Day: June 18, 2010

By MARYA SALAMAT
“Despite the media-created belief that positive change for the Filipino peasantry would be possible under the Aquino administration, we are discouraged by Noynoy’s frequent attempts to dissociate himself from the Hacienda Luisita problem and in refusing to admit to the failure of CARP [Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program] despite the dehumanizing plight to which it has consigned the majority of farmers,” a peasant leader said.

By TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com One of the themes of the movies screened at this year’s French Film Festival, which opened last June 3 at the Shangri-la Cineplex, is migration and how its perils affect human lives. One such movie is the heartbreaking yet poignant Philippe Lioret’s full-length “Welcome,” which won big in last…

Labor federation National Federation of Labor Unions-KMU (NAFLU-KMU) picketed today DOLE Philippines’ main office in Makati to condemn the company’s continued harassment and union busting, despite a Bureau of Labor Relations (BLR) order for a status quo. Through consistent collective action and lobbying, DoleFil local union Amado Kadena-NAFLU-KMU (AK-NAFLU-KMU) in the South Cotabato plantation was…

PRESS RELEASE June 18, 2010 Youth group Anakbayan was scandalized today by the call of the Commission on Higher Education for the national government to subsidize private colleges and universities. In a statement yesterday, CHED director Julito Vitriolo claimed that the national government must subsidize the above-mentioned educational institutions to prevent yearly increases in tuition…

PRESS RELEASE June 18, 2010 Quezon City, Philippines: At a press conference following a successful attendance to and participation in the 14th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland from June 1-10, the Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the Philippines (Ecumenical Voice for brevity) vows to monitor the…