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BY SOC JOSE SECRETARY-GENERAL, CONCERNED ARTISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 32, September 16-22, 2007 The National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) is the lead agency for policy making on culture and the arts. It...
Children in Baguio City will soon be banned from accessing online pornography and violent gaming. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 32, September 16-22, 2007 BAGUIO CITY (246 kms north of Manila) – Children here will soon be banned from accessing...
Are you looking for a gastronomic adventure in the heart of Cebu City? Are you looking for something to tame the effects of alcohol after a night out with friends? Just tell the taxi driver to bring you to DOH (Department of Health) in busy Fuente Osmeña Boulevard....
Nitong Setyembre 13, sumapit ang ika-100 anibersaryo ng kamatayan ni Macario Sakay. Isa sa mga orihinal na kasapi ng Katipunan na itinatag ni Andres Bonifacio, si Sakay ay isa sa mga namuno sa himagsikan laban sa pag-agaw ng Estados Unidos sa kasarinlang naipagwagi...
BY EMMANUEL ORTIZ Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 32, September 16-22, 2007 Before I start this poem, I’d like to ask you to join me in a moment of silence in honour of those who died in the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon last September 11th. I would also...
NI OLIVER CARLOS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 32, September 16-22, 2007 Tumangis kayo mga inang inagawan… Kayo na nagluluksa at naninikluhod… na sana’y matabunan na lang ng lupa… O bumuka ang langit upang kayo’y higupin; pailanlang sa kung saan… Tumangis...
The Arroyo administration is patting itself on the back with the recent conviction of former President Joseph Estrada, who was ousted in 2001 through a popular uprising, for plunder. But President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has no reason to congratulate herself. While...
Three peasant leaders implicated in the 2003 raid and burning of Sta. Lucia Municipal Police Station (MPS) have high hopes that they will soon be released as the verdict on the cases filed by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) of the Philippine...
The Ilocos Sur Provincial Prosecution Service provisionally dismissed the murder case against a peasant for insufficient evidence. BY ROD TAJON Northern Dispatch Human Rights Watch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 32, September 16-22, 2007 VIGAN CITY (407 km north...
Dismissing the threat by UNESCO to remove the Banawe Rice Terraces from the list of Heritage sites, Ifugao Gov. Teodoro Baguilat said, “The Ifugao people who are actually the stakeholders of the Heritage site must unify in the efforts to maintain the terraces as an...
Indigenous leaders and representatives have reason to be euphoric after the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was finally adopted on Sept. 13 before the UN concluded its 61st General Assembly. BY MAURICE MALANES Northern Dispatch Human...
Loom-weaving, to the Ilocano, has been a way of life, especially in those times before the war, when people had to spin cotton yarn out of the raw cotton plant to be able to weave a blanket or a meter of cloth to make a camisa-chino. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern...
Yearly, on September 21, the day martial law was declared, the whole nation renews its collective call for vigilance: Never Again! For most, it means never again to fascist dictatorship, to subordination of civilian to military rule, to killings and abductions and...
Sa mga panahong ito, mahalagang balikan ang konteksto ng ating pampulitikang pagkamulat para suriin kung may pag-unlad ba sa ating perspektiba at disposisyon sa buhay. Wala namang masama kung hanggang ngayon ay wala ka pa ring pakialam… kung ikaw ay isa pang...
Senators from the Foreign Relations Committee who are conducting hearings on the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) should consider provisions in the free trade pact that threaten the country's sovereignty as enough grounds not to ratify the...
In a landmark decision last September 18, a Philippine court has ordered a preliminary injunction stopping the government’s approval of a genetically modified rice in the country. BY GREENPEACE Posted by Bulatlat Democratic Space Vol. VII, No. 33, September 23-29,...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 33, September 23-29, 2007 Ang ama daw nila ay may disiplinang Ipina-iiral sa kanyang pamilya, Titing pagkasala’y grabeng magparusa – Lahat nang kapitan, inihaharumba. Sa haplit ng lupit na lintik ang sakit, Kaya...
House Resolution No. 245 directs the House Committee on Higher and Technical Education to investigate the effects of the recent increase in tuition and other fees at the country’s premier state university. BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 33, September...
A leader of the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) has raised concern over reported plans by the U.S. to impose penalties on all sugar exports from the Philippines should the Arroyo government fail to address a complaint initiated a few months back by the...
Two men who lived in different times and who died in the hands of state agents under fascist regimes were remembered and honored Sept. 20 at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani. BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 33, September 23-29, 2007 Two men who lived in different...
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