Satur Slams Move to Revive Subversion Law
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Left Forms New Coalition for 2010 Elections
Left Forms ‘Makabayan’ Coalition
Peasant Group Says Akbayan’s Tirades Anti-Peasant
BY BULATLAT The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) said Akbayan Partylist Rep. Riza Hontiveros-Baraquel’s accusations are anti-peasant and anti-people. Baraquel accused Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo and Anakpawis Representative Rafael Mariano, also the chairperson of KMP, of colluding with landlords in killing the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). Danilo Ramos,…
JdV Endorsement Could Boost Impeach Rap – Satur
‘He knows GMA’s involvement because he was there’
Will the endorsement by former House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr. boost the chances of this year’s impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo? Deputy House Minority Leader and Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Satur Ocampo, one of the original endorsers of the complaint together with fellow Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño and Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Liza Maza, believes so.
Satur: Domain Pact Could Lay Trap for MILF
The Memorandum of Agreemment on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) that was supposed to be signed by the GRP and the MILF has a trap laid by the U.S. for the Moro revolutionary group, a progressive legislator said. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 The Memorandum of Agreemment on Ancestral Domain…
Military Men Hovering Around Ka Satur’s Home
(Bulatlat.com)BY BULATLAT April 20, 2008 – 10:50 a.m. Six military-looking men in civilian clothes are currently moving around the house of Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Satur Ocampo. Bayan Muna is wondering why military men are hovering within the vicinity of Ka Satur’s house when there is no pending warrant of arrest against the legislator.…
Militants Score Extension of MLSA, Seek Congressional Review
The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) urged Congress to look into the reported extension of the Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA). Bayan maintained that the circumstances surrounding the extension of the pact are ‘shrouded in secrecy…[and]…raises serious questions regarding the real intentions of both the Philippine and U.S. governments. BY…
Trajectories of Dissent: Potting the Philippine Student Movement
History illustrates that the youth is a critical catalyst of the revolution. Now that the Establishment has intensified its coercion, the students are called upon to formulate new modes of engagement. For the world is still characterized by dialectical contradictions; to remain passive is a grave transgression. BY ALAYSA TAGUMPAY E. ESCANDOR Philippine Collegian Posted…
Gov’t Selling Protected Seas to TNCs – Environmental Groups
In line with its thrust of attracting foreign investments, the Arroyo government is now opening up the country’s protected seas to oil and gas exploration by transnational corporations. BY GERRY ALBERT CORPUZ Bulatlat Vol. VII, No.29, August 26 – September 1, 2007 CEBU CITY- “The country’s protected seas are up for grabs to the highest…
Ka Satur Hastily Transferred to Leyte
BY BULATLAT Posted 10:45 a.m. March 19, 2007 Rep. Satur Ocampo of Bayan Muna Party (BM or People First) was awakened in his detention cell at the Western Police District in Manila at 3 a.m. this morning by Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) agents and was told that he was to be transferred to Leyte.…
Leyte Judge Allows Ocampo to Stay
BY BULATLAT Posted 10:55 a.m. March 19, 2007 Romeo Capulong, counsel for Rep. Satur Ocampo, announced in a gathering for Ocampo at Club Filipino in Greenhills, San Juan, that the Leyte judge granted the petition to allow Ocampo’s continued detention in Manila by placing him under the custody of Local Government Undersec. Marius Corpus. Capulong…