We are Filipinos and these are our colors!
By Lakwatserang Paruparo as originally posted at Blog Watch, Philippine Online Chronicles. I tossed and turned and thought of the raging storm in Luzon even if I live in faraway Mindanao. When [read more]
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On SC ruling: Triumph of collective action
We welcome the SC ruling declaring the Priority Development Assistance Funds (PDAF) unconstitutional as a victory of the Filipino people’s collective action. It is a step in the right [read more]
On SC ruling : ” The power of the people has been exercised once more.” #scrapPork
CENPEG’s statement on the SC ruling: The decision of the Supreme Court (SC) today declaring as unconstitutional the pork barrel system singularly reaffirmed the public clamor for its [read more]
Health advocates propose Pork for Universal Health Care; Hire nurses, doctors, midwives for every barangay
Pork can be good if rechanneled for health. Abolish the pork barrel system and chop the floating Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) to hire more health workers. According to civil society [read more]
Pork barrel, by any other name, is anti-development
Jose Carlos Maningat It took a growing anti-pork barrel dissent for President Aquino to utter the “it is time to abolish the PDAF” spiel, only to propose reforms in the system seconds after. The [read more]
Pork Barrel Polemics #PDAFScam
by Dean de la Paz In the prelude to the Php 729 million fertilizer fund scam instigated by the Executive Branch in the previous administration and inflicted upon the public to purchase a presidential [read more]
The Pork Barrel Scam: Getting Away with Billion of Pesos (Part 1 of 3 parts) #PDAFscam
The pork barrels of five senators and 23 members of the Lower House are allegedly being misused. At the center of the controversy is Janet Napoles. Who? The formerly unknown businesswoman is now very [read more]
Pork, daang matuwid’ don’t mix: One bidder, one PDAF project
By Roel Landingin Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism AUCTIONS for civil-works contractors to carry out “hard” or infrastructure-related pork-barrel projects must be lonely affairs. [read more]
Pigging out on Pork a la PNoy: Senators’ PDAF floods NCR, vote-rich provinces
Pigging out on Pork a la PNoy Senators’ PDAF floods NCR, vote-rich provinces By Malou Mangahas and Rowena F. Caronan Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism Third of Five Parts Read Part 1 [read more]
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