NEWS RELEASE JUNE 10, 2011 Ten years after the promised cheaper power rates through the EPIRA (Electric Power Industry Reform Act), consumers will again be jolted by another increase, this time in the generation charge. GABRIELA, a mass organization of women from...
June 8, 2011 Statement The brazen assault by Governor Jocel Baac on Kalinga broadcaster Jerome Tabanganay as he wrapped up his program “Agenda” on dzRK Radyo ng Bayan-Kalinga on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, shows the extent to which impunity has thrived in this benighted...
NEWS RELEASE JUNE 10, 2011 "As Congress closes for recess, I call on my fellow congressmen to go to their constituencies and listen to the marginalized women as they voice out their problems with access to comprehensive reproductive health care. With this simple...
Media Release May 28, 2011 The Department of Justice's Regional Prosecution Office (RPO)-10 has thrown out a complaint filed by four former media workers against Camiguin Island Governor Jurdin Jesus Romualdo. The complaint, which stemmed from a mauling incident a...
Media Release May 28 , 2011 Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno hailed the filing last May 17 of a Congressional bill seeking to repeal the power of the Labor secretary to assume jurisdiction over labor disputes, saying the latter served as “license” for the massacre of...
NEWS RELEASE 28 May 2011 The Samahan ng Ex-detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, today denounced the practice of granting special privileges given to moneyed prisoners in jails such as in the National Bilibid...
NEWS RELEASE May 28, 2011 The sincerity of the Government of the Philippines (GPH) under President Noynoy is under serious question because of the failure to release Alan Jazmines and other NDFP Consultants and JASIG-protected persons. The GPH through its...
NEWS RELEASE May 23, 2011 Today, it is exactly a year and a half since our nation was jolted by the worst incident of electoral violence in recent history and the single deadliest attack on the press ever. Disclaimer | What you are reading is either a press...
News Release May 22, 2011 It’s an embarrassment for the United Nations Human Rights Council. This was how the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan described the election of the Philippines to a fresh term in the UN Security Council, after garnering the second...
21 May 2011 NEWS RELEASE GAY and transgender rights activists cried foul at the remarks made by celebrity mom Ms. Dionisia Pacquiao in her spat with Senator Miriam Santiago over the controversial reproductive health bill. Disclaimer | What you are reading is either...
NEWS RELEASE May 21, 2011 Calling it a “road to war” funded by the US government, the National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today challenged the 8th Infantry Division and the Aquino government to come clean on the military's proposal for the construction and...
News Release May 21, 2011 The RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement turns 12 years next week amid continuing controversies on its implementation in the Philippines. The military agreement was ratified as a treaty by the Philippine Senate in May 27, 1999. It has not been...
NEWS RELEASE May 21, 2011 Makabayan coalition backs Diokno & Tañada’s nomination to be the next Ombudsman. QUEZON CITY --- In a press conference at the Treehouse Restaurant today, the Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan (Makabayan) announces their support to the...
By Daniel Lorenzo Pineda Stupid is a word I will never learn to swallow. Stupid is a word reserved for certain people---the President, Willie Revillame, Floyd Mayweather Jr., & co.---which, by virtue of balancing out our rights and privileges, has been bestowed on...
PRESS STATEMENT 15 May 2011 For the militant student group League of the Filipino Students (LFS), the visit of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III along with senior members of his Cabinet to the USS Carl Vinson currently docked in Manila Bay is an open declaration...
Press Release May 15, 2011 The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today denounced the "shameless display of master-puppet relationship" when Pres. Benigno Aquino was flown by a US military aircraft to international waters for an unscheduled and unannounced...
May 15, 2011 Press Release “The Environmental Heroes Award given by the administration to the six environment workers is welcome. However, awards are not enough to honor the sacrifices made by environmental defenders who were killed in the line of duty. The...
PRESS RELEASE May 15, 2011 In the face of a major reshuffle in President Noynoy Aquino’s Cabinet to accommodate his losing senatorial bets from the 2010 national elections, the militant youth group Anakbayan is calling on the government to ‘spare’ the people from...
Press Release May 12, 2011 The group Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) today criticized the remarks of health secretary Enrique Ona for discouraging students from study nursing and for blaming parents for the glut in the nursing profession. Dr. Geneve Rivera,...
PRESS STATEMENT 13 May 2011 The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas said today that extra-legal killings and enforced disappearances will not be solved by the Multi-Sectoral Quick Reaction Team (MSQRT) called “Kasugbong” in Western Samar and involving the...
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