2004
Vol. 4, No. 47
December 26 - January 1, 2004
From Jasmine Trias to the
Fraudulent Elections:
2004's Top 10 Events
By BULATLAT
AFP-NPA Clash
in Negros Shatters Christmas Truce
By KARL G. OMBION
Cojuangcos
to Face NPA Court
By Dabet Castañeda
‘Reformists’ Instigate Anti-Red Spin
By BULATLAT
Photo
Essay:
Pasko
at Hacienda Luisita
PHOTOS BY DABET CASTAÑEDA/TEXT BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
TULA
-
Dalangin ng
Bayan
Ni Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera
-
Tulang alay
sa Pitong Gatang (kay FPJ)
Ni Richard R. Gappi
alternative reader no. 98
Christmas
Stories
-
Palestine:
The
Little Town of Bethlehem By
Doris Cadigan
-
The
Politics of the Christmas Story
By James
Carroll
-
Empires
Prefer a Baby and the Cross to the Adult Jesus
By
Giles Fraser
-
A
Christmas Story of Peace and Love
By Nick
Barbash
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
CORN AMID SUGAR
Bulatlat Investigative report:
For Land and Wages: Half a century of peasant
struggle in Hacienda Luisita
(First of two parts)
By
Dabet Castañeda
Poorly-paid
Workers Lose Jobs – and Homes, Too
(Last of
two parts)
By Dabet
Castañeda
Vol. 4, No. 46
December 19 - 25, 2004
Living at
the Edge: The Sacadas of Hacienda Luisita
BY Lisa
Cariño Ito and Ronalyn Olea
PHOTO ESSAY
Campuses
Converted into Military Garrisons - NUSP
BY
Ronalyn Olea
INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE’S WATCH
IP Group Scores DENR for
Favoring Loggers
BY AT BENGWAYAN
Residents
Petition for Closure of Alcohol Plant
BY JONG DELA CRUZ
The U.S.
Imperialist Role in the Destruction
of the
Sierra Madre Mountains
By the
Philippine Peasant Support Network-USA
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Regime’s
Torture, Other Rights Violations Decried
BY TYRONE VELEZ AND GRACE S. UDDIN
LABOR WATCH
Workers Slam
Aboitiz Firm
BY TYRONE VELEZ
A Christmas
Wish List for GMA, Kris and others
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
PHOTO OF
THE WEEK
At Rest
Vol. 4, No. 45
December 12 - 18, 2004
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Massacre Shooters Go Berserk in Tarlac; Claim 8th
Victim
BY ABNER BOLOS
Orphaned by
War
BY MARS S. MARATA
On International Human Rights
Day:
Women Human
Rights Defenders Honored
BY BULATLAT
LABOR WATCH
Mayhem in Labor Chief’s Power
Workers say ‘assumption of jurisdiction’ is anti-labor
BY DENNIS ESPADA
Desertification in the Making:
Philippines
has lost 80% of its forest cover
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Related articles:
-
Ang Kilusang
Masa Laban sa Logging sa Hilagang Silangang Luzon ng 1990’s at Ang Delubyo ng
2004
-
Filipino-Canadians to Raise Funds for Flood Victims
U.S.
Imperialism, Europe, and the Middle East
BY SAMIR AMIN
Davao Peace
Conference Calls for `New World’
BY COLETTE KUIZON
Opposition
to Marijuana Legalization Gets High
BY JENN NANGLIHAN
Aiming
for People’s Governance
BY BULATLAT
TULA (POETRY)
Lamay sa
Piketline
Ni Myke
Sotero
ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 97
-
The
President's Real Goal In Iraq
By Jay Bookman
-
Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq:
Cluster
sample survey
By
Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, Gilbert Burnham
-
Press
Report on Lancet Study:
100,000 Excess Civilian Iraqi Deaths
Since War
By Patricia
Reaney
-
Doctors'
survey of families estimates Iraqi wartime deaths at 100,000
By
Emma Ross
-
Very,
Very Dirty Pictures
By
Mark Morford
-
Torture, American Style
By Margaret Power
PHOTO OF
THE WEEK
SWEEPING
PART OF THE BATTLEGROUND
Vol. 4, No. 44
December 5 - 11, 2004
MIGRANTS WATCH
Modern-day slavery:
93% of Caregivers in Canada are Filipinos
BY EDWIN MERCURIO
HUMAN
RIGHTS WATCH
-- HR Worker, 3 Other
Political Prisoners on Death Row
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
-
2004: Year of ‘Open Terror’:
3 HR workers killed; 6 persons
abducted monthly BY
AUBREY SC MAKILAN
-
Media Death Toll Reaches 28 under PGMA
Baguio reporters unite vs. killings
BY MILENA E. ROQUE
Analysis -
High Court
Is Courting Disaster
BY BOBBY TUAZON
Related story
Analysis -
Growth Amid
Fiscal Crisis
By DANILO
ARAÑA ARAO
Danding
Lords Over 11 Haciendas in Negros
By KARL G. OMBION
Hacienda
Luisita dispersal:
Shots Were Fired During Lull in Scuffle
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Visayas Confab Thumbs Down Commodification of Water
By KARL G.
OMBION
BOOK REVIEW:
A New
Democracy: Alternatives to a Bankrupt World Order;
The Passage
to a New World
By JPaul
Manzanilla
Corruption in the Military
By Dan
Vizmanos
Pre-Christmas Sales and Malling Culture in the Philippines
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
TULA
(POETRY)
-
Butas na Batas
ng Gubat Ni Tata
Raul G. Funilas
-
Sakripisyo
(Sa bayan ko)
Ni
Tata Raul G. Funilas
-
Palahaw
(Oda sa mga nasawing kababayan)
Ni
Tata Raul G. Funilas
-
Dingalan
(Naitagong Paraiso)
Ni
Tata Raul G. Funilas
-
Para kay Cory:
Tanda ng Masaker Sa Hacienda Luisita Ni
Mila D. Aguilar
-
The Hacinda
Luisita party! An Honor to the Martyrs... By Gian Quillo
ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 96
PHOTO OF
THE WEEK Pacifier
Vol.
4, No. 43 November 28-December 4, 2004
The Tarlac Massacre: How It Happened
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA AND RONALYN OLEA
Click here for sequence of events
Patuloy ang
Barikada sa Hacienda Luisita NI GELACIO
GUILLERMO
Labor
Chief’s Power Illegal - Constitutionalist and Ex-Labor Official
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Hacienda Looc:
The Next Hacienda Luisita?
BY GERRY ALBERT CORPUZ
Transport
Strike Cripples Davao
BY CHERYLL FIEL
Strike
Paralyzes 80% of Transport in Major Cities
APEC and the
Anti-Terror War
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Hazards of
Corporate Mining (First
of a two-part series)
BY LYN V. RAMO
Occupational hazards in mining:
Beyond the Glitter (Conclusion)
BY LYN V. RAMO
LABOR WATCH -
Philex Mines
Bars Miner from Work
BY ALDWIN QUITASOL
TULA (POETRY)
-
Agunyas sa
Hacienda Luisita
Ni BIENVENIDO LUMBERA
-
Hacienda Luisita
Ni
Gelacio Guillermo
-
Bawat Butil ng
Palay ay Buhay
Ni Victor Bisperas
-
Dugo’t Punglo
Ni Tata Raul G.
Funilas
-
Katas ng Tubo
Ni Tata Raul G.
Funilas
-
Hacienda
Luisita
Ni
ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
-
Diskurso ng
Estado
NI JOI BARRIOS
-
Uyayi sa
Umaga (ng Sakada)
Ni Victor Bisperas
NEWS AT A GLANCE
-
Lessons from the Nayan hostage crisis
- Zero approval rating for
Arroyo -- Gabriela
- More corruption after NPO
abolition -- Rep. Beltran
PHOTO OF
THE WEEK
Masked
DEMOCRATIC SPACE
Happiness By
Luna Soler
ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 95
-
Biographies of the Neo-Cons
By Jihad Al Khazen
-
The Power of Delusion By Dale
Allen Pfeiffer and Elizabeth Anne Pfeiffer
-
Sweat, Fear and Resignation Amid All the Toys
By Abigail Goldman
-
On the
Ukraine Election By Hassan
Nasir
-
Draining
the Swamp By Tom Engelhardt
-
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias proposed for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize
By Carlos
Herrara
-
Venezuela:
US
Central Intelligence Agency: Documentary proof of CIA involvement in the April
2002 coup d'etat against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias
By Eva
Golinger
-
Prosecutor investigating anti-Chavez coup killed in terrorist attack
By Jorge
Martin
Vol. 4, No. 42
November 21-27, 2004
News Analysis
The Hacienda Luisita Massacre, Landlordism and State
Terrorism
BY BOBBY TUAZON
Hacienda
Luisita Belongs to Cojuangco Tenants, Ex-DAR Exec Says
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
‘Grief and Rage in the Midst
of Storm’:
Media and Public Condemnation of Media Killings
Pour
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
Media Groups Demand Probe of Alleged Military ‘Hit
List’
BY KARL G. OMBION
Gov’t Scored in Mindanao Press Protests;
‘Journalists have
become the next targets of the enemies of democracy’
BY CHERYLL FIEL
APEC Chile Summit: First World Recovery from Cancun
Setbacks?
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S WATCH
Water Privatization May Spurt Torrents
of Protest BY
DENNIS ESPADA
TULA (POETRY)
Pasyon para sa Pagbabago
Ni Roberto Ofanda Umil
Personal Essay:
Finding Joy in A Time of Crisis
BY DANNY ARAÑA ARAO
NEWS AT A GLANCE
- Bayan Muna solon scores
Muslim member’s abduction
- Warning: Further Marcopper
mine tailings dam collapse
- Arroyo blacklists California
professors, students
- EcoZone exports soar,
workers’ conditions plunge - Pamantik
- No honor being APEC
anti-terror chair -- Representative Maza
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Sunset in Hiding
DEMOCRATIC
SPACE
Government should act on media killings
BY the National Union of Journalists of the
Philippines
ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 94
-
APEC: An Instrument of Imperialist Plunder and War
By the International League of Peoples’ Struggle
-
Corporate Globalization Chileans Protest APEC
By
Roberto Manriquez
-
WTO Democracy By
Paul Hunt
-
WTO Tricks By
Devinder Sharma
-
World Hunger Summit 2004 By
Carl Bloice
Vol. 4, No. 41
November 14-20, 2004
Hacienda
Luisita Grinds to a Halt; Workers Vow to Continue Protest
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
Ex-President
Aquino Locked in Long-Drawn Battle with Hacienda Workers
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
Canadian Mining Firms Face Severe Penalties;
Mining Watch warns of major disaster in southern
Philippines BY EDWIN C. MERCURIO
Lepanto
Mines Scored Anew for Polluting Rivers
By Kim N. Quitasol
Benguet
Residents Buck Water Deal with Gold Producer
By LYN V.
RAMO
Ex-AFP
Inspector-General Sees Whitewash in Court Martial vs General
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Food
for School Is Not the Answer to Child Malnutrition – NGO, Peasant Leader
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
HUMAN
RIGHTS WATCH
-
Highest
media death toll since 1986:
Mindanao Photo Ed’s Murder Brings to 9 Slain Journalists in
Philippines BY BULATLAT
-
3 Cases of Rights Violations Recorded In a Week in Luzon;
10 persons
abducted remain missing BY RONALYN V.
OLEA
-
Unarmed NPA
Suspect Tortured, Killed in Kalinga
BY NORTHERN DISPATCH
CULTURE
Angono
Remembers Two Homegrown National Artists
BY RICHARD R GAPPI
Belgian
Doctor Treads Paths Least Traveled
BY RONALYN V. OLEA
A Blue Day
for Red Fighters in Western Mindanao
BY MARS S. MARATA
NEWS AT A GLANCE
- 'Worst act of terrorism' done by oil companies -
KMU
- Bayan Muna solon slams energy secretary over power
contracts
- NSO survey reveals high infant mortality rate
- Consumer group accuses Meralco of misleading rate
increases
-
Arafat, Father of the Palestinian Cause By
Miguel Angel Moratinos
-
Arafat Laid
to Rest as West Bank Mourns
By Mohammed
Daraghmeh
-
Arafat
Irony By
Sylvia Shihadeh and Robert Jensen
-
The
Dreamer Who Relied on Emotion and Failed to Protect His Own People
By Robert Fisk
-
Letters from Palestine From
AxisofLogic.com
-
Message
of Condolence to the Palestinian People on the Death of Yasser Arafat
By the
International League of Peoples’ Struggle –Philippines Chapter
-
Yasser
Arafat will continue to inspire the Palestinian people to struggle for their
liberation
By
the Communist Party of the Philippines
Vol. 4, No. 40
November 7-13, 2004
San Miguel
Corp. Accused of Fouling Village’s Water
BY RONALD ESCANLAR
MIGRANT WATCH
GMA is Dragging
OFWs to War - Migrante BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
The Garcia
Scandal: Implications for the Arroyo Administration
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Cuba Libre!
BY RUTH CERVANTES
INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE'S WATCH
Mining Woes
in the Cordillera:
Guilayon Tribal Villagers Want to Stop Swedish Mining Exploration
BY ARTHUR ALLAD-IW
The Roots of
Crisis: A Neo-Colonial State BY ALEJANDRO
LICHAUCO
The
Philippines’ Chronic Financial Crisis and the People’s Struggle
BY BOBBY TUAZON
BOOK
REVIEW
IBON and
Chossudovsky’s Globalization of Poverty
BY BOBBY TUAZON
Plunder, Land
Suits Haunt Cavite Governor
BY DENNIS ESPADA
HUMAN
RIGHTS WATCH
Water Firm
Manager, 7 Others Charged for AnakPawis Leader’s Slay
BY MAUREEN JAPZON
Why Carlos
Bulosan Now? BY E. SAN JUAN, JR.
PHOTO ESSAY
'Paradise
Island’ TEXT AND PHOTOS BY BOBBY TUAZON
NEWS AT A GLANCE
-Malaysian crackdown on Filipinos
condemned
-GRP-NDFP Peace Talks Breakdown
Decried
-Children’s Month
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Waiting
for the Dusk
BY KARL
G. OMBION/BULATLAT
I. On the
Philippine Financial Crisis
By Edberto M. Villegas
By Antonio Tujan, Jr.
and Arnold Padilla
-
Ang
'Fiscal Crisis' ng Rehimeng US-Arroyo
By the
Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research
-
Praymer sa “Fiscal Crisis” ng Rehimeng US-Arroyo
By the
Kilusang Mayo Uno
-
Repudiation of Marcos’s Illegitimate Debts: A Pro-People
Measure to Address the Fiscal Crisis
By
Ibon Foundation Inc.
II.
Another 4 Years of Bush Presidency
-
A
Four-Year Nightmare
By
Mike Marqusee
-
The
Party is Over - A Fairy Tale
By
Robert Thompson
-
Someone
Bigger Will Save Us*… Or Not
By
Beth Moore Henry
-
Kerry, How Dare You! By
Matthew Rothschild
Vol. 4, No. 39
October 31-November 6, 2004
Poor Man’s
Diet:
Of Noodles, Chicken Skin and Isaw
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
Ka Daning:
From the Church to the Parliament of the Streets
BY RONALYN OLEA
Tracing
the Colonial Roots of Halloween BY
ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Deregulated
Fares Loom in the Wake of Oil Deregulation
BY DANILO ARAÑA ARAO
SPECIAL REPORT
Samar Folk
Struggle to Regain a Paradise Lost
BY MAUREEN JAPZON
PHOTO ESSAY
Homonhon Island: Threatened by Mining
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY MAUREEN JAPZON
Canadian
Mining in Asia as a Dirty Business
BY EDWIN MERCURIO
Marcopper Death Toll Reaches 3;
Community, environmental groups press for justice
BY BULATLAT
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
NPA Dies in
Manila Prison BY DABET
CASTAÑEDA
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Living on
Wheels BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN/BULATLAT
DEMOCRATIC SPACE
Resist
GMA’s Policy of Plunder in Favor of Mining TNCs!
(BY
Kalikasan-People’s Network Environment
ALTERNATIVE READER
NO. 92
-
Root of
High Oil Prices
By Arnold
Padilla
-
Oil
Giants Can Control Surge in World Prices
By
IBON
FOUNDATION
-
Kerry/Edwards Follow the Failed Bush/Cheney Policy on the Middle East
BY
IBON
FOUNDATION
Vol. 4, No. 38 October 24-30, 2004
Gloria,
Resign!:
Thousands
mark Peasant Day vs landlessness, poverty and hunger
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
GMA, A War
Criminal – Int’l Tribunal BY RONALYN OLEA
SPECIAL REPORT
Grains of
Truth:
Food
Producers Suffer Hunger, Poverty BY
DABET CASTAÑEDA
INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE'S WATCH
Canadian
Mining Firm Driving Subanons Off Their Sacred Land
Siocon’s
main water source damaged by erosion from open-pit gold mine
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Indigenous Groups Decry 7 Years of IPRA Law
BY MAY VARGAS
Water War:
Ayalas Pit
Themselves against Calamba Villagers
BY DENNIS ESPADA
LABOR WATCH
Asia
Brewery Workers Defy GMA’s Strike Freeze
Lucio
Tan’s beer, a matter of national interest?
BY DENNIS ESPADA
Dagupan Poor
Give Way to 'Bangus' BY
JONG DELA CRUZ
HUMAN
RIGHTS WATCH
Two Treasure
Hunters Tortured, Killed
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
Killing of
Eastern Visayas Labor Leader Decried
BY MAUREEN JAPZON
Tabara Armed
Group: From 'Rebels' to 'Rogues'
BY KARL G. OMBION
Commentary
Balikatan War Games: A Bane to Moro, Lumad
Culture
BY ARVE BAÑEZ
60th
Leyte Landing Anniversary
Liberation
from What?
BY MAUREEN JAPZON
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Starting
Early
By
Alexander Martin Remollino/BULATLAT
NEWS AT
GLANCE
- CPP condemns Palparan’s promotion to
two-star general
- State of health now a convenient escape route ─
Maza
- FBI seizure of Indymedia servers denounced
-
Critical Analysis -
Bush Vs. Kerry: The Fake Debate
By
John Pilger
-
The
2004 Elections -
''Bush and Kerry: Contrasting Styles with the Same Results''
By Dr. Michael A.
Weinstein
-
Kerry/Edwards Follow the Failed Bush/Cheney Policy on the Middle East
BY SAMAR ASSAD
Vol. 4,
No. 36 October 10-16, 2004
Will Australian PM Launch Pre-emptive Strikes in RP?
By Caesar Ben
Basan A. Baroña
Special Report
- Is There Life after the Riles*? ‘Para lang kaming mga hayop na
tinapon dito’ By
Dabet Castañeda
PHOTO ESSAY:
Towerville
By
Dabet Castañeda
Masskara Festival: From Grief to Escapism
By Karl G.
Ombion
Rapid Expansion of Banana Plantations
Alarm Compostela Rice Farmers
By Gilbert
Pacificar and Grace Uddin
MIGRANT WATCH - Fil-Aussies Still Troubled by Racism, Discrimination
By
Caesar Ben Basan A. Baroña
Workers Need P137 More to Meet WB Poverty Standard
By
Joseph S. Yu
New Taxes: The Poor Bite the Bullet, Big Tax Evaders are Untouched
By
Ronalyn V. Olea
Arroyo’s Tax Measures to Hit the Poor Hardest By
Joseph S. Yu
Task Force Davao:
A Behemoth Gone Wild
By Andres Rebana
Japanese Financiers are Also to Blame for Disasters Caused by Dam By
Jong dela Cruz
Davao Execs, Residents Call U.S. Consulate a Spy Post
By Jetty
Ayop-Ohaylan
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - PRAYER AND PROTEST
By Dabet
Castañeda/BULATLAT
NEWS AT GLANCE
·
MIGRANT WATCH - 25 Filipino minors maltreated in Malaysia
·
Food coupons: a palliative solution
·
LABOR WATCH - No strike, no retrenchment policy favors employers - Maza
·
LABOR WATCH - Labor chief: Employers' spokesperson?
