A snippet of Makabayan miting de avance on May 7 at Plaza Miranda, Quiapo, Manila.
Makabayan miting de avance
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Comelec disqualifies Aksyon Health Workers Party-list
The recent disqualification of Aksyon Health Workers Party-List clearly leads us to believe that genuine party-lists, even with a track record of its initiators to boot and members belonging to the marginalized and underrepresented sector, could never make the cut just because of contestable technicalities. By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Another progressive…
Makabayan lawmakers leave majority bloc, vow to fight ’emergence of new dictatorship’
Progressive solons said the Duterte administration has “unraveled as a fascist, pro-imperialist and anti-people regime.”
Progressive solons stress human rights violations in vote vs. Mindanao martial law extension
“How can we say that martial law will ensure the safety of the people when we have these reports?”
Will the US bases be reestablished in Subic?
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We will never again allow the travesty of Philippine sovereignty. The Filipino people and Philippine Senate booted out the US bases in 1991 as one of the last vestiges of our colonial relations with America,” said Satur Ocampo, president of Makabayan coalition.
PR: Poll Watchdog Condemns Intensified Harassment vs. Progressive Groups on Eve of Election Day
On the eve of election day, Southern Tagalog regional poll-watchdog Kontra Daya, Kontra Karahasan received reports of election-related violence against militant groups in the region. In Los Baños, Laguna, at around 12:30 mn, 3 members of Kabataan Partylist, a member of Bayan Muna Partylist and Barangay Human Rights Officer Virgilio Tandang were arrested and physically injured by alleged Makati police officers while in a mass-action of residents against the alleged vote-buying and flying-voter scheme of a mayoral candidate.
Campus Journalists Endorse Progressive Party-list and Senatoriables
By ANNE EDNALYN DELA CRUZ
The College Editors Guild of the Philippines endorses Makabayan senatoriables Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza, who they believe, will uphold rights of journalists and the youth. Kabataan Rep. Raymond Palatino intends to amend the Campus Journalism Act of 1991.
Church Leaders, Poll Watchdog Warn Military vs. Electioneering
NEWS RELEASE April 11, 2010 DAVAO CITY – After receiving reports that the military is conducting partisan electoral campaigning from among college students–campaigning directed against members of the progressive partylists, the Pagbabago, People’s Movement for Change – a People’s watchdog and leaders of different church groups urged the Commission on Election to investigate and bar…
First Automated Overseas Absentee Vote Goes to Progressive Senatoriables, Villar-Legarda Tandem
Press Release 10 April 2010 She was the first to hold the official ballot of the automated election scheme, the first to use the designated pen and the first to feed the valid ballot in the PCOS. Her vote went to the progressives. It was a flurry of firsts for Rowena dela Cruz,…
News in Pictures: Duterte Endorses Makabayan Senatoriables
Workers Dare Arroyo, Solons to Legislate P125 Wage Hike Instead of Costly Advertising, Campaigning
PRESS RELEASE 01 March 2010 Instead of bombarding Filipinos with advertisements claiming improved livelihood under her term, Gloria Arroyo should better enact our long-overdue call of a legislated, nationwide P125 wage increase. This was the challenge of Anakpawis Partylist and Kilusang Mayo Uno to the Arroyo regime amid recent outpouring of paid ads and publicity…