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PAHRA | It is a welcome event that after the Philippines have undergone scrutiny on its human rights performance under the Universal Periodic Review process of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (HRC), the executive has finally transmitted to the House of Senate today, priority measure to accede to the Optional Protocol on the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT). This development, if successful, signals the most awaited protective mechanisms for the protection of person from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 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. REP. HATAMAN JOIN CALLS FOR MALAYSIA TO STAY
Anak Mindanao (AMIN) | News about the impending pull-out of the Malaysian contingent from the International Monitoring Team (IMT) observing the peace talks between the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front has alarmed many peace advocates, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. AKBAYAN on deletion of generic-only provision: Senate owes public an explanation
AKBAYAN | Deputy Minority Leader and AKBAYAN Rep. Risa Hontiveros announced today that despite the recent snag in the cheaper medicines bill, proponents of the bill will attempt to have the bicameral report signed.
Rep. Risa Hontiveros | Privilege speech of AKBAYAN Rep. Risa Hontiveros on CARP extension and reform, which was delivered a few hours after the House Committee on Agrarian Reform approved the substitute bill extending and reforming CARP on April 23, 2008. 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. 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 !?
Bobby Meade | I am bringing back this article because it is the twilight of the Demockracy that it describes. Note that this article includes among other things, the greatest creation of the English language, my prior experiences with military forums, the truth of the PGW and 9/11, an explanation of pit bulls, the fate of Jim Morrison of the Doors, and the arrival of the prophet Elijah in November 1995. 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. Fidel Castro retires: The problem is not the rider but the horse
International Communist Current (ICC) | In the week of February 18th 2008, the Cuban "president", Fidel Castro, announced that he no longer aspired to lead the Cuban capitalist state. This has motivated the right wing bourgeoisie, through their speakers, to announce a complete end to communism and the end of the Cuban revolution. In the same way as they did with the fall of the Eastern Bloc, they try to confuse the workers, without realizing that they - the bourgeoisie - are celebrating their own burial. With their speculation on possible disappearance of the Cuban model, it is not the proletariat who loses - it is capitalism. On the other side of the fence, the left wing of capital, with sergeant Hugo Chavez at the front, assures us that the revolution continues. To counter this nonsense that aims to confuse the working class, we have to clarify a few things. Help break the cycle of mass destruction peacehq | Footprints for Peace (Australia), with the active support of the French network for nuclear phase-out, will walk from London to Geneva (April 26 - July 18) via France for a nuclear-free world. more... 0 Comments 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. 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 Groups Condemn President's Veto of Debt Service cut
EcoWaste Coalition | A group of civil society organizations condemned today the president's veto of the provision in the General Appropriations Act which put on hold the paying of interest for questionable loans, including that which bankrolled the substandard Austrian medical waste incinerators installed in twenty-six hospitals run by the Department of Health (DOH). 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. Terrorism and Human Rights in the Philippines: Fighting Terror or Terrorizing?
FIDH, PAHRA, IRCT | Paris-Manila-Geneva-Copenhagen, 11 April 2008:* On the eve of the examination of the human rights record of the Philippines under the newly established mechanism of Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), in cooperation with its national member, the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA), and with the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT), make public a report entitled Terrorism and Human Rights in the Philippines: Fighting Terror or Terrorizing? [1] 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. Hidden Things You Do Not Know!
Bobby Meade | This just scrapes the surface of the work of the Bush Nazis and IMC censors! Illegal Eagles in the military?! Tragedy of TWA 800! Troubled water from Poland Spring and ReaLemon! 1971 South Florida murder inquiry! Chemicalmongering Bush Nazis in my family and foolproof Bush Nazi murders! Shape up, DENR warns water polluters Randy Nobleza | no single violator will be spared from DENR's enforcement of the environment laws, especially on water pollution more... 0 Comments |
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