2006
NOVEMBER
Vol. VI, No. 42 Nov. 26 - Dec
2,
2006
SPECIAL REPORT
Visayan
Farmers, Landlords say CARP a Failure; Urge Overhaul
BY KARL G. OMBION
On Golloso kids' slay:
'Only
Soldiers Were in Our Village That Day'
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Canadian Envoy Tells Arroyo to Listen to Appeals on
Killings
As members
of a Canadian fact-finding mission are held by the military
By Bulatlat
Troops
in Metro: For Demolition or Rebel Hunting?
By DABET CASTAÑEDA
In
Canada: Filipino Professionals End Up in Low-Paying Jobs
BY BULATLAT
‘Going Down the Drain’
Foreign investors asked to withdraw from Arroyo’s flagship mining project
BY BULATLAT
Students Oppose Tuition Increase, Demand Refund
BY ZOFI LEAL
UP
Manila Wears Black in Fight vs Tuition, Other Increases
BY REYNA MAE TABBADA
ANALYSIS
ASEAN and
the U.S. Agenda in Asia
BY SONNY
AFRICA
As ASEAN Summit nears
Rights Abuses Intensify
in Cebu
By Emily Vital
Radio
Plugs to Educate Women on Their
Rights, End Violence
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
The Rise and Decline of the Neoconservatives in the U.S.
By Jim Lobe and Michael Flynn
CULTURE
Shared Perspectives
By Lisa Ito
DAGLI SA KRISIS
Trivia
‘bout Diff’rent Universities, Colleges in RP
(Walang Pikunan.
Joke Joke Joke Lang!)
Ni Roland Tolentino
TULA (POETRY)
How did I
Spend My First Interrogation Night?
NI AXEL PINPIN
Magpapatuloy ang Kahapon
NI RAUL FUNILAS
Moog na
Prinsipyo
NI RADO
CERVO
ALTERNATIVE READER
Has a Secret Deal Been Made in Nepal ?
BY RATAN BHANDARI
SalunggUhit
The Real Mass Graves
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
All in a
Day’s Work
Vol. VI, No. 41 Nov. 19 - 25,
2006
Farmers
Acquitted; Soldiers in Palo Massacre Face Criminal Suit
BY
JOHANN HEIN B. ARPON
LABOR WATCH
Soldiers
Harass Unions to Disaffiliate with KMU
By DABET CASTAÑEDA
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Soldiers
Nab Three Civilians in Pampanga
BY BULATLAT
Gov’t
Hiding Real Plans for Proposed Integration - Health Workers
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
ANALYSIS
Nicole’s
Ordeal is More than Rape
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
NEWS
Analysis
Macapagal-Arroyo Wants Subjectivism in Media
BY DANILO ARAÑA ARAO
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Slain
UCCP Pastor was Holding His Child when Last Seen with Soldiers
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Luisita massacre 2nd anniversary
Fight For Land and
Justice Continues
BY ABNER BOLOS
Aussie
Workers Remember Luisita Massacre, Denounce Political Killings
BY CAESAR BEN BASAN BAROÑA
To protest ASEAN Summit in
Cebu in December
Progressive Groups Mount Archipelago-wide Caravan
By Emily Vital
To Denounce U.S. Intervention
Five
Fisherfolk Leaders to Swim Mactan Channel
BY
GERRY ALBERT CORPUZ
ANALYSIS
Loyalty
to the Commander-in-Chief, Above All Else
By
the Center
for People Empower in Governance (CenPEG)
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Slain
Cagayan Peasant Leader was ‘Marked for Liquidation’
BY ABE ALMIROL
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Wounded
Pastor Still Hunted by Assassins in Hospitals
BY KIM
QUITASOL
Lawyer to the
People
BY CHERYLL FIEL
After
Scoring Killings, U.S. Firms are Dared to Match Words with Action
By
DENNIS ESPADA
‘Tagaytay 5’ Seek Immediate Release
BY DENNIS ESPADA
Not Just
for the Vain and ‘Petty’
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
STREETWISE
The
Return of Fascist Rule
BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO
BOOK
REVIEW
Robbing
the 2004 Polls
BY INA ALLECO
R. SILVERIO
DAGLI SA KRISIS
Trivia
‘bout Diff’rent Universities, Colleges in RP
(Walang Pikunan.
