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Unhappy with Gloria

Several Pinoys affiliated with the Lingap Migrante organisation staged a picket outside the Philippine Consulate in Sydney on July 27, the day President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivered her supposedly last State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA) in Metro Manila. The group denounced Arroyo’s SONA as a farce and accused the president of orchestrating moves to enable her to hold power beyond the end of her term in 2010. “This is our way of expressing our disgust and frustration - we are a country still under slavery from poverty and corrupton,” said Andres Maghakot, whose hands were bound by huge chains to dramatise the protest.

The Lingap Migrante specifically denounced moves to amend the constitution through the Cha-Cha (Charter Change) initiative being pushed by Arroyo’s allies in the Lower House. The group criticised Arroyo’s job export policy and what they claimed was growing corruption during her administration. They also criticised the lack of effort to fight poverty in the Philippines. “The real state of the nation is that the Philippine national debt has soared higher than ever; there is a record 15.6 million Filpinos unemployed, while a whopping one million Filipinos leave the country each year to work abroad,” said Jane of Lingap Migrante, reading a statement from Bayan (Canada). The group handed to passersby leaflets outlining the stance of Migrante. Lingap Migrante, based in Western Sydney, was one of dozens of Filipino organisations outside the Philippines which staged protests during SONA day.“Arroyo should end her term in 2010. It has been eight years since the time the people were fed up with corruption, but little did the people know that this would only replaced by GMA and what we saw is just nothing but more corruption, scandal after scandal,” said Edwin Subijano, LM president.

The July 27 SONA was supposedly Arroyo’s last address at the joint session of the upper and lower house of the Philippine Congress.Her address drew mixed reactions. Some sectors raised concern however that Arroyo did not categorically say that she would step down in 2010.The protest was attended by about a dozen Lingap Migrante members and supporters. Several other Filipino nationals who passed by to transact business at the consulate however joined the picket briefly. It culminated with the singing of the nationalist hymn ‘Bayan Ko’.Also at the protest was Peter Murphy, coordinator of the Search Foundation, a body promoting democrach, social justice and environmental sustainability.He said that they are bringing up the case of injustices, particularly extra-judicial killings, in the Philippines to the attention of the Australian government.Murphy said the Australian government must review or even stop its aid package to the Philippines. He said the much of the aid are being misused or appropriated for military use which only leads to “uprooting” civilian communities in the countryside.

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