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Military’s Oplan Bantay Laya Sows Terror, Disunity Among Lumads in Mindanao

By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
As foreign mining investments continue to encroach into Lumad lands in Northern Mindanao, the military, through its Oplan Bantay Laya, intensifies its campaign to stifle local opposition to these companies. A fact-finding mission found that so far this year, 13 Lumads have been summarily executed while more were tortured and harassed by soldiers and fellow Lumads co-opted by the military.

Alexander Martin Remollino | Dec 6, 2009

Attacks on Workers Persist as ILO Keeps Mum on Arroyo’s Accountability in Abuses

By MARYA SALAMAT
Two months after the International Labor Organization conducted a fact-finding mission in the Philippines, labor-rights violations escalate in the Philippines, as highlighted by the death of Danilo Belano, a long-time labor organizer, who died while being tailed and harassed by military agents.

Marya Salamat | Dec 6, 2009

Kabataan Partylist Pushes an Agenda for Change

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Kabataan says the youth have an important role in the coming elections as more than 40 percent of the voters are young Filipinos. "The youth can even dictate who they want to win in the May 2010 elections," says Rep. Raymond Palatino.

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Dec 6, 2009

Benjie Oliveros | What’s Wrong with Arroyo’s Congressional Bid?

When Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita was quoted as saying that Arroyo’s first agenda if and when she gets elected in Congress is to pursue moves to amend the 1987 Constitution, it confirmed people’s suspicions that it was all about keeping herself in power.

Benjie Oliveros | Dec 6, 2009

Makabayan Holds First Assembly in Baguio

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Northern Dispatch | Dec 5, 2009

The Arroyo Regime’s Complicity in Ampatuan Massacre

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Bulatlat Staff | Dec 4, 2009

In Davao, Duterte Father and Daughter Team Up Against Nograles

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Bulatlat Staff | Dec 4, 2009

In Northern Mindanao, Tears Flow Over Human-Rights Abuses

By MACARIO PACANA
At the International Peace and Human Rights Summit in Cagayan de Oro City, victims and witnesses of human-rights abuses take turns recounting their appalling ordeal in the hands of the military and its paramilitary forces.

Bulatlat Contributors | Dec 4, 2009

‘Political Prisoners Prove Insincerity of Arroyo Regime in Peace Talks’

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Of the 284 political prisoners in the Philippines, 257 were arrested and detained under the present regime’s Oplan Bantay Laya. In a statement, Selda said the militarist approach of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has scuttled the peace talks between the government and the Moro secessionist groups in Mindanao and the New People’s Army.

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Dec 4, 2009

For Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza, Principle Is Key in Run for Senate

Text and photos by JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
It is important not to compromise their principles, the two “senatoriables” from the progressie sector said. Since one of their platforms is good governance, part of it is holding public officials -- either past or present -- accountable. This includes achieving justice for the victims of human-rights violations under the Marcos dictatorship.

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Dec 4, 2009

Ampatuan Massacre Highlights Continuing Violence Vs Women: Gabriela Women’s Party

By MARYA SALAMAT
The commemoration of the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women (VAW) in the Philippines got a piercing highlight in the Ampatuan massacre that occurred two days before the anti-VAW's day last week. “What happened in Maguindanao underscored the vulnerability of women amid fierce struggles as in an electoral struggle,” Gabriela partylist representative and aspiring senator Liza Maza said.

Marya Salamat | Nov 30, 2009

Ampatuan Massacre Raises Level of Barbarity in Philippine Politics

By BENJIE OLIVEROS
The impunity in recent political killings in the Philippines could have emboldened the Ampatuan clan to commit the massacre. If the perpetrators of more than a thousand extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of political activists could walk scot-free, perhaps, they thought, they could get away with killing less than a hundred people.

Benjie Oliveros | Nov 30, 2009

MILF: Ampatuan Claim a ‘Weird Statement,” Massacre an ‘Act of Animals’

By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
“The MILF has no presence there, the place is near the checkpoints of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Citizen Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu), and is also near the Army station,” says the MILF’s Mohagher Iqbal. “So how could they accuse the MILF of having a hand in the massacre?”

