Ronalyn V. Olea or Len to her colleagues loves to brew coffee strong enough to keep everyone in the newsroom awake. She’s a vegan and a bike commuter, braving the chaos of the road to get to meetings and errands.
Ronalyn V. Olea or Len to her colleagues loves to brew coffee strong enough to keep everyone in the newsroom awake. She’s a vegan and a bike commuter, braving the chaos of the road to get to meetings and errands.
Filipino journalists consider access to information as vital in their profession. The right to information is not only a right of journalists but of ordinary citizens, too. In the words of Nepo Malaluan, co-convenor of Access to Information Network (ATIN),...
‘WANTED’ posters are used by the police against common criminals. In Compostela Valley, however, the Philippine Army uses the same to track down a leader of a Lumad organization. BY RONALYN OLEA INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S WATCH Bulatlat.com Volume VIII, Number 29, August...
Members of the Council of Bishops of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines intensified their campaign for the release of Pastor Berlin Guerrero with a “Pilgrimage Walk for Justice and Freedom” at the Court of Appeals. BY RONALYN V. OLEA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH...
Why do they risk death to defend human rights? For Karapatan workers, it’s the way to live. BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Volume VIII, Number 30, August 31- September 6, 2008 “What is there in these people to work in the way they do? Perhaps, the biggest reward...
A government ad extolling farmers as heroes for providing food for our tables has been airing regularly on television. It also describes what the government is supposedly doing to support Filipino farmers. But the farmers of Guihulngan, Negors Oriental tell a...
After a High Court justice branded as “patently illegal” the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain, the U.S. Ambassador was quick to deny any involvement in the aborted signing of the pact. But critics have pointed to the prominent role that the U.S. had...
Women workers, widows and relatives of labor leaders killed under the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo government stood together to demand justice and an end to trade union repression. BY RONALYN V. OLEA LABOR WATCH Bulatlat.com Volume VIII, Number 28, August 17-23, 2008...
Even as they provide much-needed health services in far-flung areas, community health workers (CHWs) are not spared from being targets of the military’s counter-insurgency campaign. In Guihulngan, Negros Oriental, two CHWs shared how they risk their lives just to...
Arrested by the military on false charges of child abuse allegedly for recruiting a minor to the NPA, which has already been dismissed, and rebellion, sisters Emilia and Maricris Quirante have been languishing in jail for more than a year now. Worse, the fact that...
It was an unusual reunion of mother and daughter. Nanay Mely visited Hazel in Okinawa, Japan last week. After knowing the details of the sufferings Hazel endured in the hands of an American soldier, Nanay Mely would have wanted to bring Hazel home. But her daughter...
While Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has repeatedly claimed that health and other social services are her priorities, records show otherwise. The budget for health has been consistently meager, causing dire effects on the people’s conditions. BY RONALYN V. OLEA...
A meager P18.65 ($0.42) per day is the equivalent of the ten percent increase to Salary Grade I government employees, which includes health workers in public hospitals. BY RONALYN V. OLEA (Bulatlat.com) Volume VIII, Number 25, July 27-August 2, 2008 Jamil Dionisio...
An investigation led by GWP Representative Liza Maza on the plight of Okinawa rape victim Hazel discovered that she was a victim three times over: of rape, human trafficking, and of government neglect. BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat Volume VIII, No. 25, July 27-August...
As the Court of Appeals (CA) denied the petition for writ of habeas corpus for the Gumanoy siblings held by the Philippine Army, human rights groupS and children’s rights advocates decried the use of psywar tactics against the two. They said that threat and...
Childhood is only experienced once, and every child is expected to enjoy it. But life is harsh, given the circumstances of a poor country where indigenous peoples suffer not only from poverty but also from discrimination and oppression making them lose out in the...
As other military officers trained in US military schools, Retired Navy Captain Danilo Vizmanos could have been promoted easily and reached the peak of his military career, enjoying the benefits of power ranking military officials relished in during Martial Law....
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 14, May 11-17, 2008 Nagngalit ang bulkan at biglang pumutok Sa bundok Durungaw na napakatayog. Naukang kaldera ang buong paligid— Subalit naiwan sa gitna ay tumpok Ng lupang kawangis ay punyal-panusok. Lumao’y...
NI RICHARD R. GAPPI Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 14, May 11-17, 2008 Singkinang ng araw kislap ng paghataw ng maso at singkaw: sa bisig nagsilang ng saysay at buhay. Inilathala ng Bulatlat
BY MARK ANGELES Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 13, May 4-10, 2008 The sun steadies in the sky. Enough to gild the field of grass flexing towards the slit of horizon. At the heart of it, you and I lay serene. Underneath a hem of drifting laundry: almost dry,...
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