5 ? Years Under Arroyo: A New Dictator Rises
MANILA -- In the five and a half years of the Arroyo regime, state security forces have summarily executed more than 700 civilians and have caused the forcible disappearance of…
Scientists, Engineers Join People’s March to Batasan
"No amount of flashy audio or visual presentation can hide the deepening poverty in the country", noted Dr. Giovanni Tapang, chairperson of the activist scientists group AGHAM. As Ms. Arroyo…
Arroyo Has Faltered on Major Areas of Concern ? Pimentel
Five and a half years after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo came to power, the ordinary Filipinos are economically worse off, the Philippines remains an economic laggard in East Asia, corruption and…
A Call for Protests on the Day of the SONA
(Pre-recorded message by Ka Crispin Beltran, aired during the People's SONA on July 24, 2006 ) Five years of hunger, poverty, and persecution. That has been the US-Arroyo regime's legacy…
Arroyo Redefines Economic Indicators to Hide Crisis
MANILA -- In its effort to present an illusion of economic improvement, the Arroyo administration revised statistical methods and definitions to come up with better social indicators and make them…