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Cesar Montano Urges Lyceum Grads to Use Talents to Serve Philippines

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MANILA — Lakas-CMD and Team Unity Senatorial candidate Cesar Montano urged the graduating class of Lyceum of the Philippines to use their talents and educational know-how to uplift the conditions of the majority of the people. Speaking yesterday at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) for the 57th commencement exercises of his alma mater where he studied civil engineering, Montano used his own life history as an example to encourage the graduates to ?aim high.? He said that one lesson that he learned from his lawyer-father is ?to be able to get the eagle, aim for the sky.?
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Philippines: Killings of Activists, Journalists Severely Damages 2007 Election Credibility — Bayan

MANILA — The killings of activists and journalists have become so untenable that it would be enough to destroy the credibility of the upcoming May 2007 elections.

This was the warning aired by the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) as cases of killings and attempted murders of activists and journalists escalated over the past two weeks.

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Philippines: Utility Rates Rose Faster Under Arroyo

MANILA — As a result of its continued privatization of vital utilities and the deregulation of the oil industry, the prices of power, water. and oil have increased most rapidly during the last six years of the Arroyo administration, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation.

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Philippines: Abducted Activist Files Cases Vs Military

Press STATEMENT
20 APRIL 2007

“WE WILL FIGHT TILL THE END!”

Two decades of unwavering struggle for peoples’ rights of Lourdes Rubrico, the abducted urban poor leader in Dasmari?as who surfaced seven days after her captors freed her in the middle of the night in a shopping mall of the said municipality, made her what she is today after she decided to go after her abductors by filing a criminal and administrative suit today at 11 o’ clock in the morning before the Office of the Ombudsman in Quezon City.

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