A diverse segment of economic drivers called micro, small and medium enterprises [MSMEs] needs to join the fight to save the environment. BY MIRIAM AZURIN-ABAJA Contributor Bulatlat When the largest corporations began taking about the green agenda by introducing eco-friendlier products or by reducing their operations’ environmental impact, many marked this as a victory in…
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Why Gloria’s P330-B “Stimulus Package” Will Fail: A Critique of the Economic Resiliency Plan (ERP)
Part 1 of a two-part series Publicized as a “stimulus package”, the Economic Resiliency Plan (ERP) is criticized even by neoliberal economists as severely lacking in funds to stimulate economic activity amid the global downturn. Aggravating these funding problems is the perennial shortfall in government revenues to support its expenditures thus, government will further increase…
Cha-Cha Proponents: Clinging to an Obsolete Ideology
As administration allies push for amendments of economic provisions in the Constitution, research group IBON Foundation says that the resolution seeking to allow corporations to own land and land-based resources in the Philippines are based on an outmoded ideology which believes that liberalizing the economy to greater foreign investment will lead to development. BY IBON…
Substandard Hybrid Seeds Distributed Under GMA Rice Program
A fact-finding mission led by various peasant groups and non-government organizations revealed that farmers in Nueva Ecija towns received substandard hybrid rice seeds under the government’s GMA Rice Program. Worse, the Department of Agriculture’s response to the problem was far from being satisfactory. BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat Unlike the traditional rice seeds, the SL-8H…
Sison: I was Confident of Dismissal of Raps
Prof. Jose Maria Sison, chief political consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and chairperson of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), was happy when the Dutch Public Prosecution Service decided to dismiss the charges against him for inciting murder in relation to the killings of Romulo Kintanar and Arturo Tabara…
Imperialist (In)Justice: The Case of Sergeant Calloway
Battalion Sergeant-Major John W. Calloway, US Army, fought the Spaniards in Cuba, and then the Filipinos for two years, 1899-1900 – when an order was made in Manila that he be reduced in rank to private and discharged “without honor”. What was it that impelled the American colonial officials to rid themselves of this fine…
Pro-RH Network Launched in Cebu
Cebu residents are for reproductive health (RH), unlike what opponents of the cause say. This was the message of the newly-formed Reproductive Health Advocacy Network (RHAN)-Cebu chapter as they vowed to intensify the tri-media information campaign about the importance of passing the controversial bill. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent Bulatlat Cebu residents are for reproductive…
Malacañang Blunting Calls to Regulate Oil Industry
In response to the growing clamor for the scrapping of RA 8479 or the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998, the House Oversight committee is, instead, pushing for its amendment. These developments should make consumers wary because these blunt calls to junk RA 8479 and to establish an entirely new set of measures to…
Of Togas, Jobs, and the Future
Picture this: you, in your toga, walking along the long aisle, waiting for your name to be called, excited to get hold of that diploma, or medal (if you are an honor student), until that final moment came when you could release a sigh of relief because you’re done with college. But after the wild…
Hundreds Join San Francisco Protest against Iraq Occupation
Hundreds of protesters participated in an anti-war march in downtown San Francisco, March 21 demanding an end to the United States-led occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. March 20 marked the sixth year of the invasion and colonial subjugation of Iraq. BY MONG PALATINO Contributor Bulatlat SAN FRANCISCO, USA – Hundreds of protesters participated in an…
7 Out of 10 Filipinos Reject Economic Revisions to Charter
Majority of Filipinos do not favor amendments to the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution, according to the latest nationwide survey conducted by research group IBON Foundation, Inc. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat Majority of Filipinos do not favor amendments to the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution, according to the latest nationwide survey…