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Migrants’ Group Poses 10-Point Migrant Challenge to Aquino Administration

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante is calling on the Aquino administration to prosecute former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for misusing funds for OFWs, repeal anti-migrant policies, provide more services to OFWs and their families, including special protection to migrant women and minors, review and increase the budget for services for OFWs, to establish special courts to try complaints of abuses against OFWs, and to forge bilateral agreements with receiving countries for the protection of OFWs, among others

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Jul 3, 2010

Change Means Land Reform Now, Peasants Camping Out in Mendiola Tell Aquino

By MARYA SALAMAT
Seven in every 10 Filipinos are farmers, the KMP (Peasant Movement of the Philippines) emphasized, which was why they had been trying to bring their demands right to the president himself. If there is to be change, a lot of it must happen on farmers’ lives, they said.

Update: Peasants in Mendiola Camp-out, First Victims of Violent Dispersal Under the New Government

Marya Salamat | Jul 3, 2010

Harassment Targeting Luisita Peasant Leaders Intensifying

By MARYA SALAMAT
Instead of getting closer to their dream of owning the land they have been tilling for decades, Hacienda Luisita farmers are being told by soldiers to stop their struggle for land or else 'something will happen' to them.

Marya Salamat | Jul 3, 2010

A Look Back at Arroyo’s Many Sins and Why She Should Pay

By RONALYN V. OLEA
Up to Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's last weeks in office, impunity presented itself . She should be made accountable for all these atrocities inflicted on the Filipino people.

Bulatlat Staff | Jul 2, 2010

Rights Groups Urge Aquino to Prosecute Arroyo, Human Rights Violators

By RONALYN V. OLEA
Karapatan said rendering justice means prosecuting and punishing the guilty parties in these violations, indemnifying the victims; and declaring not to do similar transgressions again.

Ronalyn V. Olea | Jun 28, 2010

Nine Prescriptions to Treat Ailing Public Health System

By MARYA SALAMAT
Given the peoples’ worsening jobs situation and income gap under Arroyo, malnutrition, diseases and accidents caused by poverty plague many poor communities.

Marya Salamat | Jun 28, 2010

Old Electoral Problems Still Exist, Remain Unresolved – Journalists

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Same old names, same old problems dominated the May 2010 elections, but there is reason to hope in the determination voters and teachers showed to make it work.

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Jun 28, 2010

ABS-CBN Dismisses Workers Who Refused Downgraded Contracts

By RONALYN V. OLEA
For fighting for their basic rights to security of tenure and to form a union, 25 ABS CBN workers were dismissed by the Lopez management. Ironically, the Kapamilya network, which boasts about its public service orientation, showed no regard for the rights and welfare of its own workers.

Ronalyn V. Olea | Jun 26, 2010

Reverse Arroyo’s Ugly Legacy To Workers – KMU Asks Noynoy

By MARYA SALAMAT
The outgoing Arroyo has “exhausted the patience of workers with promises of paradise when all it gave us is hell,” KMU said.

Marya Salamat | Jun 26, 2010

Human Rights Violations Still Plague Ilocos Region

By JOAN GARCIA
The claim of the Armed Forces of the Philippines that it has achieved victory in the Ilocos provinces did not make the human rights situation there any better.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jun 26, 2010

Trampling on Workers’ Rights No Way to Grow an Economy- Leila de Lima

By MARYA SALAMAT
“For too long, the rights of workers, laborers and employees have been trampled upon because of the economic interests of a few,” said outgoing CHR Chairwoman Leila de Lima, who is transferring to a new position as Justice Secretary in the incoming Aquino administration.

Marya Salamat | Jun 25, 2010

Jonas Burgos’s Kin Denounce SC Decision

“Did it have to take so long for the Supreme Court to find out that the investigators made serious lapses? ...the Supreme Court took five weeks short of 2 years simply to say that it cannot rule on the case because there were lapses in the investigation?” Mrs. Edita Burgos said in a letter to the justices dated June 23, a copy of which was sent to Bulatlat.

Ronalyn V. Olea | Jun 23, 2010

End Killings of Journalists, Noynoy Urged

By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The business of ensuring justice for all victims weighs just as heavy on Aquino as head of state as it should on all those whose sworn duty it is to protect and ensure the life and welfare of all citizens but which, sadly, they still have to do so,” the NUJP said.

Ronalyn V. Olea | Jun 22, 2010

People’s Agenda for Aquino’s First 100 Days

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Pagbabago! said Aquino’s first 100 days will be crucial as it will reveal the priorities of and set the tone for the new government.

Anne Marxze Umil | Jun 19, 2010

‘Peaceful Transition’ Between Administrations Marred by New Extrajudicial Killings

By RONALYN V. OLEA
Even as the Arroyo administration is about to turn over the reins of government to incoming president Noynoy Aquino, six new extrajudicial killings were committed, sending a message that impunity is here to stay, unless the incoming Aquino government will do something about it.

Ronalyn V. Olea | Jun 19, 2010

Reds Belie AFP’s Allegation of Child Recruitment

By ALDWIN QUITASOL
“For several years now, we have invited representatives of the United Nations and other independent bodies to visit units of the NPA and areas of operations of these units to see for themselves how the revolutionary movement upholds its policy of prohibiting the recruitment of children, and furthermore, how the rights and welfare of children are respected and promoted in revolutionary areas.” - CPP

Northern Dispatch | Jun 19, 2010

GRP, NDF Hope to Have Peace Talks in the Next Administration

By GRACE S. UDDIN
“With the new government, there is hope (in resuming peace talks),” said Paulynn Sicam, representative of the GRP panel secretariat, during a forum sponsored by the Bishops Ecumenical Forum (BEF) two days after the elections.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jun 19, 2010

ABS-CBN’s Employees Told: Regularization or Termination? Sign Waiver First

By MARYA SALAMAT
After more than a year of fighting for the recognition of their union and for their regularization, ABS CBN workers are now being offered regular status. But it comes with a price, which includes turning their back on their union.

Marya Salamat | Jun 19, 2010

Furthering the 43-year Delay of Land Reform in Hacienda Luisita A Litmus Test for Noynoy Aquino

By MARYA SALAMAT
“Despite the media-created belief that positive change for the Filipino peasantry would be possible under the Aquino administration, we are discouraged by Noynoy’s frequent attempts to dissociate himself from the Hacienda Luisita problem and in refusing to admit to the failure of CARP [Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program] despite the dehumanizing plight to which it has consigned the majority of farmers,” a peasant leader said.

Marya Salamat | Jun 18, 2010

Dark Legacies: The Economy Under Arroyo

By SONNY AFRICA
The disturbing divergence between the fortunes of a few and the welfare of the many is the most troubling legacy that the Arroyo presidency leaves behind– and among the greatest challenges that the incoming administration has to confront to deliver any real change.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jun 15, 2010

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