PRESS RELEASE February 22, 2011 A militant group of young workers, professionals, and students urged their counterparts in the military to ‘rethink’ their values following a series of exposês regarding corruption in the Armed Forces of the Philippines. “While...
PRESS RELEASE January 28, 2011 Anakbayan, a militant group of young workers, professionals, and students today hailed the successful popular uprising in the North African nation of Tunisia against its former dictator, saying it is a warning to President Benigno...
PRESS RELEASE January 20, 2011 Youth group Anakbayan today assailed the series of fare and oil price hikes, saying it would push many students in Metro Manila into a ‘drop-out or starve dilemma. Disclaimer | What you are reading is either a press release/ statement...
PRESS RELEASE November 15, 2010 Youth group Anakbayan took to the streets of Manila today in support of the one-day strike by the city’s pedicab and ‘kuliglig’ (motorized pedicab) drivers. The strike was launched by the Alyansa ng Nagkakaisang Kuliglig at Pedicab...
Press Release Sept. 28, 2010 Fresh off a nationwide series of campus walkouts against proposed budget cuts to education for 2011, youth groups returned to the streets today, this time to picket the Congressional hearing on the budget for State Colleges and...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 23, 2010 Youth group Anakbayan harshly criticized President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino today for saying that this year’s ‘alternative SONA (State of the Nation Address)’, which has become an annual tradition of progressive groups, should be...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 16, 2010 Ten days before President Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), students today walkout from their classes, marched to Malacanang, and defied President Aquino to resolve the education crisis on SONA day. “Today is a...
PRESS RELEASE July 16, 2010 “PNOY: Positively Nothing On Youth interests” As thousands of youths nationwide hit the streets today for what has been dubbed a ‘National Day of Action for Education’, Anakbayan national vice-chairperson Anton Dulce summed up the 16-day...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Forming his team to set the direction of change or political payback? So far, except for Justice Sec. Leila de Lima, the Cabinet of Pres. Benigno Aquino III is a mixture of key figures in his campaign, representatives of big business, and old hands of the former Arroyo administration.
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – With the oath taking of Pres. Benigno Aquino III on June 30, college students here called on him to veer away from his predecessor’s practice of favoring the military in budget allocations and to prioritize education...
MANILA -- Youth group Anakbayan today called on newly-proclaimed President Benigno Aquino III to prioritize the growing number of drop-outs in the first months of his term. In a press conference today, Anakbayan national vice-chairperson Anton Dulce called on...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Noriel Rodriguez, a member of Anakbayan, was tortured for 10 days by people he claimed to be soldiers. The soldiers, he said, threatened to harm his family and mutilate his genitals. He was released only after he was forced to sign papers stating that he was a rebel returnee. 
Related video: Noriel Rodriguez recounts his ordeal
Youths and students rally in Manila protest the wars the Arroyo regime has launched against indigenous peoples and the Muslim minority and its inability to provide basic and good education. (Photo Janess Ann J. Ellao /...
Progressive Filipino-American youths from Anakbayan New York/New Jersey, USA joined striking workers of at least four nursing home facilities in New Jersey and New York in their fight for justice in the workplace. With members of allied organizations from Bagong...
She bore him for nine months in her womb. But Casimira Roluna, 78 years old, a resident of Brgy. Cabungaan, Baybay, Leyte, has not seen her son for nine months now. Her only proof of life was the news she heard over the radio last March 7, 2006 that her son,...
Policemen, including elements of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) dispersed member of a youth group conducting a signature campaign against the weekly oil price hikes and the economic crisis. BY CYE REYES Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Volume VIII, No....
BY HANNAH FAITH DORMIDO July 24, 2008 - 4:38 p.m. Four students were arrested while six others were severely injured after a protest in front of the US Embassy was violently dispersed by the police. League of Filipino Students (LFS) vice chairperson Ron Villegas...
POSTED BY BULATLAT January 31, 2008 - 12:43pm Six students were arrested while 24 others -- including a teacher -- were injured after police dispersed a rally against what a Malacañang-led education summit. Joanna Rose Adenit and Emman Montado of the Philippine...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat MANILA -- Members of Anakbayan and other youth groups staged a rally at the US Embassy here this morning to take the US to task for its role in the global economic crisis. They also lambasted the Arroyo administration for...
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