Archive - Oct 2008

joint with Pamalakaya-Pilipinas

Complainants to the plunder case filed before the Office of the Ombudsman and the series of impeachment complaints ranged against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Tuesday asked the influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to convince the P 728-million fertilizer fund scam man-former agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn “Jocjoc” Bolante to tell all about the plunder crime he and top officials of Malacañang committed in 2004.  full article »

Arroyo's annihilation of peasant leaders strengthen basis for impeachment complaint  full article »

joint with Pamalakaya-Pilipinas

Militant groups belonging to Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) will stage a “modest yet fire raging welcome” against former agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn “Jocjoc” Bolante upon his return tomorrow.  full article »

joint with La Via Campesina  full article »

KMP calls on Chief Justice to remind judges on issuing arrest warrants, judges not to be instruments of creeping martial law

The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) totally denounces the latest arrest of labor lawyer Atty. Remigio Saladero by the PNP and military intelligence agents. Atty. Saladero, a member of PLACE (a pro-bono lawyers’ group), is the chief legal counsel of the labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) who handles labor cases in Southern Tagalog region. He was one of the ‘Southern Tagalog 27’ or ‘ST 27’ the leaders and members of militant organizations under Bagong Alyansang Makabayan from the said region, who were filed against with arson and conspiracy to commit rebellion, and accused as an NPA member last month.  full article »

KMP appeals to family to avoid that their name to synonym as ‘scam’

As the US Immigration Court is about to deport former agriculture undersecretary Joc-joc Bolante anytime soon, the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) urges his family to encourage and support him to expose the real benefactor and beneficiaries of the P728 billion fertilizer scam in 2004. KMP is the peasant group that exposed the said scam presenting witnesses that never acquired subsidies, one of them was Ofelia Rodriguez from Mexico, Pampanga who was then killed after testifying to the senate probe and interviewee to an investigative television program.  full article »

joint with Pamalakaya-Pilipinas  full article »