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The International Federation of Journalists protested today over the expulsion of a Moscow-based investigative reporter with a warning that official intolerance of independent journalism in squeezing the life out of press freedom in Russia.
Natalia Morar, a journalist for the monthly independent news magazine New Time was detained at the city’s Domodedevo airport on her return [...]
ILOILO CITY - The kins of two victims of enforced disappearance in Iloilo hailed top government military and civilian officials in court Monday (December 17) to compel them to produce the missing persons.
Maywan P. Dominado and Rosemarie D. Arado in their petition for the writ of amparo asked the Regional Trial Court to order the [...]
Sen. Loren Legarda yesterday said the delivery of equal justice, social amelioration and a healthy economy and not the use of a “mailed fist” will solve the problem of insurgency.
Loren made these remarks to [...]
Demands swift passage of Renewable Energy Bill
Manila, 19 December 2007—”My home is in danger—so is yours,” a
Greenpeace ‘polar bear’ today warned lawmakers, as he demanded, in a
visit to the Senate, that the government immediately pass the Renewable
Energy (RE) Bill.
Going by the moniker ‘P. Bear,’ the Greenpeace mascot, accompanied by
volunteers, also hung a Christmas stocking at [...]
American and Asian Journalists to Focus on Issues in the U.S. and among Asia’s Muslims
HONOLULU (Dec. 19) — The East-West Center is accepting fellowship applications from Asian and American journalists who want to learn more about the United States and Muslims in Asia.
The Senior Journalists Seminar, a travel-and-dialogue program, will take American journalists to [...]
Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Representative Satur C. Ocampo today said that “the political collusion between President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and San Miguel Corp. Chair Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr. will be a major roadblock to the Sumilao farmers demand for land.”
Ocampo’s reaction was issued after Malacanang revoked a conversion order on a 144-hectare agricultural property [...]
New York City―Last Friday, December 14, Filipino youth organization
Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (Linking the Children of the Motherland)
held the cultural event MAGDIWANG to celebrate the organization’s 3rd
anniversary and its victories of 2007, and to launch an unpaid wages
campaign for Filipina youth worker Adriane Padilla.
Adriane, a 23-year old Filipina immigrant, is seeking compensation
from her [...]
Anti-mining liberalization alliance Defend Patrimony today pressed for the permanent closure of the Arroyo administration’s first foreign-owned showcase mining project in the Philippines owned by financially-troubled Lafayette Mining Limited (LML) of Australia.
LML owns 74% of Lafayette Philippines Inc. which runs an open-pit mine in Rapu-Rapu island in Albay. LML Board of Directors yesterday declared that [...]
Lafayette declares ‘voluntary administration’, banks to take over
Defend Patrimony, the broadest alliance against mining liberalization in the Philippines, today welcomed news of financial bankruptcy hitting the first foreign-owned mining project under the Arroyo administration in Rapu-Rapu island, Albay.
After months of being in the red, Lafayette Mining Limited, the Australian owner of Lafayette Philippines Inc. which [...]
By Dr. Walden Bello
President of the Freedom from Debt Coalition
The gap between the urgent threat of global warming and the collective will to do something about it has never been greater. The recently concluded Conference on Climate Change in Bali was a grand opportunity to act. Instead, it was another missed opportunity. Unfortunately, [...]
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Nene” Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today deplored the lackadaisical
attitude of government bureaucrats towards scientific
inventions made by Filipino inventors which has
deprived the country of tremendous benefits from their
pioneering works.
Pimentel said the Philippines could have taken the
lead in the production of water-powered cars and the
harnessing of ocean waves to generate power – which
are now [...]
Escaped victims to provide vital testimony in court for the writ of amparo petition
The Families of Desaparecidos for Justice (Desaparecidos) today hailed the Manalo brothers for their courage to testify in court for the writ of amparo petition for the two missing UP students and their peasant companion.
“Peasant brothers Reynaldo, 38 [...]
“Sumilao farmers’ problem just the tip of RP land problem!”-KMP
The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) revealed that the Sumilao case is just the tip of the Philippine land problem and that Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo just used them for media mileage yesterday. According to [...]
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Nene” Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today asked the government to allow
departing Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to pay $25
fee in dollar denomination, rather than in peso
denomination.
Pimentel said the OFWs will be able to save some
amount if they pay in dollars due to the continued
plunge in the value of the US dollar.
He said the [...]
Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur C. Ocampo together with Anakpawis Rep. Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran today submitted before the Commission on Appointments their opposition to the confirmation of the appointment of Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez.
“A person like Gonzalez who has no respect for the law and the rule of law is not [...]
CARP extension will be bane of farmers
The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) issued a warning to the Sumilao farmers against being used by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and opportunist groups that are using their issue to call for the extension of the bogus Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
According to Rafael “Ka Paeng” Mariano, chairman of KMP [...]
By LUIS G. JALANDONI
Chairperson, NDFP Negotiating Panel
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) strongly condemns the illegal arrest, torture and detention of NDFP Consultant Emeterio Antalan and his staff Mr. Edgardo V. Friginal as another gross violation of the GRP-NDFP Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG).
Mr. Antalan, 48 and Mr. Friginal, 41, [...]
Civil society organizations belonging to Alternative Budget Initiative (ABI) serenade today the Congressional bicameral committee to seriously consider in the deliberations of the 2008 budget the proposal to allocate P20 billion more for social expenditures and reduce debt payments.
Wearing Santa hats, the group sings their demands to the tune of Filipino Christmas songs demanding more [...]
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