Video: Arroyo’s Sona — A Litany of Lies
Video: Arroyo's Sona: A Litany of Lies
Video: Arroyo’s Sona — A Litany of Lies
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Video: The Making of the Last Gloria Effigy
Video: The Making of the Last Gloria Effigy
Video: The Making of the Last Gloria Effigy
Peasants and Workers in Long March for Land, Decent Jobs
Peasants and Workers in Long March for Land, Decent Jobs
Days before the Sona, thousands of farmers, workers, students and activists braved the heat and the rain as they marched from the provinces of Southern Tagalog to Commonwealth Avenue. The march, called Lakbayan, is their way of fighting the regime’s abuses and asserting their basic rights.
Outside Manila, Thousands Denounce Arroyo
Outside Manila, Thousands Denounce Arroyo
Thousands converged in other key cities across the country to denounce the Arroyo regime for the poverty, corruption, deception and repression in the Philippines.
In Sona, Arroyo Paints a Different Picture
In Sona, Arroyo Paints a Different Picture
In her ninth State of the Nation Address, President Arroyo painted a rosy picture of the Philippines – a world so much different from the one most Filipinos live in, her critics say.
Drenched But in High Spirits, Filipinos Gather Against a Hated Regime
Drenched But in High Spirits, Filipinos Gather Against a Hated Regime
Ordinary Filipinos – the perennially jobless, out-of-school teenagers, recently retrenched factory workers, vegetable vendors, proud homosexuals, among others – braved the heavy rain on the day of the Sona to let it be known that they have had enough of Gloria.
Benjie Oliveros | After Sona, It’s Business as Usual for Arroyo
Benjie Oliveros | After Sona, It’s Business as Usual for Arroyo
The regime would not veer away from the economic policies that Arroyo has implemented in the past. These are the very same policies that made the Filipino people vulnerable to the world economic crisis and to price manipulations and speculative attacks by corporations wanting to pass on the burden of the crisis to the people.
Save as PDFArroyo’s Last Sona: 9 Years of Scandals, Corruption and Repression
Arroyo’s Last Sona: 9 Years of Scandals, Corruption and Repression
Anti-Sona Protests in Manila, Provinces
Arroyo’s Legacy: Damaged Political Institutions, ‘Distorted and Disintegrating’ Economy
Arroyo’s Legacy: Damaged Political Institutions, ‘Distorted and Disintegrating’ Economy
When Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivers what is supposed to be her last State of the Nation Address this Monday, she will probably claim that she has accomplished what she said she had set out to do in 2001 and 2004. To her critics, however, the past nine years have been “the reign of Gollum.”
Elizabeth Principe: ‘I Am Raring to Rejoin the Struggle Against This Unjust Regime’
Elizabeth Principe: ‘I Am Raring to Rejoin the Struggle Against This Unjust Regime’
“My continued detention shows that the Government of the Republic of the Philippines is not serious in lifting the suspension of the Jasig. There is political pressure to keep me in jail. But they are no match against the mass movement who spared no effort in their support,” Principe said. 
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Principe Finally Freed from Camp Crame Jail
Military Blocks Release of Political Prisoner
Military Blocks Release of Political Prisoner
Military Blocks Release of Political Prisoner
Marie Hilao Enriquez, secretary-general of Karapatan, told Bulatlat that the military refused to release Elizabeth Principe’s clearance papers. “This is already a case of illegal detention since the court has already ordered her release,” Enriquez said. Principe was supposed to be freed Monday night.
Political Prisoner Remains in Jail Despite Court’s Dismissal of Cases
Political Prisoner Remains in Jail Despite Court’s Dismissal of Cases
“How can we claim to be under a democracy when a political prisoner continues to languish in jail even as all the trumped-up charges filed against her have already been dismissed?”
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