Vol. 4,
No. 35 October 3-9, 2004
Is GSIS Under Martial Law?
By Dabet
Castañeda
Related
article:
Winston Garcia and the Plunder of GSIS
By Dabet
Castañeda
Congress: Lawmaker, Lawbreaker
?
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Related
article:
House Workers Have No Job Security; ‘Why should we who work honestly be so
easily dispensable?’
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Solution to Crisis Rests on the Filipino People – Sison
By BULATLAT
Chronic Financial Crisis and the Way Out
By Prof. Jose
Ma. Sison
Analysis
- Bearing the Brunt of the
Fiscal Crisis
By
Bobby Tuazon
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - Soldiers Encamp in Houses, Schools
By Mars S.
Marata
Agno peasants after the floods: Looking for Gold Nuggets in Flooded Fields
By Lyn V.
Ramo
LABOR WATCH - Flour Mill Strikers Decry Picket Dispersal By
Ronalyn V. Olea
AIDS is Rooted in Poverty By
Aubrey SC Makilan
Is Martial Law Really Behind Us?
By Edwin
Mercurio
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - THE LIGHT COSTS OF OLD
By Aubrey SC
Makilan/BULATLAT
SEPTEMBER
2004
Vol.
4, No. 34 September 26-October 2, 2004
Train Rehab to Bump Off Thousands of Dwellers
(Part II)
By Dabet Castañeda
Related
article:
Demolitions Threaten Tacloban’s Urban Poor
By Maureen
Japzon
U.S. Troops Unwanted in Davao; ‘We will make it
politically costly for them!’
By Cheryll D. Fiel
The Philippine Financial Crisis and the
Neo-Colonial State
By Edberto M. Villegas
Arroyo Has Her Own Share in the Fiscal Crisis
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
HUMAN
RIGHTS WATCH
Vigilantes Descend on Tagum; Death Squads kill 40 persons in 4 months
By Grace S. Uddin
‘My brother is not a criminal’: Even in Prison,
Mindoro's Alleged Top NPA Cadre Serves Others
By Dennis Espada
‘Worse Than Martial Law’
By Cheryll D. Fiel
LABOR WATCH - From 2001 to 2004: More Than 12,000 Workers Repressed By
Ronalyn V. Olea
Villagers Up in Arms Against Mining Firm’s Exhaust Reopening
By
Marlon Gomarcho
DPWH, Japanese Contractors Collaborate
on ‘Useless’ Projects - UP Prof
By Aubrey SC
Makilan
Students Walk Out, Decry Budget Cuts
By Ronalyn V. Olea
BOOK REVIEW -
Historicizing Samar: The Tree and the Forest
The Untold People’s History: Samar Philippines
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Experts on Terror: Looking in the Mirror
By James Petras
TULA (POETRY) - Balangiga
By
Richard R. Gappi
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - DEEP WELL AMID TROUBLED WATER
By
Dabet Castañeda/BULATLAT
Vol. 4,
No. 33 September 19-25, 2004
Railway Poor's Loss is China's Gain
(Part I)
By Dabet Castañeda
ON THE 32ND
ANNIVERSARY OF MARTIAL RULE:
19 Years After ‘Bloody Thursday,’ Terror Still Stalks Escalante
By Karl
G. Ombion
The Truth is, He Never Left Us
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
News Commentary -
Taxpayers To Pay Marcos Debt Until 2025
By Arnold
Padilla
8 Breadwinners Needed To Support a Family of 6 in ARMM; House leaders agree:
legislated wage hike needed now
By Danilo Araña Arao
LABOR WATCH -
Fight Goes on for San Miguel’s Retrenched Workers
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Expect Worse Floods To Hit CL
By
Aubrey SC Makilan
Life Along the Abra River
By Abi Taguba
Bengwayan
MIGRANT WATCH - Filipinos in Canada Organize To Protect Themselves
By Edwin Mercurio
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - Terror Still Reigns in Mindoro
By
Dabet Castañeda
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S WATCH - Letter from an Aeta: Pro-Mining Policy Spells
More Trouble for Indigenous Peoples
By
Nelson Mallari
A Century of Crimes Against the Filipino People
By
Atty. Romeo Capulong
POETRY -
Walang Katapusan ang Hibik ng Filipinas
By Richard
R. Gappi
Photo Essay -
Rail Life
By
Dabet Castañeda
NEWS AT A GLANCE
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - WHEN PEDAL TURNS TO PUSH
By
Dabet Castañeda/BULATLAT
ALTERNATIVE
READER NO. 89 COMPILED
BY BULATLAT.COM
Vol. 4,
No. 32 September 12-18, 2004
Violence Mars Land Reform Implementation in Negros; 15 agrarian reform
beneficiaries killed in 4 years
By Karl G.
Ombion
Ex-President’s Son in Congress Row with Peasant Solon; Workers Assail
‘Modern-day Slavery’
By
Gerry Albert Corpuz
LABOR WATCH - Workers Face Mass Lay-Offs as Lucio Tan Takeover of VMC Looms
By Karl G. Ombion
Philippine Public Health ‘in Emergency Room’ – Health Activist
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Activist Solon Gets House Support for Health Probe
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Health Workers, Patients’ Kin Decry Low Health Budget
By Ronalyn V.
Olea
Tarlac’s Colibangbang Dike: Unfulfilled Promises
By Aubrey SC
Makilan
Commentary - Nationalizing the Oil Industry is Tough, But…
By Danilo
Araña Arao
Privatization Squeezes NAPOCOR Dry
By
Arnold Padilla
Melita Trinidad-Carvajal: A Beacon of Militant Women’s Movement By
Dennis Espada
Alvin Luque and the Travails of Filipino Activists
By
Amabelle
Plaza-Laminero
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - Soldiers Kill Farmer, Pregnant Wife in `Legitimate
Encounter’
By
Cheryll D. Fiel
Agno River Irrigation: Development Or Peril? By
Jhong dela Cruz
CULTURE - UP Dumps Bust of National Artist, Father of Philippine Pharmacy;
Rizal artist restores worn-out sculpture
By
Richard R.
Gappi
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - WHEN IN TROUBLE
Courtesy by the Citizen's Disaster Response Center/BULATLAT.COM
DEMOCRATIC SPACE - Viewing the Crisis
from Where the People Stand
By the Concerned Artists of the Philippines
ALTERNATIVE
READER NO. 88 COMPILED
BY BULATLAT.COM
Vol. 4,
No. 31 September 5-11, 2004
10-Year Debt Moratorium Will Give Gov’t P3 Trillion; Anti-tax group seeks
passage of debt moratorium bill to avert crisis
By
Gerry Albert Corpuz
Analysis -
On the third anniversary of 9/11: ‘We Shall Prevail’?
By
Bobby Tuazon
On the GRP peace talks with the NDFP, MILF: Is Arroyo Negotiating in Bad
Faith?
By Cheryll
Fiel
Barrels of Controversy
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Foreign Debt: The NDFP View
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
MIGRANT WATCH - 69-Year-old OFW in Coma in Riyadh; Another Missing in Dubai
By Karl G. Ombion
HUMAN
RIGHTS WATCH
3 Activists Missing Since Aug. 18; Abduction witnessed by hundreds of Sampaloc
church devotees
By Dabet
Castañeda
Two Kalinga Students Summarily Killed?
By Northern
Dispatch
Commentary
- Gov’t Should Reduce Power Rates, Not Just Give Discounts
By
Giovanni Tapang
LABOR WATCH -
KMU-Cordillera Opposes Unskilled Workers’ Wage Reduction By
Leonida Tundagui
Compostela Valley’s Radyo Natin Maco Turns One
By Mars Marata
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - SCREAMS AND SQUIRMS
By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
AUGUST 2004
Vol. 4, No. 30
August 29-September 4, 2004
ANALYSIS - Fiscal Crisis, People’s Crisis
By Sandra Nicolas
Every Filipino Owes P41,000; New anti-tax alliance launched; calls for debt
repudiation
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
HUMAN
RIGHTS WATCH
14 HR workers killed under the Macapagal-Arroyo government: HR Workers'
Killings Worse than Under Marcos
By Aubrey SC
Makilan
Soldiers Strafe Samar Hut, Kill Pregnant Woman; Army says victim was an NPA;
then claims gunmen were NPAs
By Dabet Castañeda
Samar Villagers Want Soldiers Out Due to Abuses; HR violations are committed
where troops are – CHR official
By Maureen
Japzon
Brutal Slaying of Gabriela Leader
Enrages Laguna Townsfolk
By
Dennis
Espada
MIGRANT WATCH - 14 Months of ‘Hell’; Filipino domestic reveals ordeal in
Kuwait
By Karl G.
Ombion
San Roque Dam Behind the Massive Flooding in Pangasinan? By
Jhong dela Cruz
Abu Ghraib and an NPA Prison By
Bobby Tuazon
What’s a U.S. Peace Center Doing in the Philippines?
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Lepanto Discovers New Gold Reserves; Residents caution DENR over permit
issuance
By Arthur
Allad-iw
Ninotchka’s Way
By
Carlos H.
Conde
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - DASSAL
By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
Vol. 4, No. 29
August 22-28, 2004
Peasant Solon Lectures House;
149 legislators get crash course on Peasant 101
By Gerry Albert Corpuz
Without Walls or Bars: A prison on the hills of Camarines
By
Dabet Castañeda
Bill Repealing Oil Deregulation Gains Ground
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Alternative to Oil Deregulation
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
ANALYSIS - GMA’s ‘Education for All’: An Empty Rhetoric?
