By Aya Fabros
It’s February and the hot and humid air is spiked with the tragedies of the past, the controversies of the present and the travesties of the future. This month, as we remember EDSA 1986 and recall ULTRA 2006, we also mark the official start of the national campaign period. There have been a lot of interesting developments related to the elections.
For instance, recent headlines related to some Supreme Court rulings have got a lot of people asking, what’s wrong with this picture?
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Focus on the Philippines 2009 Yearbook includes some key statistics on national income accounts, prices and inflation, employment and remittances. Summary tables on GDP growth and employment are reproduced below.
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FOI ON TRACK: WE LOOK AHEAD TO RATIFICATION OF BICAM REPORT (RIGHT TO KNOW! RIGHT NOW! Statement) |
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After long struggle, the passage of the Freedom of Information Act is finally near at hand.
At the resumption of session last Monday (18 January), we marched to the House of Representatives with a rally contingent of 1000 to call on our House of Representatives to stand for Freedom of Information. With Committee on Public Information Chairman Bienvenido Abante, Jr., Vice Chairman Eduardo Zialcita, Committee TWG Chairman Lorenzo “Erin” Tañada III, and Minority member Rufus Rodriguez, we met with Speaker Prospero Nograles to appeal for the immediate constitution of the House Panel to the Bicameral Conference Committee on the Freedom of Information Act.
We were not frustrated. The final action of Congress for the day was the naming of the following members to the House Panel: Rep. Bienvenido Abante, Jr. (Chairman), Rep. Eduardo Zialcita, Rep. Lorenzo “Erin” Tañada III, Rep. Rodolfo Antonino, Rep. Jesus Crispin Remulla, Rep. Rodante Marcoleta, Rep. Joel Villanueva, and Rep. Cinchona Cruz-Gonzales.
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by Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III
Sta. Ana coordinates Action for Economic Reforms. This article was published in the January 11, 2010 edition of the BusinessWorld, pages S1/4 to S1/5.
Manny Villar is on a roll. The latest survey conducted by Social Weather Stations (SWS) shows that he has narrowed the gap between him and Noynoy Aquino, the frontrunner, to 11 percent.
The survey came in the wake of a media blitzkrieg during the holiday season. A friend of mine, an executive in a major television network, conservatively estimates that Villar has spent PhP 2 billion since the third quarter of 2009 for his media campaign. (Other estimates are on the high side, ranging between PhP 3 billion and PhP 4 billion.)
His ads are very populist. In one ad, responding to Michael V’s complaint about the prohibitive cost of education, Villar says that college education must be free. Why Villar focuses on college education, not on basic education, which is a bigger problem, is easy to answer. Villar wants to get the vote of college students. Elementary and high school children don’t vote.
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Who’s in the Trade to Climate Caravan?: An Interview with Amparo Miciano |
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By Cecilia Olivet and Mary-Lou Malig
Sixty activists from the global South and Europe are currently touring Europe on their way to Copenhagen. Starting out at Seventh Sessions of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Geneva from 30 November to 2 December, the tour passes through Italy, Germany, France and Belgium before arriving in Copenhagen on 9 December.
Cecilia Olivet of Transnational Institute and Mary-Lou Malig of Focus on the Global South spoke to Amparo Miciano, an activist travelling in the bus who works mainly on women's rights in rural areas.
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