“EO 79 lacks in social justice. It claims it’s good for the mining industry, but it’s very half-baked.” — Ateneo de Davao University President Joel Tabora
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Liham sa lahat ng nanlait sa mga rallyista sa Sona
Ni Joi Barrios Kumusta naman ang iyong kape sa umaga, Habang nanonood o nagbabasa ng balita, Sa mga naganap sa huling SONA? A, oo, isisi natin ang lahat sa raliyista. Isisi natin ang trapik, nasirang gamit, Dumi sa kalyeng hindi nailigpit. Oo, pati kasawain natin sa pag-ibig. Isisi natin ang lahat sa rallyista, Pati ang…
Exclusionary economics: How Aquino and Arroyos economics are the same
By IBON Features In his upcoming third State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Benigno Aquino III will surely attempt to highlight how the Philippine economy has improved under his watch to show how his administration is an improvement over its predecessor. Pres. Aquino will bring to the fore supposed economic successes such as the…
Ilocos environmental advocates face harassment
By JOAN GARCIA ILOCOS — Political activists and journalists are endangered species in the country. With the renewed push of the Aquino government for the encouragement of foreign, large-scale mining operations in the country coupled with the president’s order for the Armed Forces of the Philippines to protect mining companies, environmental, anti-mining advocates have been…
Davao radio union wins strike
By JOHN RIZLE SALIGUMBA
Radio workers union hailed the strike as pivotal to the resolution of the labor dispute saying that the “weight of workers’ strike (is) a valid and only option to defend the workers” interest, especially with the current “rampant wage freeze and wage hike moratorium among the yellow traditional labor unions.”
Maita Gomez (1947-2012): Beauty transfigured
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO “The new woman, the new Filipina, is first and foremost a militant…She is a woman who has discovered the exalting realm of responsibility, a woman fully engaged in the making of history…” – Ma. Lorena Barros, “Liberated Women II” I only met Maita Gomez, one of two fabled beauty queens turned revolutionaries…
Handog kay Maita Gomez, armadong paraluman
Ni E. SAN JUAN JR. Bulatlat.com Mahal, Nagliliyab ang lansangan ng Islang Puting Bato nang ikaw’y lumisan Sa iyong balintataw nagtalik ang liwanag at dilim Nagtipan ang luha’t ngiti sa hanggahan ng pangako’t alaala Saang likong landas tayo naghiwalay, nakipagsapalaran? Pumalaot ka sa lagim ng lungsod, napigtal sa diwa’t nakintal sa dibdib Patnubay ang masang…
A radio worker’s fight: A Davao Today short narrative
By MICK M. BASA Davao Today Reposted by Bulatlat.com
US in Mali: Disintegration of a State
By JOE PENNEY english.al-akhbar.com Dakar/Bamako – At the Bamako bus station, tales of trepidation from besieged northern towns like Gao and Timbuktu, where Tuareg and Islamist rebels have taken power following a coup d’état in Bamako in late March, are commonplace. “There is no more life [in the north],” said one man arriving in Bamako…
Revolution and counterrevolution
The current oppressive regime, now presided over by Mr. Benigno Aquino III, escalates its senseless, bloody counterinsurgency campaigns in a futile attempt to suppress the people’s protest.
Sa ika-120 taon nang pagkatatag ng Katipunan ngayong Hulyo 7, 2012
Ni Richard R. Gappi Bulatlat.com Pinatay ang kanyang tatay. Pinatay ang kanyang nanay. At tulad ng batang makulit na kinikilala ang daigdig, nagtanong siya kung bakit. Nang matutuhan at matanto niya ang mga sagot, sinagot siya ng ganito: bakit ka nagtatanong? Kaya para patahimikin, sinuhulan siya. Pero nang hindi siya makuha sa santong dasalan, dinaan…