Twenty-seven leaders and members of people’s organizations in Southern Tagalog, including a labor lawyer, were charged with arson, destruction of property and conspiracy to commit rebellion. The activists said this is but part of the ‘legal offensive’ of Malacañang, which is meant to derail the people’s movement in the region. BY RONALYN V. OLEA HUMAN…
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Bill Pushes for Gov’t Use of Free Software
A bill mandating the government to use free/open source software (FOSS) has been filed at the House of Representatives. Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casiño said the use of FOSS will help the government save from its spending on computer software and licenses. BY BULATLAT Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño, principal author of House Bill No.…
Oil Firms Must Reveal Pricing Mechanisms – Solon
BY Bulatlat.com August 25, 2008 – 1:35 p.m. A party-list representative said that oil companies, especially the Big Three oil players, should reveal their pricing mechanisms to Congress. Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casiño warned the Pilipinas Shell, Chevron Philippines [formerly Caltex], and Petron to stop ‘deliberately withholding vital information or face sanctions from Congress. Tomorrow,…
Satur: Domain Pact Could Lay Trap for MILF
The Memorandum of Agreemment on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) that was supposed to be signed by the GRP and the MILF has a trap laid by the U.S. for the Moro revolutionary group, a progressive legislator said. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 The Memorandum of Agreemment on Ancestral Domain…
Bayan Muna Member Slain in Compostela
BY Bulatlat.com Posted 6:43 p.m., Aug. 16, 2008 Bayan Muna (People First) organizer Wawie Dutarot was shot to death, around 1:00 p.m. yesterday by two armed men on board a motorcycle in Monkayo, Compostella Valley. Dutarot is the 132nd Bayan Muna member killed under the Arroyo government. In a statement, Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo…
GMA Can’t Boast of Progress, Solon Says at SONA Rally
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Posted 7:15 p.m., July 28, 2008 Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo cannot make any realistic claim of progress today, a representative of the party-list group Bayan Muna (People First) said today at the rally against the State of the Nation Address (SONA). In his speech at the rally in Quezon City, just…
A Disgrace
From fair-haired boy to whipping boy, from a position of influence to becoming a disgrace – such is the fate of Commissions on Elections (Comelec) Chair Benjamin Abalos Sr. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 34, September 30 – October 6, 2007 From fair-haired boy to whipping boy, from a position of influence…
Murder, She Wrote
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com To date, there have been 601 cases of political killings. Political killings or assassinations may be the appropriate term to describe it. But the way these killings were carried out, the use of authority and superior force over an unarmed and unknowing civilian, is worse than murder. And murder is a…
Left Behind: The Political Education of Jeppie Ramada
Bayan Muna’s Jeppie Ramada lost in his bid for a council seat. Bayan Muna itself ended up second to Kalahi, the party-list group of the Nograleses that allegedly bought votes massively. It’s a disappointing loss, Bayan Muna concedes, but one that is very instructive for the Left. BY MARILOU M. AGUIRRE Davao Today Posted by…
In New Bataan, Canvassing Snags — From Threats to Blackouts
BY CHERYLL D. FIEL Davaotoday.com Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 15, May 20-26, 2007 DAVAO CITY — The canvassing of votes in New Bataan, Compostela Valley province, hit another snag when a congressional candidate filed a petition Wednesday seeking the transfer of the canvassing to another venue. Joselito B. Brilliantes, who is seeking a…
State of Wretchedness
What was done to Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Satur Ocampo – roused from sleep at dawn on March 19 and dragged into a plane that would have brought him to Leyte, where spurious multiple murder charges are filed against him and others – can be taken as a measure of the depths to which…