If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe via email. Thanks for visiting!The Freedom from Debt Coalition denounced the recent statement of Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya Jr. that the debt service cuts made by lawmakers in the 2008 national government budget and realigned to various government agencies and services is [...]
Leaders of the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC), the Akbayan Citizens’ Action Party and the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) today filed a motion for reconsideration of the Supreme Court’s decision on the petition to annul two Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) resolutions that violated existing laws and jurisprudence on [...]
DEFEND JOBS AND LOCAL INDUSTRIES,SOVEREIGNTY AND THE ENVIRONMENT!NO TO RATIFICATION OF JPEPA!
The Task Force Food Sovereignty (TFFS)* strongly condemns the recommendation of Senators Mar Roxas and Miriam Defensor-Santiago to ratify the highly flawed and unequal Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA). Inspite of the strong Constitutional and legal arguments against [...]
The Arroyo ImbroglioIn The PhilippinesPaul D. Hutchcroft
Paul D. Hutchcroft, professor of political science at the University ofWisconsin–Madison, has written extensively on Philippine politics. Heis author of Booty Capitalism: The Politics of Banking in the Philippines(1998), and is completing a book on patronage structures and territorialpolitics in the twentieth-century Philippines.
With the exception of Ferdinand Marcos, who [...]
A key player in a popular revolt that led to the ouster of former President Joseph Estrada said today that it is not all surprised by Malacanang’s pronouncement that the public should forget EDSA Dos.
“The soul of EDSA Dos has never been theirs,†Deputy minority leader and AKBAYAN Rep. Risa Hontiveros said. “The GMA [...]
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