Press release April 9, 2010 Katribu Partylist slams today government’s “Pantawid” program in rural barangays and plans to file electioneering charges against local government units to the Commission on Election. Jomorito Goaynon, Katribu regional coordinator for Northern Mindanao, said rural barangays in the region the past months are in full-swing in giving “dole-outs” amounting to…
Month: April 2010
Gabriela Condemns Health Workers’ Return to Camp Capinpin
News Release 09 April 2010 GABRIELA, a national alliance of women’s organizations in the country, strongly condemns the return of the 38 health workers to Camp Capinpin despite the court’s decision granting the transfer of the detainees to Camp Crame. Majority of the detained health workers are women. “Returning them to Camp Capinpin right after…
As OAV Starts: Migrants Vow to Guard Vote and Frustrate Arroyo Party-list Bids
As the month-long Overseas Absentee Voting starts on April 10, Migrante International, together with families of distressed OFWs and ex-OFWs, urged their loved ones and kababayans abroad to exercise their right to vote and tightly guard their votes against “imminent” fraud, amid the first use of the Automated Elections System and the plans of President…
Return to Wonderland
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com When news first broke out of another adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland hitting the big screen, everybody was excited. But when news of Tim Burton taking the director’s chair spread, there were mixed reactions. Fans of The Nightmare before Christmas and Sweeney Todd were elated at it, of course,…
CBCP Condemns the Continued Detention of the “Morong 43”
Bulatlat.com The illegal arrest and continued detention of the “Morong 43” in a military facility represent serious threat to the civil liberties of the Filipino people, Bishop Nereo P. Odchimar, D.D., president of Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), said yesterday in behalf of CBCP. The CBCP said they follow with grave concern the…
For Better or for Worse?
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The last time the country underwent the same type of changes in the charter, currently being pushed by the Arroyo administration, purportedly to solve the political and economic crisis was in 1972. Marcos presided over the finalization of the 1971 Constitution, which shifted the form of government from presidential to parliamentary.…
Workers to Satur: Carry on Ka Bel’s fight to the Senate
NEWS RELEASE April 7, 2010 Kilusang Mayo Uno and Anakpawis Partylist greeted Nacionalista Party guest candidate Satur Ocampo on his 71st birthday and vowed to fully support his senatorial bid. “We wish him good health and more fruitful years of serving the people. May he live longer to pursue his commitment to bring the poor…
Include late registrants in official list of voters, Comelec told
News Release April 7, 2010 Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond “Mong” Palatino today demanded an explanation from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) after receiving complaints that names of first-time-voters who registered during the voter registration extension period are not included in the official list of voters for the May polls. Palatino said that they have so…
Distress OFWs’ belated birthday & ‘goodbye’ wish to PGMA: a kind heart for distress OFWs
Press Release 7 April 2010 Some 19 distress OFWs in Saudi Arabia convey their belated birthday & ‘goodbye’ wish to Mrs. Arroyo upon learning that the she had her last birthday on the 5th of April as President. “Though late, we wish the President to have a kind heart for us, distress OFWs, who have…
Large-Scale Mining in Region’s Forests Blamed for El Nino
PRESS RELEASE April 6, 2010 CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—Katribu Partylist blames the massive large-scale mining and logging operations in ancestral lands of indigenous peoples in Bukidnon, Misamis Oriental and Cagayan de Oro city as the main culprits in the abnormal climate in the region and even the rest of the country. “We don’t buy government’s…
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