NEWS RELEASE 28 July 2010 Necessary, yes. But lacking and superficial. This is how GABRIELA finds the formation of an investigative body to look into the irregularities in the rice procurement of the National Food Authority (NFA). According to the group, Aquino’s posturing in his first State of the Nation Address can be likened to…
Day: July 28, 2010
Spare young mother and her baby from detention
Press Release Judilyn Carina Oliveros, one of the Morong 43 gave birth last July 22 at 12nn to a baby boy. However, her return to detention remains a great ordeal to the young mother. “Our plea stands that Oliveros stays out of detention for a much longer time due to her condition and that of…
Public-private ownership will make education less accessible, says youth solon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 2010 Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino said that the youth failed to hear Pres. Aquino’s concrete plans for education in his first State of the Nation Address. He said that he feared Aquino’s framework of promoting ‘public-private partnerships and more aggressive foreign investments’ would only intensify privatization, commercialization and corporatization…