We in AGHAM Advocates of Science and Technology for the People express our support to the vanguards of science and technology in the United States in their March for Science as newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-science and anti-people moves intensify upon serving less than a week in office. Read more…
In response to the Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands’ support for the rehabilitation of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant We denounce the Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands (CCPI) for supporting the rehabilitation of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). Once again, we refute its arguments which Read more…
On the sixth anniversary of the killings of famed ethno-botanist Leonard Co and his colleagues, Julius Borromeo and Sofronio Cortez, Co’s family, friends and scientists under the Justice for Leonard Co Movement trooped at the Department of Justice to call for an end to the six years of injustice and Read more…
As Duterte nears his 100 days in office, we in AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People pose a challenge to President Rodrigo Duterte to craft a long-term solution to the recurring problem of CSI infestation which has been the result of a bandaid program by the Read more…
Scientist activist group AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People cautioned against President Rodrigo Duterte’s eagerness in promoting coal to augment power supply instead of harnessing the rich alternative energy resources of the country. AGHAM says the President wrongly projects coal power as a solution to the Read more…
Today, as we commemorate the 44th anniversary of the declaration of Martial law, we in AGHAM Advocates of Science and Technology for the People unite with all the victims of the human rights violations and grave abuses during the dark days of the Marcos regime. One of the injustices during Read more…
The Justice for Leonard Co Movement calls on Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila de Lima to junk and review the report of the DOJ’s fact-finding team, which inexplicably cleared the 19th Infantry Battallion of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in the November 15 killing of reknowned ethno-botanist Read more…
The removal of Dr. Prisco Nilo as director of the PAGASA due to “differences” with his “immediate superior” shows that the current government would rather fire the messsenger than upgrade the bureau’s capacity to prepare for typhoons and disasters. If government continues to blame the scientists instead of providing funds Read more…