By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The release this week of the five student from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines does not stop the struggle by students and parents against unreasonable tuition increases.
By MARYA SALAMAT
The crisis at the Philippine General Hospital worsened last week as 75 of the hospital’s topnotch and highly qualified doctors and medical professors went on mass leave starting March 29 to express “anger and dismay over the oppression and dubious removal from office” of the hospital’s director, Dr. Jose Gonzales. They said, however, that they would still respond to emergency or life-threatening cases.
Media Release March 29, 2010 First, it was health workers. Now, the Armed Forces of the Philippines are victimizing children. Health Alliance for Democracy strongly condemned the illegal detention and torture of two 15-year old girls and a 15-year old boy in North Cotabato and Compostela Valley after the army’s 25th Infantry Battalion accused them…
Media Release March 27, 2010 A nationwide child rights advocacy group lambasted the military’s false claims in news reports that the 15 year old boy they arrested in Makilala, North Cotabato was allegedly aiding the New People’s Army detonate a bomb in Brgy. Old Balatukan, and another girl arrested by the 25th in Moncayo, Compostela…
Media Release March 29, 2010 The partylist group currently being represented by the sister of First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo counts among its nominees multi-millionaires, government appointees and influential people, according to a study mady by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan and the watchdog group Kontra Daya. The partylist group Ang Kasangga, currently represented in Congress…
Media Release March 29, 2010 The Commission on Elections has the continuing obligation to screen partylist nominees especially if there are continuing violations of the law, according to the watchdog group Kontra Daya. “The Comelec has the continuing power and the duty to defend the partylist system at any time from the onslaught of those…
Media Release March 29, 2010 Students from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) drew in massive support from students from other schools and personalities today in a Youth Action Day against tuition hikes and for higher state subsidy for education. Despite classes being over, almost 1,000 youth and students gathered together in front of…
Media Release March 29, 2010 Kontra-Daya, COURAGE, Migrante, Kilusang Mayo Uno, Gabriela, Kadamay and other militant groups today stormed the COMELEC office to condemn the poll body’s blatant leniency in allowing GMA-backed partylists to run in the 2010 elections. The militants called on the public to junk Arroyo’s collaborators in the upcoming polls. A number…
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Pagbabago! and Ibon Foundation dare the Filipino people to be more critical in choosing their candidates. High on their “people’s criteria” are concrete steps by the presidential candidate to stamp out corruption and to promote human rights and stop abuses.
