GMA, De Castro et al dapat maunang magbitiw

July 08, 2005

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Resign all iginiit; GMA, De Castro et al dapat maunang magbitiw

Matapos unahan ng nagpapanik na si Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ang deklarasyon ng pagbibitiw ng mga miyembro ng kanyang gabinete, binigyang buhay muli ng Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) ang panawagang mag-resign lahat ng opisyales ng gubyerno lalu na ang pekeng pangulo kasama sina De Castro at Drilon.

Ayon kay Gerry Rivera, Vice-Chariman ng PM at presidente ng Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA), kung sinsensero at hindi gimmick ang pagsibak ni Gloria sa gabinete, dapat daw ay sya ang nanguna sa pagbibitiw.

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Bilang puno’t dulo ng problema, si Gloria dapat ay mag-set ng magandang ehemplo sa pamamagitan ng pangunguna sa pagbibitiw kasama ang buong gabinete,” dag-dag pa ni Rivera.

Mas mabuti pa daw ang miyembro ng gabinete na duminig sa panawagang resign all, samantalang si Gloria na numero unong gustong paalisin ng mamamayan ay nagpapakaipokrita at tengang kawali.

Nagpahayag din si Rivera na tutol sya sa mga panukala ni Gloria tulad ng Federalism at two-party system spagkat di ito ang magreresolba ng mga problema ng mamamayang Pilipino sa kasalukuyan, samantalang hindi naman daw interesado ang mga civil societies na maging miyembro ng gabinete hanggat nananatili sa pwesto si Arroyo.

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Matagal na naming iginigiit na bulok ang sistemang pampulitika at pang-ekonomiya ng bansa. Pero hindi solusyon sa problema ang mga proposal ni Arroyo. An tanging sagot ay ang kanyang pagbaba sa pwesto kasama ang iba pang trapo at ang pagbabago sa buong sistema,” pagbabanggit ni Rivera.

Samantala, binanggit ni Rivera na ang paglulunsad ng tutoong reporma ang sagot sa black propaganda ni Gloria na magiging banana republic ang bansa sakaling magkaroon ng panibagong people power.

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Ang kailangan ng tao ay isang bagung people power na kaiba sa Edsa 1 and 2, people power na magtataguyod ng trasitional revolutionary government na tunay na kakalinga sa interes ng mamamayan,” pagpapatuloy ni Rivera.###

Ong: Again resign all

Saturday, September 10, 2005
Ong: Again resign all
By Ted Aldwin Ong, SunStar Iloilo

IN TRUTH, I have mixed feelings in the death of impeachment. Fact is, I do not want President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo impeached instead I want her ousted," declared by party-list representative Rene Magtubo of the Partido ng Manggagawa.

Furthermore, Ka Rene explained, "I do not want her replaced by Noli de Castro, as the opposition has promised once GMA is impeached. I want the government replaced by a transitional revolutionary set-up as the first step in launching reforms."

Ka Rene signed the impeachment complaint and voted no to the report of the justice committee not because he believed in the impeachment but as a protest against the majority's railroading of the process. The aborted impeachment proceeding is the best proof that Congress cannot be a vehicle for change and is in itself an object of reform.

System change not just regime change is the demand of the people. In fact, this has been a consistent rallying call of the Filipino masses - "Resign All" and not just "Gloria Resign". I believe together with millions of Filipinos that change will remain elusive as long as the trapos and the elite remain in power.

Now that the constitutional resolution of the political crisis has been closed, the extra-constitutional road beckons for all who want GMA removed from power. Now that the parliament of the traditional politicians has killed the search for truth, the parliament of the streets will carry on the torch in the fight. And the parliament of streets will not just continue but raise the struggle.

More than ever, the cry for People Power for Resign All and the establishment of a transitional revolutionary government rings loud and clear. I join with the rest of the my fellow Filipinos in the call to sustain to sustain and advance the fight not just for truth but also for change through a new type of people power, one that will not be hijacked by another faction of the elite but instead usher in real reforms in society.

The thoughts of the Filipino workers under Partido ng Manggagawa on the maneuverings of the Arroyo administration just to save the regime of the elite are echoed by many all over the country. What happened in Congress is disgusting. Ka Rene best captures the perception of the people on our Congress when he said in Tagalog, "Sa persepsyon ng masa, ang Kongresong ito ay "kural ng mga baboy", pugad ng mga pating, balyena at ng mga buwaya."

The regime's killing of impeachment and resurrection of expanded value-added tax will be a potent mix to break the political impasse, end the people's inertia and inspire them to action.
Former UP President Dodong Nemenzo who chairs Laban ng Masa believes that the failure of the impeachment process is a testament to the trapo politics that has ruled our institutions of governance in the country. What more can best describe what is happening to our institutions today?

Laban ng Masa declared that: "It is in the streets where the real battle against Arroyo and elitist rule could be won by asserting the people's will. The people's supremacy rests in the parliament of the streets when the state has failed and is proven bankrupt and rotten. Let us transform our indignation against the mockery of truth and justice by launching people's direct action."

