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Vol. 4, No. 37 October 17-23, 2004

In observance of Peasant Week

Peasants to Stage Farm Strike, Lead Multi-Sectoral Rallies By Alexander Martin Remollino
Jail Instead of Land Certificates for 6 Negros Farmers By Karl G. Ombion
Pangasinan Peasants Re-occupy Land Near Controversial Dam By Lyn V. Ramo

How Do Filipinos Cope with the Fiscal Crisis? By Dabet Casta�eda

World Food Day and the Irony of World Hunger By Alexander Martin Remollino

COMMENTARY - On World Food Day and World Rural Women�s Day: Protect the Rights of Key Food Producers By Abigail Taguba Bengyawan

Peace in Mindanao: Still a Long Way to Go By Carlos H. Conde

SPECIAL REPORT - A Sick Health Care System By Carlos H. Conde

U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Faces Last Battle; Leyte Fisherfolk Want U.S. Navy Sunken Ship Preserved for Life By Gerardo Albert Corpuz

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Maco Four Massacre: A Year Passing in Silence By Tyrone V. Velez
�No Regrets Our Daughter Was An Activist� By Tyrone V. Velez
RPA-ABB Harasses HR Group in Quezon City By Aubrey SC Makilan

US Imperialist Plunder and War and the People�s Resistance By Prof. Jose Ma. Sison

Cultural Politics, U.S. Imperialist War of Terror, and Socialist Revolution in the Philippines By E. San Juan, Jr.

Oil Firms Earn Superprofits via Speculation By Arnold Padilla

New Philippine-Japan Trade Pact Harmful to Local Economy? By Jennifer Del Rosario-Malonza

Displaced Gold Panners Worse Off Even with Japan Aid By Lyn V. Ramo

Genetically Modified Food, Anyone?: Book review of Eat Your Genes: How Genetically Modified Food is Entering Our Diet By Alexander Martin Remollino

PHOTO OF THE WEEK - HOME NOT HOME By Dabet Casta�eda/BULATLAT

NEWS AT GLANCE

CPP condemns Palparan�s promotion to two-star general
State of health now a convenient escape route ─ Maza
FBI seizure of Indymedia servers denounced

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 90

Analysis: Seizure of Indymedia Web Servers "an Act of Global Censorship" By Alistair Coleman
FBI shuts down 20 antiwar web sites: an unprecedented act of Internet censorship Posted by Axisoflogic
Indymedia's Hardware is Returned, But Many Questions Remain By Independent Media Center

Vol. 4, No. 36 October 10-16, 2004

Will Australian PM Launch Pre-emptive Strikes in RP? By Caesar Ben Basan A. Baro�a

Special Report - Is There Life after the Riles*? �Para lang kaming mga hayop na tinapon dito� By Dabet Casta�eda

PHOTO ESSAY: Towerville By Dabet Casta�eda

Masskara Festival: From Grief to Escapism By Karl G. Ombion

Rapid Expansion of Banana Plantations Alarm Compostela Rice Farmers By Gilbert Pacificar and Grace Uddin

MIGRANT WATCH - Fil-Aussies Still Troubled by Racism, Discrimination By Caesar Ben Basan A. Baro�a

Workers Need P137 More to Meet WB Poverty Standard By Joseph S. Yu

New Taxes: The Poor Bite the Bullet, Big Tax Evaders are Untouched By Ronalyn V. Olea

Arroyo�s Tax Measures to Hit the Poor Hardest By Joseph S. Yu

Task Force Davao: A Behemoth Gone Wild By Andres Rebana

Japanese Financiers are Also to Blame for Disasters Caused by Dam By Jong dela Cruz

Davao Execs, Residents Call U.S. Consulate a Spy Post By Jetty Ayop-Ohaylan

PHOTO OF THE WEEK - PRAYER AND PROTEST By Dabet Casta�eda/BULATLAT

NEWS AT GLANCE

MIGRANT WATCH - 25 Filipino minors maltreated in Malaysia

Food coupons: a palliative solution

LABOR WATCH - No strike, no retrenchment policy favors employers - Maza

LABOR WATCH - Labor chief: Employers' spokesperson?

Vol. 4, No. 35 October 3-9, 2004

Is GSIS Under Martial Law? By Dabet Casta�eda

Related article: Winston Garcia and the Plunder of GSIS By Dabet Casta�eda

Congress: Lawmaker, Lawbreaker ? By Alexander Martin Remollino

Related article: House Workers Have No Job Security; �Why should we who work honestly be so easily dispensable?� By Alexander Martin Remollino

Solution to Crisis Rests on the Filipino People � Sison By BULATLAT

Chronic Financial Crisis and the Way Out By Prof. Jose Ma. Sison

Analysis - Bearing the Brunt of the Fiscal Crisis By Bobby Tuazon

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - Soldiers Encamp in Houses, Schools By Mars S. Marata

Agno peasants after the floods: Looking for Gold Nuggets in Flooded Fields By Lyn V. Ramo

LABOR WATCH - Flour Mill Strikers Decry Picket Dispersal By Ronalyn V. Olea

AIDS is Rooted in Poverty By Aubrey SC Makilan

Is Martial Law Really Behind Us? By Edwin Mercurio

PHOTO OF THE WEEK - THE LIGHT COSTS OF OLD By Aubrey SC Makilan/BULATLAT

2004

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 91

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 90