Day: August 30, 2008
Fisherfolk Sail Cebu-Bohol Strait to Oppose Aussie Offshore Mining Firm
The offshore mining in Cebu-Bohol Strait and other parts of the Visayan basin will affect the livelihood of more than 100,000 small fishermen and 500,000 dependents, and will further exacerbate the problem of food security of 87 million Filipinos. BY GERRY ALBERT CORPUZ Bulatlat.com Volume VIII, Number 30, August 31 – September 6, 2008 ARGAO,…
Lateral Attrition Act of 2005 to Bring Mass Layoffs – Gov’t Employees’ Group
The “massacre” of government employees’ jobs begins now that the Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the constitutionality of the much disputed Republic Act No. 9335 or the Lateral Attrition Act of 2005, authored by Quezon Rep. Danilo E. Suarez. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 30, August 31-September 6, 2008 The “massacre” of…
Families of Desaparecidos Gather for International Day of the Disappeared
BY JEFF OCAMPO Bulatlat.com August 30, 2008 – 11:27 p.m. Families of victims of enforced disappearances, along with their supporters, party-list groups and people’s organizations gathered today, August 30, to mark the International Day of the Disappeared and held a program at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo around 3 p.m. to call for justice for the…