By ANGELA MAE BUENAFE-ZE The Truth is exposed to you in that subtle roundabout way: Masked in some kind of self-righteous humility Condolences for your pity “Kawawa me” mentalities Restricted their potentialities to 8-5pm in airconditioned offices that filed the correct paperwork to hang tarpaulin signage that promises Protection of Rights. They know how to…
Day: May 4, 2017
Sapagkat tayo’y hindi lamang makata
Ni KENNETHFER NABO Hindi lamang tayo mga makatang sagana sa salita Ang isyu ng bayan ang winawagayway nating bandila Tayo rin ang tinig ng naghihimagsik na sambayanan Kasama ng masa’y moog sa bawat labanan. Tayo ang makabagong Rizal Ngunit walang pangalang nakaukit sa mga pidistal Tayo rin ang makabagong Bonifacio Mga magiting na rebolusyunaryo Naghahangad…
Davao farm workers slam Lapanday’s ‘land grabbing’
Farm workers cooperatives of Lapanday and their supporters are here in Manila and have set up a farmers’ camp in Mendiola. They want President Duterte to intercede in their land case and direct the Lorenzo family to return the lands to the agrarian reform beneficiaries.
Sociology 101: On Jokes
Sotto, in his reference to the social convention which frames solo parenthood, highlights the former’s low blow on the matter. That single mothers are the kind of women who would be sexed up and left alone to handle post-coital conditions is what the phrase “naano lang yan” means. The phrase is actually a category, a stereotype of women.
Manila Harbour Centre, a test case of the ban on labor-only contracting?
“We want to be regularized (directly) under Harbour Centre and we have filed cases against (Grasials) agency, which has been defrauding us.”
Probe trapos, mining plunderers in CA — green groups
Gina Lopez’s rejection as DENR Secretary by the Commission on Appointments shows how destructive industries continue to hold Philippine lawmakers by their necks.
Corruption of the past still haunts us
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective It has been 10 months since the Aquino administration stepped down and the Duterte Cabinet took over the reins of government and still, the Filipino people are suffering from the effects of the anomalies of the past. This is best exemplified by the problems people confront at the Department of…