When word spread that handlers of President Benigno Aquino III had asked major television networks for ten or so minutes on prime time to make a “big announcement” on the pork barrel scandal at 7:45 PM of October 30, many media pundits noted that the President may be on to something historic. After all, rare […]
Muli, ipinagpatuloy ng lumalawak na kilusang kontra pork barrel ang pagpoprotesta nito. Muli, minaliit ito ng Philippine National Police (ang tinatayang aabot sa 10,000 ay sinabing umabot lang ng 2,400). Muli, naintriga ang okasyon ng ilang personalidad na nagpakalat ng tsismis (na aktibong mananawagan ng pagbitiw ni Pangulong Aquino ang mga organisador, at tutungo pa raw […]
Muli, noong Setyembre 21, nagprotesta ang libu-libong mamamayan sa Luneta at Mendiola, Manila. Muli, ang puntirya’y ang sistema ng discretionary funds na patuloy na pinoprotektahan ng administrasyong Aquino sa kabila ng mga pahayag nitong “ia-abolish” na ang pork barrel. Pero sa pagkakataong ito, nataon sa anibersaryo ng deklarasyon ng Batas Militar ng nasirang diktador na […]
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Nagkaisa ang mga mambabatas kapwa sa blokeng minorya at mayorya sa Kamara para harangin ang pagkaltas ng badyet sa 79 sa 110 state universities and colleges (SUCs) sa 2014 panukalang badyet. Nanawagan din sila ng mas mataas na pondo para sa SUCs. Sa isang press conference, pinangunahan ni Kabataan Rep. Terry Ridon ang pagkakaisa ng […]
More than 60,000 civilians have been displaced in Zamboanga City from the intense attacks of Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) troops reportedly under MNLF founding chairman Nur Misuari. This despite military reports that about 70 percent of areas in Zamboanga City, as of this writing, have been cleared […]
Mas maliit man kaysa sa naunang pagtitipon noong Agosto 26, malakas pa ring inirehistro ng humigit-kumulang 15,000 katao sa Luneta ang paglaban sa pork barrel. Hindi ipinagbawal, bagkus ay hinimok pa, ng mga organisador ng #ForwardMarch ang pagdadala ng mga plakard, banners, streamers, watawat, effigy at kung anu-ano pang porma ng biswal na protesta. May mataimtim […]
The human rights group Karapatan protested the arrest and detention of a 24-year-old Canadian student and activist as she passed through immigration last night, September 13, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport for her 7:10 PM flight to Hong Kong. As of this writing, the Canadian student, Kim Chatillon-Meunier, is being detained at the BI […]
Lawmakers from the Makabayan bloc rejected the move by the House Committee on Appropriations to re-align the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) into line budget items under the executive branch, while still retaining many of the key features of the pork barrel system. ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio was the sole dissenting vote when the […]
Protests against the pork barrel last September 11, a follow-through to the Million People March in Luneta, were marked by a prayer vigil in EDSA Shrine and a march by thousands of students in Katipunan Avenue and elsewhere. Groups are enjoining the public to join an even bigger protest tomorrow, September 13, and on September […]
