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Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Group holds rally Wednesday
By Lizanilla J. Amarga
HUNDREDS of sectoral group members will be marching the city streets to call for more support on moves to impeach President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo anew and call for a snap election.
Black and White Movement Cagayan de Oro City lead convener Antonio Soriano said they will be holding a demonstration Wednesday.
The rally will be composed of several non-government organizations such as Kagawasan Mindanaw, Pilipina, Abansepinay, Group of Citizens Already Enraged with GMA and Women's Action Network for Development Northern Mindanao. Also, Jesus is Lord under Eddie Villanueva local chapter and even including some representatives from opposition barangays are in this city.
Soriano said the Black and White Movement has "moved into a phase of Stop Charter Change Impeach Gloria and Snap Elections."
He said their "Stop Cha-cha Campaign" has gained grounds by delaying the people's initiative.
"Still, our campaign will intensify until the main objective of stopping Arroyo's Cha-cha is achieved through massive information dissemination and generate public support through creative massive actions to expose the sinister motives of the administration by pushing through with Cha-cha," he said.
Soriano said it is "clear" that the people's initiative was initiated by Malacañang through its machinery and tentacles.
He cited the Department of Interior and Local Government through Commissioner Ronnie Puno, and the local government units in the "guise of barangay assemblies."
With Charter change, Soriano said, Arroyo can abolish the Senate "which is obviously against her, with the transition of the form of government from presidential to parliamentary."
He said without the Senate, Arroyo can do whatever she wants to do.
"Being the President, under her kind of Parliamentary form of government, the legislative body, the Interim Parliament is under her tutelage and the Prime Minister under her care until 2010," he said.
"If Cha-cha will push through we forget about the Hello, Garci controversies, the fertilizer scam, the jueteng payolas, the smuggling incidents, etc... We will also agree to foreigners owning properties in the Philippines," he said.
Soriano said at this point Filipinos will see themselves as "squatters of our own native land, the Philippines, by the year 2010."
He said multinational companies will denude the country's resources "to the last drop with the intensification of the Mining Act under the proposed Charter Change."
"And we will suffer all these because we did not pay heed to the calls at present to oust Arroyo and say 'no' to Cha-cha," he said.
Soriano said the people have the right to know what Cha-cha is all about and what its implications will be in the next six months.
"And definitely, we have the right to say NO to what we believe is anti-people and anti-Filipino," he said, adding that Charter change "is a recipe for a national disaster."
(July 5, 2006 issue)
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