PRESS STATEMENT ? April 9, 2007
Satur back on campaign trail; Palace, AFP finally admit roles in anti-Bayan Muna drive
Fresh on from a Holy Week break, Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo returns to the campaign trail in a progressive partylist assembly in San Fernando, Pampanga today.
The top official at the Davao Prison and Penal Farm has practically blamed the military for the raid on Sunday by the New People’s Army of the correctional facility formerly known as the Davao Penal Colony (Dapecol). In the raid, one of the most daring in the Philippines in years, the communists carted away more than a hundred assorted firearms without firing a single shot.
PRESS RELEASE
Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines
April 8, 2007
CPP congratulates NPA for “big firearms haul” in Davao raid, urges more tactical offensives
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) spokesperson Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal issued today the following statement congratulating the New People’s Army-Merardo Arce Command (NPA-MAC) for the “notably successful raid and seizure of arms” of the Davao Penal Colony in the early morning hours of April 7.
News Release
April 7, 2007
References: Ka Willy Marbella, internal deputy secretary general, KMP and ANAKPAWIS party list nominee
Carl Anthony Ala, public information officer
After killing of 2 peasant leaders in Cagayan Valley: ?Another militant threatened by death squad?-KMP
The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the ANAKPAWIS party list group lambasted the escalating attacks against its leaders and members in Cagayan Valley the past week, where two of its leaders were abducted and were found dead the other day. Early today another militant was threatened by members of the death squad for participating in the fact-finding mission conducted by KMP and Karapatan.
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Greenpeace Statement on IPCC report released yesterday in Brussels:
Manila, 7 April 2007–Key findings of the new IPCC report say that:
-it is likely that climate change will induce mass extinction of species
within 60 to 70 years
-the number of people at risk from water scarcity is likely to rise from
tens of millions to billions
-reductions in food production capacity in the poorest parts of the
world, are projected
-small islands, subsaharan Africa, Asian mega deltas and the Arctic
regions are the most vulnerable, and
-huge numbers of people will be at risk due to sea level rise, storm
surges, and river flooding in the Asian mega deltas.