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When asked about their reactions on the ongoing impeachment proceedings versus CJ Corona, many poor Filipinos reply "Nakakain ba yan?"

"I am reminded of a quote attributed to Albert Einstein -- An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. It is not enough that the Aquino administration has fed the Filipino public the ongoing Corona impeachment case. It has to create more jobs and rescind its anti-people economic policies so as to allow the increasing number of hungry Filipinos to feed themselves," said GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus.  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan today said the recent SWS survey indicating increased hunger is evidence that the Aquino administration’s Conditional Cash Transfer program is a failure. “It is high time for the Aquino administration to rethink its Conditional Cash Transfer program and in its stead, implement a more sustainable poverty alleviation program that will address the growing hunger and poverty among Filipinos.”  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan today said Congress would do well to independently pursue its review of the Visiting Forces Agreement following news of President Aquino’s commitment to the United States government allowing increased US military presence in the country.  read more »

Now that the doctors have said that Gloria Arroyo is well enough to leave the hospital, Gabriela solon reiterated demands of the people to send the former President to a regular jail and resume the hearings on the electoral fraud case filed against her.  read more »

“It is an affront to the Filipino people that the Philippine government and US officials are wantonly violating the sanctity of our nation's sovereignty by agreeing to increase the presence of American troops in the Philippines," asserted Gabriela Women's Party representative Emmi De Jesus, reacting to confirmation by Defense Secretary Gazmin that the US and GPH are negotiating a deal on the expansion the US military presence in the Philippines in response to China’s growing assertiveness in the Asia Pacific.  read more »

“Why is the former President still in the hospital if she is well? If there is no more urgent and compelling life and death situation for the former President to stay at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center, then the courts should immediately decide on and facilitate her transfer to a regular detention facility.”  read more »

“It is the absence of action and political will in concretely addressing human rights violations that make the Aquino government just as accountable. Until such time that known human rights violators are arrested, cases are resolved and counter-insurgency operations are overturned, the Aquino government, just like its predecessor, will remain in the international human rights gallery of shame.”  read more »

“More than 75% of Filipino women live below poverty line. Each time the troika of big oil companies extort the public with an increase in the price of oil, it is the women whose backs are nearing the breaking point as they are already hard-pressed for their families’ survival,” said GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus.  read more »

“Once again, the US flapped its "eagle wings" and reminded the Philippines of its place as its ‘LITTLE brown brother,’ while Malacaňang, once again displayed its political mendicancy when President Aquino showed subservience over the dispute in the West Philippine Seas,” said GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus. This remark came on the aftermath of statements of US senators John McCain et. al, that US will "help" in bolstering the military firepower of its allies like the Philippines in relation to territorial disputes with China.  read more »

“Now is the time to make human rights violators, the corrupt and those who protect them accountable for their crimes against the people. Now is the time to make those who unjustly ruled against the poor and marginalized and turned their backs against their sworn duty to uphold the interests of the people accountable.”

Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luz Ilagan issued this statement today as the impeachment trial of Supreme Court chief Justice Renato Corona starts today.  read more »