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BY THE CONCERNED ARTISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES Posted by Bulatlat Bulatlat.com "Peace" is an abstracted word in our society. Perhaps much of this is because "peace time" refers to that point in history when U.S. forces occupied our country. On the outside, the...
Posted by Bulatlat Bulatlat.com To: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo We are poets and other writers who fully agree with National Artist Napoleon Abueva's recent declaration calling on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to resign from her post. Her...
Bulatlat.com The undersigned faculty members of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) strongly condemn the killing last July 3 of radio broadcaster Rolando Morales of DWMD Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) South Cotabato. Morales, 43,...
Bulatlat.com The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) and its 13 million constituents along with thevast majority of the Filipino people call for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s resignation on the basis of the so-called “Gloria-gate” tapes....
WITH a vote of 32-6, including six abstentions, the faculty of the College of Law of the University of the Philippines has decided to issue a collective statement on the issue of Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's taped conversations. The statement, officially...
While protests against the continued stay of Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo heighten in Metro Manila and key cities nationwide, the workers at Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMCo) continue to fight for their rights and welfare. The management, however, with...
Journalists consider the short message service (SMS) feature of mobile phones as an effective tool to communicate with colleagues and their sources. But the experience of a Negros Occidental-based journalist shows that SMS can also be used to send death threats. BY...
Violence against progresive party-list groups continues as the number of their members and supporters killed this year has reached 56 since April 2001. The latest victim was no less than the vice mayor of a town in Pangasinan, 200 kms north of Manila. BY JHONG DELA...
Even prior to the public statement of 10 Cabinet members that the President should resign, the sentiments of the youth are already for her removal from office. A recent youth survey shows that the youth find the President as largely an ineffective leader due to her...
OFWs press for Arroyo’s ouster Two major migrant workers groups launch “No Resign, No Remit” campaign to press for the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat Bulatlat.com “No Resign, No Remit.” Migrante International and Migrante...
For the last 30 years, the Philippine economy, and all administrations from the time of the dictator Marcos to the present, have been propped up by the remittances of overseas Filipinos. This means, the country’s economy is saved from eventual collapse by the...
The crisis of the ruling system has become so grave that the ruling classes can no longer rule in the old way. The people want a revolutionary change of government, in which the toiling masses of workers and peasants obtain and exercise their due share of political...
The most recent calls by the country’s business elites for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to step down only underscore her far-reaching failures as an economist. Coming on top of mounting popular unrest because of the people’s worsening condition over the last...
Posted by Bulatlat As calls mount for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's resignation, PATRIOTS enjoins all Filipinos to unite for meaningful alternatives to her government. We join the people's clamor for GMA to step down for she has totally lost the moral and...
Macapagal-Arroyo’s own political allies who have asked her to resign the presidency now pit themselves against the clamor for a people’s transitional governing council. Not that their call for resignation is a retrogressive move; it’s simply that they loathe the...
The Committee for the Defense of Lawyers (CODAL) July 8 said it finds without legal and constitutional basis the threats by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo against mass actions calling for her to step down. BY BULATLAT Bulatlat.com The Committee for the Defense...
Mammoth rally set on July 13 The calls of various sectors and classes for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to resign have widened the rift between the ruling elite and have hastened her impending ouster. But militant groups say these will never be enough to kick...
Two important mass actions in July will happen in Manila and the Southern Tagalog-based protesters are expected to make their voices heard. BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat Bulatlat.com CALAMBA CITY – Protesters from the Southern Tagalog (ST) region are expected to lend...
Youth alliances to hold daily protests President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has stood firm on her decision to stay, but the organized youth are calling on her to resign. The demand for her removal from office has grown to the point where daily protests are set to be...
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