Dear Friends,
Towards a more substantive electoral exercise, this is urging for voters to make their choices based on a sampling of issues that are crucial to governance.
1. Supports Ecological Protection
This is crucial in view of government’s promotion of mining, a logger-friendly DENR and Malacanang’s untransparency regarding, for instance, JPEPA.
2. Against Domestic Violence
Discrimination against women, children, the handicapped, the elderly, lesbians and gays and ethnic groups are often rooted and institutionalized in households.
3. Supports Extension of CARP
The implementation of CARP is incomplete and inconsistent. Rural development largely depends on land classification, distribution and farm-to-trade facilities.
4. Advocates Workers’ Rights and Welfare
Rights of workers, who comprise the bulk of our economic and human resources are both essential to the dignity of labor and a fundamental human right.
5. Against R-VAT, E-VAT
Flat and linear taxation results in manufacturers and traders simply passing on the tax burden to consumers, making things tougher for common wage earners.
6. Against Automatic Servicing of Debt
It is both illegal and immoral that 1/3 of our national budget is spent on paying mostly behest and onerous loans while 1/3 of Filipinos starve.
7. Against the Visiting Forces Agreement
The VFA violates the Philippine Constitution, unilaterally promotes foreign interests and compromises the self-determination and self-respect of Filipinos.
8. Against Political Repression
This is particularly urgent in a regime that washes its hands over summary killings and shows no real regard for the sanctity of life and civil liberties.
9. Favors Impeachment
Congress betrayed public trust when it suppressed evidence and went against overwhelming public clamor thus making a mockery of representative democracy
10. Against Turncoatism and Nepotism
Instead of developing a coherent social vision and an ideologically consistent platform, turncoatism and nepotism breed political patrons and mendicants.
The real point here is to employ a coherent yardstick in choosing candidates, as opposed to personality, patronage and partisan politics. Yours in Christ and for our nation's sake.
Towards a more substantive electoral exercise, this is urging for voters to make their choices based on a sampling of issues that are crucial to governance.
1. Supports Ecological Protection
This is crucial in view of government’s promotion of mining, a logger-friendly DENR and Malacanang’s untransparency regarding, for instance, JPEPA.
2. Against Domestic Violence
Discrimination against women, children, the handicapped, the elderly, lesbians and gays and ethnic groups are often rooted and institutionalized in households.
3. Supports Extension of CARP
The implementation of CARP is incomplete and inconsistent. Rural development largely depends on land classification, distribution and farm-to-trade facilities.
4. Advocates Workers’ Rights and Welfare
Rights of workers, who comprise the bulk of our economic and human resources are both essential to the dignity of labor and a fundamental human right.
5. Against R-VAT, E-VAT
Flat and linear taxation results in manufacturers and traders simply passing on the tax burden to consumers, making things tougher for common wage earners.
6. Against Automatic Servicing of Debt
It is both illegal and immoral that 1/3 of our national budget is spent on paying mostly behest and onerous loans while 1/3 of Filipinos starve.
7. Against the Visiting Forces Agreement
The VFA violates the Philippine Constitution, unilaterally promotes foreign interests and compromises the self-determination and self-respect of Filipinos.
8. Against Political Repression
This is particularly urgent in a regime that washes its hands over summary killings and shows no real regard for the sanctity of life and civil liberties.
9. Favors Impeachment
Congress betrayed public trust when it suppressed evidence and went against overwhelming public clamor thus making a mockery of representative democracy
10. Against Turncoatism and Nepotism
Instead of developing a coherent social vision and an ideologically consistent platform, turncoatism and nepotism breed political patrons and mendicants.
The real point here is to employ a coherent yardstick in choosing candidates, as opposed to personality, patronage and partisan politics. Yours in Christ and for our nation's sake.