More than a hundred workers from garments and apparel factories in the First Cavite Industrial Estate (FCIE) who staged a protest rally in front of the enclave in Brgy. Langkaan, Dasmarinas, Cavite last February 26, 2009 was violently dispersed by members of the Right 8 Security Guards posted at the main gate.

Six security guards, not all of them in uniform, initially tried to prevent workers from holding a program saying that it is not permitted because it is a private zone.

The commotion s...

On tour “Pagsambang Bayan” (literally translates People’s Mass/Worship), a play acclaimed for its bold defiance and militance during Martial Law years was once again restaged and for the first time shown in Cavite last February 28, 2009 at the Emilio Aguinaldo College in Dasmariñas, Cavite.

Written by award winning writer Bonifacio P. Ilagan and directed by the highly acclaimed Behn Cervantes, the play was basically a Christian mass played lively with speech choirs and musical choruses...

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February 26, 2009

Reference Person:
Laura Sarmiento, WAC-RDIP Program Officer
+63-927-282-7028, wacrdip@hotmail.com

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MERLY GRAFE
Chairperson, Solidarity of Cavite Workers
Tel No.: (+63-46)-8840076

The Solidarity of Cavite Workers (SCW), leads workers and unions from garments and apparel factories in staging a protest rally in front of the First Cavite Industrial Estate (FCIE) in Brgy. Langkaan, Dasmariñas, Cavite on February 26, a...

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Reference: MERLY GRAFE
SCW Chairperson
Tel No.: (+63-46)-8840076

Workers in the Taiwanese-owned Dyna Image Corp. Phils. burst into tears when their supervisor announced on 28 January that it would lay-off by month’s end some 200 workers who had been in the company for two years and less. However, 400 workers were in shocked disbelief when they were given the pink slip when they reported for work this morning. Dyna, located inside the Cavite Economic Zone (CEZ) manufactures conta...

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Citing loss of confidence on his integrity and impartiality to hear and decide the instant case pending before his Court, Judge Tomas Leynes of the Regional Trial Court Branch 40 in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro inhibited himself from hearing the multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder case filed by the Provincial Prosecutor and the Philippine National Police against 72 individuals, a number of whom are known leaders and personalities of people’s organizations in the Calab...

30 November 2008

Dear Friends and Partners:

On October 3, 2008, Emmanuel “Manny” Asuncion was ordered arrested, along with several other known activists and personalities of people’s organizations in the Southern Tagalog region, by the Calapan City Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Mindoro Oriental by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by Judge Tomas Leynes.

He is being maliciously charged of multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder based on the amended information filed by the O...

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Reference: REV. FR. JOSE DIZON
WAC Executive Director
Tel No.: (+63-46)-8840076

“Outrageous and a blatant lie” is how the Workers Assistance Center described the charges of multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder against Emmanuel Asuncion, a member of its Board of Trustees and known labor leader in the province of Cavite, along with several other personalities of people’s organizations.

Asuncion is among the 72 accused who were ordered arrested on October 3, 2008 by...