PRESS RELEASE February 2, 2011 “What good has this president done so far? There is none. Under the first few months of Aquino, he has proven that contrary to what he said in one of his campaign slogans that we are his bosses, he is a coddler of private interests!” Members of the League of…
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Slideshow: Clinton Visit an Affirmation of US Neocolonialism in Philippines
Clinton Visit Met with Protest
Only 15, Student Confronts Military-Backed Political Repression in Quezon City School
Pressured by the military, officials of a high school in Quezon City rejected the enrollment of a student activist. She could only enroll at the school, they told her, if she signed a waiver that would prohibit her from participating in protest actions and rallies. Aghast and angry, the student decided to fight back.
Student Group to CHED: Enforce Tuition Hike Freeze
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Members of the cause-oriented League of Filipino Students have called on the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman Emmanuel Angeles to enforce a moratorium on tuition increases in light of the global economic crisis. The LFS members made this call during a picket-dialogue earlier today at the CHED office in…
The Day Their Footsteps Stopped…
(A tribute to the peasant martyrs of the Mendiola massacre) We were so scared and shaking and we could not look down at the helpless bodies of peasants, some crying for help and shrieking, others gasping for their last breath. I felt that a part of me died that day as we were trying to…