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Arroyo’s Price Caps Further Expose ‘Greed’ of Oil Firms, Underscore Need to Repeal Oil Deregulation Law

Arroyo’s Price Caps Further Expose ‘Greed’ of Oil Firms, Underscore Need to Repeal Oil Deregulation Law

By MARYA SALAMAT
Despite its limitations, the oil-price caps have irked Big Business and their think tanks and they have been lobbying to have it lifted. Fearing EO 839 could set a dangerous precedent to its business, Shell even filed a case in court against Arroyo’s order. But consumers and critics say that if Arroyo is really sincere in protecting consumers, she should use her power to have the Oil Deregulation Law repealed.

| Nov 14, 2009

For Oil Firms, EO 839 Is Not Just About Dip in Profits but Potential Shift Vs. Deregulation

For Oil Firms, EO 839 Is Not Just About Dip in Profits but Potential Shift Vs. Deregulation

By ARNOLD PADILLA
To a certain degree, Executive Order 839 questioned the lies long peddled by the oil companies and staunch defenders of neoliberalism about neoliberal free market economics. If left unchallenged, EO 839 could become a precedent in policy making: that the government, in the name of public good and welfare, could take decisive action against abusive corporations.

| Nov 13, 2009

Land, Justice for Luisita Farmers Can Make or Unmake Next President — AnakPawis

Land, Justice for Luisita Farmers Can Make or Unmake Next President — AnakPawis

In a historic convention of urban poor, peasant and labor leaders, Anakpawis, the largest partylist of marginalized sectors in the Philippines, tagged the issues of land distribution and still unresolved massacre of striking workers in Luisita as “flagship social justice problems” that presidentiables should seriously address now.

| Nov 13, 2009

Filipino Nurses in Canada Vulnerable to Exploitation, Misleading and Abusive Policies

Filipino Nurses in Canada Vulnerable to Exploitation, Misleading and Abusive Policies

By JHONG DELA CRUZ
Filipino nurses have the longest record of migrating, as well as the longest history of abuse. This abuse is a result of aggressive, profit-driven, exploitative policies of both their point-of-origin and destination countries. One of these is Canada, one of the most popular destinations now for Filipino nurses.

Sidebar: Filipino Nurses in Canada -- In Search of a Better Life (An Interview with Evelyn Calugay)

| Nov 1, 2009

Luisita’s Peasants Determined to Continue Struggle Despite Threat of Eviction

Luisita’s Peasants Determined to Continue Struggle Despite Threat of Eviction

By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
The ex-farm workers of Hacienda Luisita had been reaping the fruits of their labor through a “cultivation campaign” that allowed them to plant what they needed and supported their livelihood. But the plantation has decreed that they should stop what they’re doing and leave. Unfazed, the farmers are bracing for another tough fight ahead.

| Nov 1, 2009

Why Consumers Should Not Rejoice Over Oil-Price Rollback Enforced by Arroyo

Why Consumers Should Not Rejoice Over Oil-Price Rollback Enforced by Arroyo

By ARNOLD PADILLA
While it is supposed to be based on the Oil Deregulation Law, the executive order mandating the recent price rollback in effect puts into question the wisdom of oil deregulation. Moreover, the oil companies have found a way to offset whatever “losses” they would incur in Luzon due to the EO: by overpricing in the Visayas and Mindanao.

| Oct 28, 2009

Coal-Fired Plants Undermine Arroyo’s Approval of Climate-Change Law

Coal-Fired Plants Undermine Arroyo’s Approval of Climate-Change Law

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The Arroyo administration will have to work extra hard to prove that it is sincere in addressing climate change and its impacts. Signing the climate-change bill into law is one thing – approving the operation of coal-fired power plants, which have been identified as one of the dirtiest power-generation methods, makes a mockery of it.

| Oct 26, 2009

In Proposals, ILO Puts Burden of Respecting Workers’ Rights on Arroyo Regime

In Proposals, ILO Puts Burden of Respecting Workers’ Rights on Arroyo Regime

By MARYA SALAMAT
A high-level team of the UN’s International Labor Organization has proposed, among others, trainings and "continuing education" for the Philippine police, military, the judiciary and the labor department on how to respect union rights and uphold labor laws.
Sidebar: Responses to ILO High-Level Mission

| Oct 24, 2009

Class and Ondoy: The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Ideological Distortions

Class and Ondoy: The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Ideological Distortions

By GILL H. BOEHRINGER
By seeking to convince its readers that the effects of Ondoy were “felt equally by rich and poor” and that it was a “great equalizer,” the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the most influential newspaper in the Philippines, was attempting to bolster the view that the Filipino class system had nothing to do with the disaster, and that the lives of all Filipinos are shaped by the same forces of nature, even by fate or by God.

| Oct 23, 2009

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