Farmers’ group wary of reported SDO junking The militant peasant organization Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), together with the Alyansa ng Manggagawang-Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (AMBALA), Aug. 26 dared the Department of Land Reform (DLR) to show copy of any...
Literally one for the books, the Department of Education (DepEd) inked a deal with Coca Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc. (CCBPI) tapping the latter to deliver textbooks to public elementary and high schools throughout the country. The Anak ng Bayan Youth Party asks,...
World War II in the Pacific ended 60 years ago with the infamous bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the Philippines, the end of the war was hardly observed even if only to reflect upon the atrocities committed at that time with the Filipinos as the principal...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was found guilty beyond reasonable doubt by the International People’s Tribunal (IPT) last Aug. 19 at the University of the Philippines (UP) Cine Adarna of human rights violations. In this interview Hakan Karakus – president of the...
Religious leaders and civil authorities suspect that behind the military campaigns and offensives in Samar and Leyte islands are mining interests. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com The Supreme Court’s (SC) decision December last year reversing its earlier ruling...
August marks the sixth month of Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan as military commander of Eastern Visayas. While the officer - who has since been reassigned to Nueva Ecija - claims he has been successful in crushing popular dissent in the area, his vicious anti-insurgency...
"It’s time for the people to defend their own liberties. We (bishops) will plan about (persuading) the people to come out, the people should come out. The sooner, the better." By Bulatlat.com A Catholic bishop who early July was one of the first group of church...
“The next time you enter the grocery store to buy a milk or chocolate drink, please remember the plight of the Nestle workers.” This is the appeal of Nestle workers whose case against the giant Swiss-owned food multinational company drags unresolved. By Dennis...
“Tiempo Muerto” (dead times) are bad times for cane workers. They go hungry because there is no work and are neglected by landowners. Last Aug. 17, close to a thousand hungry-stricken sugar workers and farmers trooped to the office of the provincial government in...
After completing a one-year exploration activity, two firms, the Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. Ltd (JAPEX) and a Canadian company Forum Exploration Inc. (FEI), are reportedly finalizing a 25-year contract to extract and produce oil from Tanon Strait. Tanon Strait...
Youth groups believe the Macapagal-Arroyo government guilty of stealing the youth and nation’s bright future. They held protest marches and warned they will not hesitate to storm Congress should pro-administration lawmakers succeed in crushing the impeachment. By...
Nobody expected the impeachment complaint to go smoothly. But nobody thought it would be mired in so many issues this early as the first week of impeachment proceedings went nowhere. BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Public attention focused on House Committee on...
Foreign delegates to the International People’s Tribunal (IPT) that convened Aug. 19 in Quezon City have urged the international community to support the Filipino people’s move to force the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. They also asked foreign...
Although symbolic and perhaps without any authority to enforce its verdict, the International People’s Tribunal has sent a powerful message to Macapagal-Arroyo and other perpetrators of human rights violations: You cannot forever silence truth and justice because...
As a politician, Raul S. Roco, 63, has had his share of controversies in the past as he supported anti-people measures like the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Revised Basic Education Curriculum (RBEC). But at his wake in Naga City (449...
The dilatory tactics in the impeachment proceedings orchestrated by allies of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo are quickly catching up on her. Unwittingly, these are only exposing the President’s intent to obstruct justice and, hence, may just expedite her ouster...
Embattled President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo faces indictment before an International People’s Tribunal set to convene on Aug. 19 in Quezon City. The charges that will be filed against her – human rights violations – can even be used when she faces impeachment in...
Migrante hits prospective envoy to Italy Migrante International, an alliance of groups of overseas Filipinos and their families, hit August 4 the possible appointment of former Guimaras Governor Emily Relucio Lopez as the new Philippine Ambassador to Italy. Maita...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s trip to New York to attend the World Summit of the United Nations, Sept. 15, will not give her a respite from mass actions calling for her resignation. US-based Filipinos, led by BAYAN USA, are gearing up for a major protest...
If only the government of the Philippines would enact laws on conventions that the country is treaty-bound to comply with, there would be no need to legislate an anti-terrorism bill (ATB). Passing the ATB will only replicate existing international humanitarian laws...
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