The Senate impeachment hearings, with all the antics of the prosecution, defense, and even the Senator-judges is starting to become a tiring diversion, especially since the lives of the Filipino people are getting worse with the spikes in prices, the festering unemployment and underemployment problems and the worsening poverty. And the worse part is, all…
Day: February 16, 2012
Lessons from Typhoon Sendong
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The biggest crime would be to allow the kind of government we have, the kind of system that’s in place, to continue. I think this is the lesson that recent typhoon Sendong and the last series of earthquakes have taught us. A few days before Christmas last year (as…
Proposed executive order on mining deceptive – KMP
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today assailed Malacañang’s draft executive order on the mining industry saying “the draft EO is deceptive.” “The anti-people and anti-environment Mining Act of 1995 remains as the political backbone of Malacañang’s draft EO on the mining industry. This…
High production costs, low farm gate prices battering rice farmers – KMP
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — The day after their successful National Rice Farmers’ Conference held at the University of the Philippines, farmers from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao led by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), Amihan – National Federation of Peasant Women, and Anakpawis party-list, held a mass action at the Department…
Workers oppose SSS plans to increase premiums to generate PPP funds
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
KMU deputy secretary-general Leandro Gerodias said the agency’s main objectives in pushing for higher contributions is to generate more funds for business projects and investments, and not so much to benefit workers in the long run.
‘Increase’ in health budget deceiving – Alliance of Health Workers
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO
“Under the Aquino administration, public health services are no longer free but they come for a fee.” – Alliance of Health Workers
Government should act decisively against human trafficking– Gabriela
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO
“The growing poverty, unemployment and landless in our country exponentially increase the vulnerability of women and children to sex trafficking.” – Rep. Luz Ilagan, Gabriela Women’s Party
Students call for genuine democratic consultations on tuition increases
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – A few months before the 2011-2012 academic year ends, Kabataan Party-List sponsored a consultative assembly in the House of Representatives regarding the issue of increasing tuition and related fees. The activity was held jointly with the House Committee on Higher and Technical Education. Organizers said the assembly was…
Ateneans slam another 6% hike in tuition and energy fee
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY – Arguing that education is a right and not a commodity, students from the Ateneo de Davao University staged a candle-lighting protest against the proposed six percent hike in tuition and energy fee for the incoming school year. The protest, led by Buklurang Atenista (BuklAt) Coalition standard bearer…