Archive for February, 2008
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IFJ Leads Global Protest as Moscow Increases Threat to Close Down Independent Union of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists today called on journalists’ unions around the world to join protests over a “cynical campaign” by Russian political bosses to close down the Russian Union of Journalists, the country’s largest non-governmental organisation.
For the past year state agencies in Moscow have been trying to evict the Russian Union from premises they [...]
The International Federation of Journalists today expressed deep regret and shock at the death of the President of the Iraqi Union of Journalists in Baghdad who has succumbed to wounds sustained in a targeted attack by gunmen at the weekend.
Shihab Al-Timimi, 75, suffered a heart attack today and died in hospital where he was taken [...]
Press statement
22 February 2008
Umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) reiterated its call for a suspension and an independent and credible probe of all ongoing and approved infrastructure projects funded by foreign loans even as Ms. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has already put on hold the implementation of 11 such projects.
Malacañang announced the other day that it is [...]
Senator Mar Roxas called on the Department of Foreign Affairs to “act swiftly” in ascertaining the facts behind a reported rape incident involving a United States Army serviceman and a Filipina victim.
COTABATO CITY – The Suara Bangsamoro (Voice of the Bangsamoro) organization here will commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the EDSA 1 People Power uprising that toppled the Marcos dictatorship on Monday, February 25.
The group will participate in the nationally-coordinated protest lead by Bagong Alyansa Makabayan amid fresh allegations of corruption and calls for ouster facing [...]
COTABATO CITY – Youth groups here intensify calls for the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo amidst anomalies and scandals plaguing the present regime, vehemently stress, “Enough of Corruption, Oust Gloria Now.”
The Alyansa ng Kabataan Laban sa Panghihimasok ng Amerikanong Sundalo (AKLAS) enumerates Hello Garci, National Broadband Network project with China’s ZTE Corporation deal scam and [...]
The party-list group Bayan Muna today slammed the military and police’s campaign of coercion and intimidation in urban poor communities in Metro Manila to prevent residents from joining anti-Arroyo protests.
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Nene” Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today said he doesn’t mind if
politicians are relegated to the background during
protests rallies against the Arroyo presidency as
workers, students and other people who used to be
among the silent majority are now more willing to go
out to the streets to express their outrage over the
excesses of the administration.
Pimentel [...]
“What GMA did or did not do after she learned that something was wrong with the ZTE-NBN deal on the eve of its signing is the smoking gun that links her to the scandal,” Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said.
As the influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) prepares to convene tomorrow a special emergency meeting on the current political crisis, green groups are calling out to the official organization of the Filipino Catholic episcpacy to “reject President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in light of her involvement in crafting and implementing the most environmentally-hazardous [...]
Taking off their lab coats and glasswares, activist scientists are
today joining the mobilizations calling for the ouster of President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Scientists and engineers from AGHAM or the Samahan ng Nagtataguyod ng
Agham at Teknolohiya para sa Sambayanan and the broad coalition
Scientists for Truth, Scientists for Change (STSC) will be bringing
protest flasks to the mobilization commemorating the [...]
By Renato M. Reyes, Jr.
BAYAN Secretary General
As the nation commemorates the 22nd anniversary of the Edsa 1 uprising that toppled the Marcos dictatorship, we join all freedom loving Filipinos in affirming the need for continued collective action in the grand tradition of “people power”. No longer can we allow the perpetuation of a morally bankrupt, [...]
“Sa aking pananaw (in my personal assessment), the world embraced EDSA I in 1986; the world tolerated EDSA II in 2001; but the world will not forgive an EDSA III — instead it will condemn the Philippines as a fractious political system that is hopelessly unstable.”
“The ‘revelations’ of the former Speaker’s wife are best ignored considering its bitter source,” Bunye said in a statement as he called on the people “not to be swayed by such information as this is an apparent attempt to project the President as beholden to a few.”
“I urge our political leaders to abandon this politics of hate and go for the politics of hope and progress, where we practice human decency and respect for the dignity of our fellowmen,” Neri said in a statement.
Reds seek activation of NPA hit squads in cities After Ampatuan Massacre, 2009 a Record Year for Journalist Killings Worldwide CHR to military: Respect and protect human rights during martial law in Maguindanao Maguindanao, its political elite and a culture subservient to corruption U.S. Must Improve Responsiveness to Mass Atrocities; Absent UN Action, Make Clear Willingness to Act on Its Own, Says New CFR Report Martial law dilutes the Philippines’s human rights and democratic gains Martial law in Maguindanao sets ‘most dangerous precedent’ Lawyers will wear black armbands, ribbons in courts Law group shall file plunder cases against President Arroyo et al. UN Experts: Maguindanao massacre must be the start of a major reform process
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