MEDIA ARRESTS AND CURFEWS: REGIME WITH PENCHANT FOR DICTATORIAL POWERS SENDS OUT CHILLING EFFECT

“Yesterday, the Arroyo regime lost no time in implementing measures worse than what was imposed during Marcos’ Martial Law, with the clear intent of sending out a chilling message to the public. There is no telling what it could do next.”
This was the statement issued today by Gabriela Women’s Partylist Representative Liza Largoza Maza following [...]

ALSTON REPORT AFFIRMS EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS IS POLICY; GLORIA ARROYO, COMMANDER IN CHIEF IS ACCOUNTABLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS -MAZA

“The United Nation’s report has squarely put responsibility on the Arroyo regime for its continued failure to put an end into the extrajudicial killings in the country. Alston has affirmed what we have been saying all along. No less than Mrs. Arroyo, commander in chief of the Armed Forces [...]

GABRIELA SEEKS PROBE ON P14.1B C-5 NORTH EXTENSION PROJECT; DISPLACEMENT OF 40,000 FAMILIES LOOM

Gabriela Women’s Partylist Representative Liza Largoza Maza today led the filing of a resolution seeking to look into P14.1B C5 North Extension project that is expected to demolish the homes of over 40,000 families in 10 barangays in Quezon City, including those in the University of the Philippines, in Diliman.
 
 
According to Rep. Maza, “An initial [...]

SAVE MARILOU RANARIO

Gabriela Women’s Partylist Representative Liza Maza today joined militant group Migrante as they reiterated calls for the release of Filipina domestic helper Marilou Ranario who had been sentenced to death in Kuwait. The final decision of the Kuwaiti Court of Cassation on the fate of Ranario will be released today, November 27.“We also call on [...]

MANIFESTATION ON THE COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE REPORT ON THE PULIDO IMPEACHMENT CASE vs. PGMA

The House of Representatives today deliberated on the report filed by the Committee on Justice on the  impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Being a sham complaint designed to immune Mrs. Arroyo for a year, members of the minority opted to disengage from the proceedings.
The following is the manifestation delivered by Rep. Liza Maza [...]

JOINT STATEMENT: Militant Solons Criticize GMA for Leaving People Defenseless Against Oil price Hikes; Push for the Passage of 3 House Bills

We militant legislators of Anakpawis, Bayan Muna and Gabriela Women’s Party criticize the Arroyo administration for rendering the Filipino people defenseless against the continued oil price increases. The oil price shocks happening worldwide are pushing more and more Filipinos into abject poverty. 
 
The Arroyo regime only puts up a show of blaming monopoly oil companies [...]

Women in Cordillera insist Batasan bombing is a diversionary tactic

BAGUIO CITY (Nov. 15) — While condemning the Batasan bombing Tuesday night, a Cordilleran sought an urgent and impartial investigation saying the blast might be a tactic to divert public attention from issues involving the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) administration.
Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) Flora Baniaga-Belinan, 3rd nominee in the last party list elections, said the bombing [...]

$1B OF MEMBERS’ FUNDS FOR GLOBAL INVESTMENT; GABRIELA SEEKS PROBE INTO GSIS INVESTMENT PROGRAM

The women’s partylist group GABRIELA today sought an investigation into moves of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) to invest $1B of its pension funds into a global investment program that will entrust the handling and management of the pension funds to private international fund managers.

In a resolution filed by GABRIELA Representatives Liza Maza and [...]

PNP HAD CASE SOLVED BEFORE IT EVEN STARTED

The women’s partylist group that sustained a fatality and three casualties in Tuesday’s bombing of the Batasan complex said they were not at all convinced at the PNP’s findings on the Batasan blast following the raid in Payatas, Quezon City.
“From day one of the investigation, it was clear that they already had a working theory [...]

PNP SHOULD CONSIDER ALL ANGLES ON CONGRESS BLAST

We at Gabriela Women’s Party criticize the Philippine National Police for virtually ruling out other angles by drawing conclusions according to their working theory that Rep. Wahab Akbar is the target of the blast, discounting other possibilities including that of Gabriela Women’s Party being a target of the November 13 Congress bombing.  
Two days after the [...]