POSTED BY BULATLAT January 31, 2008 – 12:43pm Six students were arrested while 24 others — including a teacher — were injured after police dispersed a rally against what a Malacañang-led education summit. Joanna Rose Adenit and Emman Montado of the Philippine Normal University (PNU), Crimson Laglera of Anakbayan-Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Alvin Cerrano [...]
Tuesday, January 29, 2008BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat January 29, 2008 – 12:21pm Members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) and allied organizations held a picket protest in front of the SMX Convention Center in Manila, venue of the Energy Summit, earlier today. “We doubt that the people’s legitimate concerns on energy including cheaper oil prices [...]
Tuesday, January 29, 2008BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat January 29, 2008 – 3:11pm Bayan Muna (People First) representatives filed today House Bill No. 3442 seeking the exemption of oil from the 12-percent restructured value-added tax (RVAT). “We have set into motion the process of removing the VAT on oil, something which can emanate only from the House of Representatives,” [...]
Saturday, January 26, 2008It’s just like a scene in a cartoon where the characters stumble on one another in a comic display of ineptness. After bungling the handling of the investigation of the Glorietta 2 explosion, and the siege of the Manila Peninsula during the Trillanes-Lim standoff, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has once again showed its programmed [...]
Saturday, January 26, 2008Glossed over in the frenzy to see who the leading presidentiables are is what political agenda they are bringing into this race for power, what they stand for with regard to issues most urgent to the people, and who the probable major beneficiaries are from their candidacies. The electorate deserves no less than the whole [...]
Saturday, January 26, 2008Whatever be the final judgment on Cardinal Sin’s controversial intervention in the political arena, the fact is the bishops cannot isolate themselves from what is going on and cannot continue to remain silent, wittingly or unwittingly serving as props to a regime widely perceived to be illegitimate, morally bankrupt and the cause of intolerable hardships [...]
Saturday, January 26, 2008A Columban priest who stole headlines in local and international media in the 1970s and 1980s for his staunch defense of the poor especially the sugar workers said that the social, economic and political conditions of Negros today remain substantially the same. By KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 50, January 27-February 2, 2008 [...]
Saturday, January 26, 2008The Lakbayan gave us renewed strength to continue on fighting for our land in the knowledge that we are not alone in the struggle and in fact, one with the majority of the people,” said Zaldy Alfiler, a farmer from Ilocos and secretary general of Solidarity of Peasants Against Exploitation. BY ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat Vol. [...]
Saturday, January 26, 2008The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) issued an order Monday assuming jurisdiction for compulsory arbitration over the labor conflict between the University of the Cordilleras’ (UC) employees’ union and the management. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 50, January 27-February 2, 2008 BAGUIO CITY (246 kms. north of [...]
Saturday, January 26, 2008Its doors’ being open to as many Filipinos as possible is a major factor in its lead as an educational institution. But there’s also the fact that as a state university, UP’s educating the poor would seem to be a considerable part of its mandate. BY LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point / Business World Posted [...]
Saturday, January 26, 2008NDFP chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison’s listing as a “foreign terrorist” in 2002 brought about the suspension of his benefits and pension, and restrictions on his right to travel. “But I turn a bad thing into a good thing,” he said. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 50, January 27-February 2, 2008 [...]
UP, artists reiterate call for release of Ericson Acosta (Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea and Fred E. Dabu)
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