If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe via email. Thanks for visiting!After 10 years of struggle and a series of failed promises, the 122 farmer-beneficiaries of the contentious Hacienda Velez-Malaga in Barangay Robles, La Castellana, Negros Occidental were finally installed in the land awarded to them five years ago under the Comprehensive [...]
While the latest petition of the National Power Corporation (NPC) to reduce its generation charge due to appreciation of the peso was welcome news, a greater challenge on how to address the high power rates in the country is still being posed not only to NPC, but to the present administration as well as to [...]
International Women’s Day Press Statement
Three days after President Gloria Arroyo signed the Anti-Terror Bill into law, women’s groups led by workers and prostitution victims-survivors echoed the call of the first Russian feminists who called for bread and peace in 1917, when women started to mark March 8 as International Women’s Day.
In a march-rally to Mendiola, [...]
The Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) welcome the recent decision of theEnergy Regulatory Commission (ERC) ordering the National Power Corporationto provisionally reduce its rates by 4.3 centavos for Luzon, 31.51centavos for Visayas, 0.45 centavos for Mindanao following thestrengthening of peso against the dollar. But it cries for higherreduction in the electricity rates.
We view these reductions [...]
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