2007
MARCH
Vol. VII, No. 8
March 25-31, 2007
Nobel
Laureate Supports 2nd Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Session on RP
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Filipino
Church Leaders Bring Issue of Slays before Int’l Bodies
BY EMILY VITAL
Oplan
Bantay Laya: U.S.-Arroyo Regime’s ‘Final Solution’
BY CAPTAIN DANILO P. VIZMANOS,
PN (RET.)
Bayan
Muna to File Raps vs. ‘False’ Leyte Witnesses
BY
KAREN PAPELLERO AND
JOHANN HEIN B. ARPON
Ex-PMA
Prof, Cordi Militants Call Arroyo
‘Doble-Kara’
BY
LYN V.
RAMO
ANALYSIS
Like
Thieves in the Night
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
ELECTION WATCH
The
Senatoriables: How They Stand on Major People’s Issues
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
The Other Cayetano
BY GRACE UDDIN
LABOR WATCH
Labor
Groups Say 10% Pay Hike Not Enough
BY
AUBREY MAKILAN
'DENR
decision unscientific, haphazard, and fraught with technical loopholes'
Experts Find No
Scientific Basis for Rapu-Rapu Mine Re-opening
BY
LISA ITO
World Water Day:
Unequal Water Distribution Behind ‘Water Crisis’
BY ARNOLD PADILLA
11 years living in mining disaster:
Marinduque Victims
Still Cry for Justice
By Marinduque Council for Environmental
Concerns (MACEC)
A Gift of
Health from Cuba
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S WATCH
Ibalois, Victims of Historical
Injustice; Laws failed to recognize ancestral land rights
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
HISTORICAL COMMENTARY
`Marcha
de Cadiz’ and José Rizal’s Execution
BY ROSALINDA N. OLSEN
TULA (POETRY)
Mga
Demonyong Pakawala ng Malakanyang
NI BIENVENIDO LUMBERA
Wanted: Hi-Speed Sewer
NI AXEL PINPIN
Red
Scare
NI MARK ANGELES
DEMOCRATIC SPACE
High-handed and Arbitrary
BY THE NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS OF THE
PHILIPPINES (NUJP)
AFP the Real Perpetrator of Mass Graves
By Pamilya ng Desaparecidos para sa Katarungan (DESAPARECIDOS)
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Not a War Dance
BREAKING NEWS
Victims’ Kin Welcome Guilty Verdict on Arroyo, Bush by Int’l
Tribunal
Vol. VII, No. 7
March 18-24, 2007
Witness to Murder Case vs. Ocampo was a
Desaparecido
BY KAREN PAPELLERO
Kapila Ilubong Ang Patay?
(How Often will You Bury the Dead?)
BY KAREN PAPELLERO
PHOTO ESSAY
The Arrest of Ka Satur
BY DABET
CASTAÑEDA
Kabataan Party Nominees Harassed by
Military
BY ZOFIA LEAL
ANALYSIS
A Curse to Democracy
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Related article:
Someone else’s windows:
Repression Plain and Simple
Dirty Air, Dirty Air Monitoring?
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Economy not
improving
Independent Think-Tank Belies Arroyo’s Claims of Economic ‘Gains’
BY IBON FOUNDATION
ANALYSIS
Crossing the Bridge
By the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
Related article:
'Let the Stones Cry Out’: An Ecumenical Report on Human Rights in the
Philippines and a Call to Action
STREETWISE
Reign of Impunity
BY
CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO
MIGRANT WATCH
Miners Falsely Accused
and Imprisoned in Saudi Arabia
Feels neglected and betrayed by the government
BY
LYN V. RAMO
Advocacy Groups Critical of Changes in Canada’s Migrant Policy
BY SIKLAB CANADA
Fil-Ams Welcome SC Decision on Pandacan Oil Depot
BY
BULATLAT
Girl, 6, Climbs Mountains for the Environment
Posted by Bulatlat
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S WATCH
Balatoc Land Sale Threatens NL, Cordi Food Security
BY
LYN V. RAMO
NCIP Grants Balatoc Tribe Priority Right
over Ancestral Domain
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
In exchange for infra
funds
Agri Sec Asks Benguet
Farmers to Supply NCR with Veggies
BY KIM QUITASOL
Negros NGO Bags DoE ‘Green Energy-Award’
BY KARL G. OMBION
RP's Strawberry Capital Marks Strawberry
Fest
BY ACEALEGRE
Personal Essay
Retracing the Steps to an NPA Camp
BY RUDY D. LIPORADA
TULA (POETRY)
Gayuma
NI AXEL PINPIN
Ang Preso sa Pakikipagpunyagi
Ni Rey Tamayo, Jr.
