YOUTH ACT NOW! (Youth for Truth and Accountability Now!) launched simultaneous youth actions in 10 key cities nationwide today in preparation for the Interfaith Assembly at Ayala tomorrow.
POSIBLENG idawit ng isang bagong testigo si Pangulong Arroyo at iba pang opisyal ng Malakanyang sa anomalyang National Broadband Network-ZTE, ayon kay Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, tagapangulo ng Blue Ribbon Committee.
The Arroyo government and its allies say that the Filipino people are tired of people power. Does this mean that the Filipino people are tired of condemning massive electoral fraud, putting a stop to extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, resisting repression, fighting corruption, struggling against hunger and poverty? That is wishful thinking on the part of the Arroyo government and it goes against the tide of history.
MILITANTS in Negros Oriental are now joining the calls from both the church and civic groups in campaigning for the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal -Arroyo.
The militant groups that are aggressively campaigning for the ouster of President Arroyo are Motor-Piston Dumaguete (transport group), Anakbayan (youth group) and the League of Filipino Students (student sector).
The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today announced that protest actions will be conducted in at least 15 cities nationwide as part of the commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the Edsa 1 People Power uprising that toppled the Marcos dictatorship.
The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today announced that there will be nationally coordinated protests on Monday, the 22nd anniversary of the EDSA 1 People Power uprising that toppled the Marcos dictatorship.
In the wake of corruption allegations against the Arroyo administration over the national broadband network (NBN) fiasco, some 10,000 protesters assembled in Makati yesterday in the first big anti-Arroyo demonstration since key witness Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr. surfaced to testify at the Senate last week.
LFS chairman Vencer Crisostomo said: “Clearly, Neri has already gone over to the dark side.”
“While at one point, he passed himself off as a whistle-blower who exposed former Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr.’s P200-million bribe offer in connection with the NBN-ZTE deal, he has cast his lot with GMA and her cabal,” said Crisostomo.
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