PRESS RELEASE March 15, 2010 Davao City —- On the 73rd Araw ng Dabaw, KATRIBU, a lumad sectoral party, highlighted the significance of Davao River to the indigenous peoples or lumads in the founding of the city through a Davao River clean up activity. The clean up drive led by Katribu in partnership with PANALIPDAN-Southern…
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Group Slams Arroyo Government Over US State Department Rights Report
News Release March 15, 2010 While boxer Manny Pacquiao brought pride to the Philippines yesterday, the Arroyo government once again found a way to bring shame to the country after the United States State Department released its 2009 human rights report on the Philippines. According to the State Department report, “arbitrary, unlawful, and extrajudicial killings…
IPPs Should Address Power Crisis in Mindanao, Says Progressive Group
PRESS RELEASE March 15, 2010 “LET the IPPs provide the reported power lack in Mindanao than declaring a state of emergency in Mindanao.” This is the stand of Makabayan Coalition Northern Mindanao on Friday’s pronouncement declaring the island-region under a state of calamity. Makabayan Coalition composed of the six progressive partylist groups, individuals and other…
Workers to JBC: Defy Palace Appointment of ‘Midnight CJ’
NEWS RELEASE 15 March 2010 Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno warned the Judicial and Bar Council today against granting Gloria Arroyo’s dark wish of having the list of nominees for the chief justice post so that she can appoint a “midnight CJ.” “The Filipino workers and people are demanding the JBC to stand its ground…
Group Deplores Labor Official for Inaction on Case of 90 Troubled OFWs
Press Release 15 March 2010 An alliance of Overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East today deplores the inaction of Philippine Labor official based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia despite that the case has been forwarded to the Philippine Labor Overseas Office (POLO) for information and action. “Along with the 90 OFWs who are victims of…
Graveyard Shift Amid Daytime Brownouts Hell for Workers
NEWS RELEASE 15 March 2010 Gloria Arroyo wants workers in Mindanao to literally experience hell through her order to schedule manufacturing activities at night while maintaining daytime rotating brownouts that last up to eight to ten hours, labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno said today. Arroyo’s order urging manufacturing companies and workers based in Mindanao to…
Anti-Communist Palparan Challenged to Report Achievements in Congress
PRESS RELEASE March 14, 2010 Self-proclaimed anti-communist mongerer Jovito Palparan should stop acting like a scorned woman blabbering unfounded accusations repeatedly against genuine partylist groups and focused his propaganda work on his achievements in Congress, if he has any. Disclaimer | What you are reading is either a press release/ statement or a manifesto. These…
Workers Assail Delayed Wages, Mining Firm Refuses to Implement Agreement
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com MANKAYAN, Benguet ? The rank-and-file employees of the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMC) picketed the general office of the company to demand payment of delayed wages. Headed by the Lepanto Employees Union-National Federation of Labor Unions-Kilusang Mayo Uno (LEU-Naflu-KMU), some 400 workers with their wives, children and…
As Election Nears, Military Intensifies Harassment of Partylist Groups, Leftist Bets
By RONALYN V. OLEA and JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Elements of the military have been roaming around urban centers in Metro Manila, Southern Tagalog and Mindanao with the objective of not only of driving these groups from the communities but campaigning against their candidates.
Seven Farmers in Davao del Sur ‘Falsely Accused’
By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY – A 74-year-old man, a 32-year-old mother, three farmers and two Bagobo lumads find themselves accused of the military’s trumped up charges as the government’s Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL) deadline to end the four-decades of Communist insurgency nears. For opposing the military’s presence in…
Indigenous Peoples from Abra, Mt. Province Join Katribu
By Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com CORDILLERA Region – The Katribu party list has been gaining the support of indigenous peoples from the Cordillera region. In the first two weeks of the month, the party list group held its conventions in Abra and Mountain Province. Almost 220 participants representing 25 out of the 27 municipalities…