Ms Gloria Arroyo may have succeeded in closing the constitutional avenue of impeachment to ensure her hold on the presidency. But as she desperately attempts to bar all constitutional means by which the people could resolve the current political crisis, she is at the time fuelling other legitimate extra-constitutional alternatives of the people to force her out of power.

She must remember that she is not yet out of her survival crisis and will never be able to overcome it unless truth and justice prevail - either she steps down or get ousted by people's direct actions.

Again, resign all is my consistent call and so are the rest of the Filipino people who believes that this elite democracy must go now.

For comments, email them to peoplesdomain@yahoo.com

(September 10, 2005 issue)

‘Resign All’ sounded anew

‘Resign All’ sounded anew

Inquirer Letter-to-the-Editor section
First Posted 10:21pm (Mla time) 11/20/2007

We were not shocked. We knew from the very beginning that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo would pardon former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada after his conviction for plunder. That pardon clearly showed the people that the two belong to the same ilk.

We ask: Can President Arroyo pardon political prisoners like Juanito Itaas and Orlando Bundalian who have been in prison much longer than Estrada was? Itaas and Bundalian have been languishing in jail, unlike Estrada who was happily “imprisoned” in a mansion.

Yes, Estrada and Ms Arroyo are “birds of the same feather.” Estrada sided with tycoon Lucio Tan against the workers of Philippine Airlines. He even reprimanded the workers, by asking them the question: “Nakakain ba ang CBA?” [“Can you eat a CBA?”] Estrada is pro-rich and his slogan “Erap para sa mahirap” [“Estrada for the poor”] is just a slogan.

Ms Arroyo, on the other hand, masterminded in putting our country under the clutches of globalization, the scheme of the capitalist class to prolong a dying system. Today, many workers are out of work. Regular workers are forced to resign and are replaced by contractual workers. A growing number of the urban poor are losing their homes in the name of progress whose measure is primarily infrastructure development, instead of human development.

In the run-up to EDSA People Power II, we didn’t join the Estrada Resign Movement. The Kongreso ng Pagkakaisa ng mga Maralita ng Lunsod (KPML -- Urban Poor Congress of Unity), together with bigger groups such as Sanlakas and Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP -- Union of Filipino Workers), built our own alliance calling for “Resign All” because we believed that Estrada and Ms Arroyo were the same. One of our posters said, “Patalsikin ang buwaya, papalit ang buwitre” [“Oust the crocodile, the vulture will take its place”].

We did not campaign for Estrada’s ouster just to put Ms Arroyo in Malacañang. That’s why immediately after EDSA II, we declared that “Estrada’s ouster is the people’s will but Gloria is not the people’s choice!”

There were also groups in the Estrada Resign Movement which had as their battle cry “Paglingkuran ang Masa.” But when the “masa,” the urban poor, stormed Malacañang during EDSA III, these groups stood against the “masa” [masses] in defense of Ms Arroyo.

Our call for “Resign All” has been proven right. Birds of the same feather. Ms Arroyo and Estrada are both bourgeois. They are not proletarians. Will we oust Ms Arroyo just to replace her with Noli de Castro? Will we oust a bourgeois to be replaced by another bourgeois? No way! Again we are issuing the call for “Resign All.” The workers and the urban poor demand: “Change the system!”

KA PEDRING FADRIGON, national president, Kongreso ng Pagkakaisa ng mga Maralita ng Lunsod, Block 31, Lot 82-83, Maya-Maya St., Phase 2, Area 2, Barangay NBBS, Dagat-Dagatan, Navotas, Metro Manila

No to Gloria, No to Noli

RESIGN ALL!

Nuong kasagsagan ng impeachment laban kay dating Pangulong Erap Estrada, maraming grupo ang nanawagan ng Erap Resign (2000-2001) ngunit nagpakita ng kaibang linya rito ang Sanlakas, Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP), Kongreso ng Pagkakaisa ng mga Maralita ng Lunsod (KPML), Zone One Tondo Organization (ZOTO), at marami pang iba, at ito ang "Resign All!".

Ilang araw matapos bumagsak si Erap, agad na naglabas ang mga grupong kasapi sa kampanyang Resign All ng paninindigan / slogan: "Erap's ouster is the people's will, but Gloria is not the people's choice!"

Ilang araw pagkatapos nito, napaslang naman ang utak ng Resign All, si Ka Popoy Lagman, na siyang tagapangulo ng BMP bago siya mapaslang.

Ngayong kampanya laban sa pamumuno ng pekeng pangulong Gloria Arroyo, muling nananawagan ng Resign All ang Sanlakas, BMP, KPML, ZOTO, at mga kasapi't kaalyado nila dahil hindi sila payag na isang Noli lamang ang ipapalit!

Pagkat hindi naman relyebo ito ng panguluhan, kundi dapat matiyak ang pagbabago ng sistema.

Kaya kaakibat ng panawagang "Resign All" ang panawagang "Baguhin ang Sistema!"