Critics dare Aquino to turn ‘Mine Safety Week’ into reality
(Text and photos by Marya Salamat)
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Mining-related deaths, destruction haunt celebration of Mine Safety Week
By MARYA SALAMAT
“With the celebration of Mine Safety Week, the mining industry portrays itself as a socially responsible industry, but in truth it is nothing but a self-serving, destructive and exploitative industry.” – Kakay Tolentino, Dumagat spokeswoman of Katribu Partylist.
NDF urges Visayas to resist militarization and warlordism of Tan dynasty and AFP
PRESS RELEASE MANILA –The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today slammed the Tan political dynasty for using Western Samar’s possible recall elections to push militarization and warlordism. “We condemn the maneuver from the Tan dynasty through the provincial office of the Commission on Elections in asking for the deployment of the military and police to oversee…
Soldiers desecrate bodies of NPA fighters
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — In a wired press statement, the Agustin Begnalen Command of the New People’s Army in Abra Province (ABC-NPA-Abra) said that the soldiers belonging to the 503rd Brigade and the 41st Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) desecrated the bodies of eight NPA guerillas after…
Palm oil plantation grabs land, harasses farmers, indigenous peoples in Misamis Oriental
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“We lost our land, our livelihood and possibly our source of water because of them,” Consolacion Payla, 66 years old and resident of Opol, Misamis Oriental
Rights violations still possible despite deployment ban in 41 countries
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — For migrants rights group Migrante International, the recent pronouncements of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) that it is banning the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to 41 countries that have not been complying to the requisites provided under Republic Act 10022 or the law amending…
Gentrifikasyon ng Divisioria at shopping
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Kilala ang Divisoria bilang lugar na bagsakan ng mga produkto. Dati ay mga gulay at prutas na inaangkat sa food bowls ng Kordilyera hanggang Mindanao, maging ng spesyalisadong tanim tulad ng bawang sa Ilokos at niyog sa Bikol. Ngayon ay dry goods na galing sa China at iba pang lugar…
Groups say CHR insiders, lawyers likely involved in Marcos compensation scam
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The accountability of the CHR and Attys. Swift and Domingo cannot be ignored.” – Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casiño
KMU slams capitalists’ unity vs. PAL workers
MEDIA RELEASE Nov 5, 2011 MANILA — Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) condemned today business groups’ statement of support for the Philippine Airlines management whose treatment of an ongoing labor dispute hasreportedly turned violent last week. “The employers’ groups are overreacting to so-called illegal acts committed by PAL workers to hide from view the…
Photo of the week: Loaded
A daily sight in Bontoc-Banaue Road– trucks of all sizes roll up and down the road groaning under the weight of their cargo. Photo by Noel D. Godinez (Bulatlat.com)
Street Shooter: Pugeh!
Road 10, Tondo, Manila – A dog watches with interest as his human preens himself.