Television is generally acknowledged to have the longest reach of all the media today, with audience access estimated at 96 percent of all Filipinos nationwide. Much has thus been said about TV’s being the political battleground in the campaign for this year’s elections BY LUIS V. TEODORO Business Mirror Posted by Bulatlat TELEVISION is generally…
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Bayan Muna Gets Special Award from Cebu City Gov’t
Notwithstanding efforts of the Arroyo administration to bar the top party-list group from winning in the upcoming polls, Bayan Muna (People First) received a Special Mayor’s Award during the Queen City’s 70th Charter Day celebration last week. BY KAREN S. PAPELLERO Bulatlat CEBU CITY– Notwithstanding efforts of the Arroyo administration to bar the top party-list…
Rep. Satur Ocampo of Bayan Muna
BY BULATLAT With five teams of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) scattered all over the metropolis to track him down and 15 agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) swooping down at his home in Quezon City, Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo is the subject of probably the most elaborate manhunt today.…
Soldiers on Campus Tour
In its dire effort to meet the three-year deadline to end the communist insurgency in the country, soldiers are now going on “campus tour” to try to “win the hearts minds” of university students in Metro Manila and to discourage them from getting involved in youth activism. A group of teachers, however, cried foul. BY…
In the wake of killings: Election Fever Mounts in Abra
As the May election is fast approaching and candidacies are filed with the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the election fever surges even in Abra with announcements by alleged warring parties and individuals of their intention to run challenging each other, at least in the polls. BY LYN V. RAMO AND ACE ALEGRE Northern Dispatch Posted…
Another Anakpawis leader killed
Bringing the number of political killings to 835 BY BULATLAT Posted March 2, 2007, 6:52 p.m. Renato Torrecampo Pacaide, 53, secretary general of Nagkahiusang Mag-uuma sa Davao del Sur (NAMADS or Unity of Peasants in Davao del Sur) and coordinator of Anakpawis-Davao del Sur, was gunned down by two motorcycle-riding men at 10:45 a.m. of…
Sino Nga Ba ang Terorista?
NI MANG LINO Inilathala ng Bulatlat Sa depenisyon ng may kapangyarihan – Ang bumubulabog sa Malakanyang Ang layunin ay destabilisasyon, Maghasik ng takot at pumaslang. At bakit hindi? Matagal nang walang direksyon ang pag-unlad, Sagana sa buwitre at buwaya ang bayan; Marami sa kanila’y nagmumugad sa Malakanyang, Kongreso at husgado. Garapalang pagyurak sa karapatang pantao.…
DAGLI SA KRISIS: Balita nang Nakaraang Linggo
Hindi nauubusan ng isyu ang bansang ito. Malalim ang balon ng pandarahas at pandarambong. Mabuti na lamang at mayroong gising – nangangampanya, tumututol, nagsasalaysay, gumugunita at nag-aaklas – habang ang marami ay natutulog na, o ipinaghehele ng mga jingle at indayog na “Boom Tarat Tarat” at “Itaktak Mo,” nagmo-malling na parang zombie (gising at nakakalakad…
Semantics of Colonization and Revolution
A review of Philippine history shows an analysis of certain events and historical figures like Andres Bonifacio that border on the ridiculous and the sinister. BY ROSALINDA N. OLSEN Contributed to Bulatlat Too often we transfer ourselves into what we see, hear or read. The author’s meaning and intent can therefore affect our own predisposed…
IFJ declares int’l day of action for Filipino press safety
Members of the media in Baguio City wore black T-shirts as their contribution to the nationally- coordinated observation of the international day of protest against media killings in the country. BY KIM QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY (246 kms. North of Manila) – Members of the media here wore black T-shirts on…
Beyond Arroyo and Beyond Retaking Power
It takes convincing the electorate who have long been sickened by elections that mean nothing to their lives and future that this one is more than just a choice between Estrada’s candidates and Arroyo’s candidates and is, therefore, different. The opposition should be able to show that this is beyond ousting Arroyo and beyond retaking…