Bulatlat.com MANILA — Environmental and women’s groups are demanding ”justice beyond monetary compensation” for the USS Guardian’s grounding of the Tubbataha Reef National Park, saying the incident is a blatant example of US disrespect for Philippine patrimony and natural resources. “We want indemnification beyond financial compensation, the prosecution of liable officials and the serving of…
Category: Press Releases and Statements
Aquino’s ECC for Xstrata-SMI is catastrophic
PRESS RELASE Ka Efren, NDFP-FarSouth Mindanao Region 22 February 2013 Malacanang’s approval and issuance of the ECC for the Xstrata-SMI gold-copper project in Tampakan is a plot hatched in hell. Pnoy is inexcusably accountable for this barefaced and traitorous act. He has proven once more his subservience to his real bosses — the big landlords,…
KMU slams robbery in federation’s office
Media Release 23 Feb. 2013 MANILA — National labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno condemned today a case of robbery in the office of one of its federations, saying the incident is part of the Aquino government’s surveillance and harassment operations against government critics. Last Feb. 21, the office of the Alliance of Nationalist and Genuine…
200 terminated call center agents in Cebu
PRESS RELEASE 21 February 2013 CEBU — The BPO Industry Employees’ Network (BIEN), a broad network of contact center professionals and employees from the country’s sunshine industry, expresses its concern for and support to the more than 200 call center agents of Cordia-Philippines who were illegally terminated. According to a news item, 23 out of…
OFW Lanuza saved from execution
Press Statement 1 February 2013 We are elated upon hearing the report that our fellow overseas Filipino worker Rogelio ‘Dondon’ Lanuza, at long last, will soon be freed after the Saudi government reportedly shouldered the payment of 2.3-M riyals of blood money which he and his family has to pay to the kin of the…
Network for clean, peaceful, and responsive elections launched
Press Release 30 January 2013 Taft, Manila— Members of the youth sector convened at the Iglesia Filipina Independiente for the launching of Rock the Vote Philippines, a youth network that advocates for clean, peaceful, and responsive elections. The delegates tackled pressing issues such as political dynasties, election-related violence, fraud, traditional politicians, and the usage of…
UP CMC vows to never forget Ampatuan massacre
As a community of educators and students, we in the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) join journalists and media workers in remembering what must not be forgotten! November 23 marks not just the third year of the Ampatuan massacre but also the second year of the International Day to End…
Statement of the 15th Graciano Lopez Jaena Community Journalism Fellows on the Cybercrime Law
With the Cybercrime Law in effect, democracy is fast becoming more illusory. The Republic Act 10175 or the Anti-Cybercrime Law tramples upon our hard-earned freedoms – the right to free speech, the right to free expression, the right to a free press and the right to privacy. Putting restrictions on the internet contravenes our rights…
Salute the people’s resistance to fascist rule
Teachers and Education Workers: Persist in the struggle for national freedom and democracy! ACT Statement on the 40th year of the imposition of martial law September 20, 2012 It was in the 23rd of September 1972 and not the 21st when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law. Marcos supposedly signed the declaration on the 21st, but…
Remembering the horrors and heroism of martial law
RAMON M. PATRIARCA Political Prisoner Camp Lapu-lapu, Cebu City September 14, 2012 I join my fellow political prisoners (PPs) in this week-long fasting for all victims and survivors of martial law. The state of open terror was unleashed by the US-backed Marcos regime 40 years ago. It was a time when a dictator brutalized the…
Flood victims cannot accept Aquino’s excuses–CPP
Press Release August 9, 2012 The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today expressed its deepest sympathies to the hundreds of thousands of victims of the floods that inundated wide swathes of the National Capital Region and residential and commercial areas and agricultural lands in Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog and caused grave hardships to…