BY BULATLAT The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan-New Patriotic Alliance) challenged Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to put into writing that she would not seek to extend her term beyond 2010. The challenge came after a United States think-tank revealed a study that charter change to extend the president’s term remains an option of the…
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Group to Question US Troops’ Presence in SC Oral Arguments
Apart from the issues of custody arising from the Subic Rape case, Bayan said that it also plans to question the “duration and scope of the seemingly permanent presence of US troops in Mindanao.” Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 31, September 7-13, 2008 The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan-New Patriotic Alliance), through its lawyers, would…
Group Says Arroyo’s Cha-cha Spells Surrender of Nat’l Patrimony to US
BY Bulatlat.com August 29, 2008 – 2:15 p.m. DAVAO CITY – Members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) staged a protest action in this city against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s proposed charter change. In a statement, Makpil Camacho, Bayan-Southern Mindanao Region (SMR) deputy secretary general, said, “The US is using the marionette Arroyo regime to amend the constitution…
Truth Festival: An Exposé of GMA’s Long List of Liabilities
Various religious formations, people’s organizations and artist groups organized a cultural event dubbed as the “Truth Festival” which aimed to “expose the liability of Arroyo government” in the worsening economic condition of the country and the armed conflict in Mindanao. Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) and its member organizations aired out their respective grievances and demands…
National ID system a major setback for civil liberties – Bayan
The impending implementation of the National ID System after a Supreme Court ruling upholding its constitutionality will be a major setback for civil liberties according Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) secretary general Renato M. Reyes, Jr, one of the petitioners in the Supreme Court case. “In a time when civil liberties are already bludgeoned by so…
Dagupan Poor Give Way to ‘Bangus’
Dagupan City authorities want to build a bangus (milkfish) processing plant with a production capacity of 60,000 milkfish a day. If the local officials have their way, 274 households will be dislocated from their homes and transferred to a place devoid of basic services. By JONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com DAGUPAN CITY – Is bangus (milkfish)…