PRESS STATEMENT: July 23, 2012 The Filipino youth are greeting the State of the Nation Address of President Benigno Aquino III with greater discontent and protests, for his failure to address the deepening socio-economic crisis faced by the youth and the people. 1. Tuition and other fee increases In the last two years, the Aquino…
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Lies, terror and violence in Aquino’s third SONA
With his two years of presidency and three State of the Nation Address (SONA), Pres. Noynoy Aquino has peddled lies on the situation of human rights in the Philippines. He has been, in fact, inflicting terror and violence against the Filipino people. The second year of the Aquino administration is being punctuated with shamelessly deceptive…
Nationwide SONA protests today: “The people won’t be fooled” – BAYAN
News Release July 23, 2012 Despite threats of rain, thousands of protesters are expected to turn out today for the State of the Nation Address of Philippine president Benigno Aquino III. They will come mainly from the ranks of workers, farmers, urban poor, youth and students, government employees and women. The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang…
Belgian pianist, Filipino soprano to mount concert for a cause
East meets west and art finds a cause. The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) will hold “Legal Legato”, a piano concert on July 24, 2012, Tuesday at 6:30 to 8:00 o’clock in the evening at the Aldaba Recital Hall, Magsaysay St., University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. Proceeds go into NUPL’s programs and…
On Labor Day, Government employees march to press for P6,000 increase
May 1, 2012 References: Ferdinand R. Gaite, National President Santi Dasmarinas Jr., COURAGE 1st Vice President MANILA – Thousands of government employees, their families and communities today marched under the banner of the militant COURAGE, the national center of government employees, and joined their private sector counterpart, the Kilusang Mayo Uno in Plaza Miranda and…
Students join in Labor Day protests; decry being made into ‘cheap labor force’
Reference: Isabelle Therese Baguisi, NUSP Secretary-General The National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) joins in the ranks of workers as they commemorate May 1 as a day of protest. “The Aquino administration has seemingly taken on the promise to destroy any bright future for the youth with this government’s insistence of molding the…
Solon calls on congress to immediately enact house bills to increase public sector pay
May 1, 2012 Reference: ACT Teachers Party-List Rep. Antonio L. Tinio The Aquino Administration’s supposed “surprise” elicited no impressed comments among the labor sector and various labor groups. Various groups vehemently called on to Aquino to stop prioritizing big corporations and start recognizing the rights of workers to decent pay. Rep. Antonio Tinio of ACT…
Statement of Migrante International on May Day 2012
Migrante International marches today with the working people of the world in the fight against imperialist plunder and war that continue to threaten the lives and welfare of peoples, migrants and migrant workers, particularly overseas Filipinos and their families. Today, Migrante International unites with other sectors of Philippine society to condemn the Aquino administration’s puppetry…
5 years of search, 5 years of hope
Below is the statement of Edith Burgos, on the fifth year anniversary of the disappearance of Jonas. April 28, 2012 marks the fifth year of the disappearance of my son, Jonas Burgos. Jonas’ family commemorates this day by looking back at the five years of search. We recall how we have exhausted every possible peaceful…
‘We condemn the Aquino government’s use of violence against the residents of Silverio Compound’ – KMU
Press Statement 23 April 2012 We condemn the Aquino government, the local government of Parañaque City, big capitalist Henry Sy, and the Philippine National Police for using violence in trying to demolish the homes of urban poor residents of Silverio Compound, Parañaque today. The excessive violence inflicted on the urban poor of Silverio Compound resulted…
Kadamay calls on urban poor nationwide to protest vs brutal demolition in Silverio Compound
PRESS STATEMENT April 23, 2012 We express our strongest condemnation of the brutal demolition of homes in Silverio Coumpound, the massacre of our brothers in the hands the Aquino administration. Aquino has only brought death and suffering to the toiling masses then in Hacienda Luista, and now in every urban poor community that he tried…