about U.S. pressure on Europe to kowtow to its broad concept of "terrorism"...
It kind of boggles the mind how the country of Anne Frank could follow the model of their hated occupiers and keep Joma in isolation, not allowing him his medicine and clothes, nor access to reading materials, radio or television, and incommunicado to family and...
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