Radio Mindanao Network talk show host Dennis Cuesta is in a coma after being shot five times at close range Tuesday while walking in a shopping mall in General Santos City.
“The Arroyo government, like its predecessors, is led by big landlords and compradors who have vast and entrenched economic and political interests in most of what the MOA defines as the Bangsmoro homeland. It is inconceivable that the national government as well as the local warlords and other vested interests who benefit tremendously from the present set-up would easily give up the Bangsamoro homeland to the Moro people.”
Pulling a 21-foot effigy of a sinking ship, members of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan marched from Tandang Sora Avenue to just beyond EVER Commonwealth to join other anti-Arroyo groups in a “People’s SONA”. The counter-SONA described the state of the nation as “a sinking ship with the captain even robbing its passengers”.
New studies by the University of the Philippines - Center for Labor Justice (UP CLJ) and the Bangkok and Manila-based policy think tank Focus on the Global South revealed
Arroyo’s slow progress towards achieving key targets on economic growth, poverty reduction, and job generation.
In a statement, the NUPL says it “strongly criticizes the recent spate of decisions by the Court of Appeals dismissing amparo petitions which are indicative of a failure to comprehend the intent and nature of the new judicial remedy that initially brought a ray of hope for the victims, families and human rights defenders. These decisions unfortunately disregard the actual state of human rights in the Philippines today that has prompted the promulgation of the new remedy in the first place.”
In a metro-wide survey conducted by IBON Foundation on July 12-13, 87.33% of respondents agree with the proposals to scrap the VAT on petroleum products.
“Today’s teenager is tomorrow’s potential regular customer, and the overwhelming majority of smokers first begin to smoke while in their teens…. It is during the teenage years that the initial brand choice is made.” — Philip Morris internal document, March 1981
By Carlos H. Conde
I’m happy not because I may have been proven right (sort of) but because at least some eheads fans, it would seem to me, have been illuminated (or have conceded defeat in this debate) and are now singing a different tune about this whole event. They are now faced with the real possibility that the concert might not push through if the Department of Health, which issued the warning on Wednesday that Philip Morris was violating the Tobacco Regulation Act in sponsoring the concert, made good on its promise to sue the company.
We Filipinos needed to re-calibrate our understanding of what’s usual or normal, the instant we began to move out into the world en masse. Unfortunately, that has been difficult, because of the re-feudalization accompanying migration, particularly for women.
Tobacco control advocates are asking the Filipino band Eraserheads to be good role models for the youth and reject the sponsorship by a cigarette manufacturer of its much-awaited reunion concert on Aug. 30 in Manila.
In Marketing Strategy, Tobacco Company Behind Eraserheads Concert Targets Teens 01:32 pm Here’s Why Eraserheads Reunion Concert Could Be in Trouble 11:12 pm Ninotchka Rosca: The Usual Can Be Criminal 08:58 am Mindanao Radio Host Shot, Now in Coma 08:48 am Anti-Tobacco Advocates Ask Eraserheads to Reject Tobacco Sponsorship of Concert 08:59 pm Movement Launched Vs Tobacco-Sponsored Eraserheads Reunion Concert 09:35 am Fr. Shay Cullen: End Sex Tourism and Restore Filipino Dignity 08:51 am 
Eraserheads Reunion Concert: Asterisked 7/31/08 US Group Urges Probe of ‘Sponsorship’ of Eraserheads Concert 7/29/08 Eraserheads Should Disclose Concert Sponsor 7/29/08 Caught in Big Tobacco’s Web 7/24/08 Survey Shows Online Advertising Is Less Effective Than TV Advertising in Asia 6/22/08 Falling Enrolment Rates Highlight Need for More Social Spending 6/22/08 Fr. Shay Cullen: Still Saving the Kids Behind Bars 6/22/08 NGO Lifts Livelihood While Preserving Palawan’s Allure 5/30/08 
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