‘Joel Maglunsod would surely push for pro-worker reforms and policies in government.’
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Nationwide Strike Against Oil Price Hikes Set On March 31
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Because there seems to be no end to the increases in the prices of oil products, people’s organizations are calling for a nationally-coordinated strike on March 31 saying that oil companies are lying when it cites world crude prices in justifying increases in local pump prices.
Toiling Masses Hailed in People Power Anniversary; Price Hikes Mar EDSA 1 Commemorations (PR)
Press Release February 24, 2011 As prominent personalities take spotlights in today’s commemoration of EDSA I, Anakpawis Partylist gave the full tribute to the masses and unsung heroes who are yet to reap the fruits of their struggle 25 years ago. “We owe the democracy we enjoy now to no one but our collective participation.…
Workers Dare Arroyo, Solons to Legislate P125 Wage Hike Instead of Costly Advertising, Campaigning
PRESS RELEASE 01 March 2010 Instead of bombarding Filipinos with advertisements claiming improved livelihood under her term, Gloria Arroyo should better enact our long-overdue call of a legislated, nationwide P125 wage increase. This was the challenge of Anakpawis Partylist and Kilusang Mayo Uno to the Arroyo regime amid recent outpouring of paid ads and publicity…
Military Admits Existence of Order of Battle
By defining what “dominated,” “organized” and “targeted” means in its order of battle, the army’s 10th Infantry Division practically admitted that the document indeed came from them. Some of those listed in the OB are calling on international groups to investigate this “campaign of vilification” by the AFP.
3 New Progressive Party List Reps Take their Oath
BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat Three activists have joined the progressive party-list bloc in Congress as they took their oath this morning before Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio. By virtue of the recent Supreme Court decision on the party-list system, lawyer Neri Javier Colmenares of Bayan Muna, Joel Maglunsod of Anakpawis and Raymond Palatino of…
No Turning Back Workers Defy Sto. Tomas’ Order
After their strike was declared “illegal” by the labor department, mill workers at the Cojuangco-owned Hacienda Luisita face mass lay-off. The workers have vowed to defy the DoLE order and to maintain their two-month long strike. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com Still hurting from the gunshot wound he sustained when police and military forces tried to…