PHILIPPINES: Workers party-list group petitions SC to overturn disqualification (tags)
The newly-formed workers party-list Partido ng Manggagawa Coalition (PM Coalition) today filed a petition at the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the Commission on Elections resolution disqualifying the group. In its petition, PM also sought a temporary restraining order on the scheduled raffle of party-list names and printing of the ballots in January.
Los Angeles, May 1st, 2004, the May Day Caravan, a coalition of immigrant worker organization (MIWON) departed from the McArthur Park in Downtow LA at 12:30 PM. About 500 immigrant workers and others showed up to take buses . . .