BY JOHNNY FIALEN Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Abigail Cabbigat, 32, is a native of Lagawe, Ifugao. She spent two years in Hong Kong and 10 months in Lebanon as a domestic helper. She escaped on February 17 this year from her employer because of grave threats on her person and violation of her employment [...]
Sunday, May 28, 2006BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat The lawyers of the 11 punks arrested last February in Buguias, this province while on their way to Sagada, Mountain Province may file a case of arbitrary detention against the Philippine National Police (PNP) officers and personnel who collared them, in addition with the criminal and [...]
Sunday, May 28, 2006BY JHONG DE LA CRUZ Bulatlat Signs that Sulu is now on the way to recovery and development are yet to come, with random bombings and killings devastating this war-torn Southern Mindanao archipelago. “Unless the government begins reviewing its security policies and stop its overblown war against terrorism, Sulu will remain in its current state, [...]
Sunday, May 28, 2006BY ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO Bulatlat Fight back! This was the call of the group National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), one of the country’s biggest groups of journalists, as it lamented government’s “lameduck” effort to curb the killings of journalists. Fight back! This was the call of the group National Union of Journalists [...]
Sunday, May 28, 2006BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat “Medyo bagong karanasan pero obligadong matutunan (It is a rather new experience and I’m obliged to learn it).” This was how 34-year-old poet Axel Alejandro Pinpin described his 30-day ordeal under police custody. “Medyo bagong karanasan pero obligadong matutunan (It is a rather new experience yet I’m obliged to learn it).” [...]
Sunday, May 28, 2006By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Business World Posted by Bulatlat At this point it should be obvious that what the Arroyo government is engaged in is another massive cover-up, this time, of official sanction for extrajudicial killings of progressives, activists and their supporters. The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) position on the spate of killings of members [...]
Sunday, May 28, 2006BY DEE AYROSO Bulatlat It’s now mid-2006, and the killings and abductions, as well as the AFP and Malacañang’s lies have yet to stop. In March 1989, Honor Ayroso, then a 21-year-old leader of the League of Filipino Students, was abducted. That week, nine other activists from Nueva Ecija also went missing. The 10 were [...]
Sunday, May 28, 2006BY ANGEL AYALA Bulatlat In a recently-passed resolution, the Sorsogon provincial board stated that the political killings in the said province have already reached “horrific proportions” and that it has “sent fear” among Sorsogueños, “whose character were inherently God-fearing and peace-loving and has been subsequently besmirched.” The provincial board of Sorsogon (604 km. south of [...]
Sunday, May 28, 2006BY LISA ITO Bulatlat
Sunday, May 28, 2006BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat Seven years after the concurrence by the Philippine Senate of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), critics reiterate the demand for the junking of the said agreement. They also hit the new RP-US accord which they say will further strengthen and widen the scope of US intervention in the Philippines. Seven years [...]
Sunday, May 28, 2006BY TRINA FEDERIS Bulatlat Peasants are usually depicted as a hardworking people, perpetually hunched over their crops, their limbs half-buried in mud. Under the scorching heat of the sun, or the lashings of the rain, they stay on, either protecting their crops, or harvesting. But who will protect this neglected sector when the powerful come [...]
UP, artists reiterate call for release of Ericson Acosta (Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea and Fred E. Dabu)
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