Farmers hold protest calling for genuine agrarian reform (Photo by A. Macaraeg / Bulatlat) The demand of peasants and agricultural workers for land for peasants, agricultural workers, and national minorities, and not for landlords. By JOHN AARON MARK MACARAEG Bulatlat.com MANILA – Farmers and land reform advocates trooped to the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)…
The petition “Filipino communities raise concern about candidate for a Southeast Asian studies job at Berkeley,” which was able to gather 467 signatories from March 26 to May 31 this year, has become highly controversial among Filipino activists, writers, professors and academics in the Philippines and the US. It has so far provoked four articles…
“The age-old problem of classroom and facilities shortage refuses to be obscured.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Last week, at least 27.2 million Filipino students returned to schools all over the country. No less than Education Secretary Leonor Briones addressed students, saying that it will take a whole community to prepare them…
Sadyang mapanlinlang ang kamera. Sa bawat eksenang may umaatikabong bakbakan, posibleng may ekstrang tunay na nasaktan. At kahit na nakakatawang eksena ang kinukunan, posible ring may tahimik na umiiyak sa sulok ng set. Siguro’y gusto na niyang umuwi pero mahaba pa ang gabi. Kasisimula pa lang ng shooting kasi. Samantala, natutulog lang sa isang tabi…
Margarita Valle in the custody of the police in Region 10. (Photo courtesy of CNN) “All these are patent acts of tyranny, and we urge our fellow journalists, human rights advocates, and the public to continue resisting these abuses.” By ALYSSA MAE CLARIN Bulatlat.com MANILA — The Philippine police claimed that the arrest of Davao…
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA — Last May 21, before daybreak, the New People’s Army in Northern Samar raided a detachment of the Philippine Army in Lao-Ang, Northern Samar, in response, they said, to the people’s clamor after government troops committed a “slew of blood debts” against the people. The red fighters used command-detonated explosives…
Gabriela secretary general Joms Salvador and Hedda Calderon (Photo grabbed from Salvador’s Facebook post) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – A women’s group has welcomed the temporary release of Hedda Calderon, a political prisoner who had spent at least eight months in detention for trumped-up charges, following the decision of a Laguna court…
We in the alternative media denounce the unlawful arrest of Margarita Valle, veteran Mindanao-based journalist and a columnist of Davao Today. Valle was arrested at the Laguindingan airport on June 9 by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) reportedly based on two arrest warrants dated 2006 and 2011. She was forced to come with…