By D. L. MONDELO
“The automated electoral system does not prevent the cheating tactics of the past but in fact allows cheating in a bigger and faster way.”
Campaign Contributions, Pre-programming Key to Aquino Victory – Sison
Category: Agrarian Reform
Hundreds of Farmers Injured, Several Handcuffed, Two Illegally Detained by PNP over Hacienda Yulo Land Dispute
Press Release May 21, 2010 CALAMBA CITY – Hunderds of farmers were injured, several handcuffed while two are being held at the local police station after tensions broke at around 8:30am today in Sitio Buntog, Brgy. Canlubang over the disputed Hacienda Yulo land. The farmers were manning their protest-campout near the sitio’s main road entrance…
PR: Show What “Daang Matuwid” Concretely Means, Noynoy Told
With the presidential elections now over save for the official proclamation of Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, we ask what is perhaps the same question in the mind of most Filipinos today: what can our forlorn people expect from an Aquino presidency?
The May 1, 2010 Question: What Hope has Labor in the 2010 Polls?
By IBON FEATURES Posted by Bulatlat.com The May 1, 2010 question: What hope has labor in the 2010 polls? IBON Features | May 2010 | Many hope that the elections will usher in reforms and alleviate the worsening plight of the Filipino people, including the country’s 38.6-million labor force. Many hope that the elections will…
After the Herrera Law Weakened Workers’ Rights, Another Labor Code Revision in the Offing?
By MARYA SALAMAT
Previous revisions in the Labor Code have served to deprive workers of their hard-won rights. Now, the Employers Confederation of the Philippines are pushing for more.
Noynoy Tagged ‘Kapalmuks’ and ‘Incompetent Elitist’ for Warning of People Power III
PRESS RELEASE April 30, 2010 “Not only is Noynoy Aquino an incompetent presidential pretender, but is also a ‘kapalmuks’ (thick-faced) for thinking himself as the country’s presumptive president.” This was the statement of Terry Ridon, National Chairperson of the League of Filipino Students upon learning of Aquino’s pronouncements that another People Power shall ensue if…
Video Documentary: Noynoy’s Luisita
Video Documentary: Noynoy’s Luisita
Video Commentary: Noynoy Aquino, Walang Bahid?
In this video commentary, Bulatlat.com destroys the myth of the “untainted” Noynoy Aquino. For decades, the Aquinos and the Cojuangcos have stolen from the farmers and workers of Hacienda Luisita, using every trick in the book, as well as brute force and violence to retain control of thousands of hectares of land that they do not own to begin with.
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Pretender
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise/Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino’s entire appeal to the Filipino people to elect him President of the Republic, from television ads to live and press statements to written platform, rests on a single claim: that having inherited the legacy of Ninoy and Cory Aquino, he can stamp out corruption…
Hacienda Luisita Farmers, Students March to Noynoy’s Home to Demand Justice
By PAULINE GIDGET R. ESTELLA
Farmers assert that the Cojuangco-Aquino clan has exploited the “overextended” temporary restraining order used by the Supreme Court, enjoining the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council and former Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman from distributing Hacienda Luisita lands to farm worker beneficiaries.
HLI massacre to repeat itself under Noynoy–says youth group
April 14, 2010 PRESS RELEASE Youth group Anakbayan joined farmers from Hacienda Luisita today in a picket outside the house of Presidential aspirant Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III along Times Street in Quezon City to demand justice and genuine agrarian reform. The youth group also relayed fears of an HLI massacre repeat should Noynoy Aquino be…