charter change

Environmentalists to Nograles: stop fooling the people, Charter Change is anti-Filipino and anti-environment

DAVAO CITY -- Panalipdan-Southern Mindanao, a broad alliance of environmentalists and peoples' organizations, criticized House Speaker Prospero Nograles for pushing for charter change which seeks to allow 100 percent foreign…

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Opposition against Charter change kicks off in Davao

NO TO CHA-CHA. Gabriela Representative Luz Ilagan crosses the images of President Gloria Arroyo, House Speaker Prospero Nograles and the names of the 174 congressmen who supported the Cha-cha. Joining her are Davao City councilors Pilar Braga, Danny Dayanghirang and Angela Librado and members of progressive and religious groups.(davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

DAVAO CITY? Groups opposed to Charter change urged the people of Davao to join the series of protests to express their outrage against the moves of Congress to change the Constitution. ?No one wants to talk about charter change at this time of hunger and landlessness,? said Representative Luzviminda Ilagan of the Gabriela Women?s Partylist, one of the convenors of People?s March. Ilagan said the passage of House Resolution 1109 is intended only for the political survival of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Read on.

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Filipinos Reject Economic Revisions To Charter; Believe Term Extension Real Motive Behind Cha-cha

Written by IBON Media Majority of Filipinos do not favor amendments to the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution and believe that Charter change (Cha-cha) seeks to extend the President?s…

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