By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Bulatlat.com It is becoming clearer by the day that the outcome of the political crisis swamping government and wracking the country today hinges on how it will finally be resolved. The events of July 8, have been the most earthshaking for the Arroyo regime since the explosive revelation of her wiretapped calls…
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Mrs. Arroyo: Step Down
By the Board of Women’s Work United Methodist Church Bulatlat.com At such a crucial time in our nation’s life, when President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s moral ascendancy and legitimacy is clouded with doubt and uncertainty, we, the United Methodist women of faith, share with the people the struggles against all that have diminished life, and likewise, share…
Women March!
By the WOMEN’s Movement for Arroyo’s Resignation and Regime Change Bulatlat.com We, women, who have gathered here today, call on Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to step down. Emerging from our homes, schools, workplaces and communities, we lend our voices to the thundering call for the immediate resignation of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Today, we forge our unity against a…
Personal Views and Commentaries on CBCP Statement
By Bishop Oscar Cruz Bulatlat.com CBCP does not demand the resignation of the President. It does not have the authority to do so. It does not claim the prerogative of so doing. It is presumptuous for the CBCP to impose or dictate upon the President to resign. BUT: CBCP says that the President may not…
The President Must Resign Now!
Statement of the University Council (UC) of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, Quezon City on the political crisis facing the Arroyo administration Bulatlat.com The pursuit of the truth and the quest for a democratic society are integral to the university’s mission in society. In the conduct of its work, the University of…
Writers for Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Resignation or Ouster
Posted by Bulatlat Bulatlat.com To: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo We are poets and other writers who fully agree with National Artist Napoleon Abueva’s recent declaration calling on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to resign from her post. Her fraudulent victory in the May 2004 election – together with her record of economic and political maladministration, subservience to…
‘Resignation is the best apology’ — U.P. Law
WITH a vote of 32-6, including six abstentions, the faculty of the College of Law of the University of the Philippines has decided to issue a collective statement on the issue of Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s taped conversations. The statement, officially released July 4, 2005, received “yes” votes from 16 of the College’s 23 full-time law…
A Statement on the Call for President Arroyo’s Resignation
Bulatlat.com The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) and its 13 million constituents along with thevast majority of the Filipino people call for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s resignation on the basis of the so-called “Gloria-gate” tapes. Truth and justice must reign. President Arroyo ended her silence by admitting that, indeed, she made the phone…
Peace and Opposition
BY THE CONCERNED ARTISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES Posted by Bulatlat Bulatlat.com “Peace” is an abstracted word in our society. Perhaps much of this is because “peace time” refers to that point in history when U.S. forces occupied our country. On the outside, the situation then seemed to be quiet (tahimik) as business went on as…
Unabated Murder of Journalists Could Lead to the President’s Ouster
Bulatlat.com The undersigned faculty members of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) strongly condemn the killing last July 3 of radio broadcaster Rolando Morales of DWMD Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) South Cotabato. Morales, 43, is the sixth journalist killed this year and the 69th since democracy was supposedly restored in…
Time to Go
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Bulatlat.com The name of the game these days is “Will she or won’t she get away with it?” She of course refers to the woman with the unique voice and manner of speaking, caught redhanded via a wiretapped phone conversation, trying to manipulate the results of the 2004 presidential elections through a…