News Release April 19, 2010 GABRIELA National Alliance of Women and Gabriela Women’s Party would like to clarify that we are not supporting Quezon City mayoralty candidate Mike Defensor. We are issuing this statement to belie news that came out today in at least three tabloid newspapers – Remate, Unang Tiktik and Hataw- claiming that…
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Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Lozada: More than an Accidental Hero
Engineer Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada is an accidental hero but a hero nonetheless to a people starved for real-life, modern-day heroes. Would it not be an irony of the most triumphant kind if this latest attempt to silence Jun Lozada, to break his will and to isolate him, should in fact turn into an outpouring of…
Arrest of Star Witness in NBN Scam Hit
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Government critics from various political persuasions have condemned the arrest this afternoon of National Broadband Network (NBN) star witness Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada. Lozada was arrested in connection with the July 4, 2008 perjury case filed against him by former Presidential Chief of Staff Mike Defensor. He had testified under oath,…
A Call to Senators: Review and Investigate Mining Projects Approved by Mike Defensor
BY ORLANDO A. MALIWANAG Alyansa Laban sa Mina DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 Our worst fear has been confirmed: that Mike Defensor all along had been the defender not of the environment but of mining interests when he was still Environment Secretary. His current involvement with Geograce Resources…