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Rescue 550,000 new graduates from joblessness, prexy bets told

April 10th, 2010
Posted in business and trade . elections . human rights issues . labor . labor export . local economy . national economy . national polls . news . youth and students' issues
By Noel Barcelona

Kabataan Rep. Raymond Palatino challenged presidential aspirants to present a clear action plan on the 550,000 new graduates that will enter the workforce this summer. Palatino said that his fellow youths have been tired of promises and that they need a clear-cut solution on the problem of joblessness plaguing the country[ READ MORE ]

Kabataan stages noise barrage

April 10th, 2010
Posted in national polls . news . politics and governance . youth and students' issues
By Noel Barcelona

Kabataan partylist and allied organizations kicked off last April 9 the Youth Watch Fridays, a series of weekly noise barrages to protest any attempt by organizations to compel the 2010 elections to fail, thus ensuring the present administration to continue[ READ MORE ]

Migrante sets up anti-fraud hotline

April 10th, 2010
Posted in migrants and itinerant people . migrants' rights and welfare . migration . national polls . news . politics and governance
By Noel Barcelona

he largest alliance of migrant organizations in Asia, Migrante International, gears up for the conduct of the overseas absentee voting (OAV) today, 10 April 2010, by setting up its own anti-fraud and anti-disenfranchisement hotline in order to safeguard the migrant workers’ votes. The group also forewarns OFWs about fraudulent partylists. [ READ MORE ]

PPCRV warns voters vs fake party-lists

March 16th, 2010
Posted in clan politics . national polls
By Noel Barcelona

The risk with fake groups, says PPCRV chair Tita De Villa, is not only it elbows out truly marginalized sectors but it serves as the backdoor entry for traditional politicians in the party-list system[ READ MORE ]

Sa Buwan ng Kababaihan: Mga Eba ng tahanan, hikahos pa rin

Ngayong ipinagdiriwang ng buong mundo ang Sentenaryo ng Araw ng mga Kababaihan, sinasabing ang mga Pinay ay nananatili pa ring nakatali sa yapos ng kahirapan at oportunidad. [ READ MORE ]

Ecumenical labor group releases info-video for automated polls

March 4th, 2010
Posted in elections . human rights issues . information and communications technology . interview . national polls . new features . politics and governance
By Noel Barcelona

The Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER), Inc., with the support from the European Union, has launched a info-video teaching the Filipino workers how to vote this coming May 10 elections using the automated electoral system (AES). [ READ MORE ]

The farce about disbanding the private armies

March 3rd, 2010
Posted in clan politics . elections . electoral fraud . human rights issues . national polls . news analysis . opinion . peace and order . politics and governance . press freedom . public office and ethics . terrorism . warlordism
By Noel Barcelona

The superstructure of political mafias and modern caciques and the material conditions that breed them are so powerful that piecemeal approaches to addressing this issue are self-defeating. One begins to think that in order to dismantle the private armies the first step is to put the political superstructure that promotes them out of circulation[ READ MORE ]

34-M obrero babantayan ang kanilang mga boto

March 3rd, 2010
Posted in democratic space . elections . electoral fraud . human rights issues . labor . national polls . new features . news . politics and governance
By Noel Barcelona

Babantayan ng mga botanteng manggagawa ng bansa ang kanilang mga boto kahit na automated o de-computer ang gaganaping eleksiyon sa darating na Mayo. Duda pa rin ang humigit-kumulang na 34 na milyong manggagawang botanteng hindi madadaya o madidisprangkisa ang kanilang mga boto[ READ MORE ]

Migrants’ group fears disenfranchisement, fraud in OAV

February 13th, 2010
Posted in electoral fraud . migrants and itinerant people . migrants' rights and welfare . migration . national polls . new features . news . scams and shams
By Noel Barcelona

Migrante International, a federation of more than 100 overseas Filipino workers’ (OFWs) organization in 23 countries, fears that there will be disenfranchisement and worse, fraud in the conduct of the overseas absentee voting (OAV) this coming April. [ READ MORE ]

Kin, friends of Morong 43 filing habeas petition before SC

February 9th, 2010
Posted in abductions by state forces . anti-terror . communist insurgency . Communist Party of the Philippines . health rights . homeland and international security . human rights issues . militarism . militarization . national polls . new features . revolutionary movement . state fascism and terror . women and children's issues . youth and students' issues
By Noel Barcelona

Relatives and friends of the 43 health workers arrested in Morong, Rizal over the weekend are asking the Supreme Court on Tuesday to issue a writ of habeas corpus even as they raised allegations the military has been torturing and violating the rights of the detainees[ READ MORE ]

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