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Bayan Muna (People First) party-list Rep. Saturnino "Satur" C. Ocampo yesterday said he and Gabriela Women's party-list Rep. Liza L. Maza were still considering the offer of Senator Manuel B. Villar, Jr.’s NP to be included in the party’s senatorial ticket.  read more »

Manila: House members Satur Ocampo and Liza Largoza-Masa filed their candidacies Sunday  in a move that marks the first time in more than two decades that senatorial candidates identified with the left had attempted to seek mandate on a national level.  read more »

You’ve probably heard of the Philippines recently because of one reason: typhoons. A series of storms hit the country in September and October. At one point 80 percent of Manila, a city of 11.5 million people, was under water. Nearly one thousand people were killed in the worst storms in forty years.  read more »

WASHINGTON D.C. - The Philippines' largest left-leaning political group is shopping around for a presidential candidate to back on May 2010.  read more »

DAGUPAN CITY, PHIILIPPINES–Filipino-Americans under the banner of BAYAN-USA, a US-wide alliance of 14 Filipino organizations, have been actively responding to the needs of the victims of typhoons Ketsana (Ondoy) and Parma (Pepeng) that slammed through the Philippines in the past few weeks killing hundreds and devastating thousands. In addition to conducting on-the-ground emergency relief operations in the Philippines, the alliance reached its projected goal of $15,000 for BALSA (Bayanihan Alay Para Sa Sambayanan), a broad, multi-sectoral disaster relief organization affiliated with its mother alliance, BAYAN Philippines, in addition to gathering dozens of boxes across the US filled with in-kind donations of clothes, food, and medicine.  read more »

Four major Los Angeles-based Filipino organizations have joined together to collect donations for typhoon victims in the Philippines.  read more »

"The memory of President Cory’s courage and the quiet grace of her spirit will always be a reminder to those who aspire to be dictators or tyrants that the Filipino people, inspired by the same memory, will never allow them to rule again," said Rep. Liza Maza of Gabriela Women’s Party.  read more »

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang yesterday trumpeted President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s meeting with President Barack Obama and the country’s designation as the US regional coordinator with Southeast Asia as a “triumph for all Filipinos.” Gabriela party-list Rep. Liza Maza said Obama was “misinformed” considering the human rights violations and repression in the Philippines.  read more »

Representatives Liza Maza and Luzviminda Ilagan, both of the Gabriela Women's Party, said the scandalous videos featuring Filipinas only create an image that they are easy to come by and are "cheap commodities".  read more »

The court’s decision sparked protests Thursday and Friday at the appeals court and the U.S. Embassy in Manila and drew angry statements from women’s rights organizations.  read more »