“Stand Firm! Persevere! Proclaim the Gospel of Peace!” Betania Retreat House, Lahug, Cebu City February 6-8, 2012 “This is what Yahweh asks of you, only this: that you act justly, that you love tenderly, that you walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6:8) We are...
Human Rights Watch January 31, 2012 Palparan’s Prosecution Key to Ending Impunity (New York) – Philippine President Benigno Aquino III should order the armed forces to cooperate with civilian authorities in arresting retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan and others...
Press Release The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) denounced the Aquino regime for employing and orchestrating high-profile "anti-terror" scare tactics as an excuse to engage in power-tripping and muscle-flexing. Orchestrated by Benigno Aquino himself, the...
Statement of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication On the second anniversary of the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre November 22, 2011 DESPITE President Benigno Aquino III’s pledge that his administration will stop the killing of...
Press Statement 16 November 2011 Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s attempts to escape justice and frustrate efforts to prosecute her is in plain view that nobody could have missed it. The minute she steps out of the country, the quest for justice will...
PRESS RELEASE MANILA --The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today slammed the Tan political dynasty for using Western Samar's possible recall elections to push militarization and warlordism. “We condemn the maneuver from the Tan dynasty through the...
Letter to the Editor 25 October 2011 Dear Editor, We, the Moros, share the grief of our Christian and Lumad brothers and sisters in Arakan, North Cotabato for the brutal killing of Father Fausto Tentorio, PIME, an Italian Catholic missionary who truly served the...
Press Release October 27, 2011 Five years ago, on October 26, my parents, Federico and Nelly Intise were abducted by armed men believed to be government operatives in General Santos City. Five years had passed now, I still worry, with dim hopes on their...
Letter to the Editor October 27, 2011 It is not enough that the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) upheld the agency’s 2004 decision imposing a 20% final withholding tax on the P24-billion income that investors earned from the Poverty Eradication and Alleviation...
Press Release October 26, 2011 After over five decades of flawed policy advice and US$14.7-billion loans from the World Bank, the Philippines remains poor in every sector of the economy, according to independent think-tank IBON, as World Bank president Robert...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR October 25, 2011 The Christians for National Liberation (CNL), the revolutionary organization of clergy, pastors, sisters and formands from Catholic and Protestant churches join the multitude who cry out for justice for Fr. Fausto Tentorio. As...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR October 20, 2011 Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform “They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,” they say, when there is no peace.” (Jeremiah 6:14) It is not an overstatement to say that faith communities...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR October 17, 2011 Hunger, poverty, and violence mark the 2011 World Food Day as civil unrests and social instability occur in developing countries. In 2008, when the global food shortage has intensified, there were food riots in Mexico,...
Letter to the Editor September 30, 2011 Dear Editor, No poll can refute the fact that Filipino women, majority of whom are burdened with joblessness, lack of social services and injustice, are in fact faced with the direst of situations. This is our reaction to the...
PRESS RELEASE September 26, 2011 SURIGAO City -- The National Democratic Front Southern Mindanao releases an audio clip of GPH Mayor Henry Dano of Lingig, who is currently detained by the New People’s Army in relation to charges of serious violations of human...
PRESS RELEASE Sept. 26, 2011 Davao City - Workers with the Kahugpungan sa mga Trabahante sa Superstar - Alliance of Democratic Labor Organizations (KTS-ADLO) criticized today the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the National Conciliation and Mediation...
PRESS RELEASE 19 September 2011 MANILA -- Spearheaded by transport groups and participated in by the people, the nationwide transport strike on 19 September is a legitimate militant action against the series of oil price increases that has intensified poverty by...
PRESS STATEMENT 15 August 2011 GPH in a state of denial of the raging civil war and the existence of two governments in the country - NDFP SURIGAO DEL SUR -- When the government of the Republic of the Philippines (GPH) brands as “criminal” the humanitarian act of...
MEDIA RELEASE Aug 17, 2011 MANILA -- “It is revolting how the oil cartel, in connivance with the Aquino regime, continues to boost their already-huge profits out of workers’ and people’s misery over the overpricing and skyrocketing prices of petroleum products.”...
PRESS STATEMENT 16 August 2011 MANILA -- The Government of the Philippines (GPH, formerly designated as the GRP) has really gone berserk in its extremely irresponsible disinformation campaign against the revolutionary movement in connection with the recent arrest...
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