Science and technology advocate group, AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People denounced the recent ratification of SIM Card Registration Bill in the Bicameral hearing of the Philippine Senate and the House of Representatives. “If signed into law, SIM Card registration will disenfranchise millions of users,” explained Read more…
Science, Technology, and Engineering Agenda for the Masses Philippines or STEAM Ph, an alliance that aims to advance the demands and calls of the S&T sector, decries the failure of the Marcos Jr administration to understand the relevance of science and technology with the meagre support being given to the Read more…
AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People decries the longstanding problem of overproduction of food harvests, which are being blamed by Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban to the farmers not being able to plan for their planting season. AGHAM’s Secretary General, Jonallin Yang stated, “such statement coming from Read more…
AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People cautions the government on imposing discriminatory vaccination requirements in public transportation and other public services, citing that there is no evidence that such policy will curb rising COVID-19 cases as scientific literature shows that both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals transmit the virus just the same [1]. The scientist group strongly urges the government to step away from and reverse its unscientific and militaristic approach to the pandemic and to urgently start the establishment of the vaccine manufacturing industry in the country.
In our 22-year long advocacy of making science and technology serve the people, we found it necessary that the government should listen to the people, especially the marginalized sectors, and not just the political and economic elite. We challenge all candidates to declare their platforms before the Filipinos and not deceive us through mere rhetoric and gimmickry.
AGHAM-Advocates of Science and Technology for the People deplores the continuing denial of justice for the brutal killings of ethnobotanist Leonard Co along with farmer Julio Borromeo and EDC employee Sofronio Cortez. The wheel of justice grinds very slowly for the killing on November 15, 2010 of one of the best botanists our country ever had.
AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People welcomes the decision of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to probe malpractices in the mangrove planting by San Miguel Corporation (SMC) in Bulacan. DENR also ordered SMC to temporarily halt mangrove planting in the province pending the result of the investigation.
AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People vehemently condemns the detention and harassment of fisherfolk and youth in Malolos, Bulacan, and urges government agencies, in particular the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), to investigate human rights violations related to the construction of San Miguel Corporation’s 2,500-hectare New Manila International Airport (Bulacan Aerotropolis).
It is high time to emphasize that calling a certain body of water “dead” does not warrant big corporations’ interest to build more infrastructure to satisfy their bottomless profit thirst. The Pasig River Expressway is a 19.37-km long death sentence that will kill the hopes for a better Pasig River ecosystem. AGHAM stands that PAREX will cause further damages to Pasig River, nearby urban dwellers, and over-all urban ecosystem of Metro Manila.
Scientist group AGHAM-Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, in a recently published paper, opined that a Writ of Kalikasan may be petitioned in relation to the controversial dolomite beach project. The group said that the dolomite project symbolizes what the Duterte administration really is: insensitive, insincere, and unscientific.