Crossing party lines, 50 members of the House of Representatives found themselves agreeing on the issue of upholding freedom of the press amid the brewing speakership row that currently divides Congress.
House Resolution 431- “A Resolution Expressing the Sense of the House of Representatives that the Philippine Government should Uphold the Freedom of the Press, Speech [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 31, 2008
SOLONS CROSS PARTYLINES TO UPHOLD PRESS FREEDOM
January 30, 2008
GABRIELA SOLONS PUSH FOR LEGISLATION AS URBAN POOR WOMEN SIGN-UP, LOBBY FOR REMOVAL OF VAT ON OIL
Gabriela Women’s Party Representatives Liza Maza and Luz Ilagan met today with at least 200 women who trooped to the House of Representatives expressing their support for legislators’ moves to remove the 12% VAT on oil and petroleum products. The women, mostly from nearby Quezon City and San Mateo barangays signed a petition to help [...]
January 30, 2008
GABRIELA SLAMS AFP MOVES TO FURTHER MILITARIZE MINING COMMUNITIES
Gabriela Women’s Partylist Representative Luz Ilagan today slammed proposals hatched by AFP Chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon to train and provide militias to mining corporations in the country.
“Undoubtedly, this will lead to more human rights violations and displacement of tens of thousands in mining areas all over the country. This has been the experience of [...]
January 29, 2008
GABRIELA ON ENERGY SUMMIT: MAKE CONSUMERS PRIORITY, PUSH FOR RVAT REPEAL
As the energy summit opens today, Gabriela Women’s Party Representatives Liza Maza and Luz Ilagan renewed calls for the immediate removal of the 12% Value Added Tax on oil products to stave off the effect of rising oil prices on ordinary commuters and consumers.
“No less than the ordinary consumers should be the priority of [...]
January 28, 2008
Despite Human Rights Record, Corruption in AFP: MILITARY-DEPENDENT GMA EXTENDS ESPERON TERM
“The extension of AFP Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon’s term of office up to May of 2008, smacks of political payback. We are not at all surprised that Mrs. Arroyo will do what she can, including that of violating the law, to ensure that the last of the “Garci Generals” stay for as long as [...]
January 21, 2008
GWP REGIONAL CHAPTERS IN WEEK-LONG PEASANT LAKBAYAN
Gabriela Women’s Party regional chapters from Bicol and Southern Tagalog were among those who marched in the week-long peasant march for food, land and social justice.
The Lakbayan which started in Nasugbu, Batangas last January 16 arried in Metro Manila yesterday. Protesters held picket at the EDSA Shrine, to commemorate the EDSA II uprising that ousted [...]
January 8, 2008
ID SYSTEM PAVES THE WAY TOWARDS GMA’S POLICE STATE -MAZA
Women’s partylist group Gabriela today slammed proposals to implement a national ID system, dismissing the move of the Armed Forces of the Philippines as an attempt to steer the country towards a police state.
“A national ID system is a repressive mechanism for the creation of dossiers, the intrusion into private lives, violation into our freedom [...]
