By Giovanni Tapang, PhD Bulatlat.com November 30 marked the birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio, Filipino nationalist and revolutionary and Supremo of the Katipunan. His anniversary yesterday was marked by protests actions in the metropolis by workers and peasants due to the ever increasing costs of living nowadays. Pressed by current economic concerns, the celebration of…
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Tragic hero
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld MANILA — Tondo is in the popular mind Manila’s workers’ district, although some sociologists point out, as they did when Manuel Villar was running for President in 2010 and hoping to win by passing himself off as poor, that it has never been all-proletarian, being home also…
Flight from justice
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The overriding and unstated premise in the controversy over the “constitutional crisis” provoked by the Supreme Court order allowing former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former First Gentleman Miguel Arroyo to travel abroad and the Justice Secretary’s insistence on barring them from leaving on the basis of a departmental “watch…
P-Noy, SC can both be blamed for GMA drama
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star This piece was written before the Supreme Court held a special en banc session yesterday to hear the oral arguments on various pleadings pertaining to the Justice Department order stopping Gloria M. Arroyo from travelling abroad and the Tribunal’s issuance of a temporary restraining…
My personal clash with DoJ on watchlist
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Like many others, I welcomed Justice Secretary Leila de Lima’s action on Gloria M. Arroyo’s request to be allowed to travel abroad for medical treatment, and appreciated her reasons for denying it. But I feel uneasy with the source of her authority to decide…
The massacre watch
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld When the Ampatuan Town Massacre of Nov. 23, 2009, occurred and its brutal details were known, it provoked attempts at self-examination among many media advocacy and journalists’ groups, and even in some of the newspapers and broadcast networks that for years had been ignoring the killing of…
Looming confrontations
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld There is a world of difference between the “occupation” of Wall Street and many other cities not only in the US but all over the world by unarmed protestors, and the occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya by the US and NATO armed forces. But there is also a…
Can China crack US hold on IMF?
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star This week in Cannes, France, the Group of 20 biggest economies or G-20 – representing 85 percent of the world’s economy, 80 percent of trade, and two-thirds of population — holds its sixth summit meeting since 2008 to deal with the global financial-economic crisis.…
All-out deception
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The Philippines has a former advertising executive for tourism secretary in Ramon Jimenez. In his TV and other media appearances, Jimenez exudes confidence from every pore as he carries on in his American-accented English about his plans to turn this country into a tourist haven, mostly by…
No truth, no justice
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld President Benigno Aquino’s “all-out justice” slogan, coined by his tourism secretary (an advertising man before joining government), seems to be catching on. As a tagline, it aims to capture the administration’s purported commitment to peaceful means, i.e. peace negotiations, to resolve the armed conflict with the Moro Islamic Liberation…
Shared lives, shared deaths
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star This week I was in Kidapawan City to attend the wake and funeral of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, the now-famous martyred Italian missionary about whom I wrote last week. I stayed a day longer to visit another wake in Arakan town, Fr. Tentorio’s parish, where…