Press Release Sept. 28, 2010 Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino today questioned the proposal of the Department of Budget and Management to state universities and colleges (SUCs) to avail of the Higher Education Development Fund (HEDF) to augment...
Press Statement Bagong Alyansang Makabayan Sept. 28, 2010 We congratulate the House Justice Committee for its decision to continue with the impeachment proceedings. It is a valid assertion of the power of the House of Representatives especially when it is quite...
Press Release Sept. 28, 2010 GABRIELA Women’s Partylist Representative Luz Ilagan today said President Noynoy Aquino’s statement acknowledging the government’s obligation to inform citizens of their choices and to provide those who would like to employ certain...
Press Release Sept. 28, 2010 "No matter how you deodorize the K-12 program, the fact that it will aggravate the financial burden of parents and that the Aquino proposed education budget cannot resolve the shortages even under the current 10 year system clearly...
Press Statement 21 September 2010 Today, September the 21st, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines – Mindanao (NDFP-Mindanao) joins the Filipino people in recollecting the tens of thousands of victims of grave human rights abuses upon the declaration of...
PRESS RELEASE Sept. 20, 2010 Various sectors of the University of the Philippines Manila campus are set to join more than a hundred student and youth groups in a nationwide walkout on Sept. 24 against budget cuts to education in the proposed 2011 national budget....
NEWS RELEASE 20 September 2010 In line with the newly-imposed policy of the Philippine consulate in Dubai requiring overseas Filipino workers to apply for authenticated affidavit of supports (AOS) for visiting relatives, OFWs in Macau are reiterating calls to scrap...
NEWS RELEASE 20 September 2010 As PRES. Benigno Simeon Aquino III flies off to the United States on official visit, the alliance of human rights groups in the Philippines, KARAPATAN, questioned the $434-million USD compact grant by the Millenium Challenge...
News Release 20 September 2010 A day before the commemoration of Martial Law, GABRIELA has this to say to Noynoy Aquino: “Be humane. Have mercy on Mercy.” GABRIELA reiterates its call to the second Aquino president since the fall of Martial Law to release women and...
Press Release September 9, 2010 Aparri, Cagayan. After conducting a two-day environmental investigative mission in the communities along the Cagayan River, environmental groups reported that the river dredging was being used as a front by foreign mining companies...
PRESS RELEASE September 20, 2010 "We serve a word of warning to the President - the country is not for sale to the United States. He better not sign trade and other executive agreements that would makes our people worse off." This was the statement Terry Ridon,...
NEWS RELEASE 17 September 2010 Militant women’s group GABRIELA expresses its strong condemnation of the rape of a 12-year-old girl by San Marcelino, Zambales Mayor Jose Rodriguez. “We call for the immediate arrest and persecution of the perpetrator. Any delay in...
PRESS RELEASE September 20, 2010 Research group IBON today warned that the much-hyped US visit of Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino may result in more harm than good, as the group expressed serious concern that his first official foreign trip may further deepen the...
PRESS RELEASE September 21, 2010 In a radio interview, Senator Joker Arroyo said that “President Benigno Aquino III’s administration is running the country like a student government”. “Describing the administration of President Noynoy Aquino as a Student...
Media Release 15 September 2010 The more than 100% rise in dengue cases has unraveled what the Aquino government should and should not be doing. According to Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD), there is a need to re-emphasize preventive and primary care programs...
PRESS RELEASE September 15, 2010 The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today sternly criticized the P1.64 trillion budget proposal of the Aquino government for 2011 calling it "a counterinsurgency budget." The CPP pointed out its "counterinsurgency"...
PRESS STATEMENT September 15, 2010 With the impending unprecedented fare increases in the three major elevated railway systems—the Light Rail Transit (LRT) 1, LRT 2 and Metro Rail Transit 3—in Metro Manila, we ask this timely question: Does Aquino’s ‘Daang Matuwid’...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 15, 2010 Show more, spend less. Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino today urged the Department of Tourism (DOT) to find ways ON how to improve Philippine tourism without the need to spend vast amountS of money. “We...
PRESS RELEASE Sept 15, 2010 "The 2010 proposed budget of the Aquino administration is no reform budget. It is no different from the nine years of Arroyo appropriations where spending in education and social services are severely curtailed." This was the statement...
Press Release September 15, 2010 Cotabato City - The US government and its excessive global war on terror is impetus to the uproar surrounding the planned construction of an Islamic centre near ‘Ground Zero’ in New York City, according to Moro group Suara. Suara...
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