By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld As the State-of-the-Nation Address of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III aka “Pnoy” approaches, we are witness to frenzied attempts by his three-headed communications group to orchestrate the “messaging” emanating from Malacanang that will be capped by Monday’s SONA. Nothing exemplifies the hollowness of the group’s claims that under the…
Day: July 28, 2011
Satur C. Ocampo | Time to act for human rights
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “In 2006 and 2007, when the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and several other major donors publicly raised their concerns over the politically motivated killings under then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the number of killings dropped drastically. Under President Aquino, though, it is…
Patikul: Where children’s dreams are taken away from them
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com PATIKUL trailer MANILA — For most Filipinos, education is deemed as the key to a better life and a better future. But in Patikul, Sulu, a town south of the Philippines, the children trek a dangerous road just to get an education. This pushed multi-awarded director Joel Lamangan to…
Aquino’s SONA does not reflect people’s plight in Southern Tagalog–Bayan-ST
By CHRISTIAN REY BUENDIA Bulatlat.com President Benigno Aquino III’s second State of the Nation Address (Sona) delivered last July 25 may have exceeded 6,000 words, yet his speech was “merely filled with convenient lies and half-truths, useless embellishments and hollow rhetoric,” Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Southern Tagalog (Bayan-ST) Secretary-General Leo XL Fuentes said. He added that Aquino’s…