Bulatlat Podcasts

In this week's Bulatlatan, let's compare the US and Philippine public health system and the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. So we ask, is 'State-side' the safe side?

In this Bulatlatan episode, Mrs. Edith Burgos, then general manager of Ang Pahayagang Malaya and We Forum, and son JL Burgos, journalist and filmmaker, look back at the lessons in fighting the Marcos dictatorship and call on the Filipino people to speak the truth amid the creeping tyranny.

For decades, their remittances have kept the country's economy afloat. But in this Bulatlatan episode, overseas Filipino workers in UK and Canada discuss the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic to their lives and jobs and the apparent lack of government assistance they are receiving. pandemic

This week, Bulatlat talks to Dr. Gene Nisperos of the Community Medicine Development Inc. and faculty member of the University of the Philippines on the various narratives and discourse here in the Philippines as we continue to grapple against the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. 

In its very first episode, Bulatlat's associate editor and UP professor Danilo Arao discusses how the Philippine government is at the fore of peddling disinformation amid COVID-19. 

In this episode, Bulatlat talks to human rights lawyer Josalee Deinla on the heightening repression amid the ongoing Enhanced Community Quarantine in Metro Manila and the whole of Luzon to supposedly control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In our newest Bulatlatan episode, University of the Philippines professor Danilo Arao provides us tools to analyze media, news reports, and the importance of understanding how media work in the time of COVID19.