“If we lift the current restrictions, local enterprises and businesses would suffer due to the unrestrained dominance of foreign investors. Lifting the economic limits would also open the floodgates for further exploitation of our country’s scarce natural resources, including forests and mineral reserves.” – Kabataan Rep. Terry Ridon
Day: May 15, 2014
Court grants Andrea Rosal’s petition for hospitalization
Andrea Rosal will be transferred to the Philippine General Hospital until she gives birth.
Thousand NXP workers protest union leaders’ illegal termination
Cabuyao, LAGUNA – Around 1,000 workers of NXP Semiconductors Cabuyao Inc. protested the illegal termination of 24 union leaders amid the ongoing Collective Bargaining Negotiations. Members of the NXPSCI Workers’ Union managed to breach police barricades and hold a protest rally at the company’s compound inside the Light Industry & Science Park (LISP 1). NXP…
There is nothing humanitarian about Balikatan’s militarization
Balikatan wargames expose us to constant dangers from live ammunition, unexploded ordnances, toxic by-products and from being targeted in war by US enemies.
‘Ceasefire should not be a precondition to peace talks’ – Benito Tiamzon
“The reactionary government is only after a ceasefire while the revolutionary movement treats ceasefire as a result of substantive agreements. The reactionary government only wants a ceasefire because it does not want to address the fundamental roots of the armed conflict.” – Benito Tiamzon