News in Pictures: BTL Farmers Association filed case against CMU admin
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News in Pictures: BTL Farmers Association filed case against CMU admin
Patikul: Where children’s dreams are taken away from them
Patikul: Where children’s dreams are taken away from them
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com PATIKUL trailer MANILA -- For most Filipinos, education is deemed as the key to a better life and a better future. But in Patikul, Sulu, a town south of the Philippines, the children trek a dangerous road just to get an...
Worst year for OFWs
Worst year for OFWs
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"OFWs are still forced to go abroad because the government has offered them nothing substantive and sustainable to address their families's economic needs. Instead, what it has offered are mere dole-outs and band-aid solutions that does not do anything to address widespread unemployment and landlessness the root cause of forced migration." – Migrante International
Contrary to government claims, Saudization policy would affect OFWs – Migrants’ group
Contrary to government claims, Saudization policy would affect OFWs – Migrants’ group
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante Middle East projects that under the Saudization Nitaqat scheme, some 30 percent of the 1.2M Filipinos in Saudi Arabia or around 360,000 OFWs would be affected.
A film review about two yes men trying to fix the world
A film review about two yes men trying to fix the world
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – What does it take to fix the world? Two activists Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano tried to fix the world from its endemic defects in the documentary film The Yes Men Fix the World (2009). Given the current global crisis...
Migrants deplore worsening conditions amid economic crisis
Migrants deplore worsening conditions amid economic crisis
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"We are workers, we are not slaves. It is time for labor power to lead and guide the world for it gives and sustains life, unlike finance capital which is a grave-digger of both human life and nature."
Migrant group to use ILO treaty to empower domestic helpers
Migrant group to use ILO treaty to empower domestic helpers
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"It is an added instrument, a tool and a weapon. But it is not the answer to migrant workers' problems." – Migrant workers' organization
Bukidnon land dispute shows failure of agrarian reform – Anakpawis
Bukidnon land dispute shows failure of agrarian reform – Anakpawis
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"We are alarmed that CMU, a center for education and formation of values, by its actions, is promoting a teaching of values that contradicts the intention of social justice. By denying the farmers the land that is very much attached to their lives, the CMU has become a despotic landlord rather than an educational institution." - solidarity mission
Bulatlat Live: International solidarity mission for Bukidnon peasants
Bulatlat Live: International solidarity mission for Bukidnon peasants
By BULATLAT
Watch the live coverage of progressive groups's solidarity mission for the plight of the farmers of Buffalo-Limus-Tamaraw Farmers’ Association in Bukidnon.
University guards fire at protesting farmers, wounding seven
University guards fire at protesting farmers, wounding seven
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The members of a coalition of 43 community-based organizations of peasant women in Northern Mindanao condemned the indiscriminate firing of guns by guards on peasants holding a protest action to fight for their right to...
Remains of OFW who died mysteriously brought home, family wants justice
Remains of OFW who died mysteriously brought home, family wants justice
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The family of overseas Filipino worker Andy Dimacali is resolute that they would not let him die in vain. When asked if they are considering filing a complaint against officials, who, according to Crisanto and Dory Ann...
Family demands the truth about mysterious death of OFW
Family demands the truth about mysterious death of OFW
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"It is our priority not just to have his remains repatriated but also to know the truth and for justice to be served. Only the truth could give us a feeling of relief." -- family of OFW
Video: San Juan residents defend their homes, foil another demolition attempt
Video: San Juan residents defend their homes, foil another demolition attempt
Video: San Juan residents defend their homes, foil another demolition attempt
OFW dies while at shelter
OFW dies while at shelter
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Labor officials have confirmed the death of a 44 year old overseas Filipino worker whose body was found in one of the restrooms of Bahay Kalinga, a shelter in Saudi Arabia for women OFWs in distress, which is being...
Urban Development and Housing Act merely meant to delay demolition of urban poor communities
Urban Development and Housing Act merely meant to delay demolition of urban poor communities
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- For urban poor communities, a threat of a demolition is a threat to their lives and their livelihood. Naturally, they would fight it, by all means possible and whatever is at hand, including picking up rocks, bottles,...
Urban poor denounces demolition
Urban poor denounces demolition
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Residents of urban poor communities in Metro Manila denounced in a protest action the various threats of demolition under the administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III. "While there have been demolitions in the...
News in Pictures: Demolition Estrada
News in Pictures: Demolition Estrada
A snake effigy of the Estradas -- Ex-President Joseph Estrada, Congressman JV Ejercito and Mayor Guia Gomez -- was burned by residents of Brgy. Corazon De Jesus in San Juan City, as a sign of their anger at the Estrada family for ordering the demolition. (Photos by GREGORIO B. DANTES JR. and JANESS ANN J. ELLAO / Bulatlat.com)
Bank employees also suffer from meager wages despite industry’s profitability
Bank employees also suffer from meager wages despite industry’s profitability
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"We, bank employees, are victims of meager wages despite the fact that the banking industry is one of the most profitable in the country," Raymund Acenia, president of the Hongkong Bank Independent Labor Union
Bulatlat.com wins big in first Red Cross journalism awards
Bulatlat.com wins big in first Red Cross journalism awards
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Bulatlat.com dominated the online category in the first Red Cross Award for Humanitarian Reporting held on Saturday, winning the first and second prizes for stories that tackle the plight of children caught in conflict. It bested mainstream media outlets for the awards, which was established last year “to promote responsible reporting of conflict situations by highlighting the plight of those affected by it.”
News in Pictures: Progressive lawyers, groups file manifestation questioning CHR decision on Roxas torture case
News in Pictures: Progressive lawyers, groups file manifestation questioning CHR decision on Roxas torture case
MANILA -- The National Union of Peoples' Lawyers (NUPL) filed a manifestation at the Commission of Human Rights (CHR) on Tuesday regarding its recent resolution absolving the military from its liability on the enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention of Filipino-American activist Melissa Roxas and her two other companions Juanito Carabeo and John Edward Jandoc. (Photos by Tudla Productions / bulatlat.com)
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