PRESS STATEMENT 16 August 2011 MANILA — The Government of the Philippines (GPH, formerly designated as the GRP) has really gone berserk in its extremely irresponsible disinformation campaign against the revolutionary movement in connection with the recent arrest of four (4) Prisoners of War (POWs) and three detainees under the custody of the New People’s…
Day: August 16, 2011
Increase in FDIs do not mean economic growth
NEWS RELEASE 16 August 2011 Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan dismissed today attempts by Charter Change proponents to paint a rosy post Cha-cha scenario. “Let us not be fooled by Cha-cha’s promise of investments. Our experience shows that foreign direct investments have not resulted to employment, poverty alleviation and economic growth.” The Gabriela soon…
Jailed OFWs in Saudi ask Philippine gov’t to help them obtain pardon
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO MANILA – Migrante International and its chapter in the Middle East said there are at least 400 jailed overseas Filipino workers who can may avail Saudi royal pardon grant during Ramadan. During the month of Ramadan, the Saudi King and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques His Highness King Abdullah,…
Prioritize freedom of info bill, Aquino told
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – The two representatives of Bayan Muna party-list are asking President Benigno Aquino III to support the passage of a Freedom of Information law and begin so by ordering Congress to give priority to it. Bayan Muna Representatives Teddy Casiño and Neri Colmenares said the president has been…
SC decision ‘same monster as 1989, 2010 referendum’– Farmers’ group
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Hacienda Luisita farm workers cannot be fooled by the SC’s legal semantics. The SC order pretends to be democratic when, in fact, it is anti-democratic.” – Danilo Ramos, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas.
Cha-cha won’t lift PH from poverty – KMU
PRESS RELEASE 15 August 2011 MANILA — “More trade and investment liberalization won’t solve the country’s poverty. Implementing these through Charter change is like mistaking the poison that has made the country ill for the medicine.” This was labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno’s reaction to US Ambassador Harry K. Thomas, Jr.’s recent push for the…
Workers picket DTI for opposing P125 wage hike
PRESS RELEASE 15 August 2011 MANILA — “Faced with workers’ continuing clamor for a significant wage hike, the Department of Trade and Industry is resorting to the age-old tactic of blackmailing workers with threats of massive layoffs.” This was the statement of labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno as it picketed the Department of Trade and…
KMU slams meager oil price rollback, calls for protests
PRESS RELEASE 15 August 2011 MANILA — Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno condemned the Big 3 oil companies for implementing a less than P2.00 rollback in the prices of petroleum products today, saying a significant rollback should be implemented to provide immediate relief to a public reeling from high prices and reduced incomes. “Meager rollbacks…