By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com La Trinidad, Benguet — Adlai may become the alternative to rice. Adlai is known also as “Job’s tears”, with a scientific name of Coix lacryma-jobi L.. It is a freely branching upright plant that grows up to three feet tall and is being propagated through seeds. The Bureau of Agricultural Research…
Day: August 5, 2011
You will never be history
By Alexander Martin Remollino History for you was never a mere calendar of events. Your pen was a million megaphones, loudspeaker upon loudspeaker, for the chorus of voices silenced by official histories. And now, the last page of your life is writ. But your annals are etched in stone in the people’s history. And so…
Environmental activist harassed
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com An environmental activist based in Cebu City was tailed and harassed by suspected intelligence agents on July 29 to 30. According to Task Force Justice for Environmental Defenders, Vince Cinches, country coordinator of international climate change organization 350.org, was on his way to Dumaguete City when he noticed men tailing…
Artist Mideo Cruz wants to provoke critical thought, gets death threats instead
By INA ALLECO R.SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Off with his head! Or at least boycott his exhibit. Artist Mideo Cruz is now at the eye of one of the biggest controversies in the Philippine visual arts scene. His latest work “Poleteismo” is being vilified left and right by various religious groups and influential leaders, and an ABS-CBN…
Nanay Lolit and 9/11
By JOE PENNEY
When I witnessed the Twin Towers falling while we were evacuated from school, I was in a state of shock and awe…Little did I know that 10 years later I would meet a woman whose suffering was caused by the Bush administration’s response to 9/11—not in Afghanistan nor Baghdad, but in Manila.
Somalia, when the US tried to ‘save’ the country from Somalis
By JOE PENNEY Bulatlat.com Last week I wrote an article describing how food aid has wrought havoc on Somalia’s economy for nearly four decades, and why policies of neoliberal humanitarian agencies and the corrupt semblance of a Somali government they work with have left millions of people in starvation. This week I’ll give a brief…
CARP deserves a zero budget – farmers’ group
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“While landlords receive hefty payments, massive landlessness persists in the countryside. Millions of farmers are displaced due to massive land grabbing and land use conversion. Rural poverty and hunger is on the rise.” Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano