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Continue reading →: Oil firms and Malacañang unjustly squeeze P329 M every day from consumers
Pump prices continued its downtrend, with three rounds of rollbacks announced by the oil firms in the first week of March. On Monday (March 2), the so-called Big Three (Petron Corporation, Pilipinas Shell, and Chevron Philippines) slashed the price of their diesel and kerosene by P1 per liter and gasoline…
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Continue reading →: awit kay francisM
mula sa aming tulad mo’y ipagtatanggol ang 3 bituin at araw mula sa aming tahimik na nagbunyi sa hindi mo pagbitaw mula sa aming sumabay sa iyong breakdance nung bagets mula sa aming nangingiti tuwing naaalala ka sa loveliness mula sa aming nakasilip sa iyong kaleidoscope mula sa aming nakakita…
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Continue reading →: No hope for fair prices under oil deregulation
First published by Bulatlat.com (Vol. IX No. 5) Following fresh charges of overpricing, oil firms have implemented a series of oil price rollbacks last week. The retail price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) was slashed by a total of P44 per 11-kilogram (kg) cylinder tank. The pump price of diesel was…
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Continue reading →: Forum on global crisis
The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), IBON Foundation, and RESIST!, an anti-globalization network, organized a forum on the global financial and economic crisis last February 9 and 10 at the De La Salle University (DLSU) in Manila and the University of the Philippines (UP) in Quezon City. Almost 400 participants, from…
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Continue reading →: Despite P330-B stimulus package, job losses to hit around 1.2 M in 2009
With the entry of fresh graduates and first time workers into the labor force, the number of unemployed Filipino workers could increase by around 1.2 million by yearend. While this is bad news enough, the worse news is that the Arroyo administration could not adequately handle the worsening jobs crisis…
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