On The Fringes | Mentally surviving the rotten healthcare system
I spent more hours in the waiting area than in my consultations. Most of my conversations with the doctor took only 15 to 30 minutes.
COMMENTARY
Truth be Told (Again) | To make a dictator (un)necessary
Truth be Told (Again) | To make a dictator (un)necessary
On September 23, 1972, the day Martial Law was announced, Ferdinand Marcos was certain — or, at the very least, he was determined to sound like it.
AT GROUND LEVEL
SATUR OCAMPO
Malolos court set to promulgate charges against Palparan
On Sept. 27, the Malolos City Regional Trial Court Branch 19 will decide on the charges of kidnapping and serious illegal detention with physical injuries filed by farmer Raymond Manalo and his late twin brother, Reynaldo, against retired general Jovito Palparan Jr. and five other agents.
At Ground Level | Global rights groups assail terror law misuse
Following Marcos Jr.’s approval of the National Security Policy (NSP) 2023-2028 on Aug. 12, progressive people’s organizations and the human rights community are increasingly protesting the continued threats, including red-tagging, vilification and actual attacks on the country’s human rights defenders and activists.
BALIK-TANAW
PROMOTION OF CHURCH PEOPLE’S RESPONSE
Balik-Tanaw | Making society whole again – justice and peace work is healing work
I love quiet times. Perhaps it is the best sign of my “coming of ageing”, or perhaps it is just the way I am loving that moment when I transitioned into 60 years. No fanfare, no special 60th party. I was alone. But it was not a lonely moment. If I am affected by comparisons to other people who have celebrated their 60th with fireworks and expensive staycations, I would have been the loneliest. One of my friends even told me, seriously, “You are like an outcast!” But sure enough it was the most intimate of my celebrations ever. In the quiet and stillness of that day, God’s love became real. It was a miracle. It was a healing moment.
Balik-Tanaw | Storms at sea
In Sunday’s lection, the disciples find themselves in the middle of a raging storm. Jesus is with them, but he is asleep. The Gospel of Mark shares the detail that he was sleeping on a pillow. Scholars say that pillow was actually a sack of sand for ballast.
Balik-Tanaw | Towards a just society
Today’s Sunday reading is about the threat of evil in our world. May we be reminded and inform our conscience that evil is the result of sin, and if we do not want evil to overwhelm us, we must fight against the act of sin. The first reading in the book of Genesis tells us the origin of sin. It originates both from the serpent and man by accepting temptation and by encouraging fellow humans to commit sin.
BALIKSAYSAY
FRANCIS GEALOGO
Adik!
Magpapatuloy ang ganitong malalang kalagayan kung hindi makikilala na maiuugat sa suliranin ng droga sa kalagayan ng kahirapan, ang pagkamal ng higanteng tubo ng ilan kapalit ng pagkasalaula ng buhay ng mga nagiging adik nito, at kawalang kakanyahan ng lipunang tumugon sa pangangailangan ng mga tao para sa higit na maayos na kalagayan ng buhay.
“Honorable Absent!”
Maraming mga porma ng katiwalian ang maaaring mapuna na kaugnay ng halalan mula pa noong panahon nina Huseng Batute hanggang sa kasalukuyan. Isa na rito ang pagtingin na ang mga pwesto sa gobyerno ay isang pwestong pagkakakitaan ng mga nanalo.
Karampatan ng Tao, panahon pa ni Rizal
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BLOODRUSH
SARAH RAYMUNDO
An appeal for sobriety and prudence
he defense for Lisandro Claudio, PhD is an opportunistic reaction to a petition signed by 467 academics, artists and activists. The petition rightly argues that an academic who is engaged in tagging activist organizations as communist fronts is doing something unbecoming. It correctly articulates the global and local contexts in which such disposition is lamentable at the very least.
Persistent disasters
It is not by accident or a matter of racial superiority that rich countries have the technologies for disaster preparedness and management such as early warning signs, sturdy infrastructures. The resources at their disposal are proof of unequal development of nations as a direct result of imperialist plunder of resources and exploitation of cheap labor in the Global South by the Global North’s oligarchy. Imperialist plunder accounts for the stark differences in welfare, well-being and chances of survival people in this political-economic and spatial divide under global capitalism.
From Negros to the Academe and back
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FIRST PERSON
BULATLAT CONTRIBUTORS
First Person | Ang araw na kami’y nawala sa ere
Habang pinagninilayan ko ang mga pangyayaring ito, marahil ay bahagyang natalo ang mga Lopez ngunit mas malaki ang pinsala nito sa mga sambayanang Pilipino kasama kaming ilang libong empleyado. Ito ay dahil sa pinagdamutan na sila ng estado na makakuha ng libangan at impormasyon sa panahon na may kinakaharap na krisis ang ating bansa, lalo na sa mga komunidad na tanging ABS-CBN lang ang napapanood nila sa pamamagitan ng analog broadcast.
