NEWS RELEASE 21 March 2010 More than just mulling over the distribution of female condoms, the labor department should act on the demand of Filipino workers for a nationwide wage hike and creation of decent jobs, labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno said today. KMU said...
Press Release 21 March 2010 “The newly amended law for Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act (Republic Act 10022) as it introduces amendments to R.A. 8042, will only heighten and intensify the exportation of human labor as a primordial labor program of the...
News Release March 21, 2010 The warning made by a Malacanang spokesperson that a failure of elections could lead to a military junta is a veiled endorsement of an Arroyo holdover, according to the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan.The militant group also expressed the...
Press Release 21 March 2010 An alliance of overseas Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East today urges fellow OFWs to be vigilant as the political development in the home front becomes undesirable that may lead towards a chaotic situation and political...
Media Release 20 March 2010 The Armed Forces of the Philippines is now using the Philippine National Police as a convenient scapegoat for their illegal raid and human rights violations. According to Health Alliance for Democracy, the AFP is desperately trying to...
Press Statement March 20, 2010 Where there is U.S. military presence, there is protest and resistance. As we commemorate the 7th year of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we join the growing movement of people who are calling for the immediate pullout of U.S. military...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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