Progressive solons to boycott Gloria’s SONA; call on House colleagues to join suit

The eight-member progressive partylist bloc will boycott the ninth State of the Nation Address (SONA) of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and encourages fellow House members to join the majority of the people who disapproved her almost 9-year misrule and her devious intentions to stay in power beyond June 2010.

Arroyo, her family and her minions are maneuvering to use any option to change the 1987 Constitution via House Resolution (HR) 1109 wherein they plan to convene the House of Representatives minus the Senate as a Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) after Gloria’s 9th SONA on July 27, 2009.

As in all her eight previous SONAs, Gloria tries to foster the illusion that the Philippines is on the verge of becoming an industrialized country, with hallucinations of faster economic growth through ambitious, unrealistic "growth area" development plans, and worse, projects that offer huge chunks of our national territory for exploitation by foreign investors via charter change.

We call on all House members with a conscience to side with the people and withdraw their signatures to HR 1109 and all other measures that aim to amend or revise the Constitution according to the designs of Arroyo. These include Speaker Nograles’ HR 737 that will amend the economic provisions of the Constitution to allow foreigners to own land and further plunder our natural resources.

The men and women of the 14th Congress should finally heed the people’s call to withdraw their support for the most unpopular president who has done the country so much ruin in all her years in power through plunder, high-end graft and corruption, widespread election fraud, high prices of oil and consumer goods, extrajudicial killings, torture and other widespread human rights violations.

Let us all boycott Gloria Arroyo’s pa-Siyam: her last SONA!

Rep. Satur Ocampo
Rep. Liza Maza
Rep. Teddy Casiño
Rep. Rafael Mariano
Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan
Rep. Neri Javier Colmenares
Rep. Joel Maglunsod
Rep. Raymond Palatino

news release from www.bayanmuna.net