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.
Democratic politics in many Asian countries represents a marginal adjustment by vested interest groups which continue to trample on the rights of citizens while hiding behind flimsy policies and manipulated mandates. BY MICHAEL VATIKIOTIS Contributed to Bulatlat...
Amid the worsening state of human rights in the country, a new organization of lawyers committed to the defense and promotion of human rights was formed. This will certainly bring hope to the increasing number of victims and relatives of human rights violations. BY...
A Regional Trial Court judge in Abra recently dismissed a case against a pastor of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) who was implicated in the killing of former priest Conrado Balweg on Dec. 30, 1999. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch...
Developing countries opposed the inclusion of the controversial “Singapore issues” in the Doha Round of trade talks under the World Trade Organization (WTO) for fear of how these would impact on their local economies. Yet the Philippines has included these issues...
Farmers may lose control of over a million hectares of farmland under four agreements on agriculture that the Philippines signed with China last January, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat Vol.VII, No. 33,...
More than the hospital administration’s apparent lack of political will, the rates increase only abets the growing neglect of social services by the national government, to the detriment of disadvantaged Filipinos. BY LARISSA MAE R. SUAREZ Philippine Collegian...
The UP College Admission Test (UPCAT) this year drew more applicants from both public and private high schools than last year, but fewer public school graduates actually passed the UPCAT. BY VICTOR GREGOR LIMON Philippine Collegian Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No....
Filipino-American women affiliated with the Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment (FiRE) vowed to greet President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo with protests during her scheduled three-day visit to New York City from September 28 to 30. BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat Vol....
His shoulders bent perhaps from the difficult walk, the man transports vegetables – among other things – on a cart in an uphill walk toward a nearby public market in Baguio City (246 kms north of Manila). The residents and tourist visitors of Baguio City know that...
Four years after presidential spouse Mike Arroyo hit the headlines for his alleged ownership of the Jose Pidal accounts, in which government funds to be used as President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s campaign funds were supposedly deposited, he again courts a...
Thirty-five years after the declaration of martial law, 34 years after the first workers’ protests under martial law, and 21 years after the ouster of Marcos – the state of workers’ rights demonstrates a greater need for worker militancy. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN...
Architecture is not only the art and science of designing space -- it is a social statement. And if the recent wave of constructions in UP Diliman (UPD) were indeed any indication, the UP administration seems all geared up towards a pretense of modernization. BY...
We have been suffered so much by the hands of the colonizer and now the neo-colonizer and of course the Filipino people who choose to collaborate to these people. However, we can not let them ruin our future and dehumanize us. It’s time to rapture their boundaries...
The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP or Peasant Movement of the Philippines) called on local government units and landlords to help the farmers most affected by the dry spells that hit the country, either in the form of assistance or a...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat August 2, 2007 - 7:05pm About 200 members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and allied organizations held a rally Aug. 2 to condemn what they described as the U.S. government’s intervention in Southeast Asia. The protesters attempted to...
William Claver was among those who attended the July 28 memorial mass that honored the late Alyce Omengan-Claver, a victim of extra-judicial killing in an ambush that originally intended to kill her husband, Dr. Constancio “Chandu” Claver, last year. He is esteemed...
The Independent Philippine Petroleum Companies Association (IPCA) announced that the public will again expect (dread seems to be a more appropriate word) another round of fuel price increases averaging at P0.50 per liter in the coming weeks. This, IPCA Chairman...
Despite the government and the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) consistent denial that they have Jonas Burgos in custody, unidentified men, suspected to be military intelligence agents, have been mysteriously tailing the Burgos family ever since the start of...
The joy of remembering one’s childhood is irreplaceable. But unfortunately, this is not the case for the thousands of Filipino children whose recollection of childhood is tainted with fear, trauma, and distress. Even worse, some never had the chance of building up...
The world’s educators have called on their fellow educator, no less than President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, to end extrajudicial killings – the victims of which included nine teachers – and enforced disappearances. BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Vol....
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