By Ronalyn V.
Olea
Analysis -
Media’s Role in the 2004 Elections: Profit Orientation as Media’s Pitfall
By Danilo
Araña Arao
Book
Reviews of JOSE MARIA SISON: AT
HOME IN THE WORLD
A Revolutionary’s Affirmation of Life
By Edberto Villegas
A Revolutionary is not a 'Terrorist'
By Elmer A. Ordoñez
I Love You, Madame Librarian
By Kurt
Vonnegut
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - SCREAMS AND SQUIRMS
By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
Vol. 4,
Special Issue August 19, 2004
Freed POW Could Have Faced People's Court ; Army lieutenant denied charges of
massacre, sexual abuse
By Dabet Castañeda
Vol. 4, No. 28
August 15-21, 2004
Journalists Close Ranks; Demand Probe of Media Killings
By Aubrey SC
Makilan and Ronalyn V. Olea
PHOTO ESSAY - Journalists 'Shooting' Journalists
By Aubrey SC
Makilan
With the imminent release of two NPA captives: NDFP Asks for Release of 15
Political Prisoners
By Dabet Castañeda and Karl G. Ombion
New Taxes will Weigh Heavily on Ordinary Filipinos
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S WATCH - Damning Effect of Revived Laiban Dam
By May
Vargas
‘What Future Will We Give Our Children?’ : Subanen tribes endangered
By Mars Marata
After 7 years of privatization:
Water Remains Unaffordable, Inaccessible
By Ronalyn V. Olea
House Speaker Bows to Text Power
By Ronalyn V. Olea
UPLB Teachers Decry Union Busting by Chancellor
By Dennis
Espada
BOOK REVIEWS
The World is His Home
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Encounters with Tony Zumel
By
Bobby Tuazon
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - CAN'T BUY THEM LOVE
By Arkibong
Bayan/BULATLAT.COM
Vol. 4, No. 27
August 8-14, 2004
BULATLAT
SPECIAL REPORT
‘Big One’ Is Possible But Metro Is Unprepared
(First of two parts)
By Aubrey
SC Makilan
Disaster Execs Admit They Can’t Handle Big Quake
(Last of two
parts)
By
Aubrey SC Makilan
Related
article: ‘The
Most Disaster-prone Country’
Antonio Zumel’s Radical Prose
By BULATLAT
"The People's Interests Come First"
By Antonio
Zumel
GMA may be Impeached for Camago-Malampaya Declaration
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Related
article: All
the Way to Washington By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Attacks on Filipino Journalists Reach Crisis Proportion
By
Dabet Castañeda and Carlos H. Conde
U.S. Presidential Bets Want Troops Out of RP
By
Bobby Tuazon
Mong’s Moment
By
Emily Vital
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S WATCH - Unity Festival Caps IP Decade By
Abi Taguba Bengwayan
Baguio Losing Its Natural Beauty
By
Johnny Fialen
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - FROM A 'SAFE' DISTANCE
By Arkibong
Bayan/BULATLAT.COM
DEMOCRATIC SPACE - TEXTERS, REVOLT! TXTPOWER Against the New Text Tax
By TxtPower
ALTERNATIVE
READER NO. 86 COMPILED
BY BULATLAT.COM
Afghan Rebels Widen Attacks
By Eric Schmitt and David Rohde
Report: Afghanistan Could Implode
By CNN
Vol. 4, No. 26
August 1-7, 2004
MIGRANTS WATCH-
‘Keng Iraq’: 1 out of 4 OFWs in Iraq are women
By
Dabet Castañeda
'Barangay Iraq'
By Dabet
Castañeda
Angelo dela Cruz Is One Of Millions
By Jessica
Tulloch
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH -
101 HR Cases Filed vs Gov’t
By Karl G. Ombion
Rising from the Dead: Recycled bills in the 13th Congress By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Commentary -
Scathing remarks against Filipino troops’ pullout in Iraq : Howard,
Downer Only Speak for Themselves
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Truth as War Victim: Review of Errol Morris’ documentary feature 'The Fog of
War'
By
Bobby Tuazon
Filipinos Less Upbeat with Economy, Survey Says
By
IBON Foundation
Arroyo Lost in May Polls, Ibon Survey Shows By
IBON Foundation
Humanitarian NGO Hiring OFWs for Japan Sweatshops
By
Karl
G. Ombion
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - SLEEPING IN LINE
By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
ALTERNATIVE
READER NO. 86 COMPILED
BY BULATLAT.COM
The Scorched Earth: Oil and War in Sudan
JULY 2004
Vol. 4, No. 25
July 25-31, 2004
Serving ‘Shoulder-to-Shoulder’with U.S. ‘Big Brothers’ in Iraq
Unlike Angelo dela Cruz, Many Battle-Scarred OFWs are Ignored by Gov’t
By Dabet Castañeda
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - 9 Villagers Taken Hostage by Troops in Samar
Three farmers executed – one of them inside a chapel
By Maureen Japzon
Nation Is in Crisis – Civil Libertarians
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Cops’ Overkill vs Protesters Mirrors Crisis – Bayan Leader
By Alexander Martin Remollino
More Taxes for Less Pesos: In her SONA, Arroyo wants to tax the poor beyond
their means By
Danilo Araña Arao
Protests against text tax mount; Texters to Join Anti-SONA Indignation Rally
By Emily
Vital
The U.S. Squeeze Play on Arroyo
By Andres
Rebana
Forum Scores AFP Meddling in May Polls
By Ronalyn
Olea
Fearing mass lay-off: OWWA Union Hits Restructuring By
Aubrey SC Makilan
Zambo Villagers Up in Arms vs Australian Mining Fir m
By Mars Marata
Commentary -
Bleak Future for the Environment in GMA’s Next 6-year Term
By
Clemente Bautista, Jr.
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - SIDEWALK HIT
By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
ALTERNATIVE
READER NO. 85 COMPILED
BY BULATLAT.COM
Inside the
Iraqi Resistance
·
Fallujah: Inside the Iraqi Resistance
By Nir Rosen
·
Iraq Insurgency Larger Than
Thought
The Associated Press
·
Our Lies Led Us into War
By George Monbiot
·
Torturing Children
By William Rivers Pitt
·
'Secret Film Shows Iraq
Prisoners Sodomized'
By Charles Arthur
·
U.S. Army Criticized over Halliburton
Contract
By Matt Kelley
·
Arms Suppliers Scramble into Iraq
By Thalif Deen
Vol. 4, No. 24
July 18-24, 2004
News
Analysis - In Harm’s Way
Macapagal-Arroyo Uses New Labor Conscription for U.S. Armed Occupation of Iraq
By Bobby Tuazon
News Analysis -
Arroyo’s Iraq Gambit a Matter of Political Survival
By
Carlos H. Conde
Angelo de la Cruz: A Victim of an Unjust War
By Paul Quintos
The New Baghdad Triumvirate: Allawi, Negroponte and the NED Bush's Democratic
Charade in Iraq By
Jim Tarbell and Roger Burbach
Court Ruling Sends CARP to Its Grave
By Karl G.
Ombion
No More Gold for Mt. de Oro Small Miners; Gov’t Says Gold-Rush Site Fit Only
for Big Mining Companies
By Tyrone Velez
FILM REVIEW - Rustic Fields and Peasant Flags in Red Saga
By
Dennis Espada
Write Fairly, Mindanao War Journalists Urged By
BULATLAT
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - TEARS FOR ANGELO
By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
Vol. 4, No. 23
Special Issue July 14, 2004
Analysis -
Desperate Straits
By Benjie Oliveros
A Pall of Gloom Over Buenavista
By Dabet
Castañeda
The Other Hostage Crisis
By Emily Vital
Four arrested, 20 others injured;
Cops Break Up
Prayer Vigil for Angelo de la Cruz
By Emily Vital
Vol. 4, No. 23
July 11-17, 2004
MIGRANT WATCH
On the Hostage Crisis in Iraq: OFWs in Saudi Call for Troops’ Pullout
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Confusion on Dela Cruz's "Release" as Malacañang
Decides against Pullout
Filipinos Toil to Support U.S. War in Iraq
By Bobby Tuazon
Angelo de la Cruz, Other OFWs Lured to Middle East Due to Higher Pay By
Danilo Araña Arao
ANALYSIS - GMA’s de Soto: Rich People’s Reformist
By Sandra
Nicolas
Analysis -
On the Move to Change the Constitution: Recycling the Elite
By BULATLAT.COM
SPECIAL REPORT - College Education: High in Profits, Low in Quality
By
Ronalyn Olea
NPC: The Debt Zap By
Alexander Martin Remollino
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - The ‘Basilan Fall Guys,’ Three Years Later
By Dabet
Castañeda
EU Credibility Challenged in Parliamentary Elections
By D.L.
Mondelo
2 Suspected Guerrillas Shot Dead
By Mars S. Marata
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - CITY OF PINES NO MORE
By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
ALTERNATIVE
READER NO. 83
·
Birds of Guantanamo
By Tom
Crumpacker
·
At War
By Marc Ash
·
US Torture in Iraq: From a Scratch to Gangrene
By James
Petras
·
The New Crusade
By Robin
Eastman Abaya
·
The Venezuelan Referendum: The Truth about James Carter
By James
Petras
Vol. 4, No. 22
July 4-10, 2004
Human Rights Watch
Martial Law Victims’ P8B Now in Gloria’s Hands
By Dabet
Castañeda
Victims Thrice Over
By Dabet Castañeda
NEWS ANALYSIS -GMA’s 10-Point Agenda : Promises for the U.S., Power Firms
By Sandra Nicolas
News Analysis -
Arroyo Can Generate 6 Million Jobs, But…
By
BULATLAT.COM
UN Expert Sees Political Instability in Philippines
By Danilo
Araña Arao
Street Protests Mar Arroyo Inaugural By
Kara Mae Muga Noveda
Party-list Players in the 13th Congress
First of two
parts
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Party-list Groups and Arroyo: The Binding Links
Last of two parts
By
Alexander
Martin Remollino
Budget Cuts Belie Arroyo’s ‘Education-for-All’
Claim
By Emily Vital
UPLB Chancellor Meddles in School Paper Exam Anew
By Ronalyn
Olea
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - YEAR OF THE MONKEY IN BONTOC
By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
JUNE 2004
Vol. 4, No. 21
June 27-July 3, 2004
Analysis -
‘Handover’ Will Tighten U.S. Grip on Iraq
By Bobby
Tuazon
Resist Imperialist Plunder and War
By Dr. Carol
P. Araullo
Human Rights Watch
Children of War, Children in Anguish
By Dabet
Castañeda
SPECIAL
REPORT: 16 Years of Agrarian Reform
Lands are Back in the Hands of the Lords
(First of two
parts)
By Zelda DT. Soriano
Are Filipino Peasants Better Off Now? (Last of two parts)
By Zelda DT.