Joke Joke Joke Lang!)
Ni Roland Tolentino
TULA (POETRY)
Christmas
Party
NI MARK ANGELES
ALTERNATIVE READER
-
The New Media Offensive for the Iraq War
By Norman
Solomon
-
US Commander in Iraq to Face Democrats Eager for Troop Cuts
By Ann Scott
Tyson
-
The Carlyle White House
By William
Rivers Pitt
-
Richard Haass: "Iraq Is Not Winnable"
Interview by
Georg Mascolo
-
A Way Out of Iraq
By Russ
Feingold
-
Official Says US May Mull Pre-Emptive Iran Strike
By Adrian
Croft
DEMOCRATIC SPACE
Amongst the Workers of Hacienda Luisita:
A Reflection on the Life of a Pastor’s Child who Offered
His Life
BY
THE CHRISTIAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIP-UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST IN THE PHILIPPINES
SalunggUhit
Derailed
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Raking In for Fun
Vol. VI, No. 40 Nov. 12 - 18,
2006
Port
Workers Gear for Strikes as Mass Lay-offs Loom
By DABET CASTAÑEDA
Swiss
Gov’t Action Sought in 2 Relief Volunteers’ Abduction
Female volunteers were
interrogated, ordered to strip by Arroyo soldiers
BY D. L. MONDELO
Despite the absence of a law to integrate GOCC
hospitals
Office Merging 5 Gov’t Hospitals in Place
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
ANALYSIS
Indicting Bush
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
ANALYSIS
U.S. Vote
vs Bush, Democrats’ Win?
By BOBBY TUAZON
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
One of
Bicol Pastor’s Killers had Army Mission Order
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Within three days in
Northern Luzon
Peasant Leader Killed; Pastor Survives Assassination Try
By Emily Vital
Ambushed
Ilocos Pastor had Death Threats
BY KIM QUITASOL
Throw out
Case vs Punks – Kin, Friends to Baguio Fiscal
BY NESTOR GUILLERMO
Militants to Commemorate 2nd Luisita Massacre Anniversary
By Gitnang Luzon News Service
Nenita
Mahinay and People’s Lawyering
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
Gov’t
Spies in State U: Threat to Academic Freedom
By
REYNA MAE TABBADA
Street University in Cebu Launched; Takes on agenda of 12th ASEAN Summit
By KAREN PAPELLERO
U.S.,
Japan May Use Asean to
Railroad Bilateral Trade Pacts
By IBON Foundation
The War
on Terror is a Deliberate Strategy to Criminalize Every Resistance against
Capitalism
By
Atty. Raf Jespers
CULTURE
Publikhaan: Making Human Rights Issues Public
BY
ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
DAGLI SA KRISIS
Buti Pa…
Ni Roland Tolentino
TULA (POETRY)
Ang
Pagdalaw sa Libingan ng mga Buhay*
NI AXEL PINPIN
Sa
Pagdalaw sa Libingan ng mga Buhay
(Tugon sa Tagaytay 5)
Ni Ronalyn Olea
Gutom
NI CORAZON CAÑETE
ALTERNATIVE READER
On
the Sentence by Hanging of Saddam Hussein
-
Hollow Victory: The Hanging of Saddam
By Ehsan Ahrari
-
Justice?
