GABRIELA solons De Jesus and Ilagan strongly condemned today attempts by the NHA to demolish the Diosdado Macapagal tenement in Vitas, Tondo and render its residents homeless at 10am and again at 1pm on June 14, 2011. This, despite ongoing negotiations sought by residents of the tenement with NHA to arrive at an agreement where they will be assured of returning back to the housing units once the tenement is rebuilt.
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[1] “SECTION 3. Guiding Principles, (l): The limited resources of the country cannot be suffered to be spread so thinly to service a burgeoning multitude making allocations grossly inadequate and effectively meaningless”
CAN BE REPHRASED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:
The resources of the country must be made to serve the entire population, especially the poor, and make allocations adequate and effective.
MANILA, Philippines—The so-called progressive bloc in the House of Representatives is calling for an inquiry into the alleged complicity of lawyers and doctors in former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s attempt to hide her true medical condition.
“We are now set to file a House resolution on Monday calling for an investigation of GMA’s lawyers and doctors.
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Kasabay ng pagpapahintulot kahapon ng korte na ilagay sa ‘temporary hospital arrest’ ang akusadong si dating Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, iginiit kahapon ni Senate President Pro-Tempore Jinggoy Estrada na ipalipat sa Philippine Orthopedic Center sa Quezon City ang huli.
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“The Aquino government is wasting billions on a formula that is bound to fail. The CCT is counter-productive and unsustainable. It promotes a culture of mendicancy without any potential of creating jobs or industries, or giving the poor education or health.”
This was according to Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan following announcements that the Aquino government is slated to spend P70B more for the CCT program until 2015.
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MANILA, Philippines - Binanatan ni Gabriela Partylist Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan ang pakay ng mga kasamahang kongresista sa pagsusulong ng Charter Change o Cha-Cha.
Sa pag-usad ng panukala sa House Committee on Constitutional Amendments sa pamumuno ng chairman nito na si Misamis Occ. Rep. Loreto Ocampos, inilatag muna nito ang pitong ‘economic amendments’ na nakasaad sa bagong mukha ng ng cha-cha, na tumatarget sa foreign direct investors.
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Ito ang tanong ni Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan, na nagbabala laban sa umano’y posibleng “stealth tactics” ng gobyernong Aquino sa pagtutulak sa Cha-Cha.
Nakatakdang talakayin ng Committee on Constitutional Amendments ang House Concurrent Resolution 10, na nananawagan sa Kongreso na i-convene ang sarili bilang Constituent Assembly para matalakay ang panukalang mga pagbabago sa pang-ekonomiyang mga probisyon ng 1987 Konstitusyon.
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“Giving multinationals and foreign investors free rein to own and
operate key industries is economic suicide. It is tantamount to a
total sell out of our economy.
Removing nationalist economic
provisions in the 1987 Constitution will result to the unhampered
plunder of resources and the unregulated extraction and repatriation
of profits.”
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Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan today voiced the
calls of indigenous women to abandon moves to amend Constitutional
provisions that protect our national patrimony as she joined the
commemoration of Indigenous People’s Week.
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THE House committee on constitutional amendments will begin marathon hearings Tuesday on six proposed economic provisions to pave the way for amendments to the Constitution “by way of legislation,” Misamis Occidental Rep. Loreto Leo Ocampos said Sunday.
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