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2005
JUNE
Vol. V, No. 20 June
26-July 2, 2005
OFWs Make ‘Oust GMA’ Global BY BULATLAT
The
Oldest and the Youngest in the Day of Protest
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
In the Front Line
Historic rally
to oust Macapagal-Arroyo takes off
BY BOBBY TUAZON
Edsa
Veterans on Another Edsa BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
PHOTO ESSAY
Festive but Ominous
PHOTOS BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN AND DABET CASTAÑEDA/TEXT
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
GSIS
Employees
Ask Arroyo to Quit
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
Oust-GMA
to End Mining Liberalization, Conference Declares
BY FELICISIMO H. MANALANSAN, JR.
How and What If?
On the taped
conversations, the legitimacy of the GMA presidency, and the validity of
the laws signed by GMA
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Tracking `Gloriagate’ Scandal: The First Two Weeks
By
DANILO ARAÑA ARAO
Transition Council – Answer to Crisis of Legitimacy
By Art Allad-iw
Torture
is (still) alive and well in the Philippines
BY BULATLAT
LABOR WATCH
Lepanto
Labor Row, Far from Over
BY Lyn V. Ramo and Abigail T. Bengwayan
Pagbabago?
AWIT NI
JESS SANTIAGO
NEWS AT A GLANCE
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Officials block military camp in Luisita
- Is
PhilHealth replacing the health department?
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Government by Repression
By Center
for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
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ANALYSIS
Time
for a Change
BY BOBBY TUAZON
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Revolutionary Government BY ELMER ORDOñEZ
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Enough of Gloria
BY PANININDIGAN
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Child Terrorized
SALUNGGUHIT
Unintimidating
Vol. V, No. 19 June
19-25, 2005
OFWs to
Greet Gloria in Hong Kong with Ouster Call
BY BULATLAT
Snap
Election or Transition Council?
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
ANALYSIS
Time for a Change
BY BOBBY TUAZON
Related article
Government by Repression
By Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
Justice Chief Should Probe Wiretapping – Law Professor
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
'Mobile-izing' for Arroyo's Ouster: Youth
groups use technology to expose the
truth
By
Carl Marc Ramota
Related article
Gloria’s Prayer and Other Jokes
ANALYSIS
Statistical Trick Makes 1.9 Million Jobless Disappear
BY SANDRA NICOLAS
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Samar Island in Agony
Interfaith Mission reports 2 rights violations every day
By Maureen
Japzon
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
‘I’ve Packed My Things’
Political
prisoner all set for freedom after 16 years inside prison
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
Gov’t-MILF
Peace Partly at Hand but Still Remote – Islamic Professor
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
The Price a Peace Advocate Has to Pay
BY Cheryll Fiel
LABOR WATCH
Lepanto Strike on Its 3rd Week
By Abi T.
Bengwayan
Related articles
A
Day in the Lepanto Picketlines
By
Northern Dispatch
Sharing Struggles
By
Abi T.Bengwayan
Understanding Rizal without Veneration:
Quarantined
Prophet and Carnival Impresario
By E. SAN
JUAN, Jr.
The Real Heroes of Bessang Pass
Remembering the first Filipino military victory in
World War II
By Arturo P. Garcia
NEWS AT A GLANCE
- Enough of Gloria
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‘Never again to
dictatorship’ -- KMU
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No coco compromise
for farmers
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
For Good Health
SALUNGGUHIT
A
Plague unto Itself
DEMOCRATIC SPACE
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A
Movement of Leyteños, Samareños, Biliranons in Metro
Manila in Support for the Welfare and Development of
Eastern Visayas
By UGOP WARAYNON
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Save the lumads! Stop the
military operations in Surigao Del Sur!