Soriano
Ex-President’s Hacienda Workers Score Crackdown
By Dabet
Castañeda
A Tumultuous Presidency
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
GMA Won’t Last Her Term – Sison
By
BULATLAT.COM
UN Expert Sees Political Instability in Philippines
By
BULATLAT.COM
On the P20 wage hike in Metro Manila: 3 Family Wage Earners Not Enough By
Danilo Araña Arao
Negros Workers Call P5 COLA Increase an ‘Insult’
Gear for intensified campaign for wage relief, wage board abolition
By
Karl
G. Ombion
Drivers Charge New Fares – But Not in Negros
By Karl G.
Ombion
UP Dean Hit for Secret U.S. Labor Deal
By Caesar Ben
Basan A. Baroña
Manila Campus Paper Padlocked
By Ronalyn V.
Olea
Students Hit Gov’t Neglect of Education; Protest leaders dispersed, detained
By Emily Vital
A School Built from Scratch
By Perry M.
Calara
Bulldozing Threatens Mt. Pulag Ecosystem
By Johnny
Fialen
POETRY
-
Tenk Yu Beri Mats
By E. San
Juan
PHOTO OF THE WEEK -
SECURITY-CONSCIOUS By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
Vol. 4, No. 20
June 20-26, 2004
MIGRANT WATCH
500 Distressed Female OFWs Languishing in Kuwait; Filipino domestic raped by 3
Kuwaiti cops
By Caesar Ben
Basan A. Baroña
OFW’s Family Threatens to Return PGMA Award to Arroyo; Ailing dietician back
home after 12 days in Kuwait
By Ronalyn V.
Olea
Human Rights Watch
Air Force, Police Detain Family of 5; Foot of slain NPA fighter missing
By Dabet Castañeda
Soldiers Accused of Cutting Off Rebel's Ear
By Mars S.
Marata
Media Groups Condemn Newsman’s Murder; Killing reflects deterioration of
civil liberties situation
By BULATLAT.COM
ELECTION
WATCH -
2004 Polls Most Fraudulent, Most Violent
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Iraq Handover Just Like Philippine `Independence’ – NCCP Leader
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
ANALYSIS - Gov’t Destroys .5 M Jobs, Record 5 M Jobless
By Sandra
Nicolas
Analysis - Reversing Oil Deregulation: Nationalization as an Urgent Necessity
By
Danilo Araña Arao
Bridge Program: Added Cargo for Overworked, Underpaid Teachers
By
Aubrey SC Makilan
DepEd Not Ready for June 21 Opening – LFS High School; Students to walk out on
Day 1
By Ronalyn V.
Olea
NUJP Hosts IFJ Tolerance Prize for Southeast Asia
By BULATLAT.COM
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - STOOPING, BUT PROUD
By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
NEWS AT A GLANCE
Gabriela
scores GMA, DTI for not heeding calls for price caps
‘Assassination plot is a big Malacañang lie’ -- Ka Roger
Vol. 4, No. 19
June 13-19, 2004
Power Consumers ‘Electrocuted’ with False Promise, New Rate Hikes
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Bridge Program Means More Dropouts - ACT
By Aubrey SC
Makilan
400 Children of Miners Barred from School
By Aldwin
Quitasol
Peso Value Down to P0.56
By Danilo
Araña Arao
ELECTION
WATCH
ANALYSIS - Incredible Even Before Day One
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
COMMENTARY - The Isabelinos’ Struggle Against Warlordism and Political Dynasty
By Arturo P. Garcia
HUMAN
RIGHTS WATCH
Murder Not Encounter, Mourning Parents Say
By Dabet
Castañeda
At Home with Levi: Youngest Political Prisoner By
BULATLAT.COM
BOOK REVIEW
- Poetry and Revolution: Behind Bars and Beyond
By
Alexander
Martin Remollino
POETRY - Ang Lihim ni Madam Gloria
By Joi Barrios
The Role of Jose Maria Sison in the Peace Process
By Rey Claro Casambre
PHOTO OF THE WEEK -
A BREAK BY THE PARK
By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
Vol. 4, No. 18
June 6-12, 2004
human rights watch
51 Murder Charges Filed vs AFP
By Dabet
Castañeda
A Pillow for Papa: Forced disappearances under Arroyo: 10 during the May
elections
By Dabet
Castañeda
NPA Treats POWs Well -- AFP Judge
By Dabet
Castañeda
Soldiers Maul Journalist, 7 Others in Batangas
By Dennis
Espada
ELECTION
WATCH
Cash Flowed Through Comelec to Ensure GMA Win in Cordi?
By Arthur
Allad-iw
Bayan Muna Eyes Repeal of Oil Deregulation Law
By Aubrey SC
Makilan
Results of Widespread Poll Fraud Out this Week
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Post-Election Assessment: Elections in Eastern Visayas Marred by Fraud,
Violence By
Maureen Japzon
The May 10 elections: Unique – But the Same
By Luis V.
Teodoro
No reason to hike oil prices: Oil Products Overpriced by P0.16/Liter
By
IBON
Foundation
Gov’t Claim of High GDP: Sustained Growth?
By Danilo
Araña Arao
UP Unions Oppose Privatization of Gov’t Services; Government employees face
mass lay-off
By Lyn V. Ramo
Public Warned: Brace for Higher Water Rates, Poorer Services By
BULATLAT.COM
Computer tips and tricks: Pesky Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts
By Pio Verzola
Jr.
By Charlie
Samuya Veric
PHOTO OF THE WEEK -
WAZZUP, KA BEL?
By Aubrey SC
Makilan/BULATLAT.COM
NEWS AT A GLANCE
Protest
prompts release of ‘illegally’ detained strikers
GMA Can
Surely Win but Without a Real Mandate from the People - PCPR
EO seeks to
reverse the culture being encouraged
MAY 2004
Vol. 4, No. 17
May 30-June 5, 2004
ELECTION
WATCH
The Spark that Crippled a Dynasty
By Dabet
Castañeda
Ocampo to Gonzales, AFP: 'Shut up!'
By
BULATLAT.COM
COMMENTARY -
Marginalizing the Marginal
By Bobby Tuazon
Teachers Expose Widespread Poll Frau d
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Protests Hound Poll Results in Negros; “In Negros, fraud money flowed like
raging waterfalls…”
By Karl G.
Ombion
Post-Election: Baguio Sidewalk Stalls Demolished Anew
By Johnny
Fialen and Milena Roque
The U.S. Offensive against the People's Right to National Liberation,
Democracy and Social Justice
By Prof. Jose
Ma. Sison
COMMENTARY - Who Dictates Oil Prices?
By Arnold J.
Padilla
MIGRANT WATCH - The Hero is a Slave
By Dabet
Castañeda
Mindanao Farmers Oppose BT Corn
By Dennis
Espada
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - IN FULL DEFIANCE
By Arkibong
Bayan/BULATLAT.COM
ALTERNATIVE
READER NO. 83 COMPILED BY BULATLAT.COM
·
For all The Grand Rhetoric
We Have Failed to See Through our Mission in Afghanistan
By Independent
UK
·
Regarding the Torture of Others
By Susan
Sontag
·
The Other Prisoners
By Luke
Harding
Vol. 4, No. 16
May 23-29, 2004
Remembering Braveheart
By Lisa Cariño
Ito
Under Arroyo Presidency:
Instability and More Hardship for Filipinos
By
BULATLAT.COM
ELECTION
WATCH
Poll Watchdog Shows Proof; Says May 10 Elections “Tainted”
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Media, Lawyers’ Groups Slam DoJ, Comelec for Media Gag
By
BULATLAT.COM
Burning the Voters’ Mandate in Isabela
By Dabet
Castañeda
Election Violence in Mindanao: ‘They Just Opened Fire!’
By
Daisy C. Gonzales
Youth Party to File Contempt Raps vs Akbayan
By Emily Vital
Political Dynasties Still Rule Philippine Politics
By Carlos H.
Conde
NL Dynasties and Kingpins: Some are In, Some are Out
By Pio Verzola
Jr.
Low Turnout for Party-List Votes in Northern Luzon
By
Northern Dispatch
In Baguio: Opposition Votes Show People’s Voice vs Corporate Interests
By Northern Dispatch
Commentary -
U.S. Imperialism and the 2004 Elections By
Ricco
Alejandro Santos
human rights watch
Mother cries justice for 2 kids: ‘Agoy! Dyos Ko, ang Balay Ko!’
(Oh my god! My house!)
By
Dabet Castañeda
Killings Alarm Dutch-Filipino HR Movement
By D.L.
Mondelo
General Rapped by Rights Body for Mindoro Killings
By Emily Vital
OFW Remittances Needed to Pay Foreign Debt, Offset Deficit By
Danilo Araña Arao
Philippines Faces AIDS Explosion
By Carlos H.
