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By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“We urge the Catholic community to actively participate in crafting a national policy on women’s reproductive health on the framework that full access to healthcare services is a universally recognized right and that population control is never to blame for and should not be a panacea to the country’s worsening poverty.” Gabriela Women's Party Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan.
By the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) A major victim in this electoral exercise is the people's right to know. By consistently imposing rigid guidelines and restrictions to "make available the source code for independent review," the Comelec...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Main Story: A first hand experience with Oplan Bayanihan Sidebar: For two Igorot women, a constant struggle to survive SAN JOSE CITY, Nueva Ecija – Igorot farmer Ernesto Bubod was all smiles when he saw his visitors, May 3. With his...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Main Story: A first hand experience with Oplan Bayanihan Sidebar: Imprisoned for refusing to leave their land Pantabangan, NUEVA ECIJA – In 2004, Mina Golitiw, 52, left Sta. Fe, Nueva Vizcaya to search, literally, for greener...
After almost eight months of waiting, dismissed Radio Mindanao Network DXDC-Davao (RMN-DXDC Davao) station manager Mario Maximo “Dodong” Solis won the illegal dismissal case he filed against Radio Mindanao Network (RMN). Solis was fired on September 6, 2010, with...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The solidarity mission went to Pantabangan to document the conditions of the Igorot community who are being displaced from the land they have been tilling. The team did not expect that they would experience what the Igorots have to put up with in their struggle for land.
Sidebar: For two Igorot women, a constant struggle to survive
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL and INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“It sends the message that it is okay to steal the people’s money for as long as you admit your crime when caught and just return a small amount from what you stole.” – Pagbabago
SAHOD ITAAS, PRESYO IBABA May 10, 2011 Mr. Speaker, honorable colleagues, I rise on a matter of personal and collective privilege upang ihayag ang ilang mahahalagang usapin ng mga manggagawang Pilipino. Noong Mayo Uno 2011, ipinagdiwang ang Pandaigdigang Araw ng...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"Like its predecessors, the Aquino government is abandoning its responsibility to provide social services to its poor constituents ... By partnering with the private sector in building public housing, it can be expected that the government will confine its function to that of an enabler which is limited to policy formulation and program monitoring."
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis The cornetto ice cream advertisement has been a hit. The ads show that one cannot enter a club, rent a video, buy a sweater, and get a sports drink with P20. The poor character was even made fun of for having only P20: he is made to...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com In a rally in front of the House of Representatives, government employees led by the Confederation for Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees (COURAGE) denounced Malacañang’s inaction on their demands for a...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The global boycott against giant transnational food and nutrition company Nestle Corporation continues as a high profile protest is slated to take place on Saturday, May 21 in the United Kingdom. Through alerts on Facebook and...
Media Release 11 Mayo 2011 Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno condemned today President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s thumbs up to the P22 Cost of Living Allowance approved by the National Capital Region wage board even as he got richer by P4.8 million in the past...
PRESS RELEASE 12 May 2011 MANILA -- “A complete package of housing and livelihood? Sounds good. Why then hasn’t he done that for the country’s millions of landless farmers, including those in his own Hacienda Luisita?” This was the response of Vencer Crisostomo,...
PRESS RELEASE May 12, 2011 MANILA -- “We are witnessing the full-blown revival of Kamag-Anak Inc. with the privatization of the LRT-MRT”. This was how Vencer Crisostomo, the national chairperson of the youth group Anakbayan, described the plans by the Aquino...
PRESS RELEASE 10 May 2011 NEGROS -- The Revolutionary movement in Negros will do all it can to implement the policy of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the Revolutionary Government of the People for the total ban of destructive mining explorations and...
PRESS RELEASE 12 May 2011 MANILA -- Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno again slammed the Aquino government for granting a mere P22 COLA for minimum wage earners in Metro Manila and approving the proposed fare hike in the MRT and LRT train systems, saying the COLA...
PRESS RELEASE May 12, 2011 Kadamay-NCR hits PNoy’s all-out demolition policy of urban poor communities MANILA -- Militant urban poor group, Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap – National Capital Region (Kadamay-NCR) today urges the administration of President Benigno...
PRESS RELEASE May 12, 2011 MANILA -- Global alliance of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and families Migrante International was incensed by Department of Health (DOH) Sec. Enrique Ona’s latest statement discouraging incoming students from taking up nursing because...
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