By
Himpad Mangalmalas,
A Manobo lumad
Vol. V, No. 18 June
12-18, 2005
Oust-Gloria Call Mounts
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
Luisita
Workers Reject GMA Expressway; Press for Her Ouster BY ABNER BOLOS
LABOR WATCH
Patience Wearing Thin for Workers; Wage hike
legislation nears 6 years
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
Currents
of Unrest at Compostela’s Big Banana Plantations
By Gilbert Pacificar
ANALYSIS
Govt's New
Statistical Trick Hides Job Losses
BY SANDRA
NICOLAS
Southern Tagalog Workers Treated Like Slaves
By DENNIS ESPADA
99 Soldiers Killed in NPA Offensives in 4
Months
30 arms confiscated in Abra province
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Bigger
Tuition Hikes Greet School Opening
By CARL MARC
RAMOTA
LABOR WATCH
Mines
Workers Defy Return-to-Work Order
BY ABIGAIL T. BENGWAYAN
Lepanto Accused of Blocking Medical Mission
Militarization
heightens as Dole orders
return-to-work
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
ANALYSIS
Under
Probe: The Lepanto Workers’ Demand for Just Wages and Benefits
BY ABIGAIL T. BENGWAYAN
NEWS AT A GLANCE
- GMA mum on OFW
sentenced to death
- Series of pickets
for power rates hike
- Japan bank
anti-poor, anti-Filipino
- Church-led mission
harassed, priests detained
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
In the Heart of Barlig
SALUNGGUHIT
17 Years Old and Getting Worse
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Vol. V, Special Edition June
6, 2005
CIDG Deputy Officer Defects to NPA; Cites massive corruption,
illegal drugs and gambling syndicates in gov’t
By Karl G. Ombion
SIDEBAR
Defector Calls for
GMA Ouster
BY JAIME ESPINA
Vol. V, No. 17 June
5-11, 2005
MIGRANT WATCH
Another OFW Sent to Death Row BY ROWENA CARRANZA
Migrant Workers and
Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995
Back-to-School Woes Worst Ever
Per capita
budget for education is P5,200 vs Japan’s P210,481, Thailand’s P46,314
By CARL MARC
RAMOTA
The
School Below Sleeping Beauty
BY MAYETTE INIGUID
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
‘Where’s My Father?’
4 children
among 20 missing persons in Samar
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
House
Scolds DLR for Delay in Luisita Probe
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
LABOR WATCH
Miners Cripple Underground Operations at Lepanto
BY ABIGAIL
BENGWAYAN
Women,
Children Back Miners' Strike
in Mankayan
BY ABIGAIL
BENGWAYAN
WTO at 10:
A Decade of Burden for Poor Countries
By John Paul Andaquig
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S WATCH
Cordillera’s Woman Peace Pact Holder
BY Arthur L. Allad-iw
Abra’s
Timmawidan and Other Healers
By Jhong dela
Cruz
NEWS AT A GLANCE
- Health group vs
‘drug lords’
- POEA officials’
‘incentive allowance’ taken from OFW funds – MSP
- Inutile anti-jueteng
campaign
ALTERNATIVE READER
115
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Bolivia:
revolutionary crisis reaches its
peak
By Jorge Martin
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Bolivia: The People Take La Paz
By Luis Gomez
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Miners, farmers, city poor join for general strike
By Leslie
Feinberg
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Bolivia is torn by the sharing of gas and oil
By Paulo A. Paranagua, translation by Siv O’Neall
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China, Venezuela and the USA - Trouble Brewing
By Saul Landau
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Making It Big
SALUNGGUHIT
School Opening Blues
Vol. V, No. 16 May 29-June
4, 2005
Analysis
Feeding
the Poor with Bullets: GMA’s economic agenda and the terror campaign
By Bobby Tuazon
International Groups Hit Political Repression in Philippines
By
BULATLAT
‘Undeclared Martial Law’ Denounced by Civil Libertarians, Legislators;
Cases of military abuse mounting
By
Gerry Albert Corpuz
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Manobo
Villages Looted by Soldiers, Persons Missing – Rights Group
By
TYRONE VELEZ
Drawing
Courage from People’s Support:
Militant
activist leader faces arrest for rebellion
By
Cheryll D. Fiel
Treated Like Animals: Demolition of 20,000 houses begins in Bulacan
By
Abner Bolos
The
‘Cemetery’ Inside the House
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
PHOTO ESSAY
Child
Workers in Sugarlandia
TEXT
AND PHOTOS by Karl Ombion
Tuition Hike
Freeze? CHEd Must Be Joking
By Carl Marc Ramota
Stakes for
Philippines High as WTO Services Talks Near Deadline
By
Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Military Chaplains to Join Church Fact-Finding Mission
6 UCCP pastors, members killed in Eastern Visayas
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
Duque is
Unfit to Be Health Chief – Health Workers
By
BULATLAT
Another Hacienda Luisita in the Making? Soldiers, paramilitary men deployed in
strike-bound Lepanto mines
BY ALDWIN QUITASOL and NIDA TUNDAGUI
Military
Behind Mayor’s Killing – NPA
By
DENNIS ESPADA
Culture
of Corruption: The Corruption of Culture
By
Concerned Artists of the Philippines
Related story:
Violence Against the Artists at the NCCA Summit 2005
NEWS
AT A GLANCE
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RP lawyers get international support
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Scientists group denounce bill to tax texters
- New health chief liable for OFW fund transfer
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Uneasy Peace
SALUNGGUHIT
Rightful Owners
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