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		<title>Amendments to Anti-Rape Law filed by Gabriela Women’s Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 08:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angie</dc:creator>
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		<title>Radio network employees gear for strike against union-busting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 02:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marya Salamat</dc:creator>
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The union-busting and illegal dismissals, said the union president, started since they formed a union for the radio network’s Manila operations.]]></description>
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		<title>Workers call labor department’s order against contractualization ‘a hoax’</title>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/05/14/workers-call-labor-department%e2%80%99s-order-against-contractualization-a-%e2%80%98hoax%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marya Salamat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Contractualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOLE Department Order 18-A Series of 2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA— Employees who get ‘endo’ (end of contract and thus end of job) after four to five months still populate the employed in the Philippines, six months after the labor department issued an order that it claimed would have ended contractualization. It is the employment scheme that has helped employers cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civilians decry abuses as military steps up operations in Quezon villages</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronalyn V. Olea</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights - Front]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[enforced disappearance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div style="width: 118px; height: 71px; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px"><img style="width: 118px; height: 71px; border: solid 1px #9A9A9A" src="http://bulatlat.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/opbay.jpg"></div> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:11px; color: #7f7f7f">By RONALYN V. OLEA</span> 
Eight combat battalions of the Philippine Army, the Philippine National Police and Citizens Armed Force Geographical Unit (Cafgu) are concentrated in the first and second districts of Quezon, harassing civilians, and wreaking havoc on the lives of the rural folk.]]></description>
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		<title>Video ombagan at fasinasyon sa has-beens gone wild</title>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/05/13/video-ombagan-at-fasinasyon-sa-has-beens-gone-wild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 08:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rolando Tolentino</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kulturang Popular Kultura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ni ROLAND TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Maraming termino para sa bugbugan: rumble kung frat o wrestling, okrayan kung verbal abuse, tira at hit kung gun-for-hire, at kung jologs: bira, banatan, bugbugan, resbak at ombagan, halimbawa. Sa katunayan, walang sosyal (bilang mataas na uri at ng kalidad nitong buhay) sa bugbugan—at walang termino na spesifikong nakaukol sa maykaya [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesters arrested after rally at Times Street</title>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/05/12/protesters-arrested-after-rally-at-times-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 09:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contributors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By IGAL SAN ANDRES and PATRICIA LOURDES VIRAY Bulatlat.com Six members of the urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) were arrested after staging a lightning rally in front of the house of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III in Times Street, Quezon City. The protesters were residents of San Roque, Quezon City, one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-large dam activist gunned down</title>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/05/12/anti-large-dam-activist-gunned-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 21:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronalyn V. Olea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Another activist was killed by an unidentified gunman, May 9 at around 6:15 p.m. at Palma Kibawe village in Bukidnon, Northern Mindanao, according to human rights group Karapatan. Cabal was an active leader of Task Force Save Pulangi (TFSP), which is campaigning against the construction of a hydroelectric dam in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philippine Post employees continue fight against corruption</title>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/05/11/philippine-post-employees-continue-fight-against-corruption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 07:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ina Alleco Silverio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://bulatlat.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/PhilPost5.jpg" style="width:308px; height: 218px; border: solid 1px #9a9a9a"><br /><span style="font-size:12px; color:#ffffff"><strong>Philippine Post employees continue fight against corruption  </strong> <em>(Photo by Ina Alleco R. Silverio / Bulatlat.com)</em></a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the End of Austerity We’re All Greeks Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 07:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contributors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ROB URIE counterpunch.org One of the joys of being American is that every new day is a clean slate—no history, no memories, no experiences, a complete blank. This may help explain why our national conversations serve their intended purposes while being entirely content-free. Newsflash to self-described liberal economists: austerity works! If your goal is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Globalism&#8217;s Perverse Rewards: World’s Apex Bully Leads World Into Lawlessness</title>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/05/11/globalisms-perverse-rewards-world%e2%80%99s-apex-bully-leads-world-into-lawlessness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 06:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contributors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS counterpunch.org The US government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and to provide freedom and democracy to citizens. Washington’s pretense and the stark reality are diametrically opposed. US government officials routinely criticize other governments for being undemocratic and for violating human rights. Yet, no other [...]]]></description>
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