By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
With the massive cuts in the budget for state colleges and universities, students could expect more increases in tuition and other fees. This would make tertiary education more inaccessible to the poor.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"The farm workers of Hacienda Luisita had been through so many referendums already. All of these were merely used by the Cojuangco family to deceive the farm workers and keep the land." – Lito Bais United Luisita Workers Union acting chairperson.
The 43 health workers are still languishing in jail, seven months since their arrest in Morong, Rizal. In a letter handed personally by the relatives and friends of the 43 health workers on September 8, they reiterated their appeal to the Supreme Court (SC) for an immediate review of the health workers' case.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO, MARYA SALAMAT and ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
After playing tough against the Luisita SDO during the first oral argument, the SC justices seemed to have "retreated" during the second hearing, forming a mediation panel for a "happy compromise." The peasants' desire for actual distribution of land, which the peasants say is no longer negotiable, should have been clear by now.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante International chairperson Garry Martinez told Bulatlat that he is not surprised if there are negative reactions coming from Hongkong nationals and its possible repercussions to OFWs. "We express our sincerest condolences to the families and friends of the victims," Martinez said, "We know how difficult it is to fetch a loved one who is dead."
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com BALINGASAG, Misamis Oriental -- Francesca Salim, 46, and the rest of her family are not known for their surnames - a usual scenario in small towns in the country. Their family, instead, is more known now for their collective...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Dilapidated, crowded classrooms, shortages in textbooks, overworked and underpaid teachers, and stinking comfort rooms characterize most public schools in the country. But a grade one classroom in Talusan Elementary Schools stands out because entering it would make one feel that he is inside one of the more expensive private schools in the country.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The largest OFW group urged President Benigno S. Aquino III to stop the increase of the e-passport fees in the light of allegations of corruption in the procurement contract by the Department of Foreign Affairs. "We...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Perlita Carmen, 55, considers Mark Lloyd as the sweetest and most thoughtful among her five children. And every time she recalls that fateful day when Mark left to work abroad, Perlita feels like crumbling to death. It...
By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat.com MACO, COMPOSTELA VALLEY – Communist guerillas who captured and released three soldiers and a militiaman in Compostela Valley in June scoffed at the entry of more government troops from Luzon. Anvil Guinto,...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante International reports that from January 2009 to April 2010 alone, 225 Filipinos were stranded, jailed or in deportation centers and shelters in other countries.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Justice, jobs, immediate relief, and a review of the government's housing program to make it more affordable are the most pressing concerns of the urban poor, said Kadamay.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com Related story: For FQS Veterans, Activism Is in Their Hearts MANILA -- Fresh from their highly acclaimed movie Dukot, multi-awarded director Joel Lamangan and Palanca awardee Bonifacio Ilagan team up again to pay tribute to the...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Two teachers, where one is a member of the leftist group Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), were killed in just the first 10 days of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III, bringing the number of extrajudicial killings under his watch to four.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Military operations that target civilians in communities did not end with the Arroyo administration. it is still continuing as what is happening in Barangay Pura, Rodriguez, Rizal province just outside Metro Manila.
By Bulatlat.com An overseas Filipino worker who was in Kish Island in the Persian Gulf on a tourist visa was killed on July 1, a chapter of Migrante International in Saudi Arabia reported recently. The victim was waiting for his re-entry visa for the United Arab...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Because of what teachers call as the "the lost decade of Philippine education" during the Arroyo administration, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers is calling for urgent and bold measures.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Even as the 1,644-hectare land was already awarded to the farmers in 1972 through Presidential Decree 27 or the Marcos Land Reform Law, the Araneta family was able to get the Court of Appeals to rule in its favor in 2003. Now the case is before the Supreme Court.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA - Forty two peasants, students and minors were jailed, 16 were brought to the hospital for treatment of injuries and many others were hurt during the violent dispersal July 3 of the people's camp in Mendiola, only a few...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante is calling on the Aquino administration to prosecute former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for misusing funds for OFWs, repeal anti-migrant policies, provide more services to OFWs and their families, including special protection to migrant women and minors, review and increase the budget for services for OFWs, to establish special courts to try complaints of abuses against OFWs, and to forge bilateral agreements with receiving countries for the protection of OFWs, among others
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