PHILIPPINES: Remember Martial Law!
Laban ng Masa (Struggle of the Masses) | 25.09.2006 07:09 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World
The ‘people’s initiative’ is a thinly disguised attempt to keep her in power. It will come as no surprise if the Supreme Court (most of whose justices are her appointees) will reverse the permanent injunction it issued in 1997 on a people’s initiative to pave the way for charter change. GMA’s allies in the House of Representatives are doing their evil best to twist the arm of the Senate into setting up a constitutional assembly.
Her "war against terror" has engendered a spate of extra-judicial killings of political activists and journalists. Like Presidential Decree 1017 and the calibrated preventive response, this aims to curtail of the political freedoms of the people who have been clamoring for her ouster.
Like Marcos, GMA and her relatives and cronies are plundering the nation and driving the masses to the depth of poverty while making our economy subservient to foreign capital. The neo-liberal policies that GMA has sponsored in compliance to the impositions of the IMF and World Bank allows the transnational corporations unhampered liberty to exploit our labor and natural resources.
Laban ng Masa (Struggle of the Masses) will join thousands who will flock the streets to commemorate the anniversary of martial law on September 21. We reiterate our call for the ouster of GMA, an end to elite rule, and the establishment of a Transitional Revolutionary Government.
Thursday, 21 September 2006
http://www.labanngmasa.org/ Related article:
http://newsinfo.inq7.net/breakingnews/nation/view_article.php?article_id=22326 Related video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5mQArPV66o
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