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 […]
A mining company in Nueva Vizcaya withdrew cases they filed against indigenous people and is set to cease operations in Nueva Vizcaya. In a motion to withdraw complaint filed in Regional Trial Court Branch 37, in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, the Royalco Philippines Inc. manifested that they are withdrawing their complaints against 10 anti-mining leaders, including […]
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 […]
Isang Zero Remittance Day (ZRD) ang itinakda ng Migrante International sa Setyembre 19 para ipakita ang galit, pagkakaisa at pagkilos ng mga migranteng Pilipino sa sistemang pork barrel. Binatikos din ng grupo ang Malakanyang sa pagmamaliit umano nito sa kanilang panawagan. “Nagpapasalamat kami kay (Presidential Spokesperson Edwin) Lacierda sa lalong pagpapagalit sa mga migranteng Pilipino. […]
Dismayado ang militanteng mga manggagawa sa “kakarampot na dagdag” sa minimum na sahod sa Metro Manila na ipinatupad ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Ayon sa Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), kulang pa rin ang PhP451 na basic pay sa mga manggagawa sa pribadong sektor, kung ikukumpara ito sa pangangailangan nila at kanilang mga pamilya […]
Members of the League of Filipino Students (LFS) condemned the attempt of the United States to push for air strikes in Syria, in a piket-protest at Plaza Ferguson in front of US Embassy in Manila. The group said that the air strikes only serve US interests in the region and are not because of genuine […]
In light of the pork barrel scandal rocking the country today, Pinoy Weekly launches a series examining the proposed 2014 national budget. Here we look at how pork barrel is maintained, but also how public funds may be misused, misallocated or denied from social services needed by impoverished Filipinos. First in the series: On the […]
