By GLAIZA MAY G. MUZONES and JUAN ANGELO A. HONGO Bulatlat MANILA — Members of different cause-oriented groups led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) and the Junk VFA! Movement gathered today at the Plaza Salamanca and, later, the Rajah Sulayman Park here to mark the 10th anniversary of the Visiting…
Day: May 27, 2009
Solons Castigate Gov’t Agencies for Neglecting Victims of Illegal Recruitment in Libya
By THEA AYLA P. BANAG Migrant Watch Bulatlat Members of the House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs criticized several government agencies for “ignoring the pleas” of Filipino workers who became victims of illegal recruitment in Libya. The Committee held an inquiry in aid of legislation, Wednesday, into the plight of 50 overseas Filipino workers in…
Audio: ‘Filipinos Have Not Benefited from VFA ‘
‘VFA Has Not Benefited Filipinos’
Days After Violent Dispersal, Farmers Go Back to Congress
BY ANNA KRISTINA P. VIRTUSIO Bulatlat MANILA — Farmers’ groups trooped to the House of Representatives in Quezon City Tuesday to denounce the violent dispersal of their camp-out outside the south gate of the Batasan Pambansa Complex last Friday. “We condemn the violent dismantling of our camp-out. Instead of legislating a genuine land reform program,…
10 Years On, VFA Only Served US Interests
Activists protesting the VFA.
Has the Visiting Forces Agreement served its avowed purpose? Or has it only reinforced the unequal alliance between the Philippines and the United States, a relationship so tilted in the Americans’ favor that to call the VFA an agreement — with all the word’s connotation of equal rights, benefits and privileges — would be a travesty?
Guingona, Osmeña on VFA: Sovereignty Incompatible with Prolonged Presence of Foreign Troops
SOLIDARITY STATEMENT ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RATIFICATION OF THE RP-US VISITING FORCES AGREEMENT From Vice-President Teofisto Guingona, Jr and Senator Serge Osmena III* for the JUNK VFA Movement activity, Rajah Sulayman Plaza, Manila May 27, 2009 May 27, 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the Senate ratification of the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement.…