RIGHT TO CULTURAL LIFE, BENEFITS OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS, CREATIVE ACTIVITY
In light of Typhoon Pablo, large scale mining and foreign agribusiness operations must be stopped to avert disasters. (Manilakbayan) We, Mindanao environment advocates and indigenous leaders and families and relatives of victims of mining instigated killings who are now in Manila for Manilakbayan, are concerned over typhoon Pablo hitting our respective municipalities and cities in Mindanao.
Press Release
13 July 2012
Eleven Years in Detention:
Moro Political Prisoners Continue to Seek Justice
Church people and workers unite, urge Pnoy to prioritize bill on substantial wage hike—CTUHR.
Landgrabbing is backed up by Oplan Bayanihan in Pantabangan Igorot Communities; Lucio Tan no-show at hearing of charges filed by families of Eton victims; Filipinos concerned about nuclear emergency in Japan; Morong 43 file suit vs GMA, police
Rights groups protests over recent killing in Bicol; Hospital Union Files Notice of Strike Today; Happy International Women's Day! ; New poverty methodology is detached from real situation (Use of food bundle questioned)
Bai Ali Indayla | 0905.924.8424 | kawagibphils@yahoo.com |
Lungsod ng Cotabato – Mariing tinututulan ng grupong KAWAGIB ang inilulunsad na pagsasanay militar ng mga sundalong Pilipino at sundalong Amerikano sa Camp Siongco, 6th Infantry Division, Maguindanao na tinatawag na Balance Piston ’11-03. Noong Setyembre 01 dumating ang sampung opisyal ng tropang kano sa pangunguna ni Capt. Brent Olson na maglulunsad ng pagsasanay sa loob ng labing limang araw.
LITA MARIANO, Spokesperson, Bantay Bigas | ROMAN M. SANCHEZ | National President, NAFEDA | CP # 0915-5690372 | Rice Monitor group Bantay Bigas said the budget for National Rice Program of the Department of Agriculture (DA) of Php6.2 billion is unrealistic if government is really serious about its rice self sufficiency target by 2013.
Bantay Bigas spokesperson Lita Mariano said “the DA’s budget allocation especially for its rice program only mirrors government’s insincerity in achieving rice self sufficiency for the country”.
Clarizza Singson | Karapatan Negros | Karapatan Negros condemns the false, misleading, malicious and deceitful claim of Lt. Col. Ramil Bitong that together with his troops, they joined the Medical-Relief Mission in Sitio Calabaclabacan, Brgy. Trinidad, Guihulngan City last July 17-18, 2011. The relief and medical mission is part of the NEGROS SOLIDARITY HEALTH AND RELIEF MISSION simultaneously held in Escalante City, Negros Occidental as part of the Filipino American Health Workers Association (FAHWA) annual health service to the rural folk in the Philippines. They were joined as sponsors by the local peasant organization KAUGMAON, Negros Island Health Integrated Program (NIHIP), Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc (VPHCS), Community Empowerment Resource Network (CERNET), BAYAN MUNA, Franciscan Mountain Clinics, Iglesia Filipina Independiente together with Karapatan. Mayor Reyes of Guihulngan also joined the activity by providing four (4) vehicles to doctors, dentists, nurses and other development workers. A total of 892 (dental – 80, circumcision – 41, medical – 561, feeding-60, relief-150) farmers benefitted the said activity.
Reference: Joseph Canlas, Chair, AMGL (0918-233-5050) | Farmers from Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (AMGL, Peasant Alliance in Central Luzon) and AMGL – Nueva Ecija denounced the land grabbing of Lopez energy firm Energy Development Corporation (EDC), California Energy (CalEn) and National Irrigation A
AGHAM | PRESS RELEASE | March 12, 2011 | Following reports that the nuclear plant in Japan around 250 kilometers northeast of Tokyo had explosions and vented smoke to the environment, Philippine activist groups under the No to BNPP Revival!
