Louie Perez, (second from left) and other OFWs stranded in Saudi Arabia. With no salary and little assistance, some OFWs in the Middle East have resorted to scavenging for food. By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Louie Perez, an aluminum installer in Saudi Arabia has not been receiving his salary regularly since last…
Photos from SAMASA-PUP. The group said the police’s action is clearly a direct attack on people’s right to expression and assembly, which the group said, what the anti-terror bill seeks to do. By AARON MACARAEG AND REIN TARINAY Bulatlat.com MANILA — Six policemen removed and confiscated on June 20, Thursday, a banner which read, “Komunidad…
Froilan Reyes, barangay captain of San Antonio, Kalayaan, Laguna, was shot dead June 18. (Photo courtesy of paalam.org) “It is distressing that the community of barangay San Antonio would lose somebody like Hon. Froilan Reyes, especially now when his leadership is needed during a time of great crisis brought about by COVID-19.” By JUSTIN UMALI…
“We must realize that giving the people and organizations behind them permission to gather and use our personal information means that we do pay for their services – not in cash but at the cost of our attention, privacy, and security.” By REINETTE TARINAY Bulatlat.com MANILA– Amid the looming passage of the anti-terror bill, digital…
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – The recent conviction of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and former reporter-researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. brought to the fore cyber libel as a weapon against journalists. Republic Act No. 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 penalizes cyber libel. Press freedom advocates, digital rights activists and human…
As grave as the implications the conviction of Ressa and Santos hold not only for the media but for every Filipino who uses the Internet and social media, we fear this complaint, if the State further perverts the law, could spell doom for freedom of expression online. The post Resist the further erosion of our…
FILE PHOTO: Benedictine nun Mary John Mananzan hits historical revisionism being espoused by Marcoses and their supporters. (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea/Bulatlat) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — A women’s group has assailed presidential communications official Lorraine Badoy for red-tagging Benedictine nun Sr. Mary John Mananzan, a staunch human rights defender and women’s…
The COVID-19 pandemic is every tyrant’s dream, to finally have a justification to implement the most repressive measures against its people, purportedly to contain the new and still incurable virus.