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MEDIA RELEASE March 20, 2010 Youth organizations led by Kabataan Partylist today challenged presidential aspirants to take a stand against the impending 2,000 percent tuition increase in the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP). There is a pending...
Media Release 20 March 2010 “Human rights violations and the smear campaign against progressive candidates and partylists will never stop unless those who violated the law get punished.” This is the stern warning of Atty. Joven Laura, 3rd nominee of Bayan Muna...
Press Release March 20, 2010 On its regular monthly gathering this month, the Victims of Arroyo regime United for Justice or HUSTISYA and the families of the 43 health workers held a mass action in front of the gate of Camp Aguinaldo to protest the continued...
Media Release March 20, 2010 Bayan Muna 3rd nominee Atty. Joven Laura is calling the attention of Army Chief Maj. Gen. Reynaldo Mapagu to “look into these cases of harassment and intimidation by his men on local leaders of Bayan Muna and other progressive...
Press Statement March 20, 2010 The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) joins the people of the world in commemorating the seventh anniversary of the United States-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. We join the thousands protesting worldwide in calling for an end...
Party-list or Malacanang’s List?
By Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- Reports from people's organizations all over Northern Luzon show an increasing trend in development aggression. This was culled from the provincial surveys of people's opposition to the...
by CLARE BAYARD and SARAH LAZARE Commondreams International Posted by Bulatlat.com Think back seven years ago to this day. Where were you on March 19th, 2003, when the invasion began? Did you see “Shock and Awe” footage of the orange explosions in the clear Baghdad...
By Grant Lawrence Alternet International Posted by Bulatlat.com Weary men, what reap ye? Golden corn for the stranger. What sow ye? Human corpses that wait for the avenger. Fainting forms, Hunger—stricken, what see you in the offing. Stately ships to bear our food...
By Tope Folarin Commondreams International Posted by Bulatlat.com The United Nations will host a Haiti donors' conference at the end of March. This conference will be quite different from last year's event, of course, coming as it does on the heels of the worst...
By ATTY. MARIE YUVENCO Bulatlat.com It isn’t true that the course of our history is charted within that building along the polluted banks of the Pasig river. Malacañang may point the direction towards which the ship of state is headed, but the captain cannot pull...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Hundreds of students at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines walked out of their classes today to denounce a proposal to increase the school's tuition by as much as 2,000 percent. The students, nearly a thousand of them, threw armchairs, tables and papers down to the ground floor and set these on fire.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
and ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The AFP said the commission should first get clearance from the courts before the AFP could produce the detainees. CHR chairwoman Leila de Lima retorted: "Please do not restrict our authority to determine the truth."
By MARYA SALAMAT
The 20 were arrested in 2007, after they went on strike while employed at Karnation Industries Inc (Pansy Accessories), a maker of home decor and accessories. They complained about low salaries and benefits.
News Release March 16, 2010 The anti-fraud group Kontra Daya today told the Commission on Elections (Comelec) not to shift the blame in relation to the accreditation of six party-list groups that, according to the watchdog, should be disqualified from participating...
Press Release March 16, 2010 Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno today accused the Arroyo government for being responsible for the snag in the privatization of the Manila North Harbor, saying the government is using a “corrupt” labor leader to thwart the port’s...
Press Statement March 15, 2010 “The ensuing black propaganda and innuendos continuously churned out by state forces on the case of the 43 health workers shows complete ignorance on community health work. This not only reeks of elitism but a desperately malicious...
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