FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 16, 2010 Kabataan Partylist Raymond Palatino today called on President Benigno Aquino III to make good his word that he will allot six percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) to education. ?"This coming State of the Nation Address...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 16, 2010 Ten days before President Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), students today walkout from their classes, marched to Malacanang, and defied President Aquino to resolve the education crisis on SONA day. “Today is a...
PRESS RELEASE July 16, 2010 “PNOY: Positively Nothing On Youth interests” As thousands of youths nationwide hit the streets today for what has been dubbed a ‘National Day of Action for Education’, Anakbayan national vice-chairperson Anton Dulce summed up the 16-day...
Press Release 14 July 2010 Disgruntled due to numerous impositions of government fees and charges and the recent increase in passport renewal and replacement abroad, an alliance of Filipino migrants group in the Middle East today said the removal of unnecessary...
Press release 14 July 2010 Environmental activists and indigenous peoples led by Defend Patrimony! Alliance expressed dissent on the looming privatization of gold-rich Mt. Diwalwal, Monkayo, Compostela Valley. There is a growing local and national campaign to urge...
Press Release 14 July 2010 “The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is still unable to explain why the same passport which can be had for US$20 in the Philippines is priced three times as much for those who are overseas. This is plain and simple extortion. But...
Press Release Information Bureau Communist Party of the Philippines July 13, 2010 The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today dismissed as meaningless Pres. Benigno Aquino III's call on the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to give priority to respecting...
Press Release July 13, 2010 Akbayan Rep. Etta Rosales is a “seriously flawed choice” for the Commission on Human Rights chief post, labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno said today, rebutting former Rep. Risa Hontiveros’s claim that Rosales is “perfect” for the job. “We...
Press Release July 13, 2010 “The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has received enough of warnings regarding its culpability for the spate of extra-judicial killings in the country. It now needs a beating,” labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno said today as President...
PRESS RELEASE July 9, 2010 This was the question posed by youth group Anakbayan today in reaction to several statements this week by Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and several officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. In particular, the group expressed...
News Release Kabataan Partylist expressed protest against possible cabinet appointment of Akbayan Rep. Eta Rosales to the Commission on Human Rights. The group cited her track-record not worthy to direct an independent body for genuine protection of human rights...
NEWS RELEASE 7 July 2010 Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno slammed Manila Electric Co.’s (Meralco) power rate hike of 5.8 centavos per kilowatt-hour for this month, saying consumers want an end to the “roller-coaster” pricing of Meralco which is suspect of price...
News Release Ex-president Gloria Arroyo and son’s rushed moves to change the charter suggests that the threat of further foreign exploitation of our national economy, and of Arroyo getting away with all her crimes, are hear to stay. Kilusang Mayo Uno slammed Arroyo...
News Release Militant labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno slammed the murder of another labor leader in Negros Occidental by alleged members of the Philippine Army, calling it as ex-President Gloria Arroyo’s “bloody parting shot on government critics” and as added...
News Release June 30, 2010 Fore-fronting the inauguration of President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III today is a call from Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond Palatino to re-channel funds from some items in the Office of the President’s budget to an emergency budget...
News Release June 30, 2010 The appointments made by President Benigno Aquino III raise more questions than hope, according to the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan. “It remains to be seen how most of the cabinet appointees will perform or how they will...
Press Release June 30, 2010 On the day president-elect Benigno Aquino III is sworn into office, militant peasant groups led by Katipunan ng mga Samahang Magbubukid sa Timog Katagalugan (KASAMA-TK) challenged the new administration to uphold the interest of the...
News Release June 25, 2010 The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) today said the July 1 hearing the Supreme Court set for the writ of amparo and writ of habeas data petitions by the family of an interpreter for US troops in Marawi City should also...
PRESS RELEASE June 25, 2010 The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) and Tanggol Magsasaka (Peasant Network for Land, Justice and Human Rights) urged Commission on Human Rights Chair Leila De Lima to be indepent and...
NUJP-Davao statement *Delivered during the necrological service for Jesiderio Camangyan in Mati City, June 24. Today we bury yet another journalist killed under the Arroyo administration. But today rises all the more our strong resolve to never let go and...
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