Even as they provide much-needed health services in far-flung areas, community health workers (CHWs) are not spared from being targets of the military’s counter-insurgency campaign. In Guihulngan, Negros Oriental, two CHWs shared how they risk their lives just to be able to continue serving the poor. Their stories reveal how soldiers from the Armed Forces…
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Protests Vs Cha-Cha Begin
BY Bulatlat.com August 15, 2008 – 4:10 p.m. As Malacañang declared all systems go for charter change, progressive groups under the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan – New Patriotic Alliance) started their protests against the renewed bid for charter change. More than 200 members of Bayan and member organizations held a noise barrage at the Welcome…
Surgical Amendment, Not Possible – Laywers
BY Bulatlat.com August 13, 2008 – 6:16 p.m. A group of lawyers slammed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s proposal for a ‘surgical amendment’ of the Constitution, saying that the proposed constituent assembly can overhaul the entire Constitution at its discretion. In a statement, the National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) said, “Arroyo’s deception is further exposed by…
Kin, Supporters Decry Foul Play in Death of OFW
BY Bulatlat.com August 13, 2008 – 6:19 p.m. Families of victims of mysterious deaths and members of Migrante International trooped to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) this morning to demand justice and a more thorough investigation on the death of Eugenia Baja, a Filipina domestic worker who allegedly committed suicide in Riyadh, Kingdom of…
‘Arroyo’s Agenda: Power, Not Peace in Mindanao’
BY Bulatlat.com August 12, 2008 – 5:18 p.m. “Power, perpetuation in power, not peace in Mindanao is Mrs. Arroyo’s true agenda in the renewed bid to change the charter.” This is how the party list representatives of Bayan Muna, Anakpawis and Gabriela deemed the renewed bid of Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her allies in Congress…
Gov’t Employees’ Group Calls for Congress Probe into DepEd Officials’ ‘Perks’
BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Bulatlat.com Posted 6:20 p.m., Aug. 12, 2008 The Confederation for the Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees or Courage has called on Congress to conduct a thorough investigation on the P150-million extra duty allowances or EDA being received by Department of Education (DepEd) executives, saying that their being given these…
Farmers Camp Out at DAR to Protest Land Grabbing in S. Tagalog
BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Contributed to Bulatlat.com August 11, 2008 – 12:59 p.m. More than a thousand members of peasant groups and supporters have started camping out at the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Aug. 11, to protest the cases of land grabbing in the provinces of the Southern Tagalog region. The Katipunan ng mga…
Hundreds Troop to DOJ to Demand the Release of Peasant Leader
BY Bulatlat.com August 11, 2008 – 1:17 p.m. Hundreds of peasants from Laguna, Cavite and Batangas provinces trooped to and banged the gates of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to demand the immediate release of Randall Echanis, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP-National Peasant Movement) national deputy secretary general for external affairs. Echanis, 60, was abducted…
Workers, Urban Poor Skip Meals to Cope with the Crisis
While the poor try everything from skipping meals to walking hours to the workplace just to cope with the economic crisis, all the government does is to distribute dole outs. BY THE CENTER FOR TRADE UNION AND HUMAN RIGHTS Posted by Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 27, August 10-16, 2008 Rosa, 55, is a garment worker…
MoA on Ancestral Domain: It’s Not Over, Yet
The strong backlash ignited by the MoA deserves a second look by the MILF leaders. A lesson that can be drawn is the fact that the war for self-determination involves not only taking arms and talking but also a political war to win the broadest support for the just and historic struggle of the Bangsamoro…
The Youth’s View of the 2008 State of the Nation Address
The Arroyo government has been dismissing surveys showing that the satisfactory rating of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is at an all-time low of –38 and that majority of Filipinos think that the SONA is untruthful. Do these reflect the views of the people? The following are write-ups from two high school students, which was sent to Bulatlat.…