“Filipinos are doubly burdened with unabated hikes in oil prices and with the looming 300 percent toll fee hike in the South Luzon Expressway or SLEX, even as capitalists stand to doubly reap from these schemes,” Kilusang Mayo Unos said as oil firms raised pump prices today. “These schemes are among the last-minute whips unleashed…
Day: June 22, 2010
Noynoy’s plan to push hybrid rice to offset massive landgrabbing, displacement of farmers and land-use conversion
After planning to add 2 more years to basic education, incoming president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III made another anti-people and anti-peasant plan which is to push the use hybrid rice supposed to boost production in the country. Aquino claimed that the use hybrid rice would compensate for his plan to stop rice importations. Farmers group…
End Killings of Journalists, Noynoy Urged
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The business of ensuring justice for all victims weighs just as heavy on Aquino as head of state as it should on all those whose sworn duty it is to protect and ensure the life and welfare of all citizens but which, sadly, they still have to do so,” the NUJP said.