21 Sept 2008 — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said casualties of the war in Mindanao are being ignored by the government with the delayed release of his 2007 and 2008 Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) allocation intended for military hospitals.

Answers Defensor-Santiago’s request for legal basis as a ‘courtesy’
18 Sept 2008 — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV answered recently Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s request for the legal basis of his allegation of illegality and impropriety against Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita.

03 Sept 2008 — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is questioning the mining investment by China’s ZTE International in Diwalwal in Monkayo, Compostela Valley with the Philippine government.

03 Sept 2008 — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV filed a resolution today initiating appropriate legislative action against Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita’s participation in a recent meeting on bills on the Philippines’ archipelagic baselines. Senators Trillanes, Edgardo Angara, Rodolfo Biazon, Juan Ponce Enrile, and Aquilino Pimentel have authored five separate ‘baselines’ bills.

05 August 2008 — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV filed P.S. Res. No. 546 yesterday to conduct an inquiry on the memorandum of agreement (MOA) on ancestral domain between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Detained senator Antonio Trillanes continues the campaign against government corruption in his redesigned website.

During the 122nd Session of the IPU’s Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians held last week in Geneva, Switzerland, the Committee heard the case filed by Senators Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and Ana Consuelo “Jamby” Madrigal last year in behalf of Senator Trillanes.

Inside a jail cell, you are not witness to the state of the country with your own eyes: the rising cost of living in unequal proportion with a failing economic order. You are unable to hear the sentiments of our people first-hand: pervasive cries for justice and accountability against perpetrators of political violence and corruption. You appear insulated from what others endure outside these walls: the disillusionment of a people in the government that blatantly betrays its own obligation to serve them.