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For Oil Firms, EO 839 Is Not Just About Dip in Profits but Potential Shift Vs. Deregulation
By ARNOLD PADILLA
To a certain degree, Executive Order 839 questioned the lies long peddled by the oil companies and staunch defenders of neoliberalism about neoliberal free market economics. If left unchallenged, EO 839 could become a precedent in policy making: that the government, in the name of public good and welfare, could take decisive action against abusive corporations.
Homeless But Not Worthless: Disaster Victims Want Sustainable Rehabilitation
By MARYA SALAMAT
Even before they were rescued off their submerged villages, the government has blamed the approximately 80,000 poor families for the unprecedented flooding in Metro Manila.
Street Shooter: Back to … School?
Back to … School?
As Relief Efforts Continue, Progressive Groups Rely on People’s Kindness
By MAO HERMITANIO Contributed to Bulatlat.com Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng may have left the country last month but the need for relief and rehabilitation efforts have not subsided especially in Central Luzon provinces devastated by the surging flood. Volunteers of Tulong Anakpawis from Kilusang Mayo Uno, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, Anakpawis Partylist, Task Force Obrero…
Ondoy Survivors at Ultra Victimized Twice Over
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
As if the trauma of losing their homes and belongings were not enough, evacuees at the PhilSports Arena, formerly known as the Ultra, faced more problems as the government seemingly backtracked on its promise to relocate the displaced families. Worse, the Pasig government allegedly had to use underhanded means to force the refugees to leave.
News in Pictures: Ondoy Survivors in Ultra Decry Treatment
With their homes washed away by the flood, children in Ultra find ways to entertain themselves through improvised “toys.” (Photos by Janess Ann J. Ellao / bulatlat.com ) A sister taking care of her younger sibling as their parents leave them for a while to find something to eat. Kitchen, living room, dining hall, all…
Coal-Fired Plants Undermine Arroyo’s Approval of Climate-Change Law
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The Arroyo administration will have to work extra hard to prove that it is sincere in addressing climate change and its impacts. Signing the climate-change bill into law is one thing – approving the operation of coal-fired power plants, which have been identified as one of the dirtiest power-generation methods, makes a mockery of it.
Help Comes to Devastated Folk of Laguna Town but They Fret Over What Comes Next
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
With the flooding after Ondoy and the blaming of poor peasants and fisherfolks around the Laguna de Bay, many in Pila, Laguna, fear that the demolition of their homes is now just a matter of time.
Class and Ondoy: The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Ideological Distortions
By GILL H. BOEHRINGER
By seeking to convince its readers that the effects of Ondoy were “felt equally by rich and poor” and that it was a “great equalizer,” the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the most influential newspaper in the Philippines, was attempting to bolster the view that the Filipino class system had nothing to do with the disaster, and that the lives of all Filipinos are shaped by the same forces of nature, even by fate or by God.
Amid Threat to Food Security, Government Opens More Farm Lands to Foreign Firms
MANILA — The recent typhoons highlighted land and crop use conversion as a factor in worsening the effects of disasters on food production and the need to ensure adequate land for food production. However amid all these, government has reserved more hectares of agricultural land for export crops and use of foreign agro-corporations. According to…