Conde
William H. Hinton (1919 –2004)
By John Mage
Book Review -
Hearing the Music of Filipino Culture: A review of Bienvenido Lumbera's Sa
Sariling Bayan
By Charlie
Samuya Veric
PHOTO OF THE WEEK -
SEXIST AD IN WORLD HERITAGE SITE
By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
Vol. 4, No. 15
May 16-22, 2004
ELECTION
WATCH
ANALYSIS - Arroyo’s Sham Elections: Or How the Military Tried to
Disenfranchise the Left
By
Bobby Tuazon
Military-instigated Fraud and Terror vs Moro Vote Decried
By
BULATLAT.COM
Party-list Groups Deplore ‘State-directed Fraud and Terrorism’; Protest in 60
provinces, 15 regions set next week
By Gerry
Albert Corpuz
In Quezon: 2 Slain, 2 Declared Missing
By Dabet
Castañeda
“No One Should Have to Die...Just so Elections may be Held” – Int’l Election
Observer
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Sison: Massive Cheating Can Ignite Protest Movement to Topple Regime
By BULATLAT.COM
ANALYSIS - DepEd Using Wrong Solution to Wrong Problem
By
Danilo Araña Arao
human rights watch
Missing Alleged Red Leader Surfaces in Mindoro Police Jail
NDFP says Serrano is covered by immunity guarantee; demands his release
By Dabet Castañeda
Related
article:
Serrano’s Side
By Dabet
Castañeda
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - FIGHTING OFF THE DARKNESS By
Northern Dispatch/BULATLAT.COM
NEWS AT A GLANCE
·
Gabriela
scores Bulacan party-list officers’ arrest
·
Bring home
OFWs in Iraq
·
Lacson's
treachery should forewarn all – Ka Roger
·
OFWs warned of
South Korea's new employment system
Vol. 4,
Special Election Issue May 12, 2004
ELECTION
WATCH
Gonzales, AFP Accused Anew of Mounting Dirty Tricks vs Party-List Groups
By Dabet Castañeda
Initial List of Election-Related Human Rights
Violations
At the Polls: Chaos, Confusion, Violence, Anger
By Carlos H.
Conde
Isabela Burning: Dys Want to Keep Power Grip
By Dabet
Castañeda
Youth Party Says Akbayan Stealing Votes
By
Emily Vital
Widespread Vote-Buying in Negros Reported
By Karl G.
Ombion
Missing Voters’ Names, Violence Mar Cordillera Polls
By Northern
Dispatch
Arroyo Must Have a Clear Mandate
By
Carlos H. Conde
Campaign 2004: What the Voters Missed
By Carlos H.
Conde
Vol. 4, No. 14
May 2-8, 2004
ELECTION
WATCH
2004 Campaign Trail Leaves 10 Party-list Members Dead; 3 Others Missing
By BULATLAT.COM
Bayan Muna Pays Tribute to Martyrs in Miting de Avance
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Anak ng Bayan Nominee Links Armed Group to his Arrest
By Karl G.
Ombion and Edmund Sestoso
Exposed: Massive Cheating, Vote-Buying by Arroyos in Negros
By
Karl
G. Ombion
Same Old Faces Rule Northern Philippine Politics
By Northern
Dispatch
Priest Leads Campaign vs. ‘Corrupt’ Mayor
By Mars S.
Marata
As nation goes to polls: Human Rights Must be Respected - Amnesty
International
By
BULATLAT.COM
Purchasing Power Drops in Election Derby
By Danilo
Araña Arao
human rights watch
Torture of 2 NPA Suspects to be Raised to JMC
By Tyrone Velez
As military storms Anakpawis HQ: 4 Bayan Muna Members Killed in ‘Valley of
Death’
By Tyrone
Velez
Alleged Red Leader in AFP Custody Declared Missing
By Dabet
Castañeda
Ex-Gov’t Exec, Now Red Leader, says PTC Goes to the People
By
BULATLAT.COM
Joan Carling’s Journey to Damascus
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - NOT ALL FIRE By
Aubrey SC Makilan/BULATLAT.COM
DEMOCRATIC SPACE -
Journalists' view: Public is the first beneficiary of press freedom
By the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP)
NEWS AT A GLANCE
·
Block voting
should not be allowed --- PILC
·
Migrante
questions GMA project charged to OWWA
·
Study leave on
human rights for soldiers
ALTERNATIVE
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Torture, Incorporated: Let the Wall of Silence Fall
By Virginia
Tilley
APRIL 2004
Vol. 4, No. 13
April 25-May 1, 2004
LABOR WATCH -
Gov’t-Controlled Media Workers: Underpaid, Harassed
By Rowena
Carranza
Workers Attacked But Undaunted
By Sandra Nicolas
The Untold Story of Hacienda Luisita Workers
By Dabet
Castañeda
Teatro Mayo Uno And Emancipatory Culture
By
Bobby Tuazon
Workers’ Unrest in Laguna
By Dennis Espada
Workers Need Wage Relief Now
By the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research, Inc.
Cordillera Day Marked Amid Dam Threats, Tribal
Wars
By
Alexander
Martin Remollino
human rights watch
Military Eyed In Anakpawis Leader’s Murder
By Lisa C. Ito
Samar Minor in Army Captivity for 4 Years; But
Oslo peace talks will set him free
By Dabet Castañeda
Zenaida Llesis, 6 Others Released from Prison
By
BULATLAT.COM
Migrante Scores Comelec Over Absentee Voting
By Kim
Ngabit-Quitasol
BM Ilocos Reports P7.5 M Worth of Projects; Hits
Military for False Charges
By Northern
Dispatch
Philippine Elections: Under the Watch of Uncle
Sam
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Red Fighters in Black and White
By
BULATLAT.COM
Nick Joaquin: Friend and Compadre;
Tribute by Jose Maria Sison and Julieta de Lima
By BULATLAT.COM
The Trouble with Nick
By Marra Pl.
Llanot
BM Ilocos Reports P7.5 M Worth of Projects; Hits
Military for False Charges
By Northern
Dispatch
PHOTO OF THE WEEK -
COOLING OFF By
Arkibong Bayan/BULATLAT.COM
NEWS AT A GLANCE
May 10
election irrelevant to the masses – PILC
Anakpawis
demands justice for slain coordinators, officials
Vol. 4, No. 12
April 18-24, 2004
Labor Day Analysis - Can Workers Count on a Wage Increase in Election Season?
By Danilo Araña Arao
ELECTION
WATCH
For Senators: Ex-Leftists, Anti-Marcos Activists Get Bayan Muna Support
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Learning Politics the Hard Way: Youth Party Nominees Harassed
By
Aubrey SC Makilan
Migrante Condemns Absentee Voting Anomalies, Harassments
By
Benjie Oliveros
War, Imperialism And Resistance from Below
By Prof. Jose
Ma. Sison
MIGRANT WATCH
Possible Cover-up in Missing Seaman’s Case Exposed
By Sandra
Nicolas
Woman Pleas for Sister’s Life;
OFW’s Urgent Repatriation Urged After Distress Call By
Karl G. Ombion
Illegal Recruiter Dupes 40 Victims in Pangasinan
By Benjie
Oliveros
Philippines Has Enough Water Supply, NGO Says
By Dennis
Espada
Related
article:
Commentary - What To Do about the Water Crisis
By Clemente
Bautista, Jr.
20 Years of
Cordillera Day: A Historic Testament to the Resolute Cordillera Peoples’
Struggle
By
Windel Bolinget
Part I: A Mirror of Cordillera History and
Politics
Part II: Historical Highlights
PHOTO ESSAY:
Cordillera Day Celebrations Through the Years
NPA Disarms Mayoral Bet’s Bodyguards
By Mars Marata
Misamis Farmers Demand Army Troops' Pullout
By Mars Marata
PHOTO OF THE WEEK -
ANAKPAWIS DE MAYO
By
Arkibong Bayan/BULATLAT.COM
ALTERNATIVE
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Photos that Bush Didn't Want the World to See
Pentagon Ban on Pictures of Dead Troops Is Broken
By Bill Carter
Photo of GIs' Caskets Costs Worker Her Job
By Jessica
Kowal
Vol. 4, No. 11
April 11-17, 2004
ANALYSIS - Politics of Dirt: Arroyo Aide Throws Mud at Progressive Political
Parties
By Bobby
Tuazon
Human Rights Team Held Hostage
By Dabet
Castañeda
Safeguarding Rights amid War: GRP, NDFP launch Joint Monitoring Committee
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Media Under Fire
By
Inday
Espina-Varona
Related
article:
NUJP Elects New Set of Officers, Renews Commitment to Serve Journalists
ANALYSIS - IMF-WB in the Philippines: Half-Century of Anti-Development
By Sandra Nicolas
The Need for New Politics: A People’s Analysis of the Platforms of
Presidential Candidates
By
Hetty Alcuitas
Send Teachers, Not Soldiers
By Kim
Ngabit-Quitasol
BOOK REVIEWS
Oil And the Americanization of the Middle East
By Bobby
Tuazon
Reclaiming Ka Amado
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
'Photojournalism Is More About Curiosity Than Courage’
By Carlos H.
Conde
PHOTO OF THE WEEK -
THANKS BUT NO THANKS
By
Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
Vol. 4,
Special Issue No. 2 April 7, 2004
Release
of Political Prisoners: A Promise Long Overdue
By BULATLAT.COM
Vol. 4, No. 10
April 4-10, 2004
UN Judge Asks Arroyo To Honor Oslo Joint Statement
By
BULATLAT.COM
Analysis - Fresh Graduates Comprise Bulk of Jobless
By Danilo
Araña Arao
Cafgus Guarding Canadian Mining Firm Fire at Protesters; Wound 4
By
Elmer D. Sagbigsal
Unpresidentiable?: Journalists score FPJ’s ‘Bullying of TV Reporter’
By
BULATLAT.COM
Drivers’ Nationwide Strike Cripples Transport By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Kaguma’s 33rd anniversary: Educators as Revolutionaries
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
A Note of Critical Appreciation
By
Jose Ma. Sison
PHOTO OF THE WEEK -
TOBACCO DANCE –WITHOUT THE SMOKE By
Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
DEMOCRATIC SPACE -
A Mother's Appeal: Call for Immediate Release of Nursing Mother & Baby
By Zenaida Llesis, political detainee
news at a glance
GMA in the
world’s most corrupt list
Obstacles
in absentee voting
Youth party
slams 5-year high school plan
ALTERNATIVE
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Media Apology and Whistleblowers
Why the Media Owe You an Apology on Iraq
By Rick
Mercier
Bush Puts a 'Cancer on the Presidency'
By Robert
Scheer
Daniel Ellsberg Sees a New Trend -- Telling All While the Issue is Hot
By Matthew B. Stannard
MARCH 2004
Vol. 4, No. 9
March 28-April 3, 2004
Notorious ‘Death Squad’ Asset Nabbed in Mindoro
By Dabet
Castañeda
Two Ex-Presidents Make It to World’s Hall of Scalawags; GMA’s Anti-Corruption
Policies are Ineffective, London-based Watchdog Says
By Bobby
Tuazon
GMA Faces New Suit Over Maynilad Bailout
By Alexander Martin Remollino
ELECTION WATCH - Party-List Groups, GMA Foes Unite Vs Fraud, Terrorism;
Opposition Presidentiables Score Mounting Reports of Cheating
By
Alexander
Martin Remollino
NPA Gears for U.S. ‘War of Aggression’
By
BULATLAT.COM
Take 2 For Alleged NPA Cadre Zenaida Llesis: Mother fasts for release as GRP
resumes talks with NDFP
By Dabet
Castañeda
Human rights violations in Camarines Sur on the rise: 42nd IB PA on
a Rampage By
Rowena Carranza
Justice Not War Campaign Joins 100,000 in NY vs U.S. Ocupation in Iraq By
BULATLAT.COM
Poetry - Anniversary Oath
By Tomas T.
Talledo
PHOTO OF THE WEEK -
WITNESS TO HISTORY
By Arkibong
Bayan/BULATLAT.COM
news at a glance
·
Deportation of
Filipino family condemned
·
Meralco
charges highest power rates
·
Jinggoy should
apologize to women -- Gabriela
ALTERNATIVE
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“The War on Terror Failed”
·
The "War Against Terror" Has Failed
By Gilles
Kepel
·
Bush Tries to Rally Faltering Coalition
By Paul Koring
·
Iraq Charges Against Bush Acquiring Critical Mass
By Alan Elsner
·
Bush's Brand New Enemy is the Truth
By Sydney
Blumenthal
·
Cheney, Energy and Iraq Invasion
By Larry
Everest
·
Bush Questions
Vol. 4, No. 8
March 21-27, 2004
GMA, Bush To Face War Crimes Tribunal; Charges being finalized by Filipino and
foreign lawyers
By Dabet
Castañeda
Disquiet at Peace Rally: U.S.-UK Occupation of Iraq Condemned in Anti-War
Rally
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Analysis-
After Afghanistan and Iraq: What Lies Ahead?; Current Regional and Global
Implications of the U.S. War on Terror
By Bobby Tuazon
Commentary in Filipino - Liwanag at Apoy Bilang Simbolo at Instrumento By
Danilo Araña Arao
On the Streets of Iraq: A Review of Musikang
Bayan’s Songs for Peace
By
Dennis Espada
Rights group hits double standard; Resthouse for Erap, Cold Prison for
Political Offenders
By Dabet
Castañeda
Released NPA POW Quits Military Service By
Karl G. Ombion
Consumers Ask Maynilad to Refund P6.4 B, Call for Oil Price Rollback Anew; New
Consumer Task Force Dares Presidentiables to Address Consumer Woes By
Alexander Martin Remollino
A Closer Look at Our Water Bills
By Arnold J.
Padilla
PHOTO OF THE WEEK -
STRENGTH TO ENDURE
By
Carlos H. Conde/BULATLAT.COM
DEMOCRATIC SPACE -
Some Points on the February 14, 2004 Oslo Joint Statement of the GRP and NDFP
Peace Panels
By Rafael G.
Baylosis
news at a glance
·
Anakpawis
member abducted
·
Striking
seafarers condemn police harassment
·
Migrante:
GMA’s foreign trips are at the expense of OFWs
Vol. 4, No. 7
March 14-20, 2004
Setting the Sights on Jose Maria Sison
By Rowena
Carranza
One Year After the U.S. War Against Iraq:
Crumbs for Asia’s Finest Puppet
By Sonny Africa
ELECTION WATCH
-
Interview with Satur Ocampo, Bayan Muna’s First Nominee: Taking Politics of
Change to the Mainstream
By Dabet
Castañeda
Scrap Oil Deregulation Law — Transport Drivers; Transport Groups Call for Fare
Hike Anew By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Commentary - Macapagal-Arroyo Not Off the Hook;
Killings of BM activists increase under ‘war on terror’
By
Bobby Tuazon
Independent Probe Shows Bt-Corn has Human Costs
By Dennis
Espada
PHOTO OF THE WEEK -
STRENGTH TO ENDURE
By
Carlos H. Conde/BULATLAT.COM
DEMOCRATIC SPACE -
Some Points on the February 14, 2004 Oslo Joint Statement of the GRP and NDFP
Peace Panels
By Rafael G.
Baylosis
news at a glance
·
POW release is
a two-way process — Ka Roger
·
No compromise
on justice
·
RFM-Swift
workers demand DTI probe on 'misleading' products
ALTERNATIVE
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The U.S. Secret War in Haiti
·
Tragedy in Haiti
By Noam
Chomsky
·
Message from Ramsey Clark
Vol. 4, No. 6
March 7-13, 2004
TruthCom Finds Top Defense, AFP Officials Not Clean of Mindanao Bombings
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Surviving Mindoro
By Dabet
Castañeda
Despite Gov’t Figures, the Poor Are Now Worst Off; Families Need
P13,000-P22,000 to Survive Monthly
By Danilo
Araña Arao
The Economics of Jeepney Driving:
Or Why Transport Drivers are Forced to Go on Strike
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Related
article:
‘Terror Is Part of Our Life on the Streets’: New Negros-wide transport strike
looms
By Karl G.
Ombion
Neutralizing Bayan Muna
By Dabet Castañeda
ELECTION WATCH
Suara Bangsamoro Party Nominees: Mindanao War Survivors Running for Party-list
Seats By
Leigh Halud
The Miracles of Elections: Baguio House Spared
By Northern
Dispatch
Caring for the Sick, Struggling for Social Change: 3 Nuns Plant Seeds for
Village-Based Health Program By
Ross Mayor
Agriculture Execs Pressed to Suspend BT-Corn Commercialization
By
Rhoda Gueta
Ang Sistema ng Edukasyon sa Pilipinas
By Dr. Eberto
Villegas
PHOTO OF THE WEEK -
Wow, Tamaraw
By Carlos
H. Conde/BULATLAT.COM
DEMOCRATIC SPACE -
Revolutionary Taxation: A Governmental
Function, Not Extortion
By Rey Affirmado
news at a glance
·
Row over pork
·
Teachers to
boycott service in May polls, unless…
·
Ka Roger notes
Roco's stand against U.S. terror list
FEBRUARY
2004
Vol. 4, No. 5
February 29-March 6, 2004
Women’s Fight in Male-dominated Congress: New
women’s party promises to make a difference
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Related article:
Women’s Party Closes Doors on GMA, Lacson
Talks on Social and Economic Reforms will be Tougher – NDFP’s Jalandoni
Terror’ Tag on CPP-NPA, Sison To End in August By
Aubrey SC Makilan
In Political Activism, Age Does not Matter; FQS Veterans Link Up Arms Once More
By Rowena Carranza
‘Thieves Fighting Thieves’; Sugar industry faces blight; planters warn of
revolutionary upsurge
By Karl G.
Ombion
Indigenous People's Watch-
Zamboanga Execs Sue Lumad Leaders, Mediamen and Church Workers in Pasture Row
By Elmer D. Sagbigsal
Gov’t Hit for Ignoring UN Call on Human Rights By
Alexander Martin Remollino
COMMENTARY - Why Not Regulate? By
Arnold J. Padilla
Friends from Foreign Lands, Filipinos at Heart
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Universities on Strike in UK: Commercialization of
education draws nationwide protests
By Giovanni
Tapang
PHOTO OF THE WEEK -
‘BIRD FLU’ NOTWITHSTANDING
By Rowena
Carranza/BULATLAT.COM
news at a glance
·
Two Bayan
Muna-Leyte coordinators abducted
·
Ka Roger
condemns U.S.' blackmailing of MILF
·
Filipino nurses
in Canada press for full accreditation and reciprocity
Vol. 4,
No. 4 February 22-28, 2004
Hero’s Final Rites for Slain Vice Mayor, HR Activist
By
Dabet Castañeda
ANALYSIS - Another Standoff in GRP-NDFP Talks
Looms
By Bobby Tuazon
Humanizing the War: GRP, NDFP form body to monitor HR agreement
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
ANALYSIS - 100 Pesos to the Dollar, Eventually
By Sandra Nicolas
‘Adolf Hitler Must Be Proud!’: 26,000 political
refugees in Holland threatened with deportation
By D.L. Mondelo
Gov’t Asked To Follow High Court Ruling on Mining; Environment watch, alliance
demand rehabilitation, compensation
By Northern Dispatch
Letter of Concern of Foreign Church and Development Workers in the Philippines
By
the Philippine International Forum
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - PRICE OF PROGRESS
By
Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
news at a glance
·
OWWA, merciless
– Migrante leader
·
Killing
party-list organizers a military policy?
