March 15 2012 More than a hundred student councils and publications, campus and youth organizations, and community-based groups will join today’s nationwide ‘Protestang Bayan’ (or People’s Protest) against the overpricing of petroleum products both in local and international markets. Led by the youth group Anakbayan, the organizations under the KKK, or Kilos Na Kontra Kartel…
Category: Press Releases and Statements
Why OFWs will join the People’s Protest vs. oil price hikes
Reference: Garry Martinez, chairperson of Migrante International Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) support calls to stop oil price hikes because the unending spate of increases are taking a heavy toll on OFWs and their families, especially in light of the dwindling dollar caused by the recent global economic crisis, according to global alliance for OFWs and…
Women join peoples’ protest vs oil, food price hikes
MANILA – WOMEN and consumer groups once again filled the streets with protests on World Consumers’ Rights Day today, and bombarded the administration of President Noynoy Aquino with repeated demands for price regulation and tax cuts on oil products. The women’s rights group GABRIELA picketed at the curb of the National Housing Authority with students,…
LTE: Statement of the 2nd Ecumenical Church Leaders’ Summit on the GPH-NDFP Peace Negotiations
“Stand Firm! Persevere! Proclaim the Gospel of Peace!” Betania Retreat House, Lahug, Cebu City February 6-8, 2012 “This is what Yahweh asks of you, only this: that you act justly, that you love tenderly, that you walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6:8) We are Church leaders from five major religious federations*. We came together…
LTE: After a year in prison, the struggle continues
By Alan Jazmines February 14, 2012 It has been exactly a year now since I was treacherously arrested – on February 14, 2011, just a few hours before the resumption of the long-delayed formal talks between the peace panels of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the Government of the Republic of…
Philippines: Arrest Ex-General Accused of ‘Disappearances’ (PR)
Human Rights Watch January 31, 2012 Palparan’s Prosecution Key to Ending Impunity (New York) – Philippine President Benigno Aquino III should order the armed forces to cooperate with civilian authorities in arresting retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan and others charged with the enforced disappearance of two activists in 2006, Human Rights Watch said today. Since…
CPP denounces Aquino high-profile ‘anti-terror’ scare tactics, power-tripping and muscle-flexing
Press Release The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) denounced the Aquino regime for employing and orchestrating high-profile “anti-terror” scare tactics as an excuse to engage in power-tripping and muscle-flexing. Orchestrated by Benigno Aquino himself, the Philippine government revealed an alleged terror plot against a large Catholic religious procession today in the center of Manila.…
How many more must die? (PR)
Statement of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication On the second anniversary of the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre November 22, 2011 DESPITE President Benigno Aquino III’s pledge that his administration will stop the killing of journalists, twelve have been killed since the Ampatuan Massacre of November 23, 2009 claimed the lives…
Licensed to Flee: GMA must come to court with clean hands while Noynoy twiddles his fingers
Press Statement 16 November 2011 Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s attempts to escape justice and frustrate efforts to prosecute her is in plain view that nobody could have missed it. The minute she steps out of the country, the quest for justice will almost certainly fall apart. She will most probably wait it out till the…
NDF urges Visayas to resist militarization and warlordism of Tan dynasty and AFP
PRESS RELEASE MANILA –The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today slammed the Tan political dynasty for using Western Samar’s possible recall elections to push militarization and warlordism. “We condemn the maneuver from the Tan dynasty through the provincial office of the Commission on Elections in asking for the deployment of the military and police to oversee…
LTE: Fr. Fausto Tentorio, PIME – Staunch defender of the peasants and lumads rights and welfare
Letter to the Editor 25 October 2011 Dear Editor, We, the Moros, share the grief of our Christian and Lumad brothers and sisters in Arakan, North Cotabato for the brutal killing of Father Fausto Tentorio, PIME, an Italian Catholic missionary who truly served the poor, impoverished and marginalized peasants and indigenous peoples in the area…