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 JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat MANILA -- Since 2003, a mining company has been conducting exploration work in the mountains of the coastal town of Lobo, in the southernmost part of Batangas province, about 143 kilometers south of Manila. Mindoro Resouces Limited...
By NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent Migrant Watch Bulatlat MANILA -- Retrenched migrants in New Zealand want their work permits to be extended for three months to give them ample time to look for work. Dennis Maga, coordinator of Migrante International in...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Labor Watch Northern Dispatch MANKAYAN, Benguet, Philippines -- Mine workers at the Lepanto Mine Division of the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMCo) picketed the company's general office to demand a stop to the extended work-rotation...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY, Philippines -- The Metro Baguio-wide alliance for the urban poor, Organisasyon dagiti Nakukurapay nga Umili ti Syudad-Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Ornus-Kadamay), celebrated last week its 25 years of organizing...
By MARYA SALAMAT Labor Watch Bulatlat CABUYAO, Laguna, Philippines -- As with millions of workers around the globe, the first half of the year has been unkind to Filipino workers of NXP (The Next Performance), a leading global semiconductors company with operations...
By OLMAYA NGABIT Posted by Bulatlat The Beasts Blood thirsty beasts stalk them, Watching them From a distance at first, Then slowly inching nearer, And in a blink of an eye Pounces on their prey These beasts they know no mercy They find satisfaction In the agony of...
By the CENTER FOR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT IN GOVERNANCE (CenPEG) Analysis MANILA -- The presence of heavily armed U.S. soldiers even in the remote areas of the Philippine countryside is now becoming a normal part of the local scenery. As we mark the ten years...
By ARNOLD PADILLA Bulatlat MANILA -- It would be interesting to watch how the Oil Deregulation Law Task Force will resolve the complaint against the Big Three filed by Cebuano public officials and businessmen. The said task force has already subpoenaed the...
By defining what "dominated," "organized" and "targeted" means in its order of battle, the army's 10th Infantry Division practically admitted that the document indeed came from them. Some of those listed in the OB are calling on international groups to investigate this "campaign of vilification" by the AFP.
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat MANILA -- Despite the lack of quorum and the continued opposition from media organizations, House Bill 3306 or the Right of Reply Bill (RORB) was subjected to plenary debates during the week. Rep. Bienvenido Abante Jr., chairman of the...
Ni ROLAND TOLENTINO Kulturang Popular Kultura Bulatlat MANILA -- Ito ang laman at laman-loob ng balita. Lahat na lamang ay binubusisi — mga babaeng kalahok, paraan ng pakikipagsex; camera angle; sexual na posisyon; reaksyon ni Vicky Belo, ang aktwal na karelasyon...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat MANILA -- There are numerous news items related to it; television programs are teeming with it; political parties and groups are already gearing for it. The 2010 elections are in the air. Senators Manny Villar and Mar Roxas were...
“First, Pagbabago has a post-2010 elections advocacy, unlike others which merely serve as election machineries. Second, its 11-point program is a genuine response to the people’s grievances. And third, its coordinating council is composed of veterans of the social and people’s movements and have no interests except those of the people.”
Fellow activists, friends and kin got together for a night in honor of Satur Ocampo, who vows to keep on doing what he's doing -- fighting oppression alongside the Filipino masses.
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY (246 kms north of Manila) – Various host communities of the Ambuklao–Binga hydro-electric power plant entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the developers of the said plant for their...
By WENDY ATUBAN Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY -- In a bid to rescue the country’s major water resources, different line agencies, organizations and local government units (LGUs) from Regions I and II and the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR)...
Who Will Shoot the Ball? Reps. Mikey Arroyo, Luis Villafuerte, and Prospero Nograles are passing the Charter change ball around among each other as each avoids taking the flak for pushing the much-opposed move. They dilly-dally on the measure, while conscious that what is important for them is to be able to shoot the ball before the 2010 presidential elections.
(By Flon Faurillo/Bulatlat.com)
Foreigner in One's Native Land. A Quezon City High School student arrives home from school -- only the home she shares with her father and mother is a cart parked on a side street along Balete Drive Extension, Quezon City. The photo title is lifted from the signage on the left. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva/Bulatlat.com)
Ni ROLAND B. TOLENTINO KULTURANG POPULAR KULTURA Bulatlat Sa US, ang mga kababaihang whistleblower na sina Cynthia Cooper ng Worldcom, Sherron Watkins ng Enron, at Coleen Rowley ng FBI ay binansagan ng Time Magazine bilang “Persons of the Year” ng 2002. Inilantad...
By LYN V. RAMO Indigenous People’s Watch Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY – Members of the Philippine delegation to the Global Summit on Climate Change held in Anchorage, Alaska, in the US last April shared their insights on climate change during...
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