NEWS RELEASE March 26, 2010 The militant women’s group GABRIELA welcomed the rules on the qualification of candidates for party-list representatives recently issue by the Commission on Elections and called on the poll body to immediately disqualify Mikey Arroyo from representing Ang Galing Party List. “We hope this recent guideline will weed out…
Month: March 2010
Militant Group Intensifies Campaign Against Arroyo’s Congressional Bid
News Release March 24, 2010 Militant group, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-National Capital Region (Bayan-NCR) today calls on attention of voters in the second district of Pampanga not to support the congressional bid of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The group made the statement as thousands marched from various converging points: Welcome Rotonda, Taft Avenue, Sta. Cruz and Tondo…
Everything is Wrong with the Concentration of Arroyos in the HOR
News Release 26 March 2010 “The statement of presidential spokesperson Ricardo Saludo that there is nothing wrong with the concentration of Arroyos in the House since other families do it as well is an indicator of the political quagmire into which the country has sunk,” Rep. Luz Ilagan of Gabriela Women’s Party said, adding that…
Longer Wage Freeze Ahead with Arroyo in Politics Beyond May Polls
News Release 26 March 2010 Gloria Arroyo’s occupation of any post in the bureaucracy after the May polls could mean an extended wage freeze and approval of more anti-labor policies for workers, labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno said today. KMU said with Arroyo having more than one ace up in her sleeve, a prolonged uphill…
Human Rights Worker in Zamboanga Decries Harassment
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Dolorith Obsid, 41, a resident of Brgy. Carayagan, Josefina, Zamboanga Del Sur and a member of Justice and Peace Group (Jpag) complained of frequent visits to her home by suspected intelligence agents from the 5th and 55th Infantry Battalions, Philippine Army (IBPA).
Report of ILO High-Level Mission A Cause for Serious Concern- CTUHR
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights finds the recent report of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) to the Philippines issued on February 24 a cause of serious concern. In its report: “The Committee once again recalls the importance it attaches to the Government making all…
Blame Comelec, Not Absence of Laws, For the Partylist Mess– Bayan
(Bulatlat.com) It is not the absence of laws, but the incompetence of Comelec officials that has resulted in the entry of spurious partylist groups in the May 10 elections. This was the analysis of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance) as it vowed to oppose the partylist nomination of Pampanga Congressman and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo…
Farmers Asked Mar Roxas to Stop Araneta Landgrabbing
Farmers from Barangay Tungkong Mangga, San Jose Del Monte City, Bulacan protested at the offices of Araneta Properties, Inc. in Makati against its landgrabbing. Leaders and members of Tungkong Mangga Upland Farmers Association, Inc. (TMUFAI), San Isidro Samahang Sandigan ng Magsasaka (SASAMAG), Samahan ng Magsasaka sa Sitio Dalandanan (SAMAGDA) and Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)…
Another Proposed Dam, Likely Destruction of Watershed, Opposed in Mindanao
(Bulatlat.com) DAVAO City — Indigenous group KATRIBU Partylist together with environmentalist group PANALIPDAN Southern Mindanao and Tamugan Farmers Association (TAFA) held a protest action as part of its commemoration of the Earth Hour (March 27) and the World Water Day (March 22) at the Ponciano Rotonda fronting Post Office in this city today. They protested…
PUP Students Triumph over Proposed Tuition Hike
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The proposed tuition fee hike would mean forced expulsion of thousands of students coming from poor families, especially from the working class.
Activist Abducted in Cagayan, Later Found in Jail
Myrna Cruz Abraham, 55, suffered the same fate as that of the 43 health workers dubbed the Morong 43 –arrested without a warrant, blindfolded, handcuffed and thrown like a pig inside the van of her captors.