Sa Ngalan ng Tubo is action-packed and is never dragging. The music is at one time stirring and at another, solemn. Truly, the film portrays a history unfolding – and the strikers as the makers of history.
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CHURCH FENCED IN
Photo by Dabet Castañeda The barbed wire did not always surround this church, which is located inside the Cojuangco/Aquino-owned Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac. It was erected there just before the strike staged Nov. 6 by plantation and milling workers demanding land redistribution, higher wages and benefits, more mandays, and the reinstatement of retrenched employees. The…
Mock Coffins and Jeers as Bush Sworn In
By Andy Sullivan Reuters Washington – Flag-draped coffins and jeering anti-war protesters competed with pomp and circumstance on Thursday at the inauguration of President Bush along the snow-dusted, barricaded streets of central Washington. As the president’s motorcade made its way down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House amid the tightest security in…
Dancing the War Away
By BOB HERBERT NYTimes Watching the inaugural ceremonies yesterday reminded me of the scenes near the end of “The Godfather” in which a solemn occasion (a baptism in the movie) is interspersed with a series of spectacularly violent murders. Even as President Bush was taking the oath of office and delivering his Inaugural Address beneath…
News at a glance
7 of 10 farmers are landless Seven out of 10 farmers in Southern Tagalog (a region south of Manila) are landless. Peter “Tata Pido” Gonzales, spokesperson of the Katipunan ng mga Samahan ng Magbubukid sa Timog Katagalugan (Kasama-TK, a farmers’ alliance in the region) said Jan. 21that the unprecedented increase in the number of farmers…
Leyte NGO Appeals for Stop to Military Operations
BY BULATLAT “The government should recognize the fact that there is insurgency because of social injustice and the inequitable distribution of economic resources in the country. It can only be solved by providing the poor long-term economic security,” said Jazmin Jerusalem, executive director of the Leyte Center for Development, Inc., a non-governmental organization. Tacloban City,…
The Bee Hunters of Lamag
Aside from hunting in the forest, the Ilamag gather honey from wild bees called in their native Kankanaey language as iyokan, alig, lukutan. By Belinda P. Ngiwas Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com QUIRINO, Ilocos Sur – The Ilamag – indigenous people of Lamag in the tri-boundary of Ilocos Sur, Abra, and Mt. Province, northern Philippines…
New Rates Increases to Haunt Power Consumers
Power consumers face new power rates increases this year. For power consumers, there is no relief from the spate of rate hikes they had to put up with last year, for that matter, for decades. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com After greetings of “Happy new year!” have faded, power consumers have to brace for something…
‘Cojuangcos Can’t Scare Us’ – Union Leaders Church group asks GMA to back workers’ demands
Union workers of Hacienda Luisita have accused the Cojuangco family– owners of the plantation and sugar mill in Tarlac – and armed authorities as being behind the series of physical harassment against strikers. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com Union workers of Hacienda Luisita have accused the Cojuangco family– owners of the plantation and sugar mill in…
UNLIKELY CALM
Photo by Jun Resureccion Bulatlat.com Dark clouds hovering above a lone tree and a dirt road with coarse grass on both sides picture a field of tranquillity. An unlikely calm, this, as a lone tricycle negotiates the road that leads to Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac (120 kms north of Manila) where last November seven striking…
News At A Glance
Tarlac journalists receive death threats Two local journalists who covered the bloody dispersal of the Hacienda Luisita strike in Tarlac province (120 kms. from Manila) last Nov. 16, have been receiving death threats. In a statement dated Jan. 12, the Tarlac chapter of the National Union of the Philippines (NUJP-Tarlac) scored the incident, saying it…