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.
BY MICHAEL T. KLARE The Nation/Truthout Posted by Bulatlat ALTERNATIVE READER Vol. VIII, No. 13, May 4-10, 2008 While the day-to-day focus of US military planning remains Iraq and Afghanistan, American strategists are increasingly looking beyond these two conflicts...
With the increases in the prices of rice, bread, pork, electricity, oil, liquid petroleum gas, and other basic commodities, the need for and the urgency of wage increases are no longer debatable. The only question is how and how much. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS ANALYSIS...
Women’s participation in the course of history has been invisible and largely unnoticed. This motivated Prof. Judy Taguiwalo to focus her doctoral dissertation on the role that women workers played in the labor movement. Her findings? “Andun sila sa iba’t-ibang...
Lex Adonis, the former anchorman of Bombo Radyo-Davao jailed for libel, filed a complaint addressed to the UN High Commission on Human Rights, challenging the legality of the criminal libel laws in the Philippines. BY GERMELINA A. LACORTE AND CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao...
"The Department of Agriculture (DA) was either lying or uninformed when it assured consumers that U.S. GMO rice has the seal of approval of international food safety agencies.” BY GREENPEACE Posted by Bulatlat Vol/ VIII, No. 13, May 4-10, 2008 Greenpeace debunked...
To generations of labour activists, Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran is an iconic figure – a towering model who has survived five presidents in his fight for the working poor. The 75-year old aging warrior is still very much in the fray, albeit a bit slower in gait and a...
Peace activists and human rights advocates in Manila last week opposed the proposal that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair help Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo clinch a peace agreement with political armed groups currently waging their...
U.S. troops are suspected of having been involved in the April 30 bombings of Barangays Buansa and Cagay in Indanan, Sulu. The suspicion stems from the use of so-called smart bombs in the attack, which has forced some 360 families to evacuate to nearby barangays....
Sa kapitalismo, binubura ang napakahalagang lahok ng paggawa sa transformasyon ng hilaw na materyales—mga bagay—tungo sa pagiging komoditi nito. Nawawala ang paggawa sa pagtunghay, resepsyon at konsumpsyon ng komoditi. NI ROLAND TOLENTINO KULTURANG POPULAR KULTURA...
If there is no shortage, locally and internationally, and no compelling reason for the increases in rice prices and yet it is happening then somebody is making a hefty profit out of it at the expense of the majority of the Filipino people. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS...
“Life! If life is threatened, what should we do? Resist! This we must do, otherwise, we are dishonored and that is worse than death. If we do not fight, we die anyway. If we fight, we die honorably...and our children may win and keep this land. And the land shall...
Luing’s life has been an extraordinary one, an exemplar of dedication to the highest ideals of a people struggling for genuine independence and a more humane social order. Luing speaks for herself here in a way that is at once starkly simple and powerfully...
A recently-signed free trade agreement between Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) would grant Japanese corporations unhampered access to the region’s markets, prohibiting ASEAN members to protect their own economy while allowing Japan to...
‘Not without a fight’ seems to be the motto of many militant unions against efforts to bust their unions; they basically always put up a fight for wages, jobs and rights. BY MARYA SALAMAT LABOR WATCH Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 12, April 27-May 3, 2008...
Apologists for the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) continue to claim that the treaty’s ratification will mean more employment and foreign remittances for Filipinos. But JPEPA highlights the Philippine government’s insensitivity to nurses...
Fourteen activists swam 10 kms across the Manila Bay, from Baccor, Cavite to Pasay City (near the Senate of the Philippines), on April 28 to dramatize their opposition to the controversial Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA). BY GERRY ALBERT...
The Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board VI labor representative Winnie Sancho last week urged employers and the local government units to give emergency relief to workers to stave off the debilitating effects of high prices of rice and other basic...
“Awanen! Uray adda pay koma’t magapas... nu alaen amin ti minas dagiti taltalon, anya ngay ti mabalin dagiti mannalon?” (It is all gone. Although there are yet palay to harvest... if the fields would be eaten up by the mines, what is there left for the farmers?) BY...
Amid the tight security of the University authorities, progressive faculty members, graduating militant students and non-academic personnel creatively made bold statements on the country’s deteriorating political and economic situation reiterating the position of...
On the 24th celebration of the Cordillera Day in Baay-Licuan in Abra, different organizations took advantage of the crowded event by selling their products not only to generate income but more importantly, to promote their campaigns. BY ANGIE DE LARA Bulatlat Vol....
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