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BULATLAT ARCHIVES

2006

MAY

Vol. VI, No. 16  May 28-June 3, 2006

ANALYSIS
Death Squads, the CIA and Political Killings
in Central Luzon

BY ABNER BOLOS

RP Economy: On the Road
to Success or Perdition?

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS

Exit from Parliamentary Arena Would Be Victory for Persecutors – Satur
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Maligalig on Navy eviction:
‘This Is Going to Explode’
BY DABET CASTANEDA

This Retired Navy Officer Has No Place to Go
BY DABET CASTANEDA

Rising Tuition Pushes Youth Out of School
BY ZOFIA LEAL

Charges to Be Filed Vs LGU Officials in Lafayette MoA
BY AUBREY MAKILAN

Peasants’ Unity in Struggle
BY TRINA FEDERIS

US Intervention in RP Stronger on 7th Year of VFA
BY EMILY VITAL
Protests, Int’l Alarm Mark Beltran's Third Month in Illegal Detention
BY LISA ITO

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Sorsogon Provincial Board Condemns Political Killings
BY ANGEL AYALA

Commentary
Abductions, Torture, Killings and Lies: All in a Day’s Work for the Mercenary AFP
BY DEE AYROSO

STREETWISE
Cover-up
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo

Tagaytay 5: Adjusting to ‘Unimaginable’ Life
BY DENNIS ESPADA

Journalists’ Group Calls on Colleagues to Fight Back
BY ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO
Still No Peace in War-torn Sulu
BY JHONG DE LA CRUZ
Punks’ Counsels to File Arbitrary Arrest vs. Captors
MIGRANT WATCH
Tragedy of an Overseas Worker
BY JOHNNY FIALEN
Back from Lebanon, a Davao OFW’s Nightmare
By Jeffrey B. Javier
Leyte NGO Appeals for Stop to Military Operations
BY BULATLAT
GMA’s ‘Heckler’ Charged with Public Disturbance
BY DENNIS ESPADA

TULA (POETRY)
Uyaying Naghahanap ng Radikal na Kantor
NI E. SAN JUAN, JR.

Government’s “30 pieces of silver mentality” Allows Mining Disasters across the Country

Democratic SPace

By Sr. Ma. Carmen Diane T. Cabasagan, RGS, Initiator, Panalipdan! Mindanao

Salungghit
Denying the Obvious

PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Loaded and Dangerous 

BREAKING NEWS
Bayan Muna Officer Killed in Laguna

Journalists Bid Farewell to Slain Colleague

 

Vol. VI, No. 15  May 21-27, 2006

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Rights Groups Blame Killings on Military’s Oplan Bantay Laya
BY DABET CASTANEDA
ANALYSIS

Murder, She Wrote
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS

Space for Progressives in Parliamentary Arena is Constricting - Casiño
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Automatic Tuition Hikes Allowed
BY ZOFIA LEAL

PHOTO ESSAY

Cry Justice!
PHOTOS BY AYA SANTOS

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

‘State of War’ Displaces, Terrorizes Hundreds
By Cheryll D. Fiel and Grace S. Uddin

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S WATCH

Kalinga People Resist Corporate Mining
BY LYN V. RAMO, NORDIS

Alarmed over the killings
European NGO Asks DND for IP Leader’s Protection

BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S WATCH

CPDF Call in Kalinga: Fetad vs. the AFP, Mining Transnationals
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW

Vendors Resist Eviction in Tacloban City
BY JOHANN ARPON

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

One year after:
Justice Still Eludes Slain UCCP Pastor

BY JOHANN HEIN B. ARPON

Chinese Revolutionists Salute Filipino Comrades
BY GO BON JUAN

TULA (POETRY)
Politiko sa Pinas

NI REY TAMAYO, JR.

alternative reader no. 131

-They Track Journalists, Don't They?
By Amy Goodman

-Time to Call Bush on Lawbreaking
By Jesse Jackson

Democratic SPace

On Da Vinci Code

By Norma P. Dollaga

General Secretary

Kapatirang  Simbahan Para sa Bayan

(KASIMBAYAN)

Salungghit
Who Kills Who? 

PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Wet Season

 

Vol. VI, No. 14 May 14-20, 2006

 

Batasan 5: Short-lived Freedom?
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

MIGRANT WATCH

A tale from a Saudi jail
‘Para Kaming mga Baboy’ (We Were Like Pigs)

BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN

The Power of Collective Action
Cagayan Valley Farmers Reap Fruits of Struggle

BY DEE AYROSO

Analysis
The Fallacy of the Population Theory

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Destabilizing’ Artists
BY DENNIS ESPADA

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Missing: No. 23 in the DoJ Rebellion List
BY BULATLAT

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Gov’t, Military Attack Workers' Rights Int’l Labor Mission
BY ABNER BOLOS

Justice Eludes Children of Slain Journalists
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

STREETWISE
Travesty of Justice
BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO

Carol Araullo: A Streetwise Mom
BY GUIA ABAD AND ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

China Today: Miserable but Not Hopeless
BY EMILY VITAL

Globalized Terror and the Postcolonial Sublime: Questions for Subaltern Militants
BY E. SAN JUAN, JR.