Alexander Martin Remollino | Nov 28, 2009

Ka Satur Ocampo, Liza Maza to Run for Senate as Independents, Declare Breakdown of Talks with NP

By MARYA SALAMAT
Makabayan is a coalition of eight progressive party-list groups. Ocampo and Maza are running for Senate under Makabayan.

Marya Salamat | Nov 26, 2009

12 Journalists, Several Others Killed in Maguindanao Massacre

By CHERYLL D. FIEL
“The Ampatuan massacre goes beyond the issue of freedom of the press and of expression and strikes at the very foundations of democracy. This incident not only erases all doubts about the Philippines being the most dangerous country for journalists in the world, outside of Iraq, it could very well place the country on the map as a candidate for a failed democracy.”

Bulatlat Staff | Nov 24, 2009

SC, Comelec Urged: Don’t Mock Partylist Law, Allow Marginalized Sectors in Congress

By MARYA SALAMAT
Three big partylist groups have questioned the Comelec's efficiency, fairness, accuracy and capacity to respect, uphold and promote the law, particularly that of the partylist system and in allowing representation for the marginalized.

Marya Salamat | Nov 23, 2009

Congressional Mission Reports Woeful Tales of OFWs in Middle East

By MARYA SALAMAT
Lawmakers who went to the Middle East recently expressed shock at the plight of the Filipino domestic workers there. They urged the government to promptly ban the deployment of domestic workers or “household service workers.”

Marya Salamat | Nov 23, 2009

Why Workers Abhor Assumption of Jurisdiction (AJ) orders

By MARYA SALAMAT
Unlike other post-martial law administrations that used assumption of jurisdictions (AJ) mostly to quell already ongoing strikes, the Arroyo regime has used these orders not only to quell ongoing strikes but also to make sure workers cannot strike at all. As a result, fewer strikes have been recorded, allowing Arroyo to claim that “industrial peace” is improving. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Marya Salamat | Nov 23, 2009

In Lifting Price Cap, Arroyo, Oil Firms Mislead Consumers

By ARNOLD PADILLA
Malacañang is threatening to reimpose an oil price control if oil companies will not follow the conditions outlined by Mrs. Arroyo. Government, however, has given up the high ground with its lifting of EO 839 and continued adherence to the discredited deregulation policy.

Arnold Padilla | Nov 20, 2009

News in Pictures: Gays, Lesbians Denounce Comelec for Rejecting Ang Ladlad

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Bulatlat Contributors | Nov 20, 2009

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Military’s Oplan Bantay Laya Sows Terror, Disunity Among Lumads in Mindanao

Attacks on Workers Persist as ILO Keeps Mum on Arroyo’s Accountability in Abuses

Kabataan Partylist Pushes an Agenda for Change

Benjie Oliveros | What’s Wrong with Arroyo’s Congressional Bid?

Makabayan Holds First Assembly in Baguio

The Arroyo Regime’s Complicity in Ampatuan Massacre

In Davao, Duterte Father and Daughter Team Up Against Nograles

In Northern Mindanao, Tears Flow Over Human-Rights Abuses

‘Political Prisoners Prove Insincerity of Arroyo Regime in Peace Talks’

For Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza, Principle Is Key in Run for Senate

Ampatuan Massacre Highlights Continuing Violence Vs Women: Gabriela Women’s Party

Ampatuan Massacre Raises Level of Barbarity in Philippine Politics

MILF: Ampatuan Claim a ‘Weird Statement,” Massacre an ‘Act of Animals’

Ka Satur Ocampo, Liza Maza to Run for Senate as Independents, Declare Breakdown of Talks with NP

12 Journalists, Several Others Killed in Maguindanao Massacre

SC, Comelec Urged: Don’t Mock Partylist Law, Allow Marginalized Sectors in Congress

Congressional Mission Reports Woeful Tales of OFWs in Middle East

Why Workers Abhor Assumption of Jurisdiction (AJ) orders

In Lifting Price Cap, Arroyo, Oil Firms Mislead Consumers

News in Pictures: Gays, Lesbians Denounce Comelec for Rejecting Ang Ladlad

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