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Bayan Muna 2010 senatorial bet and Nacionalista Party guest candidate Satur Ocampo denounced the violence that erupted this morning (May 6) at a strike of a big undergarments company in Pasig City and called on the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to immediately act to prevent further violence.
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Employees of KFC staged a picket-rally at a branch in Matalino St, Brgy. Central, Quezon City. According to representatives of KFC's "restaurant team members (RTMs)", regular employees of the food chain nationwide were illegally dismissed en masse using an employee evaluation method involving the use of a polygraph machine. The laid-off employees believe that the scheme is the KFC management's way of quickly replacing their regular employees with contractuals.

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Aninaw Productions' "Nay Victoria" is part of UNANG HUNAT! an anthology of "FIRST ISSUE" video productions created by development workers from 12 NGOs all over the Visayas. A product of a week-long crash course on video production, these six ground-breaking, uncensored audio-visual projects attempt to address the yearning of the disenfranchised Visayan Public -- the farmers, fisherfolks, workers, women and youth -- for an alternative medium with which they could channel their concerns. Sponsored by CERNET-ESP in cooperation with Kodao Productions.

Aninaw Productions' "Deceptive Development" is a brief critique on the impact of government backed development projects to the ordinary people in the fisherfolk community of Cordova. A product of Unang Hunat!, the week-long crash course on video production by KODAO in cooperation with CERNET ESP last October 22-28, 2008.

This is a story of Baby Jessie, a child from an indigenous community in Bukidnon, Philippines who almost died because of government neglect and wrong priorities. A story of ordinary people's courage to organize and mobilize themselves to overcome poverty and build a healthy society. Produced in cooperation with Intal. Diagnosing Poverty, Building Community is an official selection to the New York International Filipino Film and Video Festival 2005.