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Akbayan (Citizens Action Party) | 01.19.2012
Akbayan Party today called on the Association of General and Flag Officers (AGFO) to repudiate retired major general Jovito Palparan and declare him an enemy of the Filipino soldiers and the military institution. The political party issued the statement in response to AGFO’s accusation of “trial by publicity” against Palparan. Akbayan called the retired officers’ defence of Palparan as “regrettable." “Instead of protecting Palparan, former officers of the Armed Forces should assist the government and the people to catch Palparan”, Akbayan Spokesperson Risa Hontiveros said. “Because of his acts, Palparan soiled the institution of the Armed Forces and violated his duties to protect the people”, according to Hontiveros. Hontiveros also called on Palparan to stop hiding and face the charges against him in court since his patron can no longer give him protection.
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Akbayan - Citizens Action Party | 12.13.2011
Akbayan Party to PNP: Respect People's Right to Protest, Observe Maximum Tolerance We in Akbayan Party call on the Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Nicanor Bartolome and National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) Chief Alan Purisima to ensure that maximum tolerance will be observed by the police when handling public demonstrations and other protests. Our country has already made notable headway in the field of human rights, which is why it is disconcerting whenever we see protest actions and demonstrations spiral out of control and degenerate into senseless violence. Such violence need not occur if our police officers ensure constant dialogue and maximum tolerance.
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Uhuru Solidarity Movement | 09.25.2011
2011 Mayoral Candidates Forum Philly 2011 Mayoral Candidates Forum THESE ARE THE REAL CONDITIONS IN PHILADELPHIA:
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Conrado Garcia Jamin | 11.21.2010
The roads and streets of the towns in the central region of Coahuila, become crime scenes and victims are in all cases, citizens that under the harassment and harassment by police and transit, are detained under any pretext for extortion. Coahuila, Mexico.- Many times we think we are the weakest link in the chain of society, especially in these dire times of crime, corruption, insecurity and impunity.
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Internationalist Group | 10.28.2010
From our correspondent in France Something New – High School and College Students Protest the Pension “Reform” – Why? French Students Mobilize: “Sarkozy, You’re Screwed, The Youth Are In the Streets!”
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PLM | 09.03.2010
Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Labouring Masses) commiserates with the families of the eight Chinese nationals killed in the tour bus hijacking in Manila on Monday, August 23. The blunders of the Philippine police and officials in the hijacking crisis, which led to the deaths of the eight tourists, are indefensible from many aspects. * Why do the authorities order the arrest of the hijacker’s brother, a blunder seen on TV by millions of people, including the hijacker himself, during the crucial period of negotiations? This only escalated the tension and enraged the hostage-taker. * Why was the Philippine SWAT team untrained and unprepared to handle the emergency, and had no necessary equipment even to smash the glass windows? If they have the equipment, why were they not able to use it? * Where were President Noynoy and other top government officials during the crucial period of the negotiations? Why didn’t they put themselves on the line to ensure the decisive and quick resolution of the crisis which had already become an international political issue?
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Akbayan | 08.26.2010
Akbayan (Citizens Action Party) on the the Ill-fated Hostage Taking Incident at the Quirino Grandstand and the Necessary Reformation of the Police Force Together with the Filipino people, Akbayan party condemns in the strongest terms possible the ill-fated hostage-taking incident perpetuated by a former Philippine National Police officer at the Quirino Granstand which caused the death of 11 tourist hostages. We join the nation as we mourn their tragic deaths and as we offer our deepest condolences to the families of the victims as well as to the Hong Kong community, which is closely monitoring the developments of this horrific incident.
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Internationalist Group | 07.06.2010
Today in the United States, under the Democratic administration of Barack Obama, xenophobic and racist violence is escalating. The criminal agents of the Border Patrol have reached the point of killing in cold blood, before the eyes of hundreds of witnesses. On May 28, construction worker Anastasio Hernández Rojas was beaten to death by some 20 agents of the U.S. Border Patrol. Then on June 7 in Ciudad Juárez, across the river from El Paso, Border Patrol agents fired into a group of youths on the Mexican side of of the border, murdering 14-year-old Adrián Hernández with a shot to the head. These crimes are part of a policy of racist repression looking for scapegoats, typified by the legalization of xeonophobia and police use of racial profiling in Arizona’s SB 1070 law. But while Obama criticize the law, “Obama, listen, we are in the struggle,” his thugs are killing on the border. It is an illusion to think that the commander in chief of U.S. imperialism, or his counterpart and semi-colonial underling, Mexican president Felipe Calderón, will defend the workers. It is necessary to mobilize the power of the working class to defend immigrants.
After Racist Arizona Law, Obama’s Border Patrol Kills MexicansBlood on the Border
Protest march in San Diego, June 3, over the killing of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, murdered by the U.S. Border Patrol on May 28. (Photo: Alexandra Mendoza/Diario San Diego) 
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