Four elements of the Philippine Army were recently caught in the act of spying on students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Student leaders criticized surveillance and other tactics employed by state agents to disrupt the student movement....
BY Bulatlat.com August 29, 2008 - 2:00 p.m. Women’s group GABRIELA branded Malacañang’s proposed P1.415 trillion budget for 2009 budget as anti-poor. The group said that to claim that it will provide ‘welfare armor’ for poor families is a complete lie. In a...
BY Bulatlat.com August 29, 2008 - 2:15 p.m. DAVAO CITY - Members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) staged a protest action in this city against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s proposed charter change. In a statement, Makpil Camacho, Bayan-Southern Mindanao Region...
BY Bulatlat.com Posted 5:30 p.m., Aug. 27, 2008 Student groups led by the League of Filipino Students (LFS) today kicked-off campus campaigns against the escalation of the conflict in Mindanao, for which they blamed the Arroyo administration. According to the LFS,...
BY Bulatlat.com August 26 - 2:30 p.m. Members of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan-New Patriotic Alliance) and allied groups staged a protest in front of the House of Representatives, 10:30 a.m. today opposing moves to change the Constitution. The Committee on...
BY Bulatlat.com August 25, 2008 - 1:35 p.m. A party-list representative said that oil companies, especially the Big Three oil players, should reveal their pricing mechanisms to Congress. Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casiño warned the Pilipinas Shell, Chevron...
An alliance of Middle East-based overseas Filipino workers' (OFW) groups demanded that Philippine embassy officials who are forcing OFWs to admit to trumped-up charges filed against them by their abusive employers and deceiving them into thinking that it is the...
By Bulatlat.com August 22, 2008 - Members of GABRIELA gathered signatures for a petition demanding the repeal of the value-added tax (VAT) today in Quiapo, Manila. The group said they would gather signatures nationwide and submit these to House Speaker Prospero...
By Bulatlat.com Posted 1:10 p.m., Aug. 21, 2008 A progressive party-list group has urged the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to resume their peace negotiations, placing respect for human rights and...
A priest of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) received a death threat from suspected state agents. BY Bulatlat.com HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Volume VIII, Number 28, August 20-26, 2008 Reverend Father Romeo Tagud of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) received...
By Bulatlat.com August 18, 2008 - 12:39 p.m. An ecumenical group of peace advocates slammed the ‘political machinations of the Arroyo regime’ in the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation...
A youth group revealed that an average college student would save at least P710 ($15.805) every month if the value-added tax (VAT) on products and services were scrapped. Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 A youth group revealed that an average...
By Bulatlat.com Aug. 17, 2008 - 4:01 p.m. Migrante International held a wreath laying and press conference this morning at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, near the corner of EDSA and Quezon Ave., to show the true face of migrant Filipinos and to pay tribute to overseas...
BY Bulatlat.com Posted 6:43 p.m., Aug. 16, 2008 Bayan Muna (People First) organizer Wawie Dutarot was shot to death, around 1:00 p.m. yesterday by two armed men on board a motorcycle in Monkayo, Compostella Valley. Dutarot is the 132nd Bayan Muna member killed...
BY Bulatlat.com August 15, 2008 - 4:10 p.m. As Malacañang declared all systems go for charter change, progressive groups under the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan - New Patriotic Alliance) started their protests against the renewed bid for charter change. More...
BY Bulatlat.com August 13, 2008 - 6:16 p.m. A group of lawyers slammed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's proposal for a 'surgical amendment' of the Constitution, saying that the proposed constituent assembly can overhaul the entire Constitution at its discretion....
BY Bulatlat.com August 13, 2008 - 6:19 p.m. Families of victims of mysterious deaths and members of Migrante International trooped to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) this morning to demand justice and a more thorough investigation on the death of Eugenia...
BY Bulatlat.com August 12, 2008 - 5:18 p.m. “Power, perpetuation in power, not peace in Mindanao is Mrs. Arroyo’s true agenda in the renewed bid to change the charter.” This is how the party list representatives of Bayan Muna, Anakpawis and Gabriela deemed the...
BY Bulatlat.com August 11, 2008 - 1:17 p.m. Hundreds of peasants from Laguna, Cavite and Batangas provinces trooped to and banged the gates of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to demand the immediate release of Randall Echanis, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas...
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