Today, we call for an end to this government that came into power through cheating and remained in power by silencing its critics — 180 forced disappearances and 474 political killings in the last three years alone. No more of a government that sells off the country’s minerals, forests and lands in exchange for largesse and bribes from large businesses and corporations –at the costs of the welfare and survival of local communities, our environment and posterity . We say no more to a government that lords over the people and wields its power ruthlessly like the organized criminal system of the mafia.
Today, let us show to the world once more that the Filipino people will not have anything to do with GMA and what she representselite rule, patronage politics and greed. At the same time, we serve notice that we will no longer allow our future to be hijacked and placed in the hands of different factions of the same elite and their brand of patronage rule that is governed more by narrow-self-serving interests and agenda at the expense of the people’s interests and welfare.
We invoke the spirit of People’s Power and draw lessons from our collective resistance and history: that only a united and determined people can make history; and that in our own hands lie our own liberation and deliverance as a nation.
Together, let us chart our own destiny towards national freedom, social justice, democracy , development , durable peace and security.
Today, let us once again, make our history as a people. Today, let us once again make our nation proud .
From the Women and Men of Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan/Friends of the Earth-Philippines (LRC-KsK/FoE-Philippines)
