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Keeping an eye on Aquino’s commitment to change

The new administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III begins with an extremely high trust rating of 88 percent – higher than any of the
 

Open Letter to GMA’s Midnight Appointees

The start of a new Presidency with a clear and legitimate mandate from our people is an opportunity to re-build and re-affirm our unity as ...
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NAMFREL on the spate of recent politically motivated violence and Maguindanao Massacre

The National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) strongly condemns the brutal politically motivated killings in Maguindanao of political supporters and journalists. ...
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Global Call to Action Against Poverty and Social Watch Philippines: Philippines is far worse now than when she came to power

On July 27, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will deliver her ninth (and hopefully last) State of the Nation Address. ...
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STOP (Sa Tamang Oras at Paraan) Cha-Cha Movement: Outraged over Con-Ass

We are outraged! We protest and decry the brazen move by the majority faction of the House of Representatives, notwithstanding some dissension within its ...
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Freedom from Debt Coalition: Living Dead (Statement on the 2009 Spring Meetings of IMF-WB)

“Living dead” is a popular term used to describe various movies on reanimated corpses or mindless, rotting human beings resurrected from the dead causing havoc ...
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Makati Business Club: On worsening corruption -- A call for change

We support the call of the five senior bishops led by Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo that the time for radical reforms to rebuild our country ...
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Global Call to Action Against Poverty: G20 must prioritize people living in poverty to prepare for the storm ahead

Days before the G20 summit, the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) alliance is appealing to leaders to prioritize the needs of people living ...
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Peoples’ Global Action issued 10-point challenge to GFMD

Today, after the two days Civil Society Forum of the Second Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) and as the Official Forum commence civil ...
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