PRESS RELEASE Dec 8, 2010 It’s still Aquino’s call. The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today called on the Aquino administration to show real resolve in going after former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the face of a Supreme Court decision voiding the Truth Commission tasked to investigate the former president. “At the end of…
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Change group twits Aquino for backtracking on funds for Arroyo district
News Release Nov. 3, 2010 Pagbabago! People’s Movement for Change hit President Benigno Aquino III for allowing Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to hog P2.2 billion funds in infrastructure projects for her congressional district in Pampanga. “Pres. Aquino in the past lambasted Mrs. Gloria Arroyo’s lathering of funds for Pampanga. But now, he is simply letting her…
Environmental and indigenous peoples groups denounce Arroyo’s midnight mining deals
Press Release Progressive environmental group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment voiced out worry over a number of mining projects that are being negotiated and given the go signal to operate on the remaining days of President Arroyo in office. The midnight deals cited by the groups are the Canadian nickel miner MBMI Resources Inc.…
Bayan: P10-M budget to showcase Arroyo ‘achievements’ a waste of funds
News Release June 9, 2010 The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) today said the P10-million budget allocation for the government’s celebration of Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s nine-year legacy as president will only amount to a big waste of public funds. To serve as the program’s highlight is a parade of 10 floats representing the supposed…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Clinging to Reins of Power
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat Her term ending in June 2010, de facto president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo finally filed her candidacy as congresswoman in the second district of Pampanga, her hometown, ending all speculation that she would seek the post. The prevarication and manipulation that preceded it, the orchestrated “clamor” for…
Philippines improves ranking in Press Freedom Index
Reporters Without Borders today released its Press Freedom Index for 2009. In it, the Philippines ranks 122, compared to last year’s 139. This suggests that press freedom in the Philippines has improved, regardless of the many killings, attacks and intimidation being faced by Filipino journalists. But over the years, the country’s rankings in the index indicate a worsening of press freedom.
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Cory, The People And People Power
By CAROL PAGADUAN-PARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat In death as in life, former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino continues to be a political phenomenon. The Aquino family themselves had not anticipated the people’s outpouring of love, adulation and respect for their mother after she died last July 31. Tens of thousands lined up…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | “Con-Ass” and the People’s Wrath
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat The anti-Charter change (Chacha) and anti-Arroyo forces had barely a week to mount the muscle-flexing protest action yesterday in Ayala Avenue, Makati City and in major urban centers nationwide. They achieved a big measure of success by gathering thousands in Makati and hundreds if not…
After SC ruling dismissing Lozano, Biraogo petitions, Arroyo and allies to force situation, solon warns
After the Supreme Court’s ruling junking the petitions seeking to nullify House Resolution (HR) 1109 calling for a constituent assembly (Con-ass) to amend the charter even without the Senate, a militant lawmaker called on the people to remain vigilant saying “this will surely incite Ms Arroyo’s allies to force the situation and convene her self-serving…