Archive for August, 2005

WITH the lion inside the cage already poisoned, even the mouse that is sent to face the gladiators will be strangled. So has Makati Rep. Teodoro Locsin Jr. foreshadowed on two occasions the inevitable conclusion to the impeachment proceeding at the...

SANS members from the pro-impeachment side who yesterday walked out of what they call a "sham" impeachment proceeding, the House justice committee voted 46-0, with one abstention, to declare the original Lozano impeachment complaint as being sufficient in...

REP. Edmund Reyes made a manifestation at the start of the House justice committee hearing this afternoon on behalf of the pro-impeachment congressmen who walked out of yesterday's hearing. The amended impeachment complaint endorsers did not participate...

BELOW is the statement of the Black & White Movement on the impeachment proceedings at the House of Representatives: The Black & White Movement condemns in the strongest possible terms the tyranny of the majority in thwarting the truth in the ongoing...

August 31, 2005 · Posted in: Governance

The country’s poor

WHEN it comes to quality of life, personal or national, the poorest segment of the country’s population feels no differently from the rest of the country. About the same proportion (73 percent) of the poorest or Class E say their families are worse...

August 31, 2005 · Posted in: Arroyo Impeachment, In the News

‘The puzzle fits’

BELOW is the statement of the Legal Team (Amended Impeachment Complaint) headed by U.P. College of Law Prof. H. Harry Roque Jr. on the recent revelation made by former social welfare secretary Dinky Soliman on the circumstances surrounding the impeachment...

August 30, 2005 · Posted in: Arroyo Impeachment, In the News

Lutong makaw

DISGUSTED over what they denounced as a "sham proceeding" being conducted at their expense, pro-impeachment congressmen walked out of today's hearing of the justice committee, saying they will no longer participate in the process. The walkout,...