May 1, 2012 References: Ferdinand R. Gaite, National President Santi Dasmarinas Jr., COURAGE 1st Vice President MANILA – Thousands of government employees, their families and communities today marched under the banner of the militant COURAGE, the national center of government employees, and joined their private sector counterpart, the Kilusang Mayo Uno in Plaza Miranda and [...]
Tuesday, May 1, 2012Reference: Isabelle Therese Baguisi, NUSP Secretary-General The National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) joins in the ranks of workers as they commemorate May 1 as a day of protest. “The Aquino administration has seemingly taken on the promise to destroy any bright future for the youth with this government’s insistence of molding the [...]
Tuesday, May 1, 2012May 1, 2012 Reference: ACT Teachers Party-List Rep. Antonio L. Tinio The Aquino Administration’s supposed “surprise” elicited no impressed comments among the labor sector and various labor groups. Various groups vehemently called on to Aquino to stop prioritizing big corporations and start recognizing the rights of workers to decent pay. Rep. Antonio Tinio of ACT [...]
Tuesday, May 1, 2012Migrante International marches today with the working people of the world in the fight against imperialist plunder and war that continue to threaten the lives and welfare of peoples, migrants and migrant workers, particularly overseas Filipinos and their families. Today, Migrante International unites with other sectors of Philippine society to condemn the Aquino administration’s puppetry [...]
Saturday, April 28, 2012Below is the statement of Edith Burgos, on the fifth year anniversary of the disappearance of Jonas. April 28, 2012 marks the fifth year of the disappearance of my son, Jonas Burgos. Jonas’ family commemorates this day by looking back at the five years of search. We recall how we have exhausted every possible peaceful [...]
Monday, April 23, 2012Press Statement 23 April 2012 We condemn the Aquino government, the local government of Parañaque City, big capitalist Henry Sy, and the Philippine National Police for using violence in trying to demolish the homes of urban poor residents of Silverio Compound, Parañaque today. The excessive violence inflicted on the urban poor of Silverio Compound resulted [...]
Monday, April 23, 2012PRESS STATEMENT April 23, 2012 We express our strongest condemnation of the brutal demolition of homes in Silverio Coumpound, the massacre of our brothers in the hands the Aquino administration. Aquino has only brought death and suffering to the toiling masses then in Hacienda Luista, and now in every urban poor community that he tried [...]
Monday, April 23, 2012PRESS RELEASE April 23, 2012 The youth group Anakbayan expressed its outrage today as members of the Philippine National Police opened fire today on residents of a Paranaque urban poor community, leaving at least one minor dead and several injured. The 9.7-hectare Silverio Compound, home to around 28 thousand families, is under the threat of [...]
Thursday, April 19, 2012LETTER TO THE EDITOR April 18, 2012 This is to clarify the issue of illegal wildlife poaching that sparked the stand-off between the Philippine and Chinese state forces in the heavily contested Scarborough Shoal. It should be clear that the problem is a concern of both the Philippine and Chinese governments, regardless of the still-unresolved [...]
Friday, April 6, 2012Armed Forces Chief Should Ensure Rights Violators are Held Accountable April 1, 2012 New York – The leadership of the Armed Forces of the Philippines should take concrete steps to hold accountable soldiers responsible for human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a letter released today to the military’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. [...]
Friday, March 23, 2012Letter to the Editor March 23, 2012 Disclaimer | What you are reading is either a press release/ statement or a manifesto. These materials do not go through our editorial process and do not reflect our policy or position. The continuing oil price hike imposed by the three big oil companies, Shell, Caltex and Petron, [...]
Filipinos join protests against NATO in Chicago, US (Photo by Brett Jelinek / Bulatlat.com)
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