By RONALYN V. OLEA With reports from Janess Ann J. Ellao, Marya Salamat, and Anne Marxze D. Umil Bulatlat.com MANILA — While protesters were holding a program a few steps away from the Ever Gotesco Mall along Commonwealth Avenue, Dina Erene, 42, and Roselle Tupas, 35, were busy sweeping the garbage along the road. Both…
Category: State of the Nation Address
SONA 2010: Sovereignty Issues Facing Noynoy
Giovanni Tapang, chairman of the group Agham, talks about sovereignty issues and how President Noynoy Aquino should deal with them. This discussion is partof Bulatlat.com and Kodao Productions’ coverage of Aquino’s first State of the Nation Address.
Bulatlat Live Coverage: Aquino’s First ‘State of the Nation Address’
Discussion on President Aquino’s first State of the Nation address with Sonny Africa, research head of Ibon Foundation, and Kodao Productions’ Raymund Villanueva and Bulatlat.com’s Benjie Oliveros. Powered by Ustream.TV Watch President Benigno S. Aquino III deliver his first State of the Nation Address. Listen to earlier webcasts on Aquino’s SONA : * SONA 2010:…
OFW Victims of Labor Malpractice Appeal to Noynoy for Help (PR)
Press Release 25 July 2010 More than 20 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) deployed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia have sent their appeal letter address to President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III, a day before his First State of the nation Address (SONA), pleading for help as they have been victims of their employer’s labor malpractice…
Aquino, Solons Must Address Education Crisis -– ST Youth (PR)
PRESS RELEASE July 23, 2010 Southern Tagalog youth gathered on July 23 and trooped to the House of Representatives, Commission on Higher Education and Mendiola to stage the so-called State of the Youth Address (SOYA) and challenge newly elected lawmakers…
Why Fear the People? KMU Slams Noynoy’s QMC proposal for SONA Protests (PR)
NEWS RELEASE 23 JULY 2010 “Why would Aquino fear the people? Why should a President who basks on the notion of democracy keep the people farther from Batasan during SONA?” Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno posed this question today as President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino suggested to militant groups to just hold SONA protests inside the…
HK OFWs Urge Noynoy to Declare Concrete Actions on Passport and OEC in SONA (PR)
Press Release 23 July 2010 We urge PNoy to make his first SONA different from that of the previous administration that was replete with empty rhetoric and motherhood statements. Our issues are concrete, our calls are clear and these should not be drowned in mere promises: lower passport fee and issue OEC without pre-requisite…
Monday’s SONA Stands for ‘State of Napapraning na Aquino’ – Anakbayan (PR)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 23, 2010 Youth group Anakbayan harshly criticized President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino today for saying that this year’s ‘alternative SONA (State of the Nation Address)’, which has become an annual tradition of progressive groups, should be held in the Quezon Memorial Circle and not in front of the Batasang Pambansa as originally…
Women Challenge Noynoy, Binay: Decent and Secure Housing, Not a Token Settlement (PR)
News Release July 23, 2010 Three days before Pres. Benigno Aquino III’s first State of the Nation Address, he is yet to pay attention to women’s demand for decent and secured housing especially for the urban poor. Up until now, no concrete reply has been made by his administration, thus militant women of GABRIELA…
Hacienda Yulo Farmers Ask Aquino: Don’t Evade Land Reform in SONA (PR)
PRESS RELEASE July 23, 2010 Fifteen Hacienda Yulo farmers in Barangay Canlubang, Calamba City in Laguna now on their second day of fast today urged President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III not to evade the issue of land reform in his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, saying farmers from all over…
HK-Based Migrant Groups to Address Noynoy with OFW Issues for SONA (PR)
PRESS RELEASE 22 July 2010 “In time for PNoy’s first State of the Nation Address (SONA), presidents and heads of different OFWs groups in Hong Kong will meet and lay down the OFWs’ immediate concerns that we want PNoy to categorically declare how he will resolve.” This was declared by Dolores Balladares-Pelaez, chairperson of the…