Workers’ conditions worsen under Aquino
Day: May 14, 2011
Street Shooter: Low Cost Housing
Low Cost Housing
Photo of the Week: Un-commercialized beauty
Un-commercialized beauty
Satur C. Ocampo | Palparan’s comeuppance
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Remember Jovito Palparan Jr., the notorious Philippine Army officer tagged by militant political activists as “The Butcher”? In 2007 the Melo Commission recommended Palparan’s investigation for extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and other human rights violations. Instead, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo personally presented him as a…
Salungguhit: Loose change
Loose change
News in Pictures: Government employees defend their jobs, oppose privatization
MANILA — Employees of the National Housing Authority (NHA) are against plans of the Benigno Aquino government to privatize housing services and to create a Department of Housing and Urban Development. NHA employees and urban poor organizations under the Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) have been fighting against moves to privatize public housing and legislative proposals on the same since the year 2000 and since the 9th Congress. (Text by Ina Alleco R. Silverio; Photos courtesy of Consolidated Union of Employees (CUE-NHA) / bulatlat.com)