Nasa iyo ang desisyon kung hanggang saan mo gustong dalhin ang iyong pagkilos. Sa isang lipunang “normal,” tungkulin ko bilang guro na sabihan kang unahin ang pag-aaral dahil ito ang pundasyon ng iyong magandang bukas. Pero alam mong malayo sa “normal” ang ating kalagayan, at wala akong karapatang sabihing magkakaroon ka ng magandang bukas dahil…

Many Americans were puzzled by the news, in 1902, that United States soldiers were torturing Filipinos with water. The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom. This was the language that, when coupled with expanding military and commercial ambitions, had helped launch two very…

BY ROBERT WEINER AND JOHN LARMETT The Cleveland Plain Dealer Truthout.org Posted by Bulatlat ALTERNATIVE READER Vol. VIII, No. 7, March 16-29, 2008 The House vote this week was 225 to 188 – not enough to override President Bush’s veto of legislation requiring the CIA to abide by the same interrogation rules that bar torture…

Local village folks, mainly indigenous peoples in Licuan-Baay, Abra have clashed with government over allowing mining operations in their town as they have shut down their doors to any mining activity. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 8, March 16-29, 2008 Local village folks, mainly indigenous peoples in Licuan-Baay, Abra have clashed…

“Angeline’s” quiet life in the university suddenly turned tragic after she was abducted from her boarding house, brought to a lodging house, and allegedly raped. This, said the Suara Bangsamoro Party, is not the first case of rape and sexual harassment that occurred within the premises of University of Southern Mindanao in North Cotabato. BY…

Ito ang panahon ng pagpaparami ng hanay: pagtataas ng kamulatan, pagpapakilos at pag-oorganisa. Kailangang may maunang kumilos at paratihang mag-rally. Kailangang kumprehensibo ang prop, malikahain sa pagpapataas ng kamulatan. At kailangan ang napakilos ay magpatibay sa pinalalawak na hanay ng organisadong sektor. At lahat ng ito, ang kahilingan ng yugto ng kasaysayan, ay mabilisan. Ang…

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo may make much of the recent revocations of Executive Order No. 464, which barred cabinet-level officials and top-ranking military officers from testifying in congressional investigations in aid of legislation without clearance from the President; and its implementing guidelines contained in Memorandum Circular No. 108. The President may claim this as a step…

BY THE SISTERS’ ASSOCIATION IN MINDANAO Posted by Bulatlat DEMOCRATIC SPACE Vol. VIII, No. 6, March 9-15, 2008 We, in the Sisters’ Association in Mindanao, an aggrupation of some 360 nuns coming from more than 40 congregations in Mindanao, renew our call for Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to step down. We have been unequivocal in the…

Ang nasa bokabularyo ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at ng mga tagapagtanggol niya ay ang paggamit ng mga salitang magtatakip sa katotohanan, kahit na ito ay labag hindi lang sa batas ng gramatika kundi sa batas ng Pilipinas. Tunay na may dahilan para mapansin ang kamalian sa paggamit ng wika dahil sa mas seryosong kamaliang ginagawa…

Twenty-seven years after the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the condition of the Filipina seems to have worsened. The proof of the pudding are the statistics from the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW). BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA SPECIAL REPORT Contributed to…

Sr. Mercedes Nicolas, 84 years old, listened intently to speakers who aired their dismay over the NBN-ZTE deal. Upon seeing her, I remembered the movie Sister Stella L., which is about a nun who struggled with the oppressed masses for truth and justice during the 20-year Marcos dictatorial rule. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch…