By ALDWIN QUITASOL
“Contractualization is essentially an attack on the right of workers and the people to a living wage, to job security and to exercising trade-union rights. Any form of “protection” under a contractual employment status won’t be enough. Only unionization and regularization will truly protect contractuals.” – KMU
By ALDWIN QUITASOL NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY -- As their colleagues trooped to Malacañang to seek audience with President Benigno Aquino III, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers-Metro Baguio and the Confederation of Unity for Recognition...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted By: Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY — With the continuing entry of mining corporations in Benguet, the Benguet Mining Action Alert Network (BMAAN) vowed to further safeguard their homeland against development aggression...
By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT-QUITASOL NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted By: Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – In its effort to correct prevailing misconceptions and misrepresentations of indigenous peoples (IPs), the Program for Indigenous Cultures (PIC-USC) of the University of the...
By ML MARIGZA NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY — Farmers groups have protested the field testing of genetically modified (GM) eggplants in the Philippines. Known as the Philippine Fruit and Shoot Borer (FSB)-resistant eggplants (Bt brinjal) or...
By: www.nordis.net Posted by: Bulatlat.com MANILA — Over 50 indigenous leaders and representatives from different parts of the country including the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) marched to Mendiola August 9 to submit the Indigenous People’s Agenda to President...
By NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted by Bulatlat.com MANILA — There’s another curious house call for the President. A group of indigenous peoples from different parts of the country, dressed in their traditional garb of g-strings and colorful headgear attempted to enter...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by: Bulatlat.com SAGADA, Mountain Province ? People from three municipalities of this province oppose the exploration activities of a subsidiary of Anglo American PLC mining company in their communities. The Cordillera...
By WL MARQUEZ & JSTABANGCURA with reports www.nordis.net Posted by Bulatlat.com LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET — Republic Act 10068 or the Organic Agriculture Act of 2010 for the development and promotion of Philippine Organic Agriculture is now in place. In the north,...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY — Three small-scale miners died of suffocation inside the mining tunnels in separate towns of Abra and here in Benguet. On June 11, in Mt. Bumurayok, Barangay Buneg, Lacub in Abra, miners...
By CRISLYN BALANGEN Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.comBulatlat.com LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — To promote bamboo as a good substitute for trees and as a good livelihood, the Benguet State University (BSU) will hold the first-ever Bamboo Techno-Forum and Industry...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
“For several years now, we have invited representatives of the United Nations and other independent bodies to visit units of the NPA and areas of operations of these units to see for themselves how the revolutionary movement upholds its policy of prohibiting the recruitment of children, and furthermore, how the rights and welfare of children are respected and promoted in revolutionary areas.” - CPP
By MALOU M. MARIGZA Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY — Who would have known that a small boy flying kites in what they called a “plateau” at Malvar Street, Aurora Hill or playing ‘siyatong’ in Burnham Park would one day become the general...
By ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY -- At least 68 guns-for-hire are still roaming free in the Ilocos Region contracting “kills” for a fee, police admitted here in this resort city 246 kms. north of Manila. Although 11 were...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BONTOC, Mountain Province – Some 500 residents marched to the streets of Bontoc with placards denouncing poll violations during the campaign period and on election day. Mostly comprised of supporters of...
By Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – “While riding on a motorcycle, I noticed that someone was tailing me. I could not recognize him. I went inside many alleys but I was still being followed. I decided to leave my motorcycle to a friend and...
By MLM www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Massive militarization is intensifying warlordism and worsening the peace and order situation in Abra, said Diego Wadagan, spokesperson of the Agustin Begnalen Command (NPA-Abra), in a May 3 statement sent to Nordis via email. In...
By OFELIA EMPIAN www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The Organisasyon ti Nakurapay nga Umili ti Syudad (ORNUS) and the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) challenged the newly-elected leaders of the country to fulfil their promises to the people. According to Santos Mero,...
By Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- Reports from people's organizations all over Northern Luzon show an increasing trend in development aggression. This was culled from the provincial surveys of people's opposition to the...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com MANKAYAN, Benguet ? The rank-and-file employees of the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMC) picketed the general office of the company to demand payment of delayed wages. Headed by the Lepanto...
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