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KPD Baguio - Benguet invites you to join the People's Protest Center Against Charter Change / Con Ass on June 10 (Wednesday) at the People's Park, Malcom Square, Baguio City. This is a whole day activity which will start at 8:00am up to 7:00 pm.
Let us unite in informing the people about the evils of charter change and the dirty scheme of the Arroyo government to stay in power. Aside from the intentions of GMA and the section of the ruling elite to stay in power, CHACHA will also surrender our sovereignty and patrimony to our neocolonial masters and to globalization!
Let us condemn in the strongest sense HB 1109 or Con Ass Bill! Join the People's Protest Center on June 10!
A statement by MAKABAYAN
June 4, 2009
With the Congress passage of HB 1109 that seek amendment of the Philippine Constitution by themselves via Constitutional assembly, with a clear motive express by the majority of congressmen which is to provide foreigners the right to exploit Philippine natural resources and privately own land in the Philippines and amass profit out of it. These are restricted under the 1987 Philippine Constitution provision which, because of the particular circumstances under which it was drafted, upheld national patrimony or the Filipino people’s sovereign right to control the nation’s natural resources. Though the 1987 Constitution is still in place, millions of Filipinos are increasingly losing whatever piece of the Philippines they have been clinging to. Filipino peasants are losing the land they till, as foreigners - American, Japanese, Chinese and Malaysians among others - take renewed interest in utilizing our land for their jatropha, sugarcane, coconut production for biofuels and other industrial uses; for expanded banana, pineapple and other fruit production for their canneries and markets. Communities are being demolished to give way to five-star hotels, luxurious condominiums and subdivisions, golf courses, and other resorts – haven and playground for the rich and powerful. Others are being relocated as they become endangered by operation of foreign mining corporations. All these at the instance of the government, in its collusion with foreign interests in circumventing the Constitution, in utter disregard for the people’s well-being.
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The long road to perdition starts with a Gloria-forever legislation.
GMA’s men may be giving each other pats on the back for a job well done- a buzzer-beating passage of House Speaker Prospero Nograles’ House Resolution No. 1109, calling for Congress to be convened as a Constituent Assembly in order to amend the 1986 Constitution, a feat that was attempted but proved unsuccessful as far back as the Ramos regime.
In interviews with media, majority Congressmen unabashedly said that the ‘gentleman’s agreement’ on a ban on term extensions for all elected officials included in HR 1109, is no guarantee that term limits will not be tampered with, once the Charter is opened up to amendments.
We know too well that more than the greed of the powerful elite, the move to change the charter is to do away with the nationalist provisions that are perceived as ‘barriers to trade and investment’ (read: total sell-out of the Filipino people and its economy).
The elite and landlord-dominated Congress has made a fool of the Filipino people, having ‘swined’ (‘binaboy’) national sovereignty and patrimony anew with this questionable piece of legislation.
We are not surprised Nograles and co. are challenging those who criticize the legality of a Senate-less vote with a day in court when the courts impartiality is encumbered by too many justices loyal to the administration.
No self-respecting Filipino citizen with love for country and consideration for the welfare of future generations should let this power-hungry Constituent Assembly of trapos have their way without a fight.
We enjoin the Filipino people to resist and raise their voices against this unacceptable state of affairs. If we do not, all we have to look forward to is a future full of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s rotten, corrupt and repressive regime. #####
Reference: Chester Amparo, secretary-general, KPD – 0922 8765851
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