East meets west and art finds a cause. The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) will hold “Legal Legato”, a piano concert on July 24, 2012, Tuesday at 6:30 to 8:00 o’clock in the evening at the Aldaba Recital Hall, Magsaysay St., University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. Proceeds go into NUPL’s programs and…
Day: July 19, 2012
Maita Gomez (1947-2012): Beauty transfigured
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO “The new woman, the new Filipina, is first and foremost a militant…She is a woman who has discovered the exalting realm of responsibility, a woman fully engaged in the making of history…” – Ma. Lorena Barros, “Liberated Women II” I only met Maita Gomez, one of two fabled beauty queens turned revolutionaries…
Radio workers in Davao, Manila hit management’s ‘illegal acts’
By MARYA SALAMAT
While the Radio Mindanao Network’s Davao workers are on strike and the Manila workers battling for the certification of its union, the management, the workers said, has been delaying the negotiations and has been trying to bust the union.
Health not priority under Aquino’s 2013 budget
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Once charity patients from indigent families without PhilHealth coverage are turned away from public hospitals, many will be forced to simply wait for death even if they are suffering from what originally were treatable diseases.”
Political arrests under Aquino rising at alarming rate
ByRONALYN V. OLEA
Not only does the Aquino government remain deaf to calls for the freedom of all political prisoners, it has continued the practice of detaining political dissenters.