Migrante International, an alliance of Filipino migrant organizations, thinks that Cecilia Alcaraz will most likely serve her sentence of life imprisonment in Taiwan unless the Philippine government genuinely exerts efforts to have her freed. Migrante also earlier...
NI JOI BARRIOS-LEBLANC Syento Beinte Singko Gasino na ang syento beinte singko? Apat na kilo ng bigas, ilang saing sa hapag ng mahirap. Anim na pirasong galunggong, Simutin mula ulo hanggang buntot, at nang makatawid gutom. Kahit noodles ay laman na rin ng sikmura...
In what is virtually a can of worms opened, millions of pesos in ghost reforestation projects stink along the San Roque Multipurpose Dam-associated projects in Itogon, Benguet. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributor Bulatlat Itogon, Benguet (200 kilometers north of Manila) – In...
Members of workers’ groups and other cause-oriented organizations came in their thousands, from all over Metro Manila and adjacent provinces, to mark Labor Day by denouncing the US for causing the country’s current economic troubles and demanding for job security and temporary relief. They also reiterated their demand for a legislated wage hike, which was first put forward in 1999.
In a statement sent to Bulatlat, the Philippine UPR Watch said Ermita consumed the time of the whole session and left the Committee members with little time to ask more searching and probing questions even after being reminded, a couple of times, to shorten its report. “It was pretty obvious to the Philippine and international NGOs that the Philippine delegation was just “dribbling” the time away to avoid being put to task for its general and high-falluting replies spruced up with cute acronyms that – in the words of another Committee member - have “nothing on the practical side” and have no value on the ground,” the group said.
Artists and activists staged a three-leg bar tour of gigs as a build-up towards the 10th anniversary of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA). BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO CULTURE Bulatlat Paslangin ang bawat salita ng humamak sa kasarian: Puta, kiri, kerida,...
Kevin Jorge Esperat vividly remembers how his mother Marlene was killed inside their home in Tacurong City, Sultan Kudarat more than four years ago; Gloria Cuesta struggles to raise her six children without her husband. Both of them, like the other families of...
The toxic wastes polluting Somalia’s seas did not just end up there by accident after being washed up the shore by the tsunami of 2005. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent Bulatlat The toxic wastes polluting Somalia’s seas did not just end up there by accident...
“It’s like we’re now working only for oil companies and traffic-regulating agencies,” said George San Mateo, secretary-general of the Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Operator Nationwide (Piston), on the increase in traffic violation fines. BY ALEXANDER...
“The rights of workers, that is, the right to be organized into unions, to collective bargaining, to security of tenure and to have a just and humane condition at work, are continuously being denied them by capitalists who are only after profits. This is, despite...
Nelson Ebreo left the Philippines late last year to work as a tile setter in Qatar, seeking to provide a good future for his three children, the eldest of whom is still in Grade III, and his wife. However, after months of receiving nothing from his employer, he...
A new group has been formed not only to serve as watchdog in the 2010 elections but also to push for genuine change beyond 2010. BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat A new group has been formed not only to serve as watchdog in the 2010 elections but also to push for genuine...
Forming an unassuming picture of the less familiar side of Manila, Brillante Mendoza’s Tirador showed how it feels to live in the slum area that is Quiapo. BY JUAN ANGELO A. HONGO CULTURE Bulatlat Forming an unassuming picture of the less familiar side of Manila,...
A meditation on Recci Bacolor’s Resureccion My Little Art Space, Greenhills, San Juan; March 29-April 15, 2009 Group Exhibit Sometimes, the artist has to be reborn or awakened from his or her tight sleep in order to unleash the power of his or her art. BY NOEL...
The US$50-trillion loss of financial assets of the world’s economies is but a reflection of the decaying state of capitalism, economist Jose Enrique Africa of the independent think-tank IBON Foundation, Inc. said in reaction to a March 2009 study released by the...
The problem of piracy in Somalia traces its roots to economic and environmental depredations that have taken a toll on the lives of the Somali people, especially the fisherfolk. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent Bulatlat The international community has raised...
A diverse segment of economic drivers called micro, small and medium enterprises [MSMEs] needs to join the fight to save the environment. BY MIRIAM AZURIN-ABAJA Contributor Bulatlat When the largest corporations began taking about the green agenda by introducing...
The Anti-Violence against Women and Children Act or Republic 9262 of 2004 was passed “to protect the family and its members particularly women and children from violence and threats to their personal safety and security”. The intention of the law is to guarantee full respect for human rights of women and children. Five years since it was passed, the women’s group GABRIELA has been receiving an increasing number of reports of violence and threats against women and children.
It was only a few years ago when the Arroyo administration issued a total deployment ban to Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar and Iraq because of “unstable security conditions”. Fast-forward to the present. The Arroyo administration has now lifted the deployment ban...
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