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Thousands of workers led by Kilusang Mayo Uno poured on the streets to dispel Gloria Arroyo’s myth on the state of the nation, and to insist on a categorical farewell from Arroyo amid attempts to convene a Constituent Assembly. “Arroyo’s long-overdue farewell,...
New York, NY-- In the Philippines, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivers the Philippine 's state of the nation address (SONA) on July 27th, 2009, her annual address will report an laudatory state of the country's economic, political, and social state. In past...
Describing President Macapagal-Arroyo's ninth State of the Nation Address (Sona) as “another wizard's potion concocted to fool the poor,” a militant lawmaker called on the President to instead lay down her exit plan and stop the push for term extension via Charter...
Statement of Health Alliance for Democracy on the State of the Nation Address (Sona) 2009 The signs and symptoms exhibited by the government of Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo over the last eight years are consistent with the moribund condition of multiple organ...
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Kulturang Popular Kultura Bulatlat.com Ang sonata ay isang musical form na matingkad ang harmonic at tematikong organisasyon: may simula, pag-unlad at sintesis. Doble ang katingkaran ng oranisasyon nito, kung isasama pa ang pagkumpas ng...
Rhetoric and Reality, Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is expected to deliver a glowing State of the Nation Address enumerating the achievements of her administration, stressing on economic growth figures (By Flon Faurillo)
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.”
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Even for lowly jobs, Filipino are required to submit proofs of clean bill of health to show that they are fit. What more for the job of president of the Philippines? In a press conference Saturday, leaders of organizations of...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, progressive youth groups said, should be kicked out of school because she got a failing mark. More than a thousand participants to the Pa-Siyam, a concert rally held at the Liwasang...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com MANILA -- It is the State of the Nation Address once again. The true state of the country is again the subject of debates. Surely, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo would boast about the economic growth and its supposed...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA -- “Support Con-Ass. Cha-Cha is good for you. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a good president. Send it to 20 of your friends and within two days, you will lose all of your friends,” said a text joke read by lawyer Remigio Saladero...
Progressive groups under the banner of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan stage a pre-State of the Nation Address (Sona) protest on Tandang Sora corner Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City on Monday. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is scheduled to deliver her last Sona on...
The plight of Filipino teachers has been at its worst since Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assumed the presidency in 2001, according to the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT). Amid the recent surges in the prices of petroleum products and consequently of transport and...
Widespread hunger and poverty, broad dissatisfaction, and the absence of justice belie any claim of accomplishments that the Arroyo government is hard-selling on the people. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS ANALYSIS Vol. VIII, No. 25, July 27-August 2, 2008 Pres. Gloria...
BY BULATLAT Posted 2:40 p.m. - July 28, 2008 Even before Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivers her state of the nation address (SONA), people's organizations under the banner of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan- New Patriotic Alliance) presented what they...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Posted 7:15 p.m., July 28, 2008 Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo cannot make any realistic claim of progress today, a representative of the party-list group Bayan Muna (People First) said today at the rally against the State of...
BY BULATLAT Posted 4:38 p.m., July 29, 2008 Consumer group TXTPower is not at all happy about the 50-percent cost reduction of text messaging. In her State of the Nation Address yesterday, Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced that telecommunication companies have...
BY BULATLAT Posted 4:53 p.m., July 29, 2008 Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo admitted in her State of the Nation Address (SONA) yesterday her government's failure to alleviate poverty in Mindanao due to the 'endless conflict in the island.' But a congresswoman from...
The Arroyo government has been dismissing surveys showing that the satisfactory rating of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is at an all-time low of –38 and that majority of Filipinos think that the SONA is untruthful. Do these reflect the views of the people? The...
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