The Movement on Good Governance came up with a needs assessment study of the Aquino administration and a platform score by the end of the study. Here is their 32 page report and the method of reaching a rating system and a platform score of 4.69. A needs assessment study under the Aquino administration It [...]
Liham para kay Pnoy buhat sa RHAN
July 22, 2011- Nagkaroon ng isang malawakang pagtitipon at pagmamartsa ang mga myembro ng Reproductive Health Advocates Network (RHAN) sa UST papuntang Mendiola ngayong umaga upang ipakita ang pagkakaisa at para maisulong ang panukalang batas na Reproductive Health Bill or RH Bill. Ibat ibang organisasyon ang nakisama mula sa Likhaan, Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines [...]
On leadership:Slowly but surely
364 days is not enough to clean up multiple decades of unjust, mess and uncontrollable corruption. Even the elected tricycle drivers association president cannot just lower the price of “prangkisa” or cannot just ask about the route to take because of the process and the culture which everyone is used to but as what they [...]
Seeds of change planted, time now for broader and deeper reforms
This is Akbayan’s press statement on PNoy’s 1st year: On the first year of President Aquino’s term, Akbayan Party today lauded the government for the significant gains it achieved while proposing broader and deeper reforms in the coming years through a social contract, which the group said Aquino must enter into with the people. In [...]
Passing marks for President Noynoy Aquino’s first year
Photo by Jane Uymatiao A year ago, Blog Watch participated in the coverage of President Aquino’s inaugural. Though I did not vote for him, I vowed to support his presidency by being one of an empowered citizen in his government. Optimism was high. Together with Jane, we accidentally participated in the first media conference in [...]
Akbayan to PNoy: leave lasting legacy, finish agrarian reform
This is a press statement from Akbayan. Three days before the commemoration of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform law (CARL), advocates who campaigned for the extension and improvement of the law banded together to call on President Benigno Simeon Aquino III to finish the just distribution of all agricultural lands. “Legacy” In a press conference in [...]
Open letter of AKBAYAN Rep Walden Bello to President Aquino
Some immediate steps the government must take to address the country’s economic woes May 5, 2011 PRESIDENT BENIGNO SIMEON AQUINO III Malacañang Palace Compound J. P. Laurel St., San Miguel, Manila City Dear Mr. President: Allow me to first congratulate the administration in its implementation of anti-poverty and anti-graft and corruption measures. The administration’s efforts [...]
















Dear Noynoy, yet one more time (one year after)
It’s over a year, Sir, since I and a tennis-playing friend wrote you a Dear Noynoy letter. Now I write, yet one more time. I will still address you Sir because P-noy, your self-given appellation, which my friend snorted at then as “jokey,” (Sounds like a joke, he said) is now used sparingly (di masyadong bumenta) [...]