Media Release February 22, 2010 Women OFWs in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia linked arms on Friday to protest what they claim as government's abandonment of its responsibility to the plight of 'stranded' Filipinos by charging for air-tickets. Beth Medina, Gabriela Women's...
Media Release February 22, 2010 Palparan, Alcover, persona non-grata in the city Gabriela Women’s Party lauds the unanimous passing of a resolution by the Davao City Council declaring Jovito Palparan and Jun Alcover persona non grata after the duo repeatedly...
Media Release February 22, 2010 Statement on the Commemoration of EDSA People Power I Today, as the nation commemorates the historic EDSA People Power I uprising, the continuing illegal detention and torture of 43 health workers by the Philippine military stands as...
Media Release February 22, 2010 The left-wing Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) conveyed the call of farmers in Isabela and Cagayan provinces, led by the Alyansa Dagiti Mannalon Iti Cagayan (Kagimungan, KMP Cagayan Valley),...
Media Release February 22, 2010 Militant labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno today called on leading presidential candidate Sen. Manny Villar to “learn the lessons of history” in the wake of the latter’s statement that he is “open” to giving a hero’s burial to former...
Media Release February 20, 2010 Quezon City (Feb 20) -- It was an emotional meeting between KATRIBU President Beverly Longid and Ray-om Among, a 22-year old Mangyan who is detained in Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal with 42 other health workers. The visit was the...
Media Release February 20, 2010 Gabriela Women’s Party expressed today grave concern on the reported power crisis badly hitting Mindanao. Power failure in the island on election day would mean failure of the procedure. Malacañang allies in the House of the...
By BULATLAT Multinational food giant Dole Philippines operating in South Cotabato in Mindanao has resurrected its company-backed employees’ organization to divide the ranks of workers and usurp the representation of legitimate union leaders who have been asserting...
Media Release February 19, 2010 Instead of mapping out a long-term energy plan and setting up new power plants to meet growing needs, government been pre-occupied with selling off its power assets as part of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA). It is now...
Media Release 19 February 2010 Consistent with the government-capitalist framework of crippling workers’ unions, food giant Dole Philippines operating in South Cotabato is once again using a fake employees’ organization to divide the ranks of workers and kick out...
MEDIA RELEASE February 18, 2010 Hong Kong Coalition for the Advancement of Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines (HKCAHRPP) While community-based health service is seen as noble by most people, Gloria Arroyo and her ilk apparently see it as an act of terrorism....
MEDIA RELEASE February 8, 2010 After a meeting of its leaders in Cebu City, and in time for Prof. Jose Maria Sison's birthday, militant labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno today called on the Dutch government to recognize Sison as a refugee, saying he deserves the right...
MEDIA RELEASE February 8, 2010 As thousands of Filipino health professionals are driven away from the country because of lack of enough opportunities, the government terrorizes the very few who chose to stay and serve their fellow citizens, Council for Health and...
BAGUIO CITY (Feb. 3, 2010) -- Katribu Partylist congratulates the 2009 nursing board examinee passers for a job well done. The long years of study, training, duties and review have paid off for all of them. We also congratulate their parents and financial...
February 4, 2010 Research group IBON Foundation today told government to stop the exportation of sugar to the US to ensure domestic supply and protect the country’s food security. The group made the appeal amid claims by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)...
February 4, 2010 “Gloria Arroyo may assert her right to run for a congressional seat in Pampanga, but she definitely won’t have the ease in making her way to Pampanga when she steps down in June,” labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno warned today, saying a “citizen’s...
February 1, 2010 Solon asks CHED, DepEd to probe and prohibit fee impositions Kabataan Party-list Raymond “Mong” Palatino today filed House Resolution No. 1577 directing the House committees on basic education and higher and technical education to direct the...
Press Release 2 February 2010 An alliance of overseas Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East today expresses serious apprehension safeguarding the estimated Php.12-B OWWA funds, a compulsory collection of US$25 per departing OFW, held in trust to the...
The following article was first published in the January-February 1996 issue of Liberation International. We are publishing it once again to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the First Quarter Storm. By Antonio Zumel Antonio Zumel Center for Press Freedom Posted...
Inilathala ng KADAMAY-Foreshoreland Pagpasok pa lamang ng taon, nagsimula na namang nag-iikot ang mga militar na nakadeploy sa komunidad ng maralita sa Baseco at pinupuntahan ang mga bahay ng mga lider-maralita. Ito ang aktwal na nararanasan ni G. Allan Monterde,...
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