Meet Carlo, High-Flying Entrepreneur
By Jeffrey B. Javier
alternative reader no. 131

Bolivia Defends Gas Industry Takeover
BY AL JAZEERA
TULA (POETRY)
Patawad Bayan at Kita’y Nilisan
NI RAUL FUNILAS
Democratic SPace

Sexual Harassment at SM Baguio
BY
ANGELICO MERCADER, Communications Head, Office of the Secretary
, Department of Education

Salungghit
Workers’ Burden

PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Majestic Beauty Contrasting Reality

BREAKING NEWS

Independent Body to Probe Political Killings Pushed
Death Squad Kills 97th Victim in CL

 

Vol. VI, No. 13 May 7-13, 2006

 

Gov’t Fast-tracking Our Arrest - Satur  
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Analysis

Saving Democracy
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS

Hacienda Luisita Farmers Demand Full Land Distribution
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Gov’t Urged to Nationalize Oil to Solve Crisis
Experts say gov’t always resorts to political solutions
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN

PHOTO ESSAY

Face-off after 1017
PHOTOS BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN

Int’l Labor Mission ‘Alarmed’ by Rising Rights Violations
BY KARL G. OMBION AND RANIE AZUE

Tambisan sa Sining
Promoting Social Awareness of and for Workers through Arts 

BY GUIA ABAD

Selling Goods to Survive
By Trina Federis

Special Report

Tobacco Farmers Struggle Vs Exploitation
BY ZOFIA LEAL

Colet Mines Presents ‘Clear and Present Danger,’ Mining Engineer Says 
BY KARL G. OMBION

MIGRANT WATCH

Primero de Mayo: ‘A Day without Immigrants’ in the U.S.
Millions take to the streets as consumer boycotts, work stoppages paralyzed industries

By Nicanor Segovia

Pride of Ilocanos–Giant Rice Cake, Dinengdeng
BY ACE ALEGRE

Breastfeeding: Healthy, Economical, Pure
BY AUBREY MAKILAN

Carlos Bulosan, the Revolutionary Potential of the Filipino Peasantry, and the Limits of American ‘Leftist’ Liberalism*
BY E. SAN JUAN, JR.

ILPS Honors Daniel Boone Schirmer as an Outstanding Anti-Imperialist Fighter
BY JOSE MARIA SISON

TULA (POETRY)
Pag-aaklas 
NI REY TAMAYO, JR.

alternative reader no. 131

Bolivia Defends Gas Industry Takeover
BY AL JAZEERA

TULA (POETRY)
Dalmatian Diona
NI RAUL FUNILAS

Democratic SPace
Sexual Harassment at SM Baguio
BY
ANGELICO MERCADER, Communications Head, Office of the Secretary
, Department of Education

Salungghit
Workers’ Burden

PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Majestic Beauty Contrasting Reality 

 

 

BREAKING NEWS

11 OFWs in Saudi Face Detention Tomorrow

3 Activist Leaders Killed, 1 Wounded, 1 Missing in 3 Days

CCTA to Sue Arroyo for Poll Fraud before UN Human Rights Body

 

Vol. VI, No. 12 April 30 - May 6, 2006

ANALYSIS
May 1st, a History of Struggle
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS

LABOR WATCH

Contractualization a Bane to Workers – KMU
By Marya G. Salamat

Related article:

Contractual Workers: Always Underdogs?
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

LABOR WATCH

Minimum Wage Workers, Struggling to Live
BY TRINA FEDERIS

LABOR WATCH

Amid High Living Costs and Growing Poverty:
Workers’ Demand for Decent Wages Becomes More Urgent

BY JENNIFER DEL ROSARIO-MALONZO

LABOR WATCH

Deadly Workplace
BY MARYA SALAMAT

Rape Victims Viewed as “Dirty Women”
BY GUIA ABAD

Sky high oil prices and full-blown Iran war:
Is the Arroyo Regime Up to the Challenge?  
BY ARNOLD PADILLA

SC declares CPR unconstitutional
Protesters File Charges vs. PNP

BY EMILY VITAL

Maria Theresa Pangilinan
The Latest ‘Youth Idol’ Is GMA’s ‘Heckler’

BY DENNIS ESPADA

Mindanao Groups Call for Alternative Mining Policy, Reject Cha-cha
BY TYRONE VELEZ

Unity Key to Winning Struggles
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW

On Mount Apo, Trails of Waste and Destruction
By Keith Bacongco

Memories of a Tulì
BY DEE AYROSO

Indigenous Internationally
BY CAESAR BEN BASAN A. BAROÑA

NEWS AT A GLANCE

-Faculty, Students Protest Fee Increases in UP Medicine

-Rights group starts legal offensive vs. violators

-Partylist accuses Oplan Bantay Laya responsible for deaths of 2 Bicol members

-Labor leader wounded in ambush

TULA (POETRY)
Dalmatian Diona
NI RAUL FUNILAS

alternative reader no. 129

In Deregulation of Electric Markets, a Consumer Pinch
By Mark Clayton

Exxon Mobil Profit Rises on Soaring Prices
BY Reuters

European Inquiry Says CIA Flew 1,000 Flights in Secret
By Dan Bilefsky

Democratic SPace

History and Unity in Cordi Peoples’ Struggle
BY atty. william f. claver,
Founding chairperson, Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance

Salungghit
Workers’ Burden

PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Free Swim

 

 

BREAKING NEWS

-Batasan 5 Leave House, Hailed as ‘People’s Heroes’
-Bishops Call for Broad-based Unity vs. Cha-Cha
-Makati Court Junks DOJ Charges vs Batasan 5, Others
-Journalists decry killings, vow to fight for press freedom

-Workers Stage 1st Big Rally After CPR Junking