THE NUMBERS SURPRISED MANY, especially since the million-person march was never really an organized affair in the same way that many protest marches at the Luneta were, whether these were religious or political affairs in support or against the...

ANGRY FILIPINOS throng today to the Luneta Grandstand to register their protest with how their hard-earned taxpayer's money is being frittered away in ghost projects and ghost nongovernmental organizations through the infamous pork barrel...

THE MARCHERS HAVE YET to take their first step to the Luneta and rally sites in cities across the nation tomorrow. But already an epidemic of on ground and online protest against pork and budget scams has engulfed the nation, assuring that the marches...

BUDGET SCAMS, pork by any other name, who should stand trial -- the pain and the rage against the controversies of recent weeks could, and should, end in a few good things for the Filipino people. A Freedom of Information (FOI) law tops the list as...

PNoy abolishes PDAF video from PTV-4 FLANKED BY the leaders of the two chambers of Congress, President Benigno S. Aquino III on Friday announced his intention to abolish the pork barrel system, or the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) amid...

THREE DAYS after mounting a vigorous, if effete, defense of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel, President Aquino today reversed his position and said in no uncertain terms that "panahon na pong i-abolish ang PDAF." But that...

THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES IN THE PHILIPPINES (NCCP), has joined the swelling public call to junk the Priority Development Assistance Funds (PDAF)—more popularly known as pork barrel—of legislators and other high ranking national executive...