Workers at Triumph Cry Repression
Day: June 18, 2009
‘Improved’ Employment Driven by Survival Instincts, Not Arroyo’s Programs
Aside from statistically concealing millions of jobless workers through the use of a flawed methodology, the Arroyo regime makes the deception worse by claiming that the job situation, because of government policies and programs, has improved despite the global crisis.
Impressions on Zambales’s Vanishing Culture
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat BOTOLAN, the Philippines — What I saw when I went to the Loob Bunga Resettlement Area in Botolan, Zambales, sometime last month was different from what I had expected to see. I had gone to Loob Bunga as one of the speakers for the first Art Camp organized by the…
CHR to Military: Explain Continued Use of ‘Orders of Battle’
In forum, CHR officials and journalists from the NUJP bewail the use by the military of OBs. CHR chairperson Leila de Lima says the AFP claimed to have stopped using OBs but replaced these with “watch lists” – and military officials could not explain to her the difference.
Gunmen Attack Media Offices in Abra
MANILA — Unidentified gunmen fired several shots at three media offices in Bangued, Abra province, last night, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) reported Thursday. At around 9 p.m. Wednesday night, two men in separate motorcycles fired at the steel gates of the St. Arnold Janssen Communication Center, which houses the Catholic-run…