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PRESS RELEASE March 28, 2011 MANILA -- "Sen. Ping Lacson is no oppressed fugitive in our eyes. He is nothing but an Aquino ally skirting the pursuit of justice in our land." This was the statement of Terry Ridon, chairperson of the League of Filipino Students as...
NEWS RELEASE 28 March 2011 MANILA -- Women’s group GABRIELA slams the enactment of an ordinance in seven barangays of Bataan that prohibits sale of contraceptives and allows only Catholic Church approved “natural” family planning methods, calling it “dangerous and...
NEWS RELEASE March 28, 2011 "Malacañang's statement downplaying any political motivation in the killing of Marlina Sumera is jumping the gun ahead of a complete investigative and judicial process. Her death adds a female face to the gradual death of press freedom...
PRESS RELEASE Information Bureau, Communist Party of the Philippines March 28, 2011 The "NPA will grow stronger and the Armed Struggle will intensify because of the ever worsening crisis in the country!" This is the statement of two revolutionary underground...
PRESS RELEASE March 30, 2011 MANILA -- A militant group of young workers, peasants, professionals, and students blasted the Aquino administration today for its 'anti-poor double standards', after the latter said it would declare any transport strikes tomorrow as...
March 31, 2011 PRESS RELEASE DAVAO CITY ---The streets of Davao City are silent but the people have spoken. Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Southern Mindanao declares victory today as the people valiantly expressed their voice against the unbridled exploitation of oil...
PRESS RELEASE April 2, 2011 Brgy. SAN ISIDRO, MARIHATAG, Surigao del Sur -- 110 families with about 600 men, women and children from hinterland communities have reportedly fled their homes in Brgy. San Isidro since March 31, 2011 as elements of the 29th IBPA...
PRESS RELEASE April 1, 2011 The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today called on the Filipino people to reject efforts by the Aquino government to achieve amity and reconciliation with the Marcos family, including the proposal to have the remains of the...
01 April 2011 MEDIA RELEASE Highly insensitive. This was how multisectoral alliance Koalisyon ng Progresibong Manggagawa at Mamamayan reacted today to Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s statement that his government will call on the regional wage boards to...
PRESS RELEASE April 1, 2011 Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) criticized what it called President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s another “pa-pogi” move amidst massive protests against the unabated oil price hikes, the one-month oil subsidy to public transport,...
By Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY-- Some 300 workers and their families from the Superstar Coconut Products Inc. held a picket rally in front of the company plant in Barangay Maa on Apr 1 to denounce the company's bribery, intimidation and harassment. According to the...
PRESS RELEASE March 31, 2011 Davao City -- Members of various transport groups led by TRANSMISSION–PISTON together with the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) and Anakpawis Partylist achieved 95% participation rate from public transport operators here today. Relentless...
By LYN RAMO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY -- A university-based research institution is about to introduce etag, a Cordillera preserved pork, in commercial scale. They would infuse it with value-adding interventions to ensure food safety, quality and high market...
News Statement March 11, 2011 The unremitting campaign of the Wisconsin State legislature to illegally railroad the wildly unpopular budget bill proposed by Governor Scott Walker is being confronted head-on by a wave of people's upsurge across the Midwestern United...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – A political prisoner criticized the Aquino administration’s new counterinsurgency program, describing it as a “sugarcoated bullet.” Randy Felix Malayao, a consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Government agencies such as the MMDA (Metro Manila Development Authority) belittled the day of protest but President Benigno Simeon Aquino III signed and announced that day a previously pending executive order that would give discounts and subsidies to public utility vehicles.
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PRESS STATEMENT President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s continuing assumption of jurisdiction (AJ) over the labor dispute in Philippine Airlines is prolonging the injustice being committed to workers in the country’s flag carrier. The PAL management is using the...
Youth group Anakbayan called for a stop to government moves to privatize the MRT, as well as other proposed PPP projects, saying these will 'bury alive' ordinary Filipinos under an array of tax and fare burdens that will result from the projects. "Returning the MRT...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA –The March 31 nationwide People’s Protests against oil overpricing pushed through as scheduled last Friday, despite government efforts to quell the protests through threats of franchise cancellations and possible use of police...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Even as rank and file government employees get migraines trying to find means to stretch their salaries to cover their families’ basic needs, executives of the Government Social Insurance Service (GSIS) are said to have...
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