DEMOCRATIC SPACE
Slavery in modern times
Confinement of Migrant Workers in
Malaysia, Condemnable
BY ASIA PACIFIC MISSION FOR MIGRANTS
Let’s Get the Debate On
By Ricky Gelido
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Rolling with the Times
BREAKING NEWS
-
‘Martial Law Na Ba?’
(Is It Now Martial Law?)
-
Harassed Bayan Muna Member Files Charges vs AFP
-
Ocampo Back in Manila
-
Son Condemns Arrest of Ka Satur
-
Ka Satur in Leyte
-
Leyte Judge Allows Ocampo to Stay
-
Ka Satur
Hastily Transferred to Leyte
Vol. VII, No. 6
March 11-17, 2007
Soldiers on Campus
Tour
For counterinsurgency operations
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
Rep. Satur Ocampo of Bayan Muna
Probably Today’s Most Wanted
BY
BULATLAT
Related article:
Bayan Muna Gets Special Award from Cebu
City Gov’t
ANALYSIS
Metro Militarization: Part of a Bigger
Plan?
BY BOBBY TUAZON
ANALYSIS
Run-up to the 2007 Elections
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
STREETWISE
Human Security Act: License to Kill
BY
CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO
The Alston Report :
What is the UN's Next Move?
BY PETER SALES
Vantage
Point
Beyond the TV Ads
BY LUIS V. TEODORO
AFP Asked to Shed Light on Rebel Leaders'
Abduction, Execution
BY
DABET CASTAÑEDA
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Soldiers Linked to Attempted Abduction in
Pampanga
BY ABNER BOLOS
A Bullet in the Head
BY MARILOU M. AGUIRRE
Cordi Rights Group Remembers First Slain
NL Activist, Hits Anti-Terror Law
BY KIM QUITASOL
MIGRANT WATCH
Stories of Abuse and Courage of Women
OFWs
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
Gasoline, Diesel Prices now more than Double
Since Arroyo became president
BY IBON Foundation
Burlesque King’: Libel Law Dooms Davao
Newsman
BY GERMELINA A. LACORTE
Breast Cancer Incidence Highest among
Filipinas in SEA
BY ACE ALEGRE AND LYN V.
RAMO
Abuse vs. Women and Children High in
Baguio
BY LYN V. RAMO
Due to community
outrage
Mining Company to Return Ancestral Land
to Balatoc Tribe
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
Bacolod Businessmen Feel Threatened by SM
Entry
BY KARL G. OMBION AND RYAN B. LACHICA
HISTORICAL COMMENTARY
One Hundred Years of Denial
BY ROSALINDA N. OLSEN
CULTURE
Rom Dongeto and the Revival of a
Protest Song
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
TULA (POETRY)
Tatlong Retorika ng Pagkamakata
NI AXEL PINPIN
Lenang Hihibok-hibok
NI MARK ANGELES
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Promised Land?
BREAKING NEWS
- Ka Satur Arrested after Filing SC Petition
-
Wives of four accused
activists:
'We
Don't Want Them Dead'
Vol. VII, No. 5
March 4-10, 2007
Guilty of Partisan Politics?
AFP Campaigns vs Bayan Muna
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
Election Disqualification: Another Demolition Job
By the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
ANALYSIS
Political Killings as State Policy:
The Logic of Killers
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
The First Session on the Philippines of the Permanent People’s Tribunal
By D. L. Mondelo
U.S. Troops’ Presence in Sulu: Civic Work or Combat Participation?
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
RP’s Fiscal Situation: Filipinos Bear Brunt of VAT, Other Reforms
By Sonny Africa
MIGRANT WATCH
In urgent need of spine operation
Paralyzed OFW Awaits Government, Employer Support
BY AUBREY MAKILAN
Roman Polintan: A Farmer at Heart
BY ABNER BOLOS
Tribal Folks Demand Right to be Consulted over Mining Claims
BY ACE ALEGRE
Ilocos Peasant Leader Charged Anew with Homicide
Militant peasant groups condemn charges as part of harassment
BY ROD TAJON
HISTORICAL COMMENTARY
Rizal and the Myth of the Golden Pancake
BY ROSALINDA N. OLSEN
A Davao Punk’s Adventure Gone Horribly Wrong
BY GRACE S. UDDIN
DAGLI SA KRISIS
Paano Magbigay ng Masamang Balita?
Ni Roland Tolentino
TULA (POETRY)
Pusong Abo
NI ROMMEL PIPOY LINATOC
DEMOCRATIC SPACE
Armed Forces Should Stop Extrajudicial Killings and Not Deflect the
Issue by Maligning My Christmas Party Pictures with Ara Mina
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison,
Chief Political Consultant, National Democratic Front of
the Philippines
Opposition to Coal Plant Construction In Subic Bay
BY SAVE SUBIC
SalunggUhit
Ill
Foreboding
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Festival Turned Sortie?
BREAKING NEWS
- Satur
to Raul and Norberto: 'You Play Dirty, Boys' |