Press Release from Joey de Venecia June 2, 2009 A scandalous regime This week marks the 4th anniversary of the Hello Garci scandal and it is sad to note that the parties involved in the apparent cheating before, during and after the 2004 presidential elections have...
Opposition congressmen tried to block the approval of House Resolution 1109 that would create a Constituent Assembly, with some valiantly opposing the apparent railroading of the measure. But the sheer number of Arroyo’s allies was overwhelming.
Con ass rush reveal GMA not stepping down in 2010 Anakpawis party-list Representative Rafael Mariano today slammed what he described as the “tyranny of the majority” in rushing House Resolution 1109 and called on the Filipino people to rise up in protest of the...
Congressional allies of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo have launched plenary debates tonight on the move to change the Constitution through what is known as a constituent assembly, or ConAss. Follow Bulatlat.com’s live coverage of the debates via Twitter or...
“I thought I was going to die there and then,” Melissa Roxas says. “They held my feet and my hands down and doubled-up plastic bags were pulled down on my head and face and closed on my neck and I started to suffocate and I could not breathe anymore and I was seeing white and thinking I was going to die.” | JOHN EDWARD JANDOC, MELISSA'S COMPANION, REMAINS MISSING
MANILA – The communist New People’s Army has claimed responsibility for the killing of the sister of one of its top leaders, saying she had been working as an intelligence agent for the military and had incurred “blood debts” against the revolutionary movement. In...
VFA's 10th Year Marked With Protests
Relatives, Friends Honor Ka Satur
Satur: "I Will Fight Alongside the Masses"
Satur for Senator: A Tribute
By the New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines The abduction, captivity, and surfacing of Filipina-American activist Melissa Roxas serves as a due wakeup call to many Filipinos in the United States that no critic of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo...
Bayan countered by saying that “the PHRC, by prejudging the incident as a mere propaganda tool by Bayan and Karapatan, shows that it has really no intention of uncovering the truth behind the abduction of Roxas and company. The Philippine government is more...
By GLAIZA MAY G. MUZONES and JUAN ANGELO A. HONGO Bulatlat MANILA -- Members of different cause-oriented groups led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) and the Junk VFA! Movement gathered today at the Plaza Salamanca and, later, the...
By THEA AYLA P. BANAG Migrant Watch Bulatlat Members of the House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs criticized several government agencies for “ignoring the pleas” of Filipino workers who became victims of illegal recruitment in Libya. The Committee held an...
'VFA Has Not Benefited Filipinos'
BY ANNA KRISTINA P. VIRTUSIO Bulatlat MANILA -- Farmers' groups trooped to the House of Representatives in Quezon City Tuesday to denounce the violent dispersal of their camp-out outside the south gate of the Batasan Pambansa Complex last Friday. “We condemn the...
Has the Visiting Forces Agreement served its avowed purpose? Or has it only reinforced the unequal alliance between the Philippines and the United States, a relationship so tilted in the Americans’ favor that to call the VFA an agreement -- with all the word’s connotation of equal rights, benefits and privileges -- would be a travesty?
SOLIDARITY STATEMENT ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RATIFICATION OF THE RP-US VISITING FORCES AGREEMENT From Vice-President Teofisto Guingona, Jr and Senator Serge Osmena III* for the JUNK VFA Movement activity, Rajah Sulayman Plaza, Manila May 27, 2009 May 27,...
Honoring Crispin "Ka Bel" Beltran
Press Release/ May 26, 2009 In September 1991, I was one of the tens of thousands of jubilant, soaking wet people who gathered outside the Senate when the historic vote was taken to not renew the bases treaty with the US. It was quite a night, marking the...
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