Magandang tanghali po mga kababayan at mga kasama sa pakikibaka! Halos isang dekada na si Gloria Arroyo sa Malakanyang. Isang dekada na ring nagtitiis at lalong naghirap ang ating bansa. Para po sa amin na naging bahagi ng Edsa Dos, ang nakalipas na siyam na taon ay parang bangungot. Bakit ang People Power president ay naging “halimaw sa banga”? Imbes na pagbabago, imbes na kaunlaran, ang nasaksihan natin ay ang kabaligtaran. Kung mayroon mang pagbabago, eto ay ang pagdami ng mga tagong yaman ng First Family; at ang pag-unlad ng …

May natatandaan akong pelikula ni Jestoni Alarcon at Charito Solis na ipinalabas sa takilya noong 1989. Ang pamagat: Huwag Mong Buhayin ang Bangkay.

Hits state abandonment on education, unemployment, blatant corruption
Kabataan Party-list Representative Raymond “Mong” Palatino announced today that he will join other progressive party-list solons in boycotting Gloria Arroyo’s ninth State of the Nation Address on July 27, saying that Arroyo will only deliver a speech “glittered with grandiose rhetoric and numerous promises.”
“We expect that PGMA will boast of her administration’s legacy in her last SONA. However, we do not need the President to tell us that wha her administration has given us is a legacy of abandonment. With the dwindling …

Kabataan Party-list Rep. Mong Palatino today warned of a potential ‘cyber-Garci’ as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) finally inked the deal for poll automation in 2010 with partners Smartmatic-TIM.
Palatino said that until Comelec ‘makes public all terms involving the Smartmatic-TIM deal and unless it practices full transparency with regard to the processes, system and implementing rules and guidelines of automation, it will not be able to waylay the public’s apprehension with poll automation.’
“After all the brouhaha and apparent mismanagement, Comelec now owes it to the public to at least have …

Kabataan Party-list Rep. Mong Palatino today sought to re-open the investigation over unresolved corruption issues involving the Department of Education as some 200 high school students trooped to DepEd-National Capital Region to complain about erroneous textbooks being used in public high schools.
The high school students brought samples of erroneous textbooks that are still being used by public high schools despite previous orders from the DepEd to have them pulled out.
“If these are the same textbooks that were supplied by the anomalous textbooks deal that has already been scrapped by Malacanang …

Kabataan Party-list Representative Mong Palatino today said that the modernization of elections alone through poll automation may not solve the longstanding problem of election fraud.
“Using technology as a quick fix for the array of problems that have hounded our polls will not automatically solve electoral fraud and other problems. There are more fundamental issues to address and yet the Commission on Elections seems to be caught up in something that it might not just be fully prepared for ,” Palatino said.
Citing experiences from other countries, Palatino said that developed countries …

Kabataan Party-list Rep. Mong Palatino’s public service announcement of complaint hotlines for vanishing loads.