A former freelance radio reporter on 14 April 2010 was shot dead in Ozamis City, Misamis Occidental. Initial police reports indicated the killing to be election-related. Ozamis City is approximately 782.87 kilometers from Manila. Edwin Sigue, a councilor of barangay San Antonio who used to sideline as a radio reporter, was driving his jeepney along…
Month: April 2010
High Price for Survival
By Flon Faurillo Bulatlat.com The government calls overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) “Bagong Bayani” (New Heroes), as they keep the economy afloat with their remittances. But at what cost do they ensure the country’s survival? Amid joblessness and the high cost of living in the homeland, they risk life and limb working even in countries like…
The Haute Couture as Mirror of Burning Issues of the Time
By ANNE MARXZE D UMIL
Gabriela’s 30-piece haute couture will mirror “the real issues haunting the “runaway” administration of Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Journalists Mark 5th Month of Ampatuan Massacre
By ANDREA ZARAH DAYAO and CRISTINA TUPAZ Bulatlat.com MANILA—Members of the Malacañang Press Corps, together with progressive and human rights groups, marked the fifth month of Ampatuan massacre that killed 57 people, including 38 media men. Wearing black shirts, journalists and other protesters marched April 23 from Morayta to Chino Roces (formerly Mendiola) Bridge to…
Video Documentary: Noynoy’s Luisita
Video Documentary: Noynoy’s Luisita
Youth Groups Sign Covenant with Candidates
Press Release 26 April 2010 National candidates pledge to uphold youth agenda Different youth groups, student councils, campus publications and student organizations today presented to the media the “Youth Choices” for president, vice-president, senators and partylist to the media based on a “Youth Covenant“. Led by the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP),…
A COVENANT WITH THE YOUTH
Wanted: Presidential Aspirant with Real Health Agenda
Media Release 26 April 2010 Candidates seeking the highest post in the land should have a clear-cut, pro-people health agenda. Otherwise, they are no different from the current dispensation from which they are all trying so hard to distance themselves. According to Health Alliance for Democracy, all of the presidentiables still have to articulate their…
Deathblow to the US-Arroyo Regime!
Press Statement 24 April 2010 Advance the People’s War to build the People’s Democratic Government (On the occasion of the NDFP’s 37th founding anniversary) On the occasion of its founding anniversary today, April 24, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Southern Mindanao salutes the toiling Filipino workers and peasants and all the patriotic and revolutionary…
May Day 2010: 50,000 to Protest on Labor Day, Air Labor Agenda to Nat’l Candidates
NEWS RELEASE 26 April 2010 More than 50,000 workers are expected to join the actions in Metro Manila on Labor Day led by militant labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU). This year’s commemoration of Labor Day will highlight the workers’ presentation of the labor agenda to national candidates and labor’s assessment of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s nine-year…
COAV, RP Post Allows OAVs to Alternately Vote in 3 Different Polling Centers in Saudi Arabia
Press Release 26 April 2010 Seeing a trend of low voters’ turnout after more 2 weeks of the overseas absentee voting that started on April 10, a migrant workers’ rights group based in the Middle East last week have urged the COMELEC Committee on Overseas Absentee Voting (COAV) and the RP posts in Saudi Arabia…