Activists of the women's group Gabriela gagged their mouths to symbolize the Aquino administration's policies that sell out women's rights with the proposed Access Agreement to allow the return of US bases in the country.(davaotoday.com photo by Ace Morandante)
By ACE R. MORANDANTE
Davao Today
“The Aquino administration only puts at risk the lives of the people because the US government only wants to position their troops in our country with the objective of waging war against China and North Korea.” -- Sheena Duazo, spokesperson for Bayan in Southern Mindanao
“Access arrangement” with foreign troops is contrary to national sovereignty, national interest and the Constitution. This was how members of the militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan viewed the plan of the…
By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy (PSPA) Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) May 29, 2009 The presence of heavily armed U.S. soldiers even in the remote areas…
QUEZON CITY -- Assistant minority leader and Gabriela Women's Party representative Liza Maza expressed alarm that US troops entering the Philippines would again use the US-RP Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA)…