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By RONALYN V. OLEA and
ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The CHR will not renege on its mandate under the Constitution. You have been testing our patience,” Leila de Lima said. "We will initiate the appropriate contempt orders," she added.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Making a mockery of the party-list system, which is supposed to provide space for marginalized and under-represented sectors in the formulation of laws, are party-list groups that are represented not by the marginalized but those who seek a seat in Congress to reinforce the Arroyo clique and those who are motivated by self-serving ends.
By MARYA SALAMAT
The first ever automated elections in the country is making people wary because the Comelec's preparations are perceived to be hurried, its credibility has been put into question ever since the 2004 elections, and more importantly, Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo seems to be maneuvering to keep itself in power.
By D. L. MONDELO
Will there be a failure of elections? What can the people expect after the May 2010 elections? Will a just and lasting peace be finally achieved? These are just some of the questions that Bulatlat tackled in an interview with Jose Maria Sison.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
A college degree is believed to be a ticket to a decent job and a better future so parents work hard and scrimp on expenses to put their children through college. But with the crisis, there are no guarantees.
By MARYA SALAMAT
With the drought and skyrocketing prices, workers are facing a worse situation bordering on near-death hunger, said the KMU.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Workers from Dole Philippines’s union have been staging weekly protests to demand that the company “stop interfering in union matters and to stop violating its collective bargaining agreement with its workers.”
By MARYA SALAMAT
A hundred doctors and medical professors on mass leave in UP-PGH (University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital), supported by UP and PGH employees, defied last Monday a memo issued by the ‘de-facto’ PGH director Dr. Enrique Domingo and a warning raised by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) Chairman Francisco T. Duque III against their joining “disruptive” protest actions and taking part in mass leaves.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The counter-insurgency operations of the government have reached the campuses, harassing students involved in movement for reforms and societal change.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The release this week of the five student from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines does not stop the struggle by students and parents against unreasonable tuition increases.
By MARYA SALAMAT
The crisis at the Philippine General Hospital worsened last week as 75 of the hospital's topnotch and highly qualified doctors and medical professors went on mass leave starting March 29 to express “anger and dismay over the oppression and dubious removal from office” of the hospital's director, Dr. Jose Gonzales. They said, however, that they would still respond to emergency or life-threatening cases.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Pagbabago! and Ibon Foundation dare the Filipino people to be more critical in choosing their candidates. High on their "people's criteria" are concrete steps by the presidential candidate to stamp out corruption and to promote human rights and stop abuses.
By RONALYN OLEA and MARYA SALAMAT
It is not enough for the candidate to claim representation of the marginalized because representation is easy to claim and to feign, Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza said in the petition they filed against Mikey Arroyo's so-called partylist group. The partylist organization or party must factually and truly represent the marginalized and underrepresented constituencies mentioned in the Constitution, they said.
By MARIFE MAGBANUA
Wearing Manobo-designed vestments adorned with colorful bead necklaces and earrings, 24 graduating indigenous youth proudly marched during the third graduation ceremonies of Alcadev. Tears of joy filled the morning of March 10, 2010, as students, parents, teachers and other guests celebrated the end of another school year full of achievements and challenges.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Dolorith Obsid, 41, a resident of Brgy. Carayagan, Josefina, Zamboanga Del Sur and a member of Justice and Peace Group (Jpag) complained of frequent visits to her home by suspected intelligence agents from the 5th and 55th Infantry Battalions, Philippine Army (IBPA).
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The proposed tuition fee hike would mean forced expulsion of thousands of students coming from poor families, especially from the working class.
Myrna Cruz Abraham, 55, suffered the same fate as that of the 43 health workers dubbed the Morong 43 --arrested without a warrant, blindfolded, handcuffed and thrown like a pig inside the van of her captors.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Five of the Morong 43 who admitted to being rebels were tortured, their families harassed, according to relatives. The children of one of the detainees have allegedly disappeared, according to their grandmother.
By RONALYN OLEA
Two grenades were thrown at a house of a Bayan Muna member in Lezo, Aklan. Meanwhile, soldiers from the Philippine Army are openly campaigning against progressive party-list groups in South Cotabato.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“In her desire to appoint a new chief justice, President Arroyo will be transgressing several laws and the Constitution and will also be breaking a long tradition already in place in our judicial system, and will also be encroaching upon the powers and the independence of the Judiciary,” the NUPL said.
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