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.,…
Day: April 14, 2010
Youth challenge presidentiables to scrap end oil price hikes
April 14, 2010 Press Release Youth groups Anakbayan and Kabataan Partylist staged a noise barrage in Quezon City today in protest of the recent round of oil price hikes. They further challenged the presidentiables to finally put an end to the seesaw trend of oil prices by scrapping the Oil Deregulation Law (ODL). Yesterday, oil…
Hacienda Luisita Farmers, Students March to Noynoy’s Home to Demand Justice

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.
Cover-up
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…
HLI massacre to repeat itself under Noynoy–says youth group
April 14, 2010 PRESS RELEASE Youth group Anakbayan joined farmers from Hacienda Luisita today in a picket outside the house of Presidential aspirant Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III along Times Street in Quezon City to demand justice and genuine agrarian reform. The youth group also relayed fears of an HLI massacre repeat should Noynoy Aquino be…
Bayan to sue military of electioneering
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…
Bets dared to show concrete plan vs. Arroyo’s awful human rights record
April 14, 2010 Press release As the May 10 elections draw near, presidential candidates have yet to make a concrete statement on how they intend to bring justice and closure to the numerous cases of human rights violations committed under the current Arroyo administration, change group Pagbabago! People’s Movement for Change said today. Pagbabago! challenged…
Group supports the fasting of the detained health workers and their families
April 14, 2010 Press Release As the unlawfully detained health workers spend more than sixty days in military prison, families and supporters take a more aggressive form of protest for the immediate transfer of the 43 health workers to a civilian detention facility like Camp Crame. FREE THE 43 HEALTH WORKERS NOW! announced its support…