News Release June 30, 2010 Fore-fronting the inauguration of President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III today is a call from Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond Palatino to re-channel funds from some items in the Office of the President’s budget to an emergency budget allocation for education. “Pres. Aquino can start resolving the education crisis by allotting an [...]
Wednesday, June 30, 2010News Release June 30, 2010 The appointments made by President Benigno Aquino III raise more questions than hope, according to the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan. “It remains to be seen how most of the cabinet appointees will perform or how they will prove to be any different from the previous administration. The Aquino officials [...]
Wednesday, June 30, 2010Press Release June 30, 2010 On the day president-elect Benigno Aquino III is sworn into office, militant peasant groups led by Katipunan ng mga Samahang Magbubukid sa Timog Katagalugan (KASAMA-TK) challenged the new administration to uphold the interest of the rural poor by implementing genuine land reform. The thousand throng farmers from the Southern Tagalog [...]
Wednesday, June 30, 2010The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today challenged the newly-created Truth Commission chaired by former Chief Justice Hilario Davide to “leave no stone unturned in the prosecution of Arroyo and other incorrigible offenders from her regime.”
Wednesday, June 30, 2010BY ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) and Smartmatic-TIM have been bragging that the May 10 was a success and was peaceful and orderly. But for the Computer Professionals Union (CPU) it was frustrating. “And the way the elections here in the Philippines was handled by the Smartmatic and [...]
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The Long Arm of Crime
Contemplation
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Karapatan said rendering justice means prosecuting and punishing the guilty parties in these violations, indemnifying the victims; and declaring not to do similar transgressions again.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Given the peoples’ worsening jobs situation and income gap under Arroyo, malnutrition, diseases and accidents caused by poverty plague many poor communities.
UP, artists reiterate call for release of Ericson Acosta (Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea and Fred E. Dabu)
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