BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Judge Manuel Luna, Jr. of the Calapan City Regional Trial Court, Branch 40 issued this afternoon a release order for labor lawyer Remigio Saladero, Jr. and six other activists from Southern Tagalog who have been detained at...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Members of the cause-oriented League of Filipino Students have called on the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman Emmanuel Angeles to enforce a moratorium on tuition increases in light of the global economic crisis....
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat MANILA -- Members of Anakbayan and other youth groups staged a rally at the US Embassy here this morning to take the US to task for its role in the global economic crisis. They also lambasted the Arroyo administration for...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Members of the women's groups GABRIELA and Gabriela Women's Party (GWP) this morning staged a picket at the House of Representatives to protest moves to amend the Constitution. The House Committee on Coonstitutional Amendments...
BY BULATLAT An Aklan broadcaster survived an assassination attempt by unknown gunmen last Jan. 2. Cherie "Katribung Che" Indelible, 35, news director of dyYM (Community Broadcasting Information System), a local government-run radio station and anchorman of 98.5 Hot...
BY BULATLAT A coalition of Asian peasant organizations has called on its members to to be more vigilant in defending their human rights especially their rights to land, seeds, resources and livelihood. "At this point, governments in Asia cannot be trusted nor...
BY BULATLAT The cause-oriented group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) has criticized as "sheer arrogance" Malacañang’s belittling of the threats of protests from various sectors, including El Shaddai leader Mike Velarde. Aside from this,...
Members of a coalition calling for the release of jailed labor lawyer Remigio Saladero, Jr. and other activists facing trumped-up criminal charges trooped today to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and urged Chairperson Leila de Lima to investigate his illegal...
BY BULATLAT President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has received a mark of 70.2 percent for her performance, a survey by the independent think tank IBON Foundation shows. At the same time, her net satisfaction rating has remained at -75.6, which is one of the lowest she...
BY BULATLAT The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has expressed outrage at the sudden requirement by Maj. Eugene Batara, spokesman of the military's Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom), for journalists to fill up biodata forms before they can be...
BY BULATLAT A journalists' organization has expressed concern over the arrest and detention of human rights lawyer Remigio Saladero, Jr., who is also a columnist for the online newspaper Pinoy Weekly. Saladero was arrested last Oct. 23 in his office in Antipolo...
BY BULATLAT A radio reporter of dxND-Notra Dame Broadcasting Corporation in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato received over the radio station's hotline Tuesday morning threatening messages related to his reportage of alleged extortion activities of Land Transportation...
BY BULATLAT A cause-oriented group has condemned the Arroyo administration for “(continuing) to brazenly use the country’s trial courts to silence its staunchest critics.” Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) issued the statement as...
BY BULATLAT A coalition of Asian peasant groups has criticized the White House's invitation to the Philippines to host the Group of Twenty (G20) economic summit on Nov. 15, 2008 supposedly to "discuss the current global economic and financial problems that are...
BY BULATLAT An organization of US-based Filipino activists has expressed its support for a Filipino homeowner in San Diego, California who has chained herself to her home of 20 years after being issued an eviction order by the San Diego Sheriff's Department. Like...
Coming to Light The day breaks elegantly upon a spot in Limay, Bataan that used to be part of a military camp. With such light cast upon it, this piece of land hardly looks like the suspected burial site for Manuel Merino, the farmer who was abducted in 2006 in Bulacan together with UP students Karen Empeño and Sh erlyn Cadapan. This scene however could also be taken to symbolize the event in which so many horrors are now being exposed to the light of day. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva/Bulatlat.com)
'Tong' Collection? A taxi driver scratches the back of his head as he is accosted by policemen, who search his vehicle. The policemen do not seem to have anything on him but they search the taxi through and through. From the looks of it, this is a kotong (extortion) operation -- a favorite activity of policemen assigned to traffic duty. (Photo by Ace Alegre/Bulatlat.com)
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