BY KAREN PAPELLERO Vol. VII, No. 13 May 6- 12, 2007 You can have it green and sour, sweet and ripe or sweet and dry. You can have it juiced, sliced, crushed, blended or chipped. In whatever way you like it, it gives the familiar taste to the tongue evoking memories...
Jonas Burgos, the son of the late press freedom fighter Joe Burgos, has kept himself in low profile for all his years spent teaching farmers about natural and self-sustaining farming techniques. But now even his captors may have been caught by surprise at the...
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 13 May 6- 12, 2007 At 2 a.m. of May 3, a day after her birthday, Felisa “Fely” Garcia was finally back home after almost four years in the United States as a domestic helper. But hers was the saddest of all overseas...
BY AUBREY MAKILAN Posted 3:50 p.m., March 21, 2007 Bayan Muna (People First) member Alberto Corbes filed election-related and criminal charges today against the members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) deployed in Lupang Pangako, Payatas, Quezon City....
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted 4:21 p.m., March 21, 2007 Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) secretary-general RenatoReyes Jr. had one question as he spoke late this morning before a rally of hundreds near the Manila Police District...
BY BULATLAT Posted 10:45 a.m. March 19, 2007 Rep. Satur Ocampo of Bayan Muna Party (BM or People First) was awakened in his detention cell at the Western Police District in Manila at 3 a.m. this morning by Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) agents and was told that...
BY BULATLAT Posted 10:55 a.m. March 19, 2007 Romeo Capulong, counsel for Rep. Satur Ocampo, announced in a gathering for Ocampo at Club Filipino in Greenhills, San Juan, that the Leyte judge granted the petition to allow Ocampo’s continued detention in Manila by...
BY BULATLAT Posted 12:55 a.m. March 19, 2007 Rep. Satur Ocampo was still flown to Leyte at 11:54 am today accompanied by Bobbie Malay, his wife, Rep. Teddy Casino and Bayan Muna staff, and the PNP custodial team. He will be brought back to Manila after the PNP...
Detained lawmaker Satur Ocampo’s son, Anto, weeps at a solidarity gathering for his father at the Club Filipino in Ortigas. “I am outraged,” the young Ocampo said of his father’s third arrest since martial law. BY DABET CASTANEDA Bulatlat Posted 3:35 p.m., March...
BY BULATLAT Posted 5:30 p.m., March 19, 2007 Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo is back in Manila. He is again detained at the Manila Police District (MPD) along United Nations Avenue in Manila. As early as 11:30 a.m., Bayan Muna third nominee and general counsel Neri...
Davaoeños are forced by the hard times to be creative. This man transformed his traysikad (bicycle sidecar) into a mobile sari-sari (variety) store. He plies Juna Subdivision in...
The Filipino people have been badly bruised so far by three repressive measures – the calibrated preemptive response policy (CPR), which discarded the maximum tolerance policy in dealing with protest actions; Presidential Proclamation No. 1017, which declared a...
By Ricky Gelido Posted by Bulatlat The political cauldron is getting hot. And it is expected to get hotter until May 14, the voting day. The intensity could even extend until the counting of the last vote. Since the onset of the campaign period, political gimmickry...
BY ASIA PACIFIC MISSION FOR MIGRANTS Posted by Bulatlat The Malaysian government – already notorious for the way it treats migrant workers, especially undocumented migrants – is set to implement yet another anti-migrant program. This time though, the government is...
Ni Rey Tamayo, Jr. Inilathala ng Bulatlat Bagama't malaya bilanggo ang isip Sa bangis ng takot na mula sa hukay; Ang hapong katawan ngayo'y ginigipit. O' kasalanan ba maging taga-akay? Ng tunay na batas pilit pinapatay; Bagama't malaya bilanggo ang isip. Sa minsang...
In July 2000, a typhoon that ravaged parts of the Philippines caused a huge garbage dump in Payatas, Quezon City to collapse, crushing more than a hundred nearby shanties and burying more than 500 residents. The tragedy shocked the nation and Payatas came to be...
The Filipino people have been badly bruised so far by three repressive measures – the calibrated preemptive response policy (CPR), which discarded the maximum tolerance policy in dealing with protest actions; Presidential Proclamation No. 1017, which declared a...
NI MARK ANGELES** Inilathala ng Bulatlat Si Lena ng Perpetual naging intern isang araw sa pampublikong ospital sa isang malayong bayan. Mapuputing mga g’wantes kaniya lamang ginamit sa pag-ahit at paglinis ng p’werta ng mga buntis. Nayamot itong si Lena sa...
NI AXEL PINPIN* Inilathala ng Bulatlat I. Pagkat May Dalang Halihaw ang Tula Hindi humihingi ng paumanhin ang panulaan Hindi nagpapasintabi, manapa'y nag-aalay di lamang ng kulay lumilikha ito ng buhay na karanasan ng masa sa entabladong lupa pagkat may dalang...
The AFP kills citizens it is sworn to protect and, as Alston has warned, it will do so until it is called to account for its homicidal behavior. BY PETER SALES* Contributed to Bulatlat A lot of history seems to have been forgotten as the Philippines lurches toward...
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