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 RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Grace Morales, wife of Rosell Morales and sister of Marites Cablitas, two of the 58 victims of the Ampatuan massacre, is disgusted with the temporary freedom of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, now representative of...
Orly Marcellana's poetry for the peasantry
Increasing the bounty for the arrest of high-profile fugitives is “an exercise in futility, unless the Aquino government genuinely resolves to go after and arrest the notorious rights violators.” – human rights group Karapatan By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
On three occasions, detained NDFP consultant Tirso Alcantara discovered shards of broken glass mixed with his rice. He was also deprived access to clean drinking water several times.
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Two staff members of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP)-Southern Tagalog were taken by soldiers and policemen, August 5, and remain missing to this day. In a statement sent through email, NDFP-Laguna said...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Getting no support from either the national or local governments after Typhoon Ondoy in 2009 inundated their homes, they were able to, piece-by-piece, rebuild their homes and their lives. And now again, their homes and meager belongings were swept away by the floods.
MANILA – Progressive groups and netizens expressed disgust over what they branded as “early politicking” of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and his allies amid the massive devastation caused by floods. Official Malacanang photographs show Aquino on board a...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The long wait is slowly killing us. It is like mental torture.” – Mrs. Erlinda Cadapan
Bulatlat.com is reposting this story written in 2009 at the time Congress was deliberating on the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Extension with Reforms (CARPER). Signed by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Republic Act or 9700 or CARPER extended the...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Majority of the 249, 369 hectares distributed from July 2010 to June 2012 under Aquino are either public lands or ‘easy acquisitions.’ A big portion of the total agricultural lands are still in the hands of landlords and private corporations.” – Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano
By RONALYN V. OLEA
He was an Aeta who held his head up high while fighting for the rights of Aetas, indigenous peoples, and oppressed sectors of Philippine society. Ka Nelson was a “treasure of the Aeta people.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Farmers and human rights activists urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to disqualify a partylist group allegedly with links to the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA-ABB). In a petition for...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The budget continues to prop up defective policies imposed by foreign creditors such as privatization while allocating huge resources for CCT dole-outs to conceal the harsh social impact of such programs and automatically setting aside a significant portion for debt servicing.” – Bayan
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The rate at which human rights defenders are being killed in the Philippines is shocking.” – CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
‘Send Gloria Arroyo back to jail’ (Photo courtesy of Anakpawis Partylist / Bulatlat.com)
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“And so this is justice under Aquino – torturers are given plum positions in the military, and the rich, powerful and notorious human rights violators like Palparan and Arroyo are mockingly free as preying vultures.” – Karapatan
By ANNE MARXE D. UMIL and RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Members of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan)-National Capital Region demanded the immediate release of a protester arrested during President Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) last...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – They braved the heavy downpour and then the extreme heat to air their grievances. Some 1,000 protesters from Southern Tagalog, under the banner of the local chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and Save Bondoc...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We saw how they brutalized the bodies of my parents. I saw the body of my mother, her stomach was slashed open, her intestines ripped out. My father's head, meanwhile, was shattered but he bore no wounds on his face.” -- Leslie, daughter of slain NPA guerrillas
A homeless person and his pink ride seem to watch over tired job hunters taking a nap on a park named after the country's most famous worker-revolutionary. (Liwasang Bonifacio, Manila)
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