Filipino Women March Against VFA
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Day: March 10, 2009
Lawyers’ Group Demands Automatic Relief of Top AFP, PNP Officials in Areas with Extrajudicial Killings
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat A lawyers’ group has demanded the automatic relief of the highest-ranking military and police officers in areas where extrajudicial killings take place. The National Union of People’s Lawyers made this call on the heels of the abduction, torture and killing of schoolteacher Rebelyn Pitao, 20, last week. Pitao, daughter of…
Unionists Protest Non-Granting of SSS Loans to Retrenched Workers
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat QUEZON CITY – Members of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU or May 1st Movement) trooped earlier today to the office of the Social Security System (SSS) here to protest SSS chief Romulo Neri’s declaration last week that the agency will not grant loans to workers who were laid off because…