News Release March 3, 2010 The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan and the Junk VFA Movement today warned that controversies will continue to hound the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement despite the final ruling of the Supreme Court upholding its constitutionality. The SC, in a 2-page resolution, said it was upholding its earlier 2009 decision on…
Month: March 2010
Appeal on the 100th Day Since the Ampatuan Massacre
PRESS RELEASE March 3, 2010 Today, March 3, 2010, we mark the 100th day since the November 23 Ampatuan Massacre, when 32 of our colleagues, along with 25 other people, were slaughtered in the worst election-related violence in our history and the worst single attack on the press ever. The National Union of Journalists of…
PGMA: #1 Homewrecker — Gabriela
News Release 03 March 2010 Members of GABRIELA, a national alliance of women’s organizations, tagged President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the “number one homewrecker” as they trooped to Mendiola Bridge today to strongly condemn the administration’ s gross failure to provide the people even the most basic of social services like housing. According to the group,…
Voters Education on Automated Absentee Voting: Mission Impossible, Says Migrante
NEWS RELEASE March 2, 2010 The militant Filipino migrants’ alliance, Migrante International, today dismissed as ‘mission impossible’ the Commission on Elections’ (COMELEC) reported plan to educate the thousands of Filipino voters in Hong Kong and Singapore on the automated election system for only a month. Registered Filipino overseas absentee voters in the two countries will…
‘Lakbay Serbisyo’ Hits Public Markets; Womens’ Group Condemn Arrest of Morong 43
PRESS RELEASE March 2, 2010 Market vendors, drivers and residents were treated to a free massage amid a long day’s work during the second leg of Lakbay Serbisyo, an ongoing social service mission held at the public markets of Santa Rosa City and Cabuyao, Laguna on March 2. Lakbay Serbisyo is spearheaded by Gabriela Women’s…
Human-Rights Defenders back Lumads Facing Trumped-Up Charges
PRESS RELEASE March 2, 2010 For how can a lumad farmer, suspected of being a member of the New People’s Army (NPA), take part in an ambush when he was practically miles away from the ambush site as he was participating in a national farmers’ mobilization in Manila? Or how can another farmer join the…
Three of 43 Health Workers Secretly Transferred from Camp Capinpin
PRESS RELEASE 02 March 2010 Three of the 43 illegally detained health workers were reportedly taken from their detention cells in Camp Capinpin, Tanay, Rizal on the wee hours of March 1, sent back to their cells in the morning and taken out of their cells again at 2 pm of the same day, that…
Morong 43 Still Being Tortured, Say Kin
“They are being taken out of their detention cells during the early morning to undergo interrogation and are brought back at night or dawn of the next day. They are being forced to admit that they are members of the New People’s Army (NPA). Some of them have big eye bags, indicating that they are being deprived of sleep. Some of them are still in solitary confinement,” said Roneo Clamor, husband of Dr. Merry Mia Clamor.
Bayan, Youth Groups File Opposition to Midnight Appointment of Chief Justice
News Release March 2, 2010 Representatives of militant groups today added their voice to the growing opposition to the “midnight appointment” of the next Supreme Court Chief Justice. Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) chairperson Dr. Carol Araullo and Bayan Secretary General Renato Reyes, Jr today filed a consolidated comment/opposition-in-intervention to the petitions filed by Arturo de…
Watchdog Laments Absence of Concrete Comelec Response to Automation Concerns
Press Release March 2, 2010 The anti-fraud campaign group Kontra Daya notes with dismay and apprehension that almost two weeks after submitting a letter of concern to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and a week after holding a dialogue with Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal, it has yet to receive any concrete response to the concerns it…
Gov’t Urged to Review, Cancel Water Permits of Huge Firms to Ease Water Crisis, El Niño
Press Release March 2, 2010 Environmental groups slammed the government’s inadequacy in addressing the on-going drought and water shortage and urged the government to review then cancel the water rights and permits of big businesses who wastes and pollutes water, such as mining projects and golf-courses. Sectoral and progressive organizations under the Water for the…