RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION
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Alliance of Health Workers | PRESS RELEASE |References: Jossel I. Ebesate, AHW National President, Mobile number: 0918-9276381; Robert T. Mendoza, AHW Secretary-General, Mobile number: 0932-4649757 | The Coalition for Health Budget Increase (CHBI) claims its initial victory in the fight for higher health budget when the House of Representatives approved on its October 11 final reading the P200M addition to DOH budget and P400M for Government-Owned and Controlled Corporation Hospitals for 2012.
Bai Ali Indayla | 0905.924.8424 | kawagibphils@yahoo.com |
Lungsod ng Cotabato – Mariing tinututulan ng grupong KAWAGIB ang inilulunsad na pagsasanay militar ng mga sundalong Pilipino at sundalong Amerikano sa Camp Siongco, 6th Infantry Division, Maguindanao na tinatawag na Balance Piston ’11-03. Noong Setyembre 01 dumating ang sampung opisyal ng tropang kano sa pangunguna ni Capt. Brent Olson na maglulunsad ng pagsasanay sa loob ng labing limang araw.
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Negros | PRESS STATEMENT | Reference: BAYAN-Negros Public Information Department | Mobile #:09217859554 | The more Governor Alfredo Marañon, Jr. talks about his concept of peace, the more we suspect that he is equating it with business.
As the governor’s mind is kept busy with the multi-million selling and leasing of Capitol properties, he is also calling on armed groups particularly the New People’s Army to lay down their arms and join what he calls as the “mainstream” of society.
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Negros | PRESS STATEMENT | August 18, 2011 | Reference: Christian Tuayon, Secretary General | Mobile #:09217859554 | If there is any amount of decency left in him, His Excellency, Chief Supt. Cipriano Querol, Jr. should beat a hasty retreat.
As the Senate continues to investigate the used chopper controversy, the leadership of the National Police should also probe their Region 6 police director to see if one of the rotors has been stuck in Querol’s brain.
LITA MARIANO, Spokesperson, Bantay Bigas | ROMAN M. SANCHEZ | National President, NAFEDA | CP # 0915-5690372 | Rice Monitor group Bantay Bigas said the budget for National Rice Program of the Department of Agriculture (DA) of Php6.2 billion is unrealistic if government is really serious about its rice self sufficiency target by 2013.
Bantay Bigas spokesperson Lita Mariano said “the DA’s budget allocation especially for its rice program only mirrors government’s insincerity in achieving rice self sufficiency for the country”.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Saturday urged President Benigno Aquino III to free political prisoners who have been on a hunger strike for the past three weeks in different prisons in the country.
In a statement, Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo, head of the CBCP-National Secretariat for Social Action-Justice and Peace, urged Mr. Aquino to grant executive clemency to the prisoners, who were linked to the communist insurgency.
Clarizza Singson | Karapatan Negros | Karapatan Negros condemns the false, misleading, malicious and deceitful claim of Lt. Col. Ramil Bitong that together with his troops, they joined the Medical-Relief Mission in Sitio Calabaclabacan, Brgy. Trinidad, Guihulngan City last July 17-18, 2011. The relief and medical mission is part of the NEGROS SOLIDARITY HEALTH AND RELIEF MISSION simultaneously held in Escalante City, Negros Occidental as part of the Filipino American Health Workers Association (FAHWA) annual health service to the rural folk in the Philippines. They were joined as sponsors by the local peasant organization KAUGMAON, Negros Island Health Integrated Program (NIHIP), Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc (VPHCS), Community Empowerment Resource Network (CERNET), BAYAN MUNA, Franciscan Mountain Clinics, Iglesia Filipina Independiente together with Karapatan. Mayor Reyes of Guihulngan also joined the activity by providing four (4) vehicles to doctors, dentists, nurses and other development workers. A total of 892 (dental – 80, circumcision – 41, medical – 561, feeding-60, relief-150) farmers benefitted the said activity.
For Reference: Roberto Villaram, President, Bacolod Our Lady of Mercy Specialty Hospital Employees Union | Mobile phone: 0949.942.8940 (Smart) | 0915.338.0721 (Globe) | The Bacolod Our Lady of Specialty Hospital Employees Union (BOLMSHEU) urges National Labor Relations Commission to resolve Union busting and illegal dismissal cases involving 7 union officers and 6 members because the union functions to its members are put in jeopardy especially during collective bargaining negotiation.
