Day: April 14, 2010

April 14, 2010 News Release Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond ‘Mong’ Palatino today urged the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to immediately investigate the anomalous P76-M indelible ink contract that was exposed recently by the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) to the media. According to the PPCRV report, the sole contract bidder, Texas Resources Corp.,…

By PAULINE GIDGET R. ESTELLA
Farmers assert that the Cojuangco-Aquino clan has exploited the “overextended” temporary restraining order used by the Supreme Court, enjoining the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council and former Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman from distributing Hacienda Luisita lands to farm worker beneficiaries.

At this point it should be obvious that what the Arroyo government is engaged in is another massive cover-up, this time, of official sanction for extrajudicial killings of progressives, activists and their supporters. By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Business World (Bulatlat.com) The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) position on the spate of killings of members and officials…

April 14, 2010 PRESS RELEASE In a picket rally led by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today (April 14), the militant group revealed that they plan to sue the 69th IB of the Armed Forces of the Philippines for culpable violation of the Omnibus Election Code which prohibits members of the AFP from directly or indirectly participating…