Archive for April, 2008

Workers join Lakbayan against poverty

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Thousands of worker members of the BUKLURAN NG MANGGAGAWANG PILIPINO (BMP), together with allied organizations—Kongreso ng Pagkakaisa ng Maralitang Lungsod (KPML), Aniban ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (AMA), Makabayan-Pilipinas, and joined by SANLAKAS and Kalayaan! launched their own [...]

Civil society to ADB: Stop pushing privatization program and profiteering from it

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.
The Philippine Working Group on the ADB issued this call days before the Bank’s 41st Annual Meeting [...]

Group asks GMA, allies to pass twin pillars of food security before SONA

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. “The long-term solutions do not take the exercise of emergency powers, just [...]