“Our wage is like before and yet everything is being taxed so that they [government officials] would have money to turn into pork for their taking.”
Signatories from all walks of life join People’s Initiative vs Pork in Metro Manila
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Health groups vow to make Aquino accountable, push People’s Initiative vs Pork
“We, the health workers from different hospitals are one with the call of the Rx Abolish Pork Barrel System Movement to take the fight to the streets, schools, churches.” – Sean Velchez, president of the National Orthopedic Hospital Workers Union-AHW (NOHWU-AHW)
People’s initiative: Challenges and responses
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Definitively, the nationwide sign-up campaign for a trailblazing people’s initiative bill to abolish the pork barrel system and, through its penal provisions, to “exact accountability for the plunder of the people’s money” will go full-blast starting September. It aims to collect, within a year,…
Abolish the pork barrel via people’s initiative
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The controversies that have arisen from the Supreme Court’s consecutive rulings on the unconstitutionality of the PDAF (Priority Development Assistance Fund of legislators) and the DAP (Disbursement Acceleration Program of P-Noy) continue to sizzle. The government has sought to have the rulings reversed by…
People’s Initiative opens new road to abolishing pork
“At the end of the day, the success of the battle against pork relies on the strong resolve of the people.” – Sarah Elago, Youth Act Now
People’s Initiative vs pork barrel, political dynasty gets support of CBCP
“In order to put a final lid on the pork barrel system, specifically in the legislative and executive branches of government, we support the proposal from anti-pork barrel groups in the whole country that the sovereign people use the 1987 Philippine Constitution provision on the passage of a law through the people’s initiative.” – Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma
People’s initiative ‘difficult but possible’ — progressive groups
“It is now up to the people to abolish the pork barrel system through this means.” – Renato Reyes, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan
People’s initiative versus ‘pork’
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Former Chief Justice Renato Puno’s proposal to the Filipinos who participated in the Aug. 26 Million People March to use “people’s initiative” — the Constitutional provision by which the people can enact a law without the participation or intervention of Congress or the President — in order to bring…
Charter Amendments Aim to Save Troubled Presidency – UP Law Professor
A professor at the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law said that the proposed charter amendments are aimed at saving President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from the current “crisis of leadership.” BY JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com A professor at the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law said that the proposed charter amendments are…