Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) said he believes that Congress will back a Malaca?ang call for amending the 1987 Constitution to pave the way for the…
Workers in Japanese corporations based in Southern Tagalog expressed opposition to the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA). They deemed that their situation will get worse if JPEPA is ratified. According…
Task Force Mapalad, a national peasant federation, will ask progressive members of Congress to conduct a review of the role played by landowners in the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian…
Arroyo veto will cause serious political backlash As more senators echo the people's demand to scrap the 12 percent value added tax (VAT) on oil, umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan…
Philippine green groups today cautioned the Environment Secretary against supporting larger deployments of military and police personnel to protect the operations of foreign mining firms such as Xstrata in South Cotabato, warning that this would give rise to even more conflict and human rights violations against mining-affected communities.