PRESS RELEASE October 18, 2010 STA.ROSA, LAGUNA –Sa kabila ng bantang pananalanta ng bagyong Juan, magiting at walang alinlangang nagmartsa ang humigit-kumulang isang libong mga magsasaka upang simulan ang apat na araw na kilos-protesta patungong Mediola na tinaguriang “Lakbayan ng Magsasaka Laban sa Hacienderong Rehimen ni Noynoy Aquino.“ “Alam naming mas matindi pang mga bagyo…
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Demolition of Shanties Are Also Happening in Baguio City
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Without any place to stay right after the demolition of some 400 shanties, residents of the urban poor community decided to spend the night on the streets while others asked relatives and friends to accommodate them temporarily.? There were a few who contemplated to set up a…
Foreign Mining Companies Deceive, Force People to Agree to Operations
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The results of two environmental investigative missions belie the declaration of President Benigno Aquino III that local communities would decide whether to allow mining operations in their area or not. In South Cotabato, Aquino was reported to have mediated to reverse the decision of the local government disallowing mining in their jurisdiction.
‘Punish Soldiers Who Killed Negros Labor Organizer,’ Aquino Told
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The Department of National Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines, which often dismiss accusations that soldiers are involved in extrajudicial killings, admitted that the suspected perpetrators in the extra judicial killing of Bayan Muna Negros member Benjamin Bayles are members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines(AFP). But this happened, Karapatan said, only after their own investigation revealed the true identities of the suspects.
News in Pictures: Peasants Say CARPer Root Cause of Landlessness, Poverty and Hunger
Farmers from Negros, Southern Tagalog, Tungkong Mangga and Hacienda Luisita protested in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform office in Quezon City on Saturday, and blamed the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPer) for causing massive landlessness, poverty and hunger, marking what they dubbed as World “Foodless” Day.
Brazil’s Elections Will Matter for the Rest of the World
By MARK WEISBROT Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil – In Brazil, as in the United States, most people do not vote for a president on the basis of foreign policy issues. Yet sometimes the result matters for the rest of the world – as when President George W. Bush was…
Deconstructing Israeli Media Distortions
By IRA CHERNUS Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com It’s a rather ordinary, run-of-the-mill piece of Israeli government propaganda – an op-ed in The New York Times, October 14, by Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. Precisely because it is so typical, it’s a fine specimen to deconstruct, to see how Israeli propaganda works.…
Chile’s Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued
by John Pilger Truth-Out.org Posted by Bulatlat.com The rescue of 33 miners in Chile is an extraordinary drama filled with pathos and heroism. It is also a media windfall for the Chilean government, whose every beneficence is recorded by a forest of cameras. One cannot fail to be impressed. However, like all great media events,…
Soneto sa Anino
Ni RICHARD GAPPI Bulatlat.com Alkansaya ka kung saan isinusuksok Mga larawan ng ligaya at lungkot Habang may awit nang tila nabubulok Halimuyak sa akin kung diwa’y lugmok. Dahil anino kang kambal at kasalo Kung kaya ako ngayo’y nagiging tao Itim sa puti’y tingkad sa pagkatao Puti sa itim madaling natatanto. Kung ang bayan walang ipon…
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Two OFWs in Saudi Arabia Denied Shelter by Philippine Embassy
By Bulatlat.com MANILA – Two overseas Filipino workers were not accepted in Bahay Kalinga, a shelter for runaway OFWs managed by the Philippine embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. They were told that they need to get an endorsement from embassy case officers first. Vicente Muana and Zosima Montrey, both working as beauticians, ran away from…