Press Release 26 April 2010 National candidates pledge to uphold youth agenda Different youth groups, student councils, campus publications and student organizations today presented to the media the “Youth Choices” for president, vice-president, senators and partylist to the media based on a “Youth Covenant“. Led by the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP),…
Day: April 26, 2010
A COVENANT WITH THE YOUTH
Wanted: Presidential Aspirant with Real Health Agenda
Media Release 26 April 2010 Candidates seeking the highest post in the land should have a clear-cut, pro-people health agenda. Otherwise, they are no different from the current dispensation from which they are all trying so hard to distance themselves. According to Health Alliance for Democracy, all of the presidentiables still have to articulate their…
Deathblow to the US-Arroyo Regime!
Press Statement 24 April 2010 Advance the People’s War to build the People’s Democratic Government (On the occasion of the NDFP’s 37th founding anniversary) On the occasion of its founding anniversary today, April 24, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Southern Mindanao salutes the toiling Filipino workers and peasants and all the patriotic and revolutionary…
May Day 2010: 50,000 to Protest on Labor Day, Air Labor Agenda to Nat’l Candidates
NEWS RELEASE 26 April 2010 More than 50,000 workers are expected to join the actions in Metro Manila on Labor Day led by militant labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU). This year’s commemoration of Labor Day will highlight the workers’ presentation of the labor agenda to national candidates and labor’s assessment of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s nine-year…
COAV, RP Post Allows OAVs to Alternately Vote in 3 Different Polling Centers in Saudi Arabia
Press Release 26 April 2010 Seeing a trend of low voters’ turnout after more 2 weeks of the overseas absentee voting that started on April 10, a migrant workers’ rights group based in the Middle East last week have urged the COMELEC Committee on Overseas Absentee Voting (COAV) and the RP posts in Saudi Arabia…
More Political Prisoners Join Fasting for the Immediate Transfer of Health Workers to Camp Crame
Press Release 26 April 2010 Even behind bars, political prisoners from different parts of the country are expressing their solidarity with the continuing struggle of the 43 health workers for justice and respect for civil and political rights. Political prisoners from Compostela Valley, Cagayan de Oro, Tagum in Davao del Sur, Ozamis City, Oroquieta, Dipolog,…
Statement On The Dropping Of Murder Charges Against Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan And Akmad Ampatuan
Press Release 26 April 2010 Forget justice. Forget law. Forget democracy. Acting justice secretary Alberto Agra’s order to drop multiple murder charges against Zaldy and Akmad Ampatuan is proof that these principles do not, nay, have never existed under the Arroyo government, that this is governance not through the rule of law but through political…
NDFP denies use of anti-personnel mines,emphasizes its adherence to international humanitarian law
Press Release 25 April 2010 The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) today expressed surprise at the statement attributed to Commission on Human Rights (CHR) chairperson Atty. Leila de Lima that the New People’s Army (NPA) violated international humanitarian law (IHL) in the ambush it carried out against a team of the PNP Special…
Trying to Survive Each Day
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Mary Alvarez, a typical urban poor woman and housewife, belongs to the 22.39 percent of Filipino women who make ends meet despite having no source of income.
Dropping of Charges Against Two Ampatuans Affirms Impunity
By KRISTINE ABIGAIL LINGBAOAN and PAULINE GIDGET ESTELLA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Media groups, progressive organizations and relatives of the victims of Maguindanao massacre accused Justice Secretary Alberto Agra of arbitrarily dropping murder charges against two of the primary suspects as political payback to the Ampatuan clan for rigging the 2004 elections to favor President Gloria…