First Person | The virus of a broken world
I am now able to process this, thinking I am lucky to be able to have myself tested, as scores of Filipinos struggle with symptoms while ensuring that they will still have something to eat. But is it all luck? Is it just my luck to live in a territory with satisfactory practices in dealing with a pandemic? And what of it? What of the millions of Filipinos dealing with the pandemic on their own, with barely any government support? Is it their luck to die miserably, alone?
Talumpati sa protesta sa harap ng ABS-CBN
May nagsasabi na tapos na ang laban dahil tinanggap na ang “sorry”. Pero paano matatapos ang laban kung wala pa ring hearing para sa prangkisa? Paano matatapos ang laban kung nandyan pa ang banta ng quo warranto mula sa OSG?
KALIBUTAN
KALIKASAN-PEOPLE’S NETWORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Fact-checking the mining closure debate
Will the economy collapse as the big mines are closed?
A ‘brash’ move
Environment Secretary Gina Lopez' order to close several mines and cancel mining contracts was a move long awaited by mining-affected communities.
2017: Confronting the anti-environment, pro-globalization leanings of the Duterte administration
The Duterte administration has continued to subscribe to the same old, pro-foreign, pro-oligarch, anti-people and anti-environment globalization polices of the previous administrations.
KONTEKSTO
DANILO ARAO
Konteksto | Bagyo
Sa ngalan ng bilyon-bilyong kita, nagiging manhid na ang mga mayaman at makapangyarihan sa hinaing ng mga nasalanta.
Botante
Kasama ka ba sa halos 70 milyong Pilipinong boboto sa Mayo 12, 2025? Sinubaybayan mo ba ang pagsusumite ng mga nagnanais kumandidato sa mahigit 18,000 posisyon sa pambansa’t lokal na antas? At sa iyong pagbabasa, pakikinig o panonood mula Oktubre 1 hanggang 8, ilang beses ka bang nahulog sa upuan? Hanggang ngayon, nakataas pa rin ba ang kilay mo?
Konteksto | Tsina
Batay sa personal na obserbasyon, tuluyan na nitong tinalikuran ang sosyalismo noong panahon ni Mao Zedong. Nagwagi ang rebolusyon ng mga manggagawa’t magsasaka noong 1949 pero nagkaroon ng unti-unting restorasyon ng mga globalistang patakaran sa kanyang pagpanaw noong 1976.
LAB NOTES
Advocates of Science and Technology for the People
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OPINION
BULATLAT EDITORS
OPINION | Covid-19: Militarism and big money trampling humanity
The Covid-19 spectre, vaccine mania, deceptive remedial schemes and brutal, anti-people pandemic responses created by militarism and big money have shoved by the wayside pro-people, more sensible and a wider range of prevention and treatment strategies to address the pandemic.
#Bulatlat20: 20 years of of fearless reporting on human and people’s rights in the Philippines
#Bulatlat’s human rights reporting is true to its name - to search, probe, investigate, inquire, unearth facts. Its stories chronicle the facts, circumstances and travails of human rights victims, as individuals and collectively, while providing the political and socio-economic contexts. Cite any human rights case in the past twenty years and google them to look for accurate, well-written and relevant stories pertaining to these cases, and you may most probably find them on #Bulatlat’s website.
G20 is gathering – debt justice is our demand
As the G20 meet to discuss the global economic recovery, the Debt Justice group calls for a radical break with extraction and austerity and proposes a new system in its place.
ON THE FRINGES
BULATLAT STAFF
Job fair: where the unemployed, underemployed, and the nervous wrecks are
A Bulatlat.com intern meets her future self at a job fair.
What’s left for Filipinos in Boracay Island?
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MONG PALATINO
Victim blaming the people’s resistance
Politicians are experts in articulating this unscientific argument. They blame the people’s resistance for causing social ills as if the system were just and equitable before the Left conspired to destroy it. They insinuate that the people’s struggle is instigating terror. It is convenient for them to scapegoat activism instead of acknowledging their criminal liability in perpetuating a state of mass poverty.
In praise of the community organizer
Working tirelessly on the ground are community organizers who turned a particular issue into a political question and mobilized the people to discuss, decide, and determine the proper course of action. They are immersed in full-time political work even if this does not yield any pecuniary benefit.
Politics and resistance under a lockdown regime
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ROOT ACCESS
COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS UNION
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