By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Congressional hearings are held “in aid of legislation,” and the leading members of the Senate committee on public information and mass media, and the committee on public services, made it clear last Tuesday that they did not call the heads of the news sections…
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More Than a Hundred Student Groups Set to Walkout on Sept. 24 (PR)
PRESS RELEASE Sept. 20, 2010 Various sectors of the University of the Philippines Manila campus are set to join more than a hundred student and youth groups in a nationwide walkout on Sept. 24 against budget cuts to education in the proposed 2011 national budget. The UP System’s 11 campuses are facing a P1.39 billion…
Bankrupt Gov’t Making Money Out of OFWs – Migrante International (PR)
NEWS RELEASE 20 September 2010 In line with the newly-imposed policy of the Philippine consulate in Dubai requiring overseas Filipino workers to apply for authenticated affidavit of supports (AOS) for visiting relatives, OFWs in Macau are reiterating calls to scrap the reinstated AOS in said country. Filipino organizations in Macau have been up in arms…
Rights Group Questions $434-M US Grant to RP Gov’t (PR)
NEWS RELEASE 20 September 2010 As PRES. Benigno Simeon Aquino III flies off to the United States on official visit, the alliance of human rights groups in the Philippines, KARAPATAN, questioned the $434-million USD compact grant by the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) of the US as a “violation of its own selection criteria” and “encourages…
GABRIELA Urges 2nd Aquino President Since Martial Law: Free Our Sisters! Free All Political Prisoners! (PR)
News Release 20 September 2010 A day before the commemoration of Martial Law, GABRIELA has this to say to Noynoy Aquino: “Be humane. Have mercy on Mercy.” GABRIELA reiterates its call to the second Aquino president since the fall of Martial Law to release women and all political prisoners in the country. In particular, the…
Environmental Groups Report Dredging in Cagayan River is a Cover up for Foreign Magnetite Mining (PR)
Press Release September 9, 2010 Aparri, Cagayan. After conducting a two-day environmental investigative mission in the communities along the Cagayan River, environmental groups reported that the river dredging was being used as a front by foreign mining companies to mine the Cagayan River. “It is a common knowledge in the communities that several Chinese mining…
LFS Tells Noynoy as he leaves for the US: RP is Not For Sale (PR)
PRESS RELEASE September 20, 2010 “We serve a word of warning to the President – the country is not for sale to the United States. He better not sign trade and other executive agreements that would makes our people worse off.” This was the statement Terry Ridon, national chairperson of the League of Filipino Students…
GABRIELA Condemns Rape by Mayor; Supports Fight of 12-year-old Victim (PR)
NEWS RELEASE 17 September 2010 Militant women’s group GABRIELA expresses its strong condemnation of the rape of a 12-year-old girl by San Marcelino, Zambales Mayor Jose Rodriguez. “We call for the immediate arrest and persecution of the perpetrator. Any delay in carrying out measures to exact justice for the victim by the police and the…
Will RP Gain From Aquino U.S. Visit? Trip May Cause More Harm Than Good, Says Group (PR)
PRESS RELEASE September 20, 2010 Research group IBON today warned that the much-hyped US visit of Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino may result in more harm than good, as the group expressed serious concern that his first official foreign trip may further deepen the implementation of economic policies long discredited for undermining national development, destroying local…
NUSP: Don’t Insult Us! Many Student Governments are Run Better than the Present Administration (PR)
PRESS RELEASE September 21, 2010 In a radio interview, Senator Joker Arroyo said that “President Benigno Aquino III’s administration is running the country like a student government”. “Describing the administration of President Noynoy Aquino as a Student Government-run administration is basically an insult to the student leaders. Many student governments certainly are run better than…
To Attain Development and End Poverty, the People Must Intensify the Struggle Against Imperialist Exploitation and Plunder
By PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON Chairperson International League of Peoples’ Struggle Bulatlat.com 20 September 2010 From September 20-22, 2010, the United Nations is hosting the largest gathering of heads of state since the Millennium Summit in the year 2000 when 189 world leaders made pious pledges to reaffirm the principles and values of the UN…