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Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, the principal sponsor of the controversial Human Security Act, has a long history of making political and legal moves running counter to civil liberties and other democratic rights, and even of direct association with the forces of...
It felt a little strange seeing Donato Continente for the first time. He was completely the opposite of the Ka Donat I had in mind- tall, grim-and-determined-looking and fierce. Donato Continente, arguably the most popular political detainee of recent times is in...
A call center agent is someone who earns as much as P20, 000 ($446) a month by simply parroting spiels and buffering irate calls. S/he assumes a certain lifestyle to conform with the social strata call center agents occupy. But there is a downside to this seemingly...
Environment groups protested the appointment of former Manila mayor Lito Atienza as secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), listing his litany of sins of commission and omission against the environment. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributed to...
They voluntary submitted themselves to the local court in the hope of clearing their names. However, instead of being cleared in a September 2003 raid and burning of an Ilocos Sur police station, they were thrown behind bars. BY ROD TAJON Northern Dispatch Posted...
Health authorities in Davao are intensifying their monitoring of Chinese food products, particularly those being sold along Magsaysay Avenue (Uyanguren), following the decision by the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) to pull out candies and biscuits imported from...
Are the Fundamentals of the Economy Strong? Economics is purportedly the strong point of Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s administration. She has declared that the country is well on its way of achieving “First World” status in the next one to two decades; and the...
Arroyo’s State of the Nation 2007: A Legacy of Economic Decay In the face of its glaring failures, the Macapagal-Arroyo administration continues to pursue the very same bankrupt economic policies that caused these in the first place By IBON Foundation Posted by...
Human Rights Summit and Tensions within Branches of Government The recently held human rights summit took the first agonizing step towards finding solutions to the epidemic of extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances. The solutions proposed will pit...
On The Presence of Filipinos in the United States and Other Essays by E. San Juan, Jr. (Salinas, California: SRMNK Publishers, 2007. 114 pp., $12.50) BY JEFFREY ARELLANO CABUSAO* Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28, 2007 Toward the end of their...
The Philippines is a multi-lingual and multi-cultural nation given its 172 languages but emphasis is given only to the two languages. This, said Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoli, is a reminder that we have not done enough. BY MARICAR CINCO Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII,...
BY KAREN PAPELLERO Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28, 2007 (alang kang Karen Empeño) (for Karen Empeño*) ang buwan nga mosilang, mosalop the moon that rises and sets sama sa adlaw like the sun, ginatawag nga buwan usab did you also call it as...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28, 2007 Bago pa mamatay ang lawa ng Laguna. Aking itataon ang pagtatanong ngayong tag-ulan, Dahil nagtutubig ang aking tainga. Yagit ako at dugyot na laging inaaninaw Ang katanungan sa nakabibinging...
Dubious and Dishonorable* One does not have to look very far to see how “terrorist”-labeling under the aegis of the U.S.-led “war on terror” has been used for dubious and dishonorable political ends that have little to do with combating the scourge of real...
Live-in caregiver Elenita Pailanan died after an emergency operation in Canada. Philippine Consulate officials refused to help; and Filipino migrant groups rush to raise funds for her repatriation. BY AUBREY MAKILAN MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 24, July...
Despite the government and the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) consistent denial that they have Jonas Burgos in custody, unidentified men, suspected to be military intelligence agents, have been mysteriously tailing the Burgos family ever since the start of...
The joy of remembering one’s childhood is irreplaceable. But unfortunately, this is not the case for the thousands of Filipino children whose recollection of childhood is tainted with fear, trauma, and distress. Even worse, some never had the chance of building up...
The world’s educators have called on their fellow educator, no less than President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, to end extrajudicial killings – the victims of which included nine teachers – and enforced disappearances. BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Vol....
(Isang Pagsubok sa Diyalektika ng Kritika ng Sandata at Sandata ng Kritika, ayon kay Karl Marx) NI E. SAN JUAN, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 25, July 29-Aug. 4, 2007 [Para kay Karolina] Pambihira ka Matatag matingkad mabagsik ang luntiang apoy sa iyong...
NI RICHARD GAPPI Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 25, July 29-Aug. 4, 2007 Mga mamamayan at artista ng daigdig: Noon, nang bumagsak ang bomba- atomika sa Hiroshima, may “isang anino na ibinakat ng araw sa hagdan sa harapan ng isang gusali, na inupuan ng pagal...
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