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“Awards are welcome but not enough. Environmental killings should be solved, stopped,”—Green activist group (PR)

“Awards are welcome but not enough. Environmental killings should be solved, stopped,”—Green activist group (PR)

May 15, 2011 Press Release “The Environmental Heroes Award given by the administration to the six environment workers is welcome. However, awards are not enough to honor the sacrifices made by environmental defenders who were killed in the line of duty. The...

Government created the nursing exodus; Ona’s comment exposes government’s lack of plans for health workers (PR)

Government created the nursing exodus; Ona’s comment exposes government’s lack of plans for health workers (PR)

Press Release May 12, 2011 The group Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) today criticized the remarks of health secretary Enrique Ona for discouraging students from study nursing and for blaming parents for the glut in the nursing profession. Dr. Geneve Rivera,...

NDF-EV criticizes MSQRT as a palliative measure and a platform for absolving human rights violators (PR)

NDF-EV criticizes MSQRT as a palliative measure and a platform for absolving human rights violators (PR)

PRESS STATEMENT 13 May 2011 The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas said today that extra-legal killings and enforced disappearances will not be solved by the Multi-Sectoral Quick Reaction Team (MSQRT) called “Kasugbong” in Western Samar and involving the...

NPA disarming of US mining firm an enforcement of policy protecting the national patrimony against foreign monopoly firms (PR)

NPA disarming of US mining firm an enforcement of policy protecting the national patrimony against foreign monopoly firms (PR)

PRESS STATEMENT 13 May 2011 Guerillas belonging to the 3rd Pulang Bagani Company of the Merardo Arce Command-Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command of the New People’s Army (3rd PBC-MAC-SMROC-NPA) disarmed a security unit of the RACEL Mines and Minerals --...

Back story: Deadly Commonwealth accidents highlight exploitation of bus drivers

Back story: Deadly Commonwealth accidents highlight exploitation of bus drivers

The death on Friday of Lourdes E. Simbulan, a UP journalism professor and one of the country's outstanding journalists, has brought to the fore yet again the issue of road safety, specifically road accidents on major highways caused mostly by bus drivers. While there is no doubt that these reckless drivers should be held criminally liable for their actions, there is also the matter of their working conditions that, for all practical purposes, ensure that accidents like the one that killed Simbulan would occur.

News in Pictures: Government employees defend their jobs, oppose privatization

News in Pictures: Government employees defend their jobs, oppose privatization


MANILA -- Employees of the National Housing Authority (NHA) are against plans of the Benigno Aquino government to privatize housing services and to create a Department of Housing and Urban Development. NHA employees and urban poor organizations under the Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) have been fighting against moves to privatize public housing and legislative proposals on the same since the year 2000 and since the 9th Congress. (Text by Ina Alleco R. Silverio; Photos courtesy of Consolidated Union of Employees (CUE-NHA) / bulatlat.com)

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