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Another Shameful Arroyo Legacy: Highest Dropout Rates in Years
The regime of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will go down in history as among the worst in terms of providing education. While dropout rates are common in other presidencies, it was only under Arroyo that the dropout rates for elementary and high school surpassed 10 and 15 percent respectively.
Int’l Group Alarmed by Philippines’s Failure to Stop Killings of Lawyers, Judges
Despite public statements from Arroyo denouncing extrajudicial killings, there is a gap between her rhetoric and what it has done to address the killings, said the group from the Netherlands and Belgium called Lawyers for Lawyers. Whatever initiatives she has implemented have failed to produce actual results, it said.
Audio: Ka Daning Ramos Denounces Disperal of Anti-Carper Rally

Audio: KMP's Ramos Denounces Dispersal
Video: VFA@10 — A Decade of Subservience

Video: VFA@10 -- A Decade of Subservience
Slideshow: A Show of Outrage Against a Bogus Agrarian-Reform Law

A Show of Outrage Vs a Bogus CARPer
Video: Police Disperse Indignation Rally Vs CARP, Charter Change

Police Disperse Rally Vs CARP, Cha-cha
Video: Taking a Stand Against Charter Change

Video: Taking a Stand Against Charter Change
Another ‘Travesty’ as Congress Votes to Extend Life of Failed CARP

Farmers and activists protesting in Congress Wednesday night.
The landlord-dominated Congress, led by the relatives of President Arroyo, voted Wednesday night to add five more years to the implementation of a 20-year-old agrarian-reform program that has failed to uplift the lives of peasants and farmers in the Philippines. And critics say the new proposed law is even worse than the original.
Slideshow: Stopping the Cha-Cha Train

Stopping the Cha-Cha Train
After Con-Ass, a Cha-Cha Free-for-All

Several groups critical of the Arroyo regime met yesterday to plan their next moves. A number of protest rallies have been scheduled beginning Thursday.
Despite the rain, Filipinos protested on Wednesday against Charter change. (Photo by Glaiza May Muzones / bulatlat.com)
Video: ‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’

Melissa Roxas Case: Military Is Accountable
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