Archive for September, 2005

THE Bukluran para sa Katotohanan reiterated this morning its call for the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, threatening mass actions and other constitutional means of resolving the crisis if Congress throws out the impeachment complaint. ...

FORMER Pres. Corazon Aquino will lead today's 11 a.m. press conference of the newly formed Bukluran para sa Katotohanan at the De La Salle Greenhills Board Room to announce its statement of unity, the full text of which you can read below: Statement of...

FILIPINO new media pioneer and social activist Roberto "Obet" Verzola has released an update to his study on the extent of cheating in the 2004 presidential elections. With new data obtained from the National Citizen's Movement for Free Elections...

THE way the ranks of endorsers of the amended impeachment complaint against Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo are gaining signatures one moment and then losing some the next in an uncanny dagdag-bawas fashion makes one wonder whether the invisible hand of a...

OUT of tonight's inter-faith prayer gathering called by the De La Salle Brothers at the school's Greenhills campus, a broad coalition of mass movements, political parties, civil society organizations and religious groups invariably clamoring for Pres....

September 1, 2005 · Posted in: Arroyo Impeachment, In the News

Uncivil society

THE “Hello, Garci” controversy and the impeachment process have exposed the seamy side of party-list politics and showed how supposed representatives of the marginal sectors of society may have been eaten up by what they themselves call...

THE lawyer in whose name the much-(mis)quoted Supreme Court doctrine in the debates during the impeachment hearings of the Committee on Justice has come to be known has again petitioned the Court to stop the House of Representatives from excluding the...