·
POEA-licensed
recruitment agencies dupe OFWs
Vol. 4,
No. 3 February 15-21, 2004
Gov’t OKs Removal of ‘Terrorist’ Tag on Joma Sison, CPP-NPA
By BULATLAT.COM
Related article:
GRP-NDFP Formal Talks Hits Snag in Oslo
Political Prisoners Await Release Through Peace Talks By
Dabet Castañeda
Hunger Strike and a Distress Flight to Manila: Zenaida Llesis, an alleged NPA,
brings sick child to hospital
By Alexander Martin Remollino
MIGRANT WATCH
- Filipino Seafarers: In High Water
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
ELECTION WATCH - New Moro Party-list Group Junks GMA
By
BULATLAT.COM
UP Pre-schoolers Face 550% Fees Hike By
Andrea Trinidad-Chavez
Finally, Filipinos Get on Indymedia
By the Indymedia-QC Collective
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - ALL’S WELL WITH THE WORLD? By
Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
news at a glance
·
OWWA turns back
on OFW with terminal cancer -- Migrante
·
Bayan Muna
demands MWSS transparency on water rate arbitration
·
Criminalization
of labor disputes denounced
Vol. 4,
Special Issue No. 1 February 12, 2004
GRP-NDFP Formal Talks Hits Snag in Oslo; Luis Jalandoni accuses GMA of using
‘terrorist’ list to blackmail NDFP
By BULATLAT.COM
Vol. 4,
No. 2 February 8-14, 2004
U.S. Counter-Terrorist in the GRP-NDF Talks: Former U.S. Marine commander has
links to ‘NGOs’ in Aceh and Mindanao
By BULATLAT.COM
ELECTION WATCH
HK Migrant Takes Road to Congress (Third of a six-part series)
By Rowena Carranza
Commentary - Soldiers in Elections: From Pawns to Knights?
By Rene Jarque
A Night of Hell: Apo Reef scuba diver recalls ordeal aboard M/V Island Explorer
By Gerry Albert Corpuz
Analysis - Damned Either Way, Debt Crisis Or Not
By Sandra
Nicolas
‘Consumers’ Revolt’: Militants gear for campaign vs oil price hikes
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Shooting Children: A Crime Tolerated in Mindanao?
By Ulrich
Rotthoff
Students Being Punished for DepEd’s Woes - Youth Party
By
Emily Vital
Troops Storm Negros House, Arrest 3 Young Activists
By Karl G. Ombion
Ped Xing: Not Just Personal; Pedestrian poetry as a social commentary By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Finally, Filipinos Get on Indymedia
By the Indymedia-QC Collective
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - HANGING ON LIFE’S EDGE By
Karl G. Ombion/BULATLAT.COM
news at a glance
·
Woman detainee
ordered to shoulder baby’s hospitalization
·
Cordillera group
urges DENR to effect SC decision on mining
·
SWS survey is
GMA’s election propaganda
ALTERNATIVE
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·
Rice Imperialism: The Agribusiness Threat to Third World Rice Production
By Matthew Clement
Vol. 4,
No. 1 February 1-7, 2004
‘The Soldiers Ruined Our Lives’: Reign of terror in three towns of Occidental
Mindoro
By Dabet Castañeda
Palparan: From Mindoro to Iraq
By Alexander Martin Remollino
2003 GNP: Senseless Growth, Pointless Boast
By Danilo Araña
Arao
A World Manipulated: Book Review of “Behind the Scenes at the WTO"
By Bobby Tuazon
Back to the Streets in Bacolod: Water consumers slam corruption; warn of
disaster
By Felicisimo H.
Manalansan
Asian Youth Slam U.S. War on Terror, Unite for Peace
By Ronalyn V. Olea
Unionize, Be Fired and Get Sued By
Rowena Carranza
MIGRANT WATCH - ‘Bring Them to the Precinct? Kill Them!’: Police disperse OFW
campout; OWWA inaction hit By
Aubrey SC
Makilan
Benguet Officials to Charge BPI with Economic Sabotage
By Tina Sales
Mansawang Beckons for Its Restoration By
Helen Biangalen
ELECTION WATCH Roco, FPJ Win in Mock Polls; Legarda Consistent Choice for VP
By Emily Vital
Challenging the Theory and Practice of Contemporary American Studies
By E. San Juan,
Jr.
Photo Essay: Sights of Quiapo
By Arkibong Bayan
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - THIRD BIRTHDAY
By Carlos H.
Conde/BULATLAT.COM
news at a glance
·
Migrante
ex-chair now pro-Gloria
·
AFP unrest
reveals deep crisis – Ka Roger
Rape cases
up, death penalty no deterrent – Gabriela party
JANUARY 2004
Vol. 3,
No. 50 January 25-31, 2004
Oil Spill Threatens World-Famous Dive Spot; Militant fishers want criminal raps
filed against shipowner
By Gerry Albert Corpuz
Pictures of Terror in Mindoro
By Dabet Castañeda
Gov’t TV Union Decries Mismanagement; Wants Palace Appointees To Resign
By Aubrey SC Makilan
Compensation Bill for Mendiola Massacre Victims Sought; Party-list Anakpawis to
revive 1987 massacre case
By Gerry Albert Corpuz
Remembering the Mendiola Massacre: ’Amid the Assault, We Were Undaunted
By Dennis Espada
‘Walk of Shame’ in Cagayan de Oro Assailed
By Grace Antal-Albasin
Ramming Through: Macapagal-Arroyo’s New Minerals Policy spells doom –
environment groups
By Ely Manalansan
ELECTION WATCH-Youth Nominees Vow To Bring Street Militancy To Congress
(second of a six-part series)
By Alexander Martin Remollino
2004 Budget Based on Flawed Speculations
By Danilo Araña Arao
LABOR WATCH - Nestle Workers Condemn Two Years of Injustice and Violence
By Dennis Espada
On the 3rd anniversary of People Power 2: Militants Decry
Militarization, Arroyo’s ‘Treachery’
By Alexander Martin Remollino
The Economics and Politics of the World Social Forum; Lessons for the Struggle
against ‘Globalisation’
By The Research Unit for Political Economy
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - QUIAPO SURVIVOR
By Arkibong
Bayan/BULATLAT.COM
news at a glance
·
Court denies
mother’s plea for sick child
·
NDFP, GRP to
resume formal talks
·
Migrante demands
probe of M/V Rocknes tragedy in Norway
ALTERNATIVE
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COMPILED BY
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·
America's Empire of Bases
By
Chalmers Johnson
·
The American Empire’s Bases Without Borders:
New U.S. Global Basing Strategy Gears for a War to Last for Generations By
Bobby Tuazon
Vol. 3,
No. 49 January 18-24, 2004
ELECTION WATCH
·
The Bayan Muna experience How the Left Fared in
Congress
By Rowena Carranza
·
Face to Face: The Progressive Party-list Groups
Through Their Nominees
By Dabet Castañeda
·
Politics of the Masses; Mendiola Massacre
survivor, labor leader and urban poor luminary lead new party-list electoral bid
in May 2004
By Gerry Albert
Corpuz
·
Electoral Firsts: Militant political parties vie
for more House seats
By Ibon Foundation
·
Youth Party Calls for Tuition Hike Freeze; Sole
sectoral youth party unveils legislative agenda
By Emily Vital
·
Negros Politics in Cojuangco’s Grips
By Karl G. Ombion
American Empire’s Bases Without Borders: New U.S.
Global Basing Strategy Gears for a War to Last for Generations
By
Bobby Tuazon
The International Movement Against Imperialist
Globalization and Prospects for the Decade
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
PTC Fees Fund NPA’s Social Services – Ka Roger
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Bayan Slams Mayor for Continued Killings in Davao
City
By BULATLAT.COM
Mindanao Peace Group Asks Senate Probe on
Commander Robot and Davao Bombings
By BULATLAT.COM
Photo Essay - Snapshots from a Guerrilla Camp
By Carlos H.
Conde
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - DAILY GRIND
By Carlos H.
Conde/BULATLAT.COM
Vol. 3,
No. 48 January 11-17, 2004
Moving Anti-Imperialism One Step Forward: Resistance conference set as World
Social Forum takes place in India
By
BULATLAT.COM
Water Crisis: A Ploy for Country-Wide Water Privatization?; Group vows to step
up opposition vs Arroyo plan
By Felicisimo H.
Manalansan
High Wage Erosion Despite Low Inflation
By
Danilo Araña Arao
More Filipinos Unhappy with Economy
By
Ibon Foundation
Who Owns Our Water?
By Felicisimo H.
Manalansan
Two Days in an NPA Camp
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Critical Reflections on the Filipino Diaspora and the Crisis in the Philippines
By
E. San Juan
Election 2004: Prospects for the People
By Alexander
Martin Remollino
Arroyo Continues To Lose Popularity
By Ibon
Foundation
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - LEADER OF THE BAND
By
Arkibong Bayan/BULATLAT.COM
ALTERNATIVE
READER NO. 75
COMPILED BY
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·
After Neoliberalism: Empire, Social Democracy, or Socialism?
By Minqi Li
·
Analysis of U.S. War Policy After September 11th
By Ray O. Light
Vol. 3, Special
Issue January 8, 2004
FLASH REPORT
Only U.S. Can Make Gloria Win – Ka Roger
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Vol. 3, No. 47
January 4-10, 2004
2003 Yearend
Highlights (Part II)
·
2003: A Tough Year for OFWs and Their Families
By
Aubrey SC Makilan
·
No Cause To Celebrate U.N. Decade of IPs; Development aggression, reign of
terror endangering tribal communities
By
Felicisimo H. Manalansan
ELECTION WATCH
·
High Stakes in Election Year: May 2004 polls throb with uncertainties, upheavals
By
Bobby Tuazon
·
Reconciliation for Election
By
Alexander Martin Remollino
From season of giving to season of killing:
Gov’t Troops Kill 2 Activists on Yuletide Season
By Dabet
Castañeda
Smuggling Blamed for Negros Sugar Crisis; Crisis is inevitable under trade
liberalization, solon says
By Karl
G. Ombion
Solon: Bill to Outlaw NPA Taxation is Good in a
‘Dreamworld’
By Karl
G. Ombion
Hopeful, But…: A random interview with the
person-on-the-street about 2004
By
Felicisimo H. Manalansan
Strawberry Farm: 40 Hectares of Hardship and
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