Bulatlat Contributors | Nov 18, 2018
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No reason to raise water rates, nor continue water privatization
No reason to raise water rates, nor continue water privatization
The MWSS and the water companies did not give the consumers' groups documents or explanations of the basis of raising water rates. Representatives of consumers’ groups repeatedly asked to no avail.
Armistice@100: Still living and dying for elite peace
Armistice@100: Still living and dying for elite peace
We are still suffering from a crisis-ridden capitalist system for which the First World War was fought and resolved and for which the superpowers imposed a division of the world that continues to emplace our lives and labors. We are still living and dying for the same system for which great wars were fought and ended so that proxy wars and multi-lateral formations like the United Nations (League of Nations resurrected), International Monetary Fund, World Bank, NATO, ASEAN, APEC, and the like will continue to consolidate, retool and recast, whenever necessary, the profits and liberties won by imperialist powers one hundred years ago.
Irresponsible Australian mining in the Philippines persists
Irresponsible Australian mining in the Philippines persists
The more disturbing issue, however, is the ever-increasing human rights violations and extrajudicial killings of human rights activists who advocate for ordinary people and local communities opposed to large-scale mining operations.
Sagay massacre: A matter of social justice
Sagay massacre: A matter of social justice
The telenovela spin of state security forces never erases the fact that the Sagay massacre is yet another proof of the failure of government to render social justice to the tillers of the land.
WANTED: New Women of the NPA
WANTED: New Women of the NPA
This testimony focuses on Mary, Recca, Tin and Tanya who went to the University of the Philippines-Diliman. As activists and eventually as part of the revolutionary NPA, these women forged their identities by fighting across lines of interlocking oppressions. This account cannot give justice to their work. Rather, my goal is to talk about how revolution looks like in the lives of these revolutionary women.
Mining in the Philippines: The steep price our people pay to line the pockets of a few
Mining in the Philippines: The steep price our people pay to line the pockets of a few
Without a domestic industry processing our mining products to make our own metals, only the large corporations exporting it reap the most benefit, at the expense of the poor and the environment.
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