Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) today expressed confidence that the Makati mobilization will send a very strong message to Malacañang and other institutions of the government that the Filipino people seriously and urgently demand for truth, justice, and meaningful changes in the leadership and system of governance amid the latest political crisis that has been rocking the Arroyo regime.

Says it will not derail the people’s growing struggle to make Arroyo accountable for her lies and crimes
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) described today as “absurd” and “misleading” the call of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) for Ms. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to “take the lead in combating corruption”.
The multisectoral alliance said that while it [...]

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 [...]

Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban)
today told Malacañang and its legislative lackeys to
stop telling the Senate to discontinue its
investigation into the national broadband controversy
and to entrust this task instead to the Office of the
Ombudsman which has already started its probe on the
same case.
Pimentel said there is no reason to scuttle the Senate
inquiry into the [...]

Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur C. Ocampo today said that Commission on Higher Education Chair Romulo Neri’s declaration of a “web of corruption” in government shows that crony capitalism under President Macapagal-Arroyo has become worse since the time of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Ocampo issued the statement after Rodolfo Lozada Jr. in his [...]

LA SALLE GYMNASIUM, GREENHILLS
17 FEBRUARY 2008
On this Second Sunday of Lent, during which we are asked to reflect on the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, I wish to touch on three themes that have to do with our moral transformation as a people: first, Ascertaining Credibility; second, Rediscovering our Humanity; and third, Witnessing to the [...]

“Leftists and political activists are not the only targets of the Arroyo regime’s political repression. Even former allies and those who served its administration have become targets of political repression.” This was the statement made by the human right alliance Karapatan as it joined the rally for good government today in Ayala [...]

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr.
(PDP-Laban) today said the refusal of China’s ZTE
Corp. to present its side in the $329 million national
broadband contract is not contributing to the
resolution of the controversy.
Pimentel said the ZTE’s continued disregard for the
summons issued by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee
only tends to fuel the claims that the deal is
overpriced [...]

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
15 February 2008
Gloria M. Arroyo, the fake president, is ripe for ouster by the broad
mass movement of the Filipino people as a result of her record of moral
bankruptcy, subservience to foreign interests, brazen corruption and
systematic human rights violations.
The flagrant use of bribery to remove [...]

There is a story going around about how Secretary Ermita was fuming mad at Mike Defensor. The budgeted hush money for a scandal of this scale was P5.0M. And so, the story goes, the envelop was passed from Ed to Mike. But as the money exchanged hands through the bureaucracy, only P50,000 reached [...]

Minority Leader Aquilino “Nene” Q. Pimentel, Jr.
(PDP-Laban) today called Senate probe witness Rodolfo
Lozada, Jr. to remain steadfast in unraveling the
truth behind the ZTE-National Broadband Network
transaction in the face of intense administration
efforts to intimidate him and to destroy his
credibility.
“Lozada should brace himself for more acts of
harassment that the morally bankrupt and illegitimate
Arroyo administration will throw his [...]

Calls on Mrs. Arroyo to step down
“Enough of gov’t lies! The people deserves to know the truth.” said health workers who trooped to the Senate today to express support for Mr. Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada and denounce the systematic ploy to discredit Mr. Lozada and cover-up the massive corruption exemplified by the NBN-ZTE scam.
Amidst Lozada’s politically [...]

Senator Ma. Ana Consuelo A. S. Madrigal, assisted by counsels from the
Public Interest Law Center, will file on Friday (Feb. 15), 11:00 am,
before the office of the Ombudsman a complaint for “obstruction of
justice” or violation of Presidential Decree 1829 and Article 144 of
the Revised Penal Code in connection with the abduction and/or
kidnapping of Rodolfo “Jun” [...]

Unfortunately in this instance, Rodolfo Lozada Jr.
sounds more credible than Sen. Joker Arroyo.
Lozada may not have the political clout and standing
of Joker but truth is not about political clouts or
standing. Truth can come from the most lowly of
sources. And in the recent ZTE investigation, it came
from Lozada who despite his obvious dread of being
killed has [...]

GMA: Resign NOW!
11 February 2008
He was on good terms with the authorities, agile, flexible, and even audacious when it came to speculating with other people’s property. He was the only rival, and a frightening one at that, of a man named Pérez when it came to rents and auctions of merchandise or jobs that the [...]

What Neri Is Afraid to Tell the Public

By Renato M. Reyes, Jr.
BAYAN Secretary General
After hearing today’s testimony by Jun Lozada, we wonder which is worse, the original crime or the conspiracy to cover up this crime?
Lozada provided a credible testimony on the multi-million dollar overpricing of the ZTE National Broadband Network deal. He pinpointed the high government officials and personalities close to [...]

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The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today slammed the “blatant conspiracy to cover up the truth about the ZTE broadband scandal through the abduction of witness Jun Lozada.”
The [...]