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Brawner’s best is not good enough

Brawner’s best is not good enough

Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Public Information Office is hoodwinking the public when he says that AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Victor Ibrado is ordering the transfer of the 43 health workers collectively known as the Morong 43 to a Philippine National Police (PNP) facility, even as they have supposedly communicated their desire to remain at the military's Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal, where they are now detained. He is trying to make the AFP and its chief of staff appear more magnanimous than they actually are.

| Mar 5, 2010

Crisis Worsens at PGH as Topnotch Doctors, Medical Professors Go on Mass Leave

Crisis Worsens at PGH as Topnotch Doctors, Medical Professors Go on Mass Leave

By MARYA SALAMAT
The crisis at the Philippine General Hospital worsened last week as 75 of the hospital's topnotch and highly qualified doctors and medical professors went on mass leave starting March 29 to express “anger and dismay over the oppression and dubious removal from office” of the hospital's director, Dr. Jose Gonzales. They said, however, that they would still respond to emergency or life-threatening cases.

| Mar 30, 2010

Military’s False Claims of Child Combatant in North Cotabato and Compostela Valley Endangers Rural Children

Military’s False Claims of Child Combatant in North Cotabato and Compostela Valley Endangers Rural Children

Media Release March 27, 2010 A nationwide child rights advocacy group lambasted the military’s false claims in news reports that the 15 year old boy they arrested in Makilala, North Cotabato was allegedly aiding the New People’s Army detonate a bomb in Brgy. Old...

| Mar 29, 2010

Youth Action Day vs. Tuition Hikes: Students, Supporters Demand Release of PUP, Higher Budget for Education

Youth Action Day vs. Tuition Hikes: Students, Supporters Demand Release of PUP, Higher Budget for Education

Media Release March 29, 2010 Students from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) drew in massive support from students from other schools and personalities today in a Youth Action Day against tuition hikes and for higher state subsidy for education....

| Mar 29, 2010

Progressives on Warpath Vs Partylist Groups Allied with Arroyos

Progressives on Warpath Vs Partylist Groups Allied with Arroyos

By RONALYN OLEA and MARYA SALAMAT
It is not enough for the candidate to claim representation of the marginalized because representation is easy to claim and to feign, Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza said in the petition they filed against Mikey Arroyo's so-called partylist group. The partylist organization or party must factually and truly represent the marginalized and underrepresented constituencies mentioned in the Constitution, they said.

| Mar 29, 2010

UP-PGH Doctors on Mass Leave of Absence to Protest Blatant Disregard for Democratic Process, Removal of PGH Director

UP-PGH Doctors on Mass Leave of Absence to Protest Blatant Disregard for Democratic Process, Removal of PGH Director

STATEMENT March 28, 2010 The Philippine General Hospital is in crisis because of a Hospital Director’s questionable appointment. When a tenured, democratically elected and functioning PGH Director in Dr. Jose C. Gonzales can be removed from office without due...

| Mar 28, 2010

Benjie Oliveros | Local Polls Reflect the True State of Philippine Elections

Benjie Oliveros | Local Polls Reflect the True State of Philippine Elections

As more candidates contest local positions, the more violent local elections become. While personality politics shows the triviality of national elections, warlord politics reveals the violent character of local elections. And no amount of vague calls and covenants for peaceful and fair elections would put a stop to these.

| Mar 29, 2010

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