Consumers ask Supreme Court to nullify Meralco ‘sweetheart’ deals
Consumer group Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas with its counsel Neri Colmenares filed a petition at the Supreme Court against the government’s Energy Regulatory Commission’s (ERC) awarding of 20-year power contracts to seven private generation companies without bidding, among them are those owned by Meralco. The petition was filed on November 8, 2016. A week […]
Peoples’ lawyers to file attempted murder charges vs MPD
National Union of People’s Lawyer chairperson Neri Colmenares explains why they intend to file attempted murder charges against Manila Police District officers who violently dispersed protesting indigenous peoples in front of the United States embassy in Manila last October 19. In a press conference at the University of the Philippines a day after the incident, […]
Bayan Muna celebrates 6th straight electoral victory
Bayan Muna held a thanksgiving party last May 27 at the Quezon Memorial Circle for its supporters and volunteers to celebrate another victory in the party list elections this year. Bayan Muna won a single seat for the upcoming 17th Congress, marking the sixth straight time it sent representatives to the legislature.
16th Congress fails SSS pensioners
THE LIBERAL PARTY-LED House of Representatives (HOR) again frustrated efforts to override President Benigno Aquino’s veto of the bill giving Php2,000 monthly increase to Social Security System (SSS) pensioners. Only 189 representatives were present at the final regular session of the 16th Congress as of five o’clock yesterday afternoon, four short of the required 193 […]
Makabayan bet Colmenares expresses hope in winning
Makabayan bloc’s bet for the Senate Neri Colmenares expressed hope in winning in this year’s national elections at Tuesday’s grand rally at Plaza Miranda. Running as part of the Team Galing at Puso, Colmenares asked the crowd if a poor man like himself could be a senator. The crowd enthusiastically said “Yes.” Here is a […]
Neri adopted by aunt due to family’s poverty
Bayan Muna congressman and senatorial aspirant Neri Javier Colmenares bared he was adopted by an aunt as a child because of his family’s poverty. Speaking before thousands at yesterday’s Galing at Puso rally at Plaza Miranda in Manila, Colmenares said his father was a security guard and his mother a clerk. He then asked the […]
Neri to push for more benefits for elderly
Bayan Muna representative and senatorial candidate Neri Colmenares vows to push for more benefits for the elderly if elected to the Senate. Colmenares addressed supporters in front of the Social Security System main office in Quezon City this morning as he begins his campaign for the Senate. In his speech, Colmenares said the vetoed two […]
TitoSen, Isko, Digong and Neri on land reform
The Philippine Land Reform Movement (PLRM) and Pagkakaisa para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo (Patria) posed a “Peasant Challenge” for the 2016 elections. Davao City Mayor Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte (running for President) and senatorial candidates Tito Sotto, Isko Moreno and Neri Colmenares took the challenge. Held at the Balay Kalinaw, UP Diliman, QC on February […]
Senior citizens hold rally vs Aquino’s veto of SSS pension increase
Thousands of senior citizens and Social Security System pensioners held a rally at Quezon Memorial Circle last January 30 to call for an override of the presidential veto of the P2,000 monthly pension increase. They collectively condemned President Aquino as disrespectful of old people who rely on their pensions for their daily needs.
SSS pensioners: Increase important for our dignity
Senior citizens trooped to the House of Representatives a few days after President Benigno Aquino vetoed the bill for a two thousand peso increase in the monthly pension of member-retirees. They are asking Congress to override the veto by reenacting the measure through a two-thirds vote. The pensioners said that the increase would have help […]