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Makabayan Coalition leaders and partylist solons Satur Ocampo, Liza Maza, Teddy Casiño, Rafael Mariano and Joel Maglunsod led some 60 rallyists in a peaceful protest on Tuesday at the US Embassy in Manila, calling for immediate pullout of all US troops, logistics...
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO DynCorp International, a US military contractor notorious for its mercenary work for Washington and which was the subject of numerous complaints for abuses in other countries, has been fencing off the Edwin Andrews Air Base in Zamboanga for US troops. “How can a private, foreign corporation control a specific portion of a Philippine military camp?” Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares wants to know.
Bayan Muna Representative Neri Javier Colmenares is a long-time human rights lawyer, constitutionalist and expert on international humanitarian law. He was among the youngest political detainees during martial law. Prior to joining the legal profesion, he was a...
Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo helps the farmers of Bago City, Negros Occidental, remove weeds from their ricefield during a visit their this week. The task was not new to the congressman, who comes from a peasant family. The Philippine Left's most respected and most...
MANILA -- A meeting of officials of party-list groups Anakpawis, Bayan Muna, Gabriela, and Kabataan was raided by suspected elements of the military in Cagayan Valley region at past midnight Thursday. Anakpawis reported that around 30 heavily armed men in...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Posted 4:23 p.m. March 15, 2007 “We don't want them dead.” This is what the wives of four political activists accused of murder said when asked in a press conference earlier this afternoon whether they would advise their...
BY BULATLAT (UPDATED) Posted 7:10 p.m. March 16, 2007 Rep. Satur Ocampo of Bayan Muna Party (People First) was arrested this afternoon, March 16, after filing a petition before the Supreme Court for certiorari, and for immediate and unconditional release or...
As human rights advocates here commemorated the second death anniversary of Romy Sanchez, they also condemned the passage amid wide opposition of the Human Security Act of 2007 also known as the Anti-Terrorism Law. Sanchez is the first activist killed in Northern...
How are we to believe de facto president Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo when she proclaims that the new anti-terrorism bill, euphemistically named the Human Security Act, will be used against supposed bombers and not protesters? On the contrary, such fascist...
Philippine elections have always been tainted with fraud, marred by violence, dominated by political dynasties, and characterized by broken promises of politicians. It has never resulted in the betterment of the lives of majority of the Filipino people. But the way...
The deployment of troops in Metro Manila completes the militarization of the whole countryside which has been intensifying under Arroyo. The whole blueprint smacks of a bigger plan in the offing. It is even more chilling that local executives have shown no sign of...
Notwithstanding efforts of the Arroyo administration to bar the top party-list group from winning in the upcoming polls, Bayan Muna (People First) received a Special Mayor’s Award during the Queen City’s 70th Charter Day celebration last week. BY KAREN S. PAPELLERO...
BY BULATLAT With five teams of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) scattered all over the metropolis to track him down and 15 agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) swooping down at his home in Quezon City, Bayan Muna Rep. Satur...
BY BULATLAT Posted 10:45 a.m. March 19, 2007 Rep. Satur Ocampo of Bayan Muna Party (BM or People First) was awakened in his detention cell at the Western Police District in Manila at 3 a.m. this morning by Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) agents and was told that...
Detained lawmaker Satur Ocampo’s son, Anto, weeps at a solidarity gathering for his father at the Club Filipino in Ortigas. “I am outraged,” the young Ocampo said of his father’s third arrest since martial law. BY DABET CASTANEDA Bulatlat Posted 3:35 p.m., March...
BY BULATLAT Posted 5:30 p.m., March 19, 2007 Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo is back in Manila. He is again detained at the Manila Police District (MPD) along United Nations Avenue in Manila. As early as 11:30 a.m., Bayan Muna third nominee and general counsel Neri...
BY AUBREY MAKILAN Posted 3:50 p.m., March 21, 2007 Bayan Muna (People First) member Alberto Corbes filed election-related and criminal charges today against the members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) deployed in Lupang Pangako, Payatas, Quezon City....
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted 4:21 p.m., March 21, 2007 Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) secretary-general RenatoReyes Jr. had one question as he spoke late this morning before a rally of hundreds near the Manila Police District...
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