By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com Many of my friends are amazed whenever they learn that I am breastfeeding my baby. Some friends who also have children but did not breastfed would say, “My baby doesn’t want to suck my nipple” or “She can’t get milk” or “There’s no milk coming out from my breasts.” [...]
Sunday, April 22, 2012By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Dear Dana Marie, I know I am a stranger to you. I last saw you four years ago, after the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued a resolution on the murder of your mother Eden Marcellana and peasant leader Eddie Gumanoy. You barely spoke during that interview but your words [...]
Wednesday, April 18, 2012By IGAL JADA SAN ANDRES Bulatlat.com MANILA – I remember an article I wrote for one of my Journalism classes way back in September of 2010. An electric post belonging to Meralco caught fire in Pook Ricarte that week because it was overloaded. Residents affected by the widening project in Magsaysay Avenue leading to Katipunan [...]
Tuesday, March 20, 2012By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com There have been mixed reactions from the public regarding the National Day of Protest last March 15. While in the main, people are more aware and supportive of protest actions against oil price increases compared to before, still, there were some who expressed either indifference or negative reactions. In the “man-on-the-street” [...]
Wednesday, March 7, 2012By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – The long journey of Rep. Iggy Arroyo’s body from London to Manila and then to Negros had turned more telenovela-like than the Corona impeachment trial, as the media avidly followed the two women, or the “two camps,” who competed for the rights to bring Rep. Arroyo’s body home, lay [...]
Tuesday, March 6, 2012By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com I never knew that it would come to this point: that the budget cuts on state colleges and universities such as the University of the Philippines would result in loss of lives. Last Sunday, Rey Bernard Penaranda, a 19-year old BS Agriculture student of the UP Los Baños was killed in [...]
Tuesday, March 6, 2012By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com To his colleagues at the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Isagani Yambot is “Gani.” To us in the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP), he is IY. It has been the practice of the CEGP secretariat to provide nicknames for our speakers, usually their initials, for easy recall and thus, faster [...]
Thursday, March 1, 2012By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com A few days ago, my second daughter was telling me how, every semester, they have to find ways and means to help raise the tuition of some members of their organization’s chapter at the University of Sto. Tomas, a university run by the Dominican order. Otherwise, the students would have to [...]
Tuesday, February 28, 2012By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com In this country, poor cancer patients who go to public hospitals for treatment have remote chances of surviving. I recently received a private message on Facebook calling for support for breast cancer awareness. As a response, I want to warn all those who battle against the disease not to rely [...]
Wednesday, February 22, 2012By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com There is a debate among runners whether weights training and running could go together. I would like to add my voice to the debate. However, I do not claim to be an expert. I would just express my opinion based on my experience and some readings I have done about running. [...]
Thursday, February 16, 2012By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The biggest crime would be to allow the kind of government we have, the kind of system that’s in place, to continue. I think this is the lesson that recent typhoon Sendong and the last series of earthquakes have taught us. A few days before Christmas last year (as [...]
Filipinos join protests against NATO in Chicago, US (Photo by Brett Jelinek / Bulatlat.com)
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