By GLAIZA MAY G. MUZONES and JUAN ANGELO A. HONGO Bulatlat MANILA -- Members of different cause-oriented groups led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) and the Junk VFA! Movement gathered today at the Plaza Salamanca and, later, the...
By THEA AYLA P. BANAG Migrant Watch Bulatlat Members of the House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs criticized several government agencies for “ignoring the pleas” of Filipino workers who became victims of illegal recruitment in Libya. The Committee held an...
'VFA Has Not Benefited Filipinos'
BY ANNA KRISTINA P. VIRTUSIO Bulatlat MANILA -- Farmers' groups trooped to the House of Representatives in Quezon City Tuesday to denounce the violent dispersal of their camp-out outside the south gate of the Batasan Pambansa Complex last Friday. “We condemn the...
SOLIDARITY STATEMENT ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RATIFICATION OF THE RP-US VISITING FORCES AGREEMENT From Vice-President Teofisto Guingona, Jr and Senator Serge Osmena III* for the JUNK VFA Movement activity, Rajah Sulayman Plaza, Manila May 27, 2009 May 27,...
Has the Visiting Forces Agreement served its avowed purpose? Or has it only reinforced the unequal alliance between the Philippines and the United States, a relationship so tilted in the Americans’ favor that to call the VFA an agreement -- with all the word’s connotation of equal rights, benefits and privileges -- would be a travesty?
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