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.
Human Rights Summit and Tensions within Branches of Government The recently held human rights summit took the first agonizing step towards finding solutions to the epidemic of extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances. The solutions proposed will pit...
On The Presence of Filipinos in the United States and Other Essays by E. San Juan, Jr. (Salinas, California: SRMNK Publishers, 2007. 114 pp., $12.50) BY JEFFREY ARELLANO CABUSAO* Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28, 2007 Toward the end of their...
The Philippines is a multi-lingual and multi-cultural nation given its 172 languages but emphasis is given only to the two languages. This, said Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoli, is a reminder that we have not done enough. BY MARICAR CINCO Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII,...
BY KAREN PAPELLERO Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28, 2007 (alang kang Karen Empeño) (for Karen Empeño*) ang buwan nga mosilang, mosalop the moon that rises and sets sama sa adlaw like the sun, ginatawag nga buwan usab did you also call it as...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28, 2007 Bago pa mamatay ang lawa ng Laguna. Aking itataon ang pagtatanong ngayong tag-ulan, Dahil nagtutubig ang aking tainga. Yagit ako at dugyot na laging inaaninaw Ang katanungan sa nakabibinging...
Dubious and Dishonorable* One does not have to look very far to see how “terrorist”-labeling under the aegis of the U.S.-led “war on terror” has been used for dubious and dishonorable political ends that have little to do with combating the scourge of real...
Live-in caregiver Elenita Pailanan died after an emergency operation in Canada. Philippine Consulate officials refused to help; and Filipino migrant groups rush to raise funds for her repatriation. BY AUBREY MAKILAN MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July...
Mt. Pulag is the second highest peak in the Philippines. It is home to 528 species of plants, and 33 species of animals including the endangered Philippine deer, giant bushy-tailed cloud rat and the long-aired fruit bat. It is revered as a mecca of nature lovers...
NI GELACIO GUILLERMO Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 23, July 15-21, 2007 Titina, my Titina Buksan mo ang pamana Upang aming makita Ang tunay mong ganda Ay, lintek! Human Security Act pala! Tito-tita, my Titina Burat ni Bush ang pamana Fighting 69 sa...
Calling it a sugar-coated extortion scheme, Migrante International said that the policy reforms issued by the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) which supposedly sets a minimum wage of $200-$400 for domestic workers abroad, prohibits the charging of...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s critics in Negros Occidental have a different view of her development plan for Central Philippines, with most saying it will only worsen the “already acute exploitation and oppression of the people” and the “plunder” of the...
Indigenous communities in Benguet have recently decided to reject the mining operations of Philex, which they say have displaced natives and destroyed the local environment in the last 50 years. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 23,...
While affected indigenous peoples in Tuba and Itogon towns in Benguet have resolved to stop operations of Philex Mining Corporation, the local office of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) ordered another round of dialogues between them and the...
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has created an “Anti-Hoodlum Unit” that will go after gang members and abusive cabbies. He said the unit can shoot these “embarrassments to the city” with shotguns if necessary. “I warn you,” he said last week. “You bring out the...
The law against libel is being misused once again to silence critics. This time, it was filed against environment groups by a mining company, Lafayette Mining. BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 23, July 15-21, 2007 A form of harassment and intimidation, this...
It was the first of July, a Sunday. People were rushing over to the public market after the Mass in Barangay San Jose, Baggao, Cagayan. A van parked amid the many tricycles and the farmers’ kuliglig (generator-powered vehicles). Several people alighted and started...
When President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivers her next SoNA, she will no doubt count among her administration’s accomplishments the increase in employment rate from last year to this year. But the government’s own figures show that there was not much gainful...
Beware! The guy pestering you to buy dibidi or the vendor you approached in looking for a nice combination of 12 movies which includes your favourites may well be a terrorist in disguise. That is, if the claims of an American expert Jeffrey Williams, a former a...
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