PRESS RELEASE An alliance of Filipino migrant workers group in the Middle East today said the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) under the out-going Arroyo administration failed to curb the rampant...
“Filipinos are doubly burdened with unabated hikes in oil prices and with the looming 300 percent toll fee hike in the South Luzon Expressway or SLEX, even as capitalists stand to doubly reap from these schemes,” Kilusang Mayo Unos said as oil firms raised pump...
After planning to add 2 more years to basic education, incoming president Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III made another anti-people and anti-peasant plan which is to push the use hybrid rice supposed to boost production in the country. Aquino claimed that the use hybrid...
Press Release June 21, 2010 Big business owners, led by The Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) should stop mouthing possible retrenchments and closures over the approval of the P22 minimum wage increase in Metro Manila, labor center Kilusang Mayo...
PRESS RELEASE June 21, 2010 The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) said that peasant unrest would intensify under incoming president Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III's government as he is showing no signs of commitment...
Press Statement June 18, 2010 The sinking of British Pestroleum-leased Deepwater Horizon oil-rig in the Gulf of Mexico last April, dubbed as the worst oil spill in US history, has caused catastrophic damage to the marine environment and to communities in...
Labor federation National Federation of Labor Unions-KMU (NAFLU-KMU) picketed today DOLE Philippines’ main office in Makati to condemn the company’s continued harassment and union busting, despite a Bureau of Labor Relations (BLR) order for a status quo. Through...
PRESS RELEASE June 18, 2010 Youth group Anakbayan was scandalized today by the call of the Commission on Higher Education for the national government to subsidize private colleges and universities. In a statement yesterday, CHED director Julito Vitriolo claimed...
PRESS RELEASE June 18, 2010 Quezon City, Philippines: At a press conference following a successful attendance to and participation in the 14th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland from June 1-10, the Ecumenical Voice for Peace and...
Government employees belonging to the militant group COURAGE today advised incoming president Benigno Aquino III to spare the rank and file employees in the expected shuffle following the turnover of power come June 30. In a statement, COURAGE National President...
The FREE THE 43 HEALTH WORKERS! ALLIANCE hits the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on its latest pronouncement that it is committed to protect human rights and it welcomes the move to bring the Morong 43 case before an international forum. “What respect for...
It’s a shame for Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that she will exit the presidency with yet another killing of a journalist in Mindanao, that of Mati City broadcaster Desiderio ‘Jessie’ Camangyan. Her legacy, indeed, is the legacy of impunity. Camangyan’s death shows how...
BY FR. SHAY CULLEN The outright dismissal by Philippine prosecutors in Olongapo City of criminal charges of child trafficking for sexual exploitation brought by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) against a father and his 33-year-old son, Filipinos with US...
16 June 2010 PRESS RELEASE After the much-publicized release of the US State Department’s report on human trafficking, the largest OFW group Migrante International challenged president-elect Noynoy Aquino to immediately fire and prosecute RP officials colluding...
Press Release June 16, 2010 Sa totoo lang, PGMA made more people jobless than the past three presidents combined. This was the statement of Kilusang Mayo Uno as the Arroyo administration hypes its accomplishments that supposedly surpassed the previous three...
News Release June 16, 2010 The party-list group Batang Iwas Droga (BIDA), founded by former Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) chief Efraim Genuino and which fielded Genuino's daughter Sheryl Genuino-See as its first nominee during the May...
PRESS RELEASE June 14, 2010 The League of Filipino Students launched today their ‘Four-Point Criteria for Youth Appointees in the Aquino Government’ in front of the Aquino residence in Times St., Quezon City. In the statement released to the media, the four-point...
NEWS RELEASE 2010 June 14 “Commodification of education intensifies repression!” This was how CEGP explained the reason behind the 204 campus press freedom violations documented during its national convention last April 21-25, Negros Occidental. Disclaimer | What...
“Genuinely serving the Filipino people will not be straight and narrow and the Filipino women challenge President-elect Noynoy Aquino to take the path none of his predecessors traversed.” This was the message of GABRIELA National Alliance of Women in the...
Special Release June 11, 2010 This is the second of a three-part series of special releases on de facto President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's supposed legacy. The government has allocated P10 million for the celebration of Arroyo's supposed achievements in her...
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