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Economy Civil society to ADB: Stop pushing privatization program and profiteering from i
Philippine Working Group on the ADB | MANILA, Philippines—The Asian Development Bank should stop pushing for and profiteering from the privatization of the energy and grain sectors in the country amid the skyrocketing prices of rice and electricity, according to civil society groups.
CDIR-USA. | FilAm Ana Tejada stood along aisle 312 inside the Costco Warehouse with one of the most prized possessions this season – a 50-pound sack of SunWest Calrose Rice. As onlookers enviously stared in amazement, Tejada waved and hurried her husband over, who was down the aisle pushing a shopping cart. APL and AKBAYAN slam deceptive tax cut, call for 0% tax for minimum wage earners
Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) | The Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) and AKBAYAN scored today the pending approval of a deceptive tax cut measure in the House Committee on Ways and Means, pressing Congress to pass instead a zero percent tax rate for minimum wage earners. Pandaigdigang Krisis ng Pagkain: Bunga ng NaghihingalongPandaigdigang Sistema
Rosa Lim | Hindi na maaring itago at napilitang aminin ng mga estado at internasyunal na institusyon gaya ng International Monetary Fund at United Nations na merong pandaigdigang krisis sa pagkain. Subalit nagsisikap pa rin ang burgesya na pakalmahin ang masa at ipakitang “under control” pa rin nila ang krisis ng kanilang sistema. ERC asked to explain sudden power rate hike
Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) | A newly formed-multisectoral alliance of electricity consumers called EmPOWER Consumers has demanded an explanation for the sharp increase in electricity rates this month from the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and other concerned power industry players. SEC,Georgetown University,John Polise,UK's Robert Wishart,Stock Money Laundering
Tony Ryals | What is the SEC's corrupt clown and Georgetown University faux professor John Polise(who is really himself an insider to securities corruption as an ex NASD official )doing claiming to London money laundering investigator Robert Wishart that those 26 U.S.penny stocks USED TO DEFRAUD BRITS OCCURED BECAUSE OF SOME ERROR IN 'CUSIP' NUMBERS !? AKBAYAN bats for CARP’s extension with reforms
AKBAYAN | Deputy minority leader and AKBAYAN Rep. Risa Hontiveros, principal author of a bill that extends and reforms the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (HB1257), said today that Congress must extend and reform CARP, saying that a mere extension of the program is a gift to land owners. NFA’s ballooning debt to worsen rice crisis
AKBAYAN | Deputy minority leader and AKBAYAN Rep. Risa Hontiveros expressed concern today over the National Food Authority's ballooning debt, warning the public that the NFA is actually relying on debt to feed the nation. In The Shadow Of Debt: The sad but true tale behind a quarter century of stagnat
Walden Bello* | The stagnation of the Philippine economy has now lasted over 25 years. Between 1990 and 2005, the Philippines’ average annual GDP growth rate was the lowest in Southeast Asia, being lower than even that of Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. Explanations rooting the country’s failure to launch in overpopulation, corruption, protectionism, and non-competitive wags are examined in this article and found grossly inadequate. The central bottleneck is the gutting of the government’s capacity to invest owing to the policy of prioritizing debt repayments and the severe loss of government’s revenues due to trade liberalization. In contrast to the Philippines, our neighbors promoted policies that saw state investment synergized private investment. This accounted for their superior economic performance, especially before the Asian financial crisis. Until the reigning policy framework is overturned the country will not be able to emerge out of stagnation. APL Calls on Congress to Work Double Time and Enact Pro-Labor Laws
Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) | In light of the multiple crises confronting the working class, the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) today called on both houses of the Philippine Congress to prioritize enacting into law a set of legislative measures that will address the jobs and rice crisis, as well as the oil and food price hikes. Farmers Warned That The Country Will Sink Deeper Into A Greater Uncertainty and Social Unrest
Don Pangan | Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) in two months time. The farmers warned that the country will sink deeper into a greater uncertainty and social unrest is a big possibility if the rice crisis persists and agrarian reform is not extended. Been ripped off by Search Big Daddy? Troy Spencer Warren | Did you pay money to Troy Warren's Search Big Daddy and have SBD fail to pay you the commissions they promised? more... 0 Comments Citizens’ Coalition Vows to Escalate Action against JPEPA EcoWaste Coalition | Quezon City- Two weeks before the scheduled release of the committee report on the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), members of the church, the academe, and more than 25 civil society organizations gathered at the University of the Philippines-Diliman to discuss their plans towards an escalation of actions against the JPEPA. more... 0 Comments Pullout of NFA rice to starve more Filipinos
Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) | Leaders of multisectoral groups today denounced the decision of the Arroyo administration to pullout NFA rice from the market saying it is like rubbing salt on a wound. AKBAYAN to GMA, admin solons: Pass twin pillars of food security before SONA
AKBAYAN | Echoing concerns that granting GMA emergency powers to solve the rice crisis would be counter-productive, Deputy Minority Leader and AKBAYAN Rep. Risa Hontiveros said that the long-term solutions to the rice shortage are actually right under the administration’s nose. Farmers and other sectors to hold rice summit in the Philippines
various people's organizations | A Multisectoral Rice Summit Workers group rejects wage boards
V. Uy | MANILA, Philippines -- The Partido ng Manggagawa on Tuesday rejected the idea of having the regional tripartite wage boards set the pay hikes of minimum wage earners, calling instead for its abolition. Malacañang challenged: Revoke power subsidies to Hanjin
AKBAYAN | Deputy minority leader and AKBAYAN Rep. Risa Hontiveros slammed today the preferential treatment given by Malacañang to Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction-Philippines, as the solon revealed that the government is also subsidizing Korean company's power needs. "If its claim that it is not giving special treatment to Hanjin is true, then we dare the government to remove the power subsidies given to the company," Rep. Hontiveros said. AKBAYAN's birthday wish for GMA: Reverse neoliberal agricultural policies
AKBAYAN | The birthday girl got an early bash from AKBAYAN Party today, as the group blew birthday candles on "half-rice" cakes for GMA's 61st birthday to criticize the government's band-aid solutions to the rice crisis. "This is GMA's birthday treat to the Filipino people," Deputy minority leader and AKBAYAN Rep. Risa Hontiveros said. Strikes on April 24: For a common struggle across all divisions
International Communist Current (ICC) | Faced with this centralised, statified attack on their living and working conditions, workers everywhere have the same interests: to resist wage cuts and job cuts, to react against inroads on their social benefits. But they cannot do this by fighting separately, sector by sector, workplace by workplace. Faced with the power of the capitalist state, they need to form a power of their own, based on their unity and solidarity across all divisions into trade, union, or nationality. |
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