MANILA – Youth and student groups led by Kabataan Partylist marched to Chino Roces bridge to denounce the worsening poverty and unemployment on Friday, April 26. Carrying along with them is a mock Time magazine cover featuring President Benigno S. Aquino III as the “top traitor of the youth” and called on the President to…
Day: April 28, 2013
The unheard voice
Today is the sixth year since farmer-activist Jonas Burgos was abducted by state security forces. For the first time, his wife speaks in this video made by Jonas’s younger brother, JL.
As predictable as fairy tales
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Both in terms of how they’re being conducted and their possible results, the elections of 2013 are shaping up as expected. Name recall and membership in a well-known political family are what most of the leading candidates for senator have in common. That’s in addition to huge…
Gingoog misencounter
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld There can be no ifs and buts about it. The bloody incident in Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental last Saturday, wherein police escorts of Mayor Ruth Guingona exchanged fire with a New People’s Army unit manning a checkpoint, resulting in the deaths of two civilian aides and the wounding of…
Other victims outraged by Pryce Plans unfairness
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Strong reactions from readers met last week’s column piece detailing how Pryce Plans, Inc. tried, in vain, to induce me into accepting only 40% of the cash value of my P300,000 pension plan that matured five years ago or taking 80% equivalent in liquefied…
A year after SC order, Luisita farmers back in streets
“We cannot rely on DAR to implement genuine land reform. We cannot rely on Noynoy Aquino. We must continue implementing our own version of agrarian reform.” – United Luisita Workers Union