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…
Yesterday, Roque Antivo, the eight-year-old boy who was killed due to strafing by uniformed men, was laid to rest. On April 3, soldiers of the 71st Infantry Battalion Alpha Company of the Philippine Army strafed the house of a peasant family in Sitio Kidaraan, Barangay Anitapan, Mabini, Compostela Valley. Antivo was killed. His two brothers…
MANILA – Makabayan senatorial bet Teddy Casiño today, April 7, questioned the Aquino government why it is still letting recruitment agencies to monopolize the hiring of overseas Filipino workers in Hong Kong. Casiño is in Hong Kong today with Filipino household service compatriots. With migrant workers he did his signature run from the Subway entrance…
MANILA – Teachers, students, workers and other sectors in the University of the Philippines (UP) staged Just Run, Run for Kristel Tejada and all Iskolar ng Bayan, April 7 at the UP Diliman. The run is the first activity of the newly formed UP Alliance for Justice for Kristel, Justice for all Iskolar ng Bayan.…
MANILA — Members of Kabataan partylist and other student organizations held a picket protest in front of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to denounce anew what they call as “continued harassment of progressive partylists.” Comelec has threatened to disqualify the youth party and Piston partylist representing jeepney drivers and operators for allegedly violating Comelec resolution…
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Makabayan senatorial bet Teddy Casiño led members of Bayan Muna Party to a symbolic eating of saba, a banana variety, at Liwasang Bonifacio to protest the government’s ‘betrayal’ of Philippine sovereignty over the Sabah controversy. Casiño said that President Benigno Aquino III betrayed Philippine sovereignty when he ordered the followers of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III…
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