A Different View. A community of urban poor families living under this bridge in Balut, Tondo seems to be inured to the sound of the vehicles passing every minute of the day.
(Photo by Janess Ann J. Ellao)
A Different View
Day: July 25, 2009
Arroyo’s Legacy: Damaged Political Institutions, ‘Distorted and Disintegrating’ Economy
When Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivers what is supposed to be her last State of the Nation Address this Monday, she will probably claim that she has accomplished what she said she had set out to do in 2001 and 2004. To her critics, however, the past nine years have been “the reign of Gollum.”
Youths Give Arroyo Failing Grade
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, progressive youth groups said, should be kicked out of school because she got a failing mark. More than a thousand participants to the Pa-Siyam, a concert rally held at the Liwasang Bonifacio in Manila July 24, which was dubbed as the grand youth…
Doctors ‘Diagnose’ Arroyo: Sick, Unfit to Rule
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA — Even for lowly jobs, Filipino are required to submit proofs of clean bill of health to show that they are fit. What more for the job of president of the Philippines? In a press conference Saturday, leaders of organizations of doctors, nurses and health workers reported the result of…
Bill to Mark ‘National Campus Press Freedom Day’ Filed
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Teodoro Casiño filed on July 25 a bill that would recognize the observance of the said date as the National Campus Press Freedom Day. Aside from marking July 25 as a special day for the campus press, House Bill No. 6611, or…
How Constant War Became the American Way of Life
Younger generations of Americans are now being taught to expect no end of war — and no end of wars. It wasn’t always like that. By DAVID BROMWICH, Tomdispatch.com. International Posted by Bulatlat On July 16, in a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that the “central question”…
With Steep Prices and Depressed Wages: Filipinos’ Purchasing Power Slashed by a Third Under Arroyo
With the government’s deregulation policies and the imposition of the Expanded Value-Added Tax, the Pinoy worker’s purchasing power has been slashed by one-third. This, while the much-needed legislated wage hike remains ignored by the government, according to labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno. Citing the Consumer Price Index timeline released by the National Statistics Office, KMU…
Benjie Oliveros | Outdoing Marcos
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com MANILA — It is the State of the Nation Address once again. The true state of the country is again the subject of debates. Surely, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo would boast about the economic growth and its supposed success in shielding the economy from the impact of the world economic and…
Sick Filipina Maid, 6 Others, ‘Hostaged’ by Employment Agency in Middle East
In February, Maribel Figaroa and several other Filipino women went to Oman to work as domestic helpers. Instead of gainful employment, they ended up being abused and exploited by the placement agency that brought them there.
Cha-Cha to Worsen Environmental Degradation
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – The Arroyo regime’s plan to change the Philippine Constitution will worsen the country’s environmental destruction and will dispossess indigenous peoples even more. This was the consensus of several leaders of the environmental and IP movements in a recent forum at the University of the Philippines, where they…