It has been said that the conditions of women and children reflect the extent of poverty in a country because they are the most vulnerable to it. But as the history of March 8, as well as that of other people’s struggles in history show, women could also be the face of the struggle. By…
Category: Salungguhit
Salungguhit: Tiring diversion
The Senate impeachment hearings, with all the antics of the prosecution, defense, and even the Senator-judges is starting to become a tiring diversion, especially since the lives of the Filipino people are getting worse with the spikes in prices, the festering unemployment and underemployment problems and the worsening poverty. And the worse part is, all…
Salungguhit: Unreasonable oil price increases
With the way speculators and giant oil companies have been playing with oil prices, one could not help but be incensed. Why would oil prices rise when there has been no supply shock nor an increase in costs of producing oil? The sharp increases in pump prices have been dealing speculators and oil companies, and…
Salungguhit: The battle is on
The battle between Pres. Benigno Aquino III and Chief Justice Renato Corona has begun. It has started with the exchange of verbal fireworks. However, everything would come to a head in a few days time when the Senate convenes itself as an impeachment court. This would, perhaps, outstage the current telenovela craze as what happened…
Salungguhit: Special treatment
Who says everybody is equal under the law? While the poor die of diseases in cramped , unsanitary jails, former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo wallows in the luxurious St. Luke’s Hospital. By Flon Faurillo (Bulatlat.com)
Salungguhit: Who’s the boss?
Communities, people’s organizations, NGOs, environmental advocacy groups, the major church denominations, including the Catholic Church, and even the NPA are up in arms against big mining firms, but President Benigno Aquino III keeps on assuring big mining companies that the government would provide security and incentives for them, such as sovereign guarantees and an exemption…
All Souls Day
By Flon Faurillo (Bulatlat.com)
Salungguhit: To kill another priest
In 1985 when the Marcos dictatorship was at its most desperate at clinging to power, an anticommunist paramilitary group called Tadtad led by Norberto Manero killed the Italian priest Fr Tullio Favali, PIME, on April 15, 1985. It shattered a belief that in this predominantly Catholic country, the Catholic priests and nuns at least were…
Salungguhit: Deluge
Typhoons hitting the country every year is normal, but floods such as that which hit Central Luzon are not. So what happened and what is the government doing about it? By Flon Faurillo (Bulatlat.com)
Salungguhit: In defense of whom?
The Mutual Defense Treaty has been in force for 60 years. it is the mother of all military treaties between the US and the Philippines. As it is, it is not a treaty between equals but one that binds the Philippines into subservience and dependence on the US in exchange for World War II vintage…
Salungguhit: So who’s the boss?
After postponing the planned increases in LRT and MRT fares because of the widespread protest over this, the Aquino government is now hell-bent on pushing through with it. Why? Because of pressure from private investors. By Flon Faurillo (Bulatlat.com)