PRESS RELEASE February 22, 2013 In the month of tuition hike consultations Youth advocates call for electoral platform against unjust tuition increases Youth advocates for clean elections urged the current administration and the electoral candidates to “address the dilemma of escalating tuition rates” in colleges and universities, as tuition rate doubled since 2001 and more…
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KMU slams PMI Bohol Colleges for union-busting
PRESS RELEASE 22 Feb. 2013 MANILA — National labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno condemned today the management of the Philippine Maritime Institute in Tagbilaran City, Bohol led by Ms. Rizabel Cloma-Santos for busting the workers’ union in the school by terminating the union’s officials Last Jan. 15, six union officers of the PMI Faculty and…
KMU slams robbery in federation’s office
Media Release 23 Feb. 2013 MANILA — National labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno condemned today a case of robbery in the office of one of its federations, saying the incident is part of the Aquino government’s surveillance and harassment operations against government critics. Last Feb. 21, the office of the Alliance of Nationalist and Genuine…
200 terminated call center agents in Cebu
PRESS RELEASE 21 February 2013 CEBU — The BPO Industry Employees’ Network (BIEN), a broad network of contact center professionals and employees from the country’s sunshine industry, expresses its concern for and support to the more than 200 call center agents of Cordia-Philippines who were illegally terminated. According to a news item, 23 out of…
UP CMC vows to never forget Ampatuan massacre
As a community of educators and students, we in the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) join journalists and media workers in remembering what must not be forgotten! November 23 marks not just the third year of the Ampatuan massacre but also the second year of the International Day to End…
Open letter of Filipino groups in Canada to Canadian PM Harper
On the occasion of PM Stephen Harper’s State Visit to the Philippines 9 November 2012 Dear Mr. Harper, As Filipino Canadians with strong ties to our home country, we follow closely and with much interest your visit to the Philippines. In your visit, we hope that as the Prime Minister of Canada that you will…
Statement of the 15th Graciano Lopez Jaena Community Journalism Fellows on the Cybercrime Law
With the Cybercrime Law in effect, democracy is fast becoming more illusory. The Republic Act 10175 or the Anti-Cybercrime Law tramples upon our hard-earned freedoms – the right to free speech, the right to free expression, the right to a free press and the right to privacy. Putting restrictions on the internet contravenes our rights…
Letter to RTC
Dear Sir, Our generation is known for having a sense of entitlement that goes with our excellent command of social media and technology. We complained about the rigors of law school: difficult examinations, endless readings, classroom terrorism, and insufferable professors. We were attracted by the lucrative prospects of the legal profession and its promises of…
Salute the people’s resistance to fascist rule
Teachers and Education Workers: Persist in the struggle for national freedom and democracy! ACT Statement on the 40th year of the imposition of martial law September 20, 2012 It was in the 23rd of September 1972 and not the 21st when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law. Marcos supposedly signed the declaration on the 21st, but…
Remembering the horrors and heroism of martial law
RAMON M. PATRIARCA Political Prisoner Camp Lapu-lapu, Cebu City September 14, 2012 I join my fellow political prisoners (PPs) in this week-long fasting for all victims and survivors of martial law. The state of open terror was unleashed by the US-backed Marcos regime 40 years ago. It was a time when a dictator brutalized the…
Flood victims cannot accept Aquino’s excuses–CPP
Press Release August 9, 2012 The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today expressed its deepest sympathies to the hundreds of thousands of victims of the floods that inundated wide swathes of the National Capital Region and residential and commercial areas and agricultural lands in Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog and caused grave hardships to…