By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The US-Philippines Balikatan exercises are also a bane against the environment.
US-PH Balikatan exercises destructive to environment
Month: April 2012
Artists commemorate death anniversary of slain Southern Tagalog activists Marcellana and Gumanoy
Artists commemorate death anniversary of slain activists Marcellana and Gumanoy (Photo courtesy of Artists Arrests)
Cordillera Day 2012 focuses on mining and militarization
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — With the theme “Fight for Our Land, Life and Rights!” the Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Peoples’ rights advocates in six provinces of the region staged the 28th Cordillera Day (CD) through celebrations in their respective areas that also served as mass actions calling for the pullout of…
Luisita farm workers welcome SC decision, call on Aquino to respect ruling
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We are happy and sad at the same time. This is the fruit of our long, arduous struggle. We dedicate this victory to the martyrs of Hacienda Luisita and to all our supporters,” Rodel Mesa, Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura
One dead, 33 arrested in violent demolition in Parañaque City’s Silverio compound
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“It was a human barricade. We did not gear for a gunfight.” — Sheila Bernal, a resident and president of Samahan ng Pagkakaisa at Rekonsilasyon sa Silverio.
Mindanao-wide protests against US troops peak in Zambo
Mindanao-wide protests against US troops peak in Zambo (Photo courtesy of Patriotiko Mindanao)
Workers challenge Congress to set wage hikes
By MARYA SALAMAT
A week before May 1, as P125 wage hike proposal nears Congress approval, the labor secretary and regional wage boards suddenly realized there is a need indeed for a wage hike.
‘We condemn the Aquino government’s use of violence against the residents of Silverio Compound’ – KMU
Press Statement 23 April 2012 We condemn the Aquino government, the local government of Parañaque City, big capitalist Henry Sy, and the Philippine National Police for using violence in trying to demolish the homes of urban poor residents of Silverio Compound, Parañaque today. The excessive violence inflicted on the urban poor of Silverio Compound resulted…
Kadamay calls on urban poor nationwide to protest vs brutal demolition in Silverio Compound
PRESS STATEMENT April 23, 2012 We express our strongest condemnation of the brutal demolition of homes in Silverio Coumpound, the massacre of our brothers in the hands the Aquino administration. Aquino has only brought death and suffering to the toiling masses then in Hacienda Luista, and now in every urban poor community that he tried…
Anakbayan condemns PNP, SM Group of Companies for cold-blooded murder as cops kill one in Paranaque demolition
PRESS RELEASE April 23, 2012 The youth group Anakbayan expressed its outrage today as members of the Philippine National Police opened fire today on residents of a Paranaque urban poor community, leaving at least one minor dead and several injured. The 9.7-hectare Silverio Compound, home to around 28 thousand families, is under the threat of…
On Earth Day, environmentalists urge Aquino to declare a moratorium on destructive mining
On Earth Day, environmentalists urge Aquino to declare nationwide moratorium on large-scale mining> (Photo by Jhun Dantes)