By BULATLAT Government employees occupying non-plantilla positions and whose security of tenure depends on a contract of service are commonly identified as contractual, casuals, co-terminus, Memorandum of Agreement employees, or talents. Today, they are pressing the Aquino Administration to change their status and make them regular. In a rally today at the Plaza Salamangca, Taft…
Day: July 22, 2010
Hacienda Yulo Farmers Warn of Hunger Strike if Aquino Fails to Stop Conversion of Canlubang Estate
Hacienda Yulo farmers in Barangay Canlubang, Calamba City in Laguna today warned President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III of a brewing indefinite hunger strike if Malacanang fails to act on their three demands submitted barely a week after Aquino assumed the presidency. The three demands submitted to Malacañang by Hacienda Yulo farmers identified with the…
Anakbayan Slams “No-Rally Zone” at Times St.
By BULATLAT Youth group Anakbayan denounced today the declaration of President Noynoy Aquino’s house in Times Street, Quezon City as a ‘no-rally zone’ come July 26, when he would deliver his first State of the Nation Address (SONA). The declaration was made by the Quezon City Police District last July 21, which claimed that it…
Luis Teodoro | Impunity’s Roots
By LUIS TEODORO LuisTeodoro.com/Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com IMPUNITY — OR exemption from punishment — has been correctly called a culture, a way of doing things to which a particular community has become accustomed. It is almost inevitably mentioned as the primary reason why journalists and political activists continue to be killed in the Philippines,…
HK-Based Migrant Groups to Address Noynoy with OFW Issues for SONA (PR)
PRESS RELEASE 22 July 2010 “In time for PNoy’s first State of the Nation Address (SONA), presidents and heads of different OFWs groups in Hong Kong will meet and lay down the OFWs’ immediate concerns that we want PNoy to categorically declare how he will resolve.” This was declared by Dolores Balladares-Pelaez, chairperson of the…
Aquino’s First SONA is His Last Chance to Speak on People’s Demands – KMU (PR)
Press Release July 22, 2010 Observing that President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has not carried out major reforms so far, labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno said today that the upcoming State of the Nation Address will be a “big test” for the new government since it will be Aquino’s last chance to speak on people’s…
Noynoy’s SONA Should Tackle Sovereignty, Human Rights – Bayan (PR)
News Release July 22, 2010 The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) today challenged President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino to speak out on the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and the presence of US troops in Mindanao, as well as the issue of human rights, in his upcoming first State of the Nation Address (SoNA). US…