The onset of Cha-cha threatens the education sector to the further gain of both local and foreign capitalists.
What you need to know about Charter Change and its possible effects on the education sector
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Cha-cha proposals to aggravate Mining Act’s 23 years of abuses, disasters
Cha-cha seeks to constitutionalize the Mining Act’s FTAA scheme that allows 100% foreign ownership and large-scale extraction of our mineral resources.
‘Mining Act on steroids’ | Why cha-cha will worsen plunder of PH resources
Proposed amendments to the 1987 Constitution expand and deepen the control and scope allowed for foreign businesses.
Stand with Samar | Eastern Visayas farmers oppose charter change
“We were forced to accept the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion [TRAIN] program, and now they want us to accept charter change, too.”
Calls for solidarity, defiance mark EDSA People Power Commemoration
The 32nd EDSA commemoration was concluded with vows to defeat any other would-be dictator and tyrant.
A dance protest: ‘Chacha laban sa cha-cha’
Faced with the impending approval of the proposed Federal Constitution, they warned against Duterte’s charter change as a tool for forwarding a full-fledged dictatorship.
The worst of times
“The best in the world” was how former chief justice Hilario Davide, Jr. described during a Senate hearing the 1987 Philippine Constitution that he and other members of the Constitutional Commission created by then president Corazon Aquino drafted. The description may not be completely accurate. But it suggests that because the present charter was drafted…
Hold public discussions on proposed amendments to 1987 Constitution
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective What do the public know about the current initiative in Congress to amend the 1987 Constitution? First, the Duterte administration is proposing a shift to a Federal form of government. And second, there have been disagreements between the Lower House and the Senate on how to amend the 1987 Constitution.…
#BlackFriday protests set in defense of press freedom
“It will be up to us, media and the citizenry, to work together to thwart the dark goals of the tyrant Duterte. It will be up to us to resist any return to dictatorship in the Philippines.” By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA — Journalists and press freedom advocates are calling on all citizens to…
Waltzing with a dictator?| House resolution to convene ConAss for charter change hurriedly passed
“This Congress is a joke. An important matter as amendments to the Constitution was railroaded, interpellations were abruptly stopped, and the period of debate disregarded.”
NUJP hits proposal to restrain free press, expression
“This proposal is as dangerous as it is, to put it as plainly as possible, stupid.”