Twice Orphaned: Adeliza Albarillo

I am reposting here Kapatirang Simbahan para sa Bayan’s (KASIMBAYAN) heartrending article on why the human rights situation in the country is not at all ‘lovely’ as reported by Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita before the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Council in Geneva.
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Twice Orphaned: Adeliza Albarillo
The human rights situation in the country is [...]

‘Wrong focus’

President Arroyo scolded National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) officials recently for its alleged ‘wrong focus’ on solving the country’s rice shortage.
She told them that the Bureau should train their sights on rice hoarders and price manipulators rather than, you guessed it, smuggling.
Hmmm…..
Is it not that the President’s husband has been repeatedly linked to rice smuggling [...]

A nation held hostage

In a matter of weeks, I wouldn’t be surprised if I see Gloria Arroyo on nationwide television announcing a food crisis in the country. She has to do this in order to justify the implementation of a state of national emergency.
With rice supplies dwindling and its price going nowhere but up, looting and riots breaking [...]

Alternative use for Bayani Fernando tarps

Bayani Fernando’s tarpaulin eyesores in Metro Manila should be removed, sewn together so it can be used as tents or roofing materials in evacuation centers across the country.
Para may silbi naman yang mga tarpaulin na yan.
PS:
I think Bayani Fernando’s audacity to pinky-fy the Metro, and put up self portraits slash campaign materials disguised [...]

Gov’t OFW reintegration program unmasked: Turning ‘supermaids’ into call center agents

The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration’s (OWWA) recent opening of a call center training program for Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong provides us a glimpse of what’s in store for our overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) when they decide to return ‘for good’ in the country. It also exposed how and why the Arroyo government’s so-called [...]

Anti-tambay device

I just found this on the internet. It is basically an anti-tambay device invented in the UK in 2005. The electronic device, called Mosquito, emits high-pitched sounds that only kids can hear. According to Kids Be Gone, who distributes the Mosquito in North America, it is an “effective tool in the fight against [...]

Mundo nag-aalsa dahil sa gutom

Nitong mga nakaraang buwan, nasaksihan sa maraming bansa sa mundo ang pag-apaw ng matinding galit ng mga mamamayan dahil sa gutom dala ng sobrang taas ng presyo ng pagkain. Sumiklab ang mga pag-aaklas sa Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania at Yemen. Pumutok din ang ‘pasta protest’ sa Italya, ‘tortilla rallies’ sa Mexico at ‘onion demonstrations’ [...]

OFW group laments yet another Filipina domestic worker on brink of death

News Release
April 2, 2008
For reference: Connie Bragas-Regalado, Chairperson
An alliance of organizations composed of overseas Filipinos and their families today lamented the final death sentence handed by Kuwait’s Supreme Court to domestic worker May Vecina, 28 years old. At the same time, Migrante International appealed to Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah to spare [...]

Gloria Remain!

April Fools!

Wag the dog

Dapat itigil na ang debate kung mayroon bang krisis sa bigas o wala. Hindi malayong pakana rin ito ng rehimen para ilihis ang malalalang isyung kinasasangkutan nito sa ngayon.
Mahirap malulong sa usaping ito kasi si Gloria lamang at ang kaniyang mga kasabwat sa pandarambong ang nakikinabang. May krisis, at pamalagian ito, dahil mala-kolonyal at mala-pyudal [...]