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Jose Maria Sison: My Experience of Imprisonment
and Torture, March 15, 2008
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Jose Maria Sison: End the Barbaric US War of Aggression Against the
People of Iraq
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Luis Jalandoni: Personal attacks against Prof. Sison
by Honasan are meant to support Arroyo regime
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Arroyo regime should read the handwriting on the wall,
March 1, 2008
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Jose Maria Sison: The magnitude of the protest mass
actions today will indicate how close is the end of the Arroyo regime
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Jose Maria Sison: GMA is ripe for ouster by the broad
mass movement
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Jose Maria Sison: Prospects for resumption of formal
talks are bright if Arroyo is ousted
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Karapatan says CHR's high rating for Arroyo rights record
is retraction of critical stance. The supposed watchdog as lapdog.
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No to GMA takeover of
Meralco -- Bayan Muna, Anakpawis, Gabriela partylists
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Current Philippine situation and prospects of the NDFP
by Prof. Jose Maria Sison, April 25, 2008
■ ILPS Chair Prof. Jose Maria Sison: ILPS congratulates
the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Nepali people for victory of
democratic cause
■ ILPS Chair Prof. Jose Maria Sison: Reactionary
movement represented by Dalai Lama is financed by US imperialism and is
condemnable
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The
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is thankful to the Royal
Norwegian Government, Third Party Facilitator to the GRP-NDFP peace
negotiations, for making possible the informal meeting between the GRP and
the NDFP for the purpose of finding ways of resuming the formal meetings of
the negotiating panels in GRP-NDFP peace negotiations in accordance with The
Hague Joint Declaration.
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NDFP
negotiating panel chair Luis Jalandoni outlines impediments to overcome for
the resumption of formal peace negotiations between the GRP and NDFP.
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more
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Pagbati
sa pamunuan at mga balangay ng Anakbayan sa matagumpay na pagdaos nito ng
ika-5 kongreso ni Prop. Jose Maria Sison
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Message
to the League of Filipino Students by Prof. Jose Maria Sison, May 31, 2008
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Philippine legislators ask Canada for
help
Three
Philippine legislators are in Canada seeking help regarding
extrajudicial killings and Canadian mining companies operating in the
Philippines. These companies are accused of hiring military and
paramilitary forces to secure their operations.
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Open Letter to the governments of
the Philippines and Canada
Canadian-based organizations and individuals strongly condemn the
harassment by armed men of Rep. Satur Ocampo and others, and the threat
of his imminent arrest.
Read more
NUPGE protests harassment of
Philippine human rights
leaders
Ottawa (24 April 2008) - The National
Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) says armed men have
harassed the leader of a human rights mission to Canada since his return
to the Philippines and threatened him with arrest.Read more
The Public
Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), with over 160,000 members, sent an
open letter to Arroyo strongly condemning the harassment by armed men of
Rep. Satur Ocampo on his return from a Human Rights Mission to Canada
and the threat of his imminent arrest. PSAC expressed serious concern
for his safety and that of the other members of the Mission, Rep.
Crispin Beltran and Rep. Luz Ilagan.
Read more.
Website of National Artist
Bienvenido Lumbera
Please check out
http://www.lumbera.ph,
The site features his works, lectures, speeches, books and more.
Recently uploaded are some of his recent speeches tackling society and
culture'
BAYAN doubts Arroyo efforts
to lower power rates
The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today expressed serious
doubts over the Arroyo government’s efforts to lower
power rates by applying pressure on the Lopez-owned
distribution firm Meralco.
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more
POWER wants gov’t to remove
VAT on electricity
Savings of P206 for consumers of 200 kWh
Consumer groups today challenged Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
to remove the Value Added Tax on electricity if it is
really serious in lowering power rates.
Read
more..
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“A tax on a tax?”: POWER
questions VAT implementation on power rates.
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7 out of 10
Filipinos can't buy enough food, have trouble paying electricity bills,
basic costs - IBON.
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more
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Militant solons:
Napocor and Meralco earning billions, should substantially reduce prices
now!
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more
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Introducing the PILC
website.
The Public Interest Law
Center (PILC) renders legal services mainly to organized sectors of
Philippine society on legal issues that have a direct or indirect impact
on the lives of numerous classes. As a principal mission,
http://www.publicinterestlawcenter.org/
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Garcia
kin are stakeholders in 2nd largest electric utility
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers today scored Government Service Insurance
System (GSIS) President and General Manager Winston Garcia for failing to
publicly disclose his family’s involvement in the Visayan Electric Company (VECO),
the second largest private electric utility in the country.
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“Garcia
is using GSIS members’ funds to enrich Malacañang’s cronies”
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers today issued a statement denouncing
Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) President and General Manager
Winston Garcia’s bid to take control of Meralco, the country’s largest
electric utility.
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more
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Phil
govt, rebels hold Norway peace talks.
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more
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Norway
hosts GRP-NDF talks.
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Davao
City – Bagong Alyansang Makabayan strongly condemns today the killing of
Farmers' Association of Davao City secretary general and Kilusang Magbubukid
ng Pilipinas regional spokesperson Celso Pojas who was shot dead in front of
FADC-KMP office in Bugac, Maa.
Read more.
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Abra
files cases with GRP-NDFP joint monitoring committee
BAGUIO CITY (May 13) – Elders of Tubo, Abra announced in an interview that
they will file cases of human rights violation with the joint monitoring
committee of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
The violations inflicted on their villages in the month long militarization
under the 50th Infantry Battalion (IB) of the Philippine Army that reminded
them of a nightmare in the 1980s when the nearby village of Beew was
transformed into a no man’s land after government troops burned houses,
killed a pregnant woman, and committed various human rights violations.
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Human
rights and the US ”war on terror” by Carol Araullo
The (US) strategy which is keyed on military stealth and might had trampling
effects on the basic liberties of suspected terrorists for laws are silent
when the guns of war do the talking. The war on terrorism has inevitable
spillover effects on human rights all over the world, especially in
countries suspected as being used as havens of terrorists. -- The Old
Struggle for Human Rights, New Problems Posed by Security, Chief Justice
Reynato S. Puno
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Philippine
Human Rights Group Stands by Concerns for Violations of Rights of Filipinos
in the Netherlands
On
this supposed “independence day” of the Philippines, the Philippine Human
Rights Watch delegation in attendance at the UN Human Rights Council 8th
Session confirms its support to the joint statement delivered by the
International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) during the
“interactive dialogue” yesterday on the consideration of the report of the
Working Group on the Netherlands Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
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As
the UNHRC tackles the Philippine UPR Report on its 8th session,Philippine
UPR Watch Reiterates its call to the UNHR Council to pursue RP to totally
end Extrajudicial Killings and Disappearances in the Philippines. June 10,
2008
Mrs. Edita Burgos, mother of
missing activist Jonas Burgos, at the 8th session of the UN Human Rights
Council. Mrs. Burgos urged the United Nations to encourage the Philippines
to abide by its pledges and commitments and implement the recommendations of
the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Burgos is part of the Philippine UPR Watch Delegation
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