By EBERHARD SCHMID STUTTGART— On the Monday Demonstration in Stuttgart, Germany, 6th of December 2010, we counted again as it was decided last October 2008 in the partnership agreement between the Monday-Demonstration Movement Stuttgart and the Balao family and Cordillera People Alliance (CPA) the days of disappearance of James Balao. It is the 811th day…
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Filipinos to Shoulder Php 44 Billion in CCT Loan Repayment
Research group IBON calls on lawmakers deliberating on the budget for the controversial Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program to look into the resulting additional debt burden that Filipinos will shoulder to repay the program’s loans. Depending on interest rate trends, initial IBON estimates are that the Philippines total loan service for the World Bank and…
NUJP-Baguio Benguet Condemns PSG Maltreatment of Local Reporter
BAGUIO CITY — The Baguio-Benguet chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) strongly condemns the Presidential Security Guard (PSG) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) maltreatment of a local reporter who was covering Pres. Noynoy Aquino’s ribbon-cutting at the Jollibee-Harrison in this city, Friday, November 26. A PSG wearing a white…
Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers letter for President Aquino Regarding the Case of Morong 43
HE Benigno C Aquino III President, Republic of the Philippines Malacañang Palace JP Laurel Street, San Miguel Manila Philippines By email 17 October 2010 Dear President Aquino, The 43 Health Workers Known as the ‘Morong 43’ I am writing to you as chair of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers regarding the case of the…
Letter to President Aquino on the Deployment of senior career diplomat as RP ambassador to Saudi Arabia
11 October 2010 Hon. Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III President, Republic of the Philippines Malacanang Palace, Manila Dear Sir, Warm greetings! We have known that as of now there is no RP ambassador to Saudi Arabia after the recall of Ambassador Antonio Villamor, a political appointee by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. We would like to…
Aquino’s First 100 Days Fail the People, Leads Nation Through Road To Further Destitution and Exploitation – NDF
With yellow euphoria rapidly dissipating, the first 100 days of Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has clearly been a foray into consolidating for the interests of both foreign monopoly capitalists and the local ruling class of landlords and big bourgeois compradors, and intend nothing for the Filipino people but further destitution and exploitation. It runs in…
Justice for Benjamin Bayles! Justice for all Victims of Human Rights Violations
Dear Mr President: Greetings of Peace based on Justice from Bago City, Negros Occidental. In the outset allow me to qoute the verse: But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! -Amos 5:24 (NIV). This is the passage from the Bible intended to the ruler and king of Judah as…
KMU Supports The Struggle of ABS-CBN IJM Workers For Their Rights
We in the Kilusang Mayo Uno fully support the struggle of the employees of ABS-CBN in its Internal Job Market to form their union and collectively bargain with the ABS-CBN management, and to become regular employees of the television network. We raise our clenched fists in salute to the 92 workers who have been laid…
They have taken Benjie Bayles; Stop them from taking Fred Caña
Last June 14, 2010, Benjamin “Benjie” Bayles was killed in Negros Occidental. He was the 1,200th victim of what is seen a military campaign against civic society activists. Yet his case is different. For the first time, the suspects were arrested by the police. A dirty game is going on now. There military pressures to…
Open Letter of Dr. Chandu Claver to President Benigno Aquino III
Letter to the Editor August 2, 2010 I am Chandu Claver. My family was the target of an ambush by suspected State agents nearly four years today on July 31, 2006 in the province of Kalinga. My wife Alice was killed, as a result. Because of continuing threats on what remained of my family, I…
Correcting the Historical Lies Being Peddled By Etta Rosales and Company
LETTER TO THE EDITOR July 25, 2010 It is a travesty of history when one distorts and denies it. It is doubly insulting when the real and historical role of the people and martyrs are diluted and denied to suit one’s self-interest for an appointment for a government position. The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban…