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Freedom mural defiled

Published by Ellen on November 4, 2007

This is outrageous!

Mabasa said he doesn’t want the press to be “politicized”. But what he did, bowing to the will of Gloria Arroyo’s paetorian guards, was political. A despicable kind of politics.

Media must be politically sensitive and responsive. Media should be an agent of liberation, not for idiotization.

by TJ Burgonio
Inquirer

A group of artists is outraged at the “bastardization” of its mural on press freedom at the National Press Club, and is accusing the NPC of “censorship.”

“Isn’t it ironic that an institution such as the NPC would cause the censorship of a work that they themselves commissioned purportedly to promote press freedom?” the Neo-Angono Artists Collective rued in a statement posted on its website.

Signature campaign for snap elections

Published by Ellen on November 1, 2007

Are you sick and tired of the lies and corruption of Gloria Arroyo? Then log on to http://www.petitiononline.com/snap08 and sign the petition for the immediate…

Is this part of the deal?

Published by Ellen on October 30, 2007

Erap men lead Palace list for Comelec posts. But there’s a subplot: Ermita suspected to sending list to Comelec

From Malaya online:

by Gerard Naval

A spokesman and a lawyer of former President Joseph Estrada in his plunder case head the list of Malacañang’s choices to replace former Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos and Commissioner Mehol Sadain, acting Comelec chair Resurreccion Borra yesterday said.

They are Rep. Rufus Rodriguez (Cagayan de Oro) and Rene Saguisag, a former senator.

Arroyo pardons Estrada

Published by Ellen on October 25, 2007

From Inquirer Online:

by By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez

Convicted president Joseph Estrada is a free man.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo granted pardon to the 70-year-old deposed leader following a recommendation by the Department of Justice (DoJ), Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said in a press conference on national television.

“Bakit hindi mo tinanggap”

Published by Ellen on October 25, 2007

Inquire Online:

by Erwin Oliva

President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo had allegedly asked former socioeconomic planning secretary Romulo Neri why he did not accept the P200-million bribe offer for a favorable endorsement of the national broadband network project, the son of Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. disclosed to the Senate.

Jose De Venecia III, who testified anew on Wednesday at the resumption of the Senate investigation on the NBN project, said this was what Neri had revealed to him.

“Let me prove my accusation in a Senate probe”—Trillanes

Published by Ellen on October 24, 2007

Insisting that he knows certain information that would point to National Security adviser Norberto Gonzales and AFP chief of staff Hermogenes Esperon as possible authors of the Glorietta 2 blast, and brushing aside criticisms of his accusation as being irresponsible and without basis, opposition senator Antonio F. Trillanes IV today said he will prove his accusations in a Senate investigation.

He filed today a resolution calling for such a probe.

The resolution, P. S. No. 174, recalled only the incident of October 19, when a powerful explosion ripped through three floors of the Glorietta 2 shopping complex resulting to the death of 11 people and injury to scores of other mall goers.

Bishop: Where’s people’s outrage?

Published by Ellen on October 18, 2007

Bacani: ‘Binabastos na ang bayan’

by Gerard Naval
Malaya

Novaliches Bishop emeritus Teodoro Bacani yesterday stopped short of calling for a people power revolt as he urged the people to express their outrage over what he described as the “misgovernance” of the Arroyo administration.

The bishop, in a radio interview, said the public should help the media and the nation in showing their disgust over the “shameless” acts of the administration.

Protest caravan

Published by Ellen on October 18, 2007

There were 25 cars that joined the mobile rally this afternoon. It started at the UCC coffee shop in Fort Bonifacio. It passed through Marines headquarters in Fort Bonifacio. Officers and soldiers looked interested.

When it stopped in front of LTA (Mike Arroyo’s) building on Perea st., the guards scrambled to secure the building. It was fun.

Bishop slams Gloria’s moral bankruptcy

Published by Ellen on October 16, 2007

by Gerard Naval
Malaya

The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines yesterday backed a Senate investigation on the Palace “payoffs” as contained in Resolution 172 filed by Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Monday.

Here’s the full statement:

MANILA, October 16, 2007—The Catholic bishops’ leadership has backed calls for an official investigation into allegations of bribery by the Malacañang.

Continue readingBishop slams Gloria’s moral bankruptcy

Arroyo revives Charter change call

Published by Ellen on October 15, 2007

From ABS-CBN online:

President Arroyo on Monday revived plans to change the 1987 Constitution including a proposal to shift to a federal form of government by 2012.

In a speech at the regional workshop on the Establishment of National Human Rights Institutions, the President said she is forming a group that would draft a roadmap to federalism by 2012.

The group will include various government executives including the justice and interior and local government secretaries, the Presidential Management Staff, officials of the National Economic Development Authority, local government executives, congressional allies and opposition leaders who support the move to federalism.

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