Pro-Arroyo local officials continue to threaten they would secede from the republic if the embattled president is removed from office. By Cheryll D. Fiel Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY – First, it was the Ilocos Republic in northern Philippines. Then, this was followed by...
Photo by Aubrey Makilan / Bulatlat Bulatlat.com The series of taped mobile-phone conversations involving President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and election commissioner Virgilio Garcillano has reinforced the widespread suspicion that the present Malacañang occupant...
Statement of the University Council (UC) of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, Quezon City on the political crisis facing the Arroyo administration Bulatlat.com The pursuit of the truth and the quest for a democratic society are integral to the...
The mass actions calling for the President’s removal from office are not just confined to Metro Manila. Even residents of Baguio City (246 kms north of Manila) have lent their voice to the growing oust-Arroyo sentiments. BY KIM QUITASON AND A.T. BENGWAYAN Northern...
The Catholic clergy of Negros island in central Philippines has had a history of social engagements including the ouster of dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and that of President Joseph Estrada in 2001. This time around, some members are boarding the movement...
By Jasper Almirante/ Bulatlat The U.S. is in a quandary of late on what measures to take in the face of the political crisis hounding President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Just when the President – under siege on all fronts from left to right over allegations of fraud...
Even prior to the public statement of 10 Cabinet members that the President should resign, the sentiments of the youth are already for her removal from office. A recent youth survey shows that the youth find the President as largely an ineffective leader due to her...
By Jasper Almirante/ Bulatlat Bulatlat.com As mass protests against the “illegimate” presidency of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo heat up, many of her erstwhile political allies have begun to abandon ship – among them former Presidents Corazon Aquino and Fidel Ramos....
WITH a vote of 32-6, including six abstentions, the faculty of the College of Law of the University of the Philippines has decided to issue a collective statement on the issue of Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's taped conversations. The statement, officially...
Mammoth rally set on July 13 The calls of various sectors and classes for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to resign have widened the rift between the ruling elite and have hastened her impending ouster. But militant groups say these will never be enough to kick...
OFWs press for Arroyo’s ouster Two major migrant workers groups launch “No Resign, No Remit” campaign to press for the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat Bulatlat.com “No Resign, No Remit.” Migrante International and Migrante...
For the last 30 years, the Philippine economy, and all administrations from the time of the dictator Marcos to the present, have been propped up by the remittances of overseas Filipinos. This means, the country’s economy is saved from eventual collapse by the...
Violence against progresive party-list groups continues as the number of their members and supporters killed this year has reached 56 since April 2001. The latest victim was no less than the vice mayor of a town in Pangasinan, 200 kms north of Manila. BY JHONG DELA...
The most recent calls by the country’s business elites for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to step down only underscore her far-reaching failures as an economist. Coming on top of mounting popular unrest because of the people’s worsening condition over the last...
The crisis of the ruling system has become so grave that the ruling classes can no longer rule in the old way. The people want a revolutionary change of government, in which the toiling masses of workers and peasants obtain and exercise their due share of political...
Photo by Ace Alegre / Bulatlat Bulatlat.com Craftsman Jonard Balallo, 13, of Vigan City, Ilocos Sur (407 kms. north of Manila) is hard at work demonstrating his skill at making Vigan tiles. The Balallos, who hail from Bulala village – one of the nine villages in...
Macapagal-Arroyo’s own political allies who have asked her to resign the presidency now pit themselves against the clamor for a people’s transitional governing council. Not that their call for resignation is a retrogressive move; it’s simply that they loathe the...
Two important mass actions in July will happen in Manila and the Southern Tagalog-based protesters are expected to make their voices heard. BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat Bulatlat.com CALAMBA CITY – Protesters from the Southern Tagalog (ST) region are expected to lend...
Bulatlat.com The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) and its 13 million constituents along with thevast majority of the Filipino people call for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s resignation on the basis of the so-called “Gloria-gate” tapes....
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