Summer photographs around breath-taking Bohol TEXT AND PHOTOS BY TERENCE KRISHNA LOPEZ Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 14 May 13-19, 2007 Tagbilaran City- With posters everywhere, flyers and sample ballots scattered here and there, political dynasties...

BY KAREN PAPELLERO Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH Vol. VII, No. 14 May 13-19, 2007 With just barely two days before the May 14 polls, the tension and anticipation in the air is becoming more and more intense. This was especially observed in a media forum on party-list...

The Chadli Molintas Command of the New People's Army (NPA) has disclosed that the military is gearing for massive electoral fraud to ensure the victory of administration candidates as Philippine Military Academy (PMA) officials deny the existence of the said order...

A Cordillera human rights group criticized the Witness Protection Program of the government as it expressed outrage over the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration for the dismissal of the murder charges filed against an army captain identified as the killer of...

The first polls of the Social Weather Stations for party-list showed Kabataan (Youth) Party-List with only 1.2 percent. At that time, victory for the youth seemed far at hand. BY ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH Vol. VII, No. 14 May 13-19, 2007 The first polls of...

Still nursing cuts and bruises, 40-year-old peasant activist Orlando “Ka Orly” Marcellana was lucky enough not to suffer the same fate as that of his wife. BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat HUMAN RIGHTS Vol. VII, No. 14 May 13-19, 2007 CALAMBA CITY, LAGUNA (52 kms. south...

The people of the towns of Magallon and Isabela in Negros Occidental have been jittery since the weekend, when battle broke out between Army soldiers and men believed to be guerrillas of the New People’s Army (NPA). BY KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat HUMAN RIGHTS Vol. VII,...

U.S.-based Filipino activist groups have converged in support of the “Sentosa 27,” the health workers whose rights as immigrant workers were violated by an employment agency. BY BULATLAT MIGRANT WATCH Vol. VII, No. 14 May 13-19, 2007 NEW YORK – At the end of a town...

In 2006, the US$12.4 billion net worth of the Philippines’ 10 richest is equivalent to the combined annual income of the poorest 9.8 million households. BY ROSARIO BELLA GUZMAN IBON Features Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 14 May 13-19, 2007 In the Philippines,...

We were trying to get a copy of the curriculum vitae (CV) of Col. Ricardo Visaya, commander of the Philippine Army’s Civil Military Operations Battalion, for an article. That brought us into an unexpected encounter. BY JANE HONEY A. MENDIZABAL AND JANNET P. NEVAREZ...

Senate minority leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. today (May 12) revealed that hundreds of ballot boxes containing what he called “prefabricated election returns” have been intercepted by volunteers of the political opposition in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte. BY...

Jeppie Ramada intends to join Angela Librado-Trinidad, a fellow Bayan Muna activist, in the halls of the City Council. And he would never abandon, he promises, the struggles of the people – ordinary residents, peasants, the urban poor, among others – his group...

Two institutions to watch, if one wants to ensure a clean and honest May 2007 elections, are the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Ironically, these are the very institutions supposedly tasked with ensuring the conduct...

The commander of the Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom), General Rodolfo Obaniana, clarified today in a press statement that his command did not campaign for any particular candidate, especially for administration bets. BY MAI GEVERA Philippine Information...

NI JOSE F. LACABA Inilathala ng Bulatlat TULA Vol. VII, No. 14 May 13-19, 2007 Mabuhay ka, kaibigan! Mabuhay ka! Iyan ang una’t huli kong Tagubilin at habilin: Mabuhay ka! Sa edad kong ito, marami akong maibibigay na payo. Mayaman ako sa payo. Maghugas ka ng kamay...

NI JOI BARRIOS-LEBLANC* Inilathala ng Bulatlat POETRY Vol. VII, No. 14 May 13-19, 2007 (Para kay Fely Garcia, domestic worker sa New York na diumano’y nagpatiwakal) Nakabitin siyang Natagpuang patay, Anong misteryo ng hapis. Ang tanging sinisiwalat Ng pantali sa...

NI DELFIN MALLARI, JR.* Inilathala ng Bulatlat TULA Vol. VII, No. 14 May 13-19, 2007 I Ganoon pala ang mabaril ng demonyo… Abril disinuwebe, taong dos mil siyete dakong alas siyete kuwarenta ng umaga sa orasang Pinoy, Habang parang karo ng punerarya ang takbo ng...

Vol. VII, No. 13 May 6- 12, 2007 The International Crisis Group, considered as the best expert on terrorism in Southeast Asia, has released a briefing on Jemaah Islamiyah, the Indonesian terror network that has found its way to the Philippines, particularly...

On the night of October 27, 22-year-old Luisito Bustamante and his friends and younger sister Libby were on their way to Malabog to distribute handbills for the approaching barangay elections when they were accosted at a checkpoint by elements of the Task Force...

BY BULATLAT Posted 7:39 a.m. May 8, 2007 Vicente Borja, campaign officer of Anakpawis (People First) Partlist and national council member of Kilusang Mayo Uno (May 1st Movement) was arrested May 7, 8:15 p.m. at Brgy. Malinao, Ormoc City by fully-armed soldiers of...