BY MICHEL
COLLON
-
Outlaw Empire Meets the Wave:
5 Questions for Our Future
By Tom Engelhardt
-
Trial a Mockery of Justice
Statement by Ramsey Clark and other defense
attorneys for President Saddam Hussein
-
Serious Doubts Raised Over Fairness of Trial
By Calum MacDonald
-
Saddam's Unindicted Co-Conspirator: Donald Rumsfeld
By Normon
Solomon
SalunggUhit
Derailed
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Floating Car
Vol. VI, No. 39 Nov. 5 - 11,
2006
Enter Our Aussie Military Mates
BY CAESAR BEN BASAN BAROÑA
Constitution Not Cure-all for Mindanao Strife, Says
MILF Leader
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Medical Tourism to Lay Off Workers in 5 Public
Hospitals
By PHILIP PARAAN
ANALYSIS
Widespread Hunger
Belies Arroyo’s Growth Claims
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Mindanao Nuns Condemn Cops’ Raid of Convents,
‘Attack’ on Church People
BY BULATLAT
Lighting the Way Home for Desaparecidos
BY BULATLAT
ANALYSIS
Human Rights and the Quest for Justice
Arroyo Faces Trial for War
Crimes in The Hague
By the
CENTER FOR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT IN GOVERNANCE (CenPEG)
Related article:
Indicting the Arroyo Regime
ANALYSIS
Despite Election of
Philippines to 2 UN Bodies:
No Exoneration
of Bleak Human Rights Record
By Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
STREETWISE*
Subic Rape Case, a
Year After
BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO
MIGRANTS WATCH
For joining union
3 Filipino Welders Sacked in Australia
By CAESAR BEN BASAN BAROÑA
Sagada Produces Multi-Purpose Bio Green Fertilizer
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
DAGLI SA KRISIS
20 Good Reasons to be
‘Pinoy’ (Thought Balloons, Unang Bahagi)
Ni Roland Tolentino
DEMOCRATIC SPACE
For Harping on Improved
Credit Rating:
GMA Must Resign due to Mental Incapacity – Beltran
BY ANAKPAWIS PARTY-LIST
TULA (POETRY)
Ang Gabi ay Gabi
NI AXEL PINPIN
SalunggUhit
Who’s to Blame?
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Windmills of
Bangui
BREAKING NEWS
-
Militant Leader Survives Attempt on Life
-
Human Rights Group Chair in Eastern Samar, Assassinated
-
Army issues shoot-to-kill order on NE
peasant leader
Vol. VI, No. 38 Oct. 29 - Nov. 4,
2006
Full
Circle: The Philippines and the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Related Article:
An
Urgent Appeal to the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) of the Lelio
Basso International Foundation for the Rights and Liberation of People
(Foundation)
Political Killings Break Hearts of Filipino Expatriates
BY D.L MONDELO
Trailing Hadji Akmad Bayam
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Labor
Lawyers Bring Fight to CHR
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
Hacienda
Reyes’ Farmers Oppressed, their Rights Violated
BY DENNIS ESPADA
On the
proposed
tuition hike:
UP could be
State University No More
BY REYNA MAE TABBADA
Related Article:
‘How can students like us cope?’ – UP Grad
RP Stands
to Lose P9 B a Year in Tariff Revenues under JPEPA
BY IBON FOUNDATION
Graveyards of the Living
BY TRINA
FEDERIS
Cordillera Peoples Alliance Stronger Despite Repression
BY ABIGAIL
T. BENGWAYAN
Baguio
Drivers’ Blood Contaminated with Lead, Study Shows
BY
LYN V. RAMO
DAGLI SA KRISIS
Kailan
Uuwi ang Bangkay ni Attorney Pahilga?
Ni Roland Tolentino
DEMOCRATIC SPACE
Light
a Candle for the Disappeared
BY DESAPARECIDOS
No
Justice Yet for Slain Luisita Union Leader
BY RENE GALANG
TULA (POETRY)
At
Nawawala Pa Rin ang Aking Kaibigan at Kasamahan
NI PHILIP ANORICO
Lungkasan*
NI
FRANCISCO MONTESEÑA
Diyarista
NI
NOEL SALES BARCELONA
SalunggUhit
No Cause for Joy
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Peeling a
Pailful for a Pittance
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