US intervention

“The exposure of children to high-powered American war machines is a subtle way of inculcating into their young minds the culture of war,” said GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus in reaction to the PDI banner photo of a smiling US marine letting a boy peek into his gun scope during the on-going 10-day Philippine-US Amphibious Landing Exercise (Philblex) 2013.  read more »

Women’s partylist group Gabriela is set to file a resolution for the House of Representatives to probe the frequent port calls of US nuclear submarines and warships in Subic Bay, Zambales and look into the contract entered into by US warship builder and developer AMSEC Huntington Ingalls Industries with Subic based shipyard company Hanjin Heavy Industries.  read more »

“President Aquino’s concept of sovereignty is muddled and one-sided. While he points his finger to China for encroaching on Philippine territory, his other fingers are signaling enticements to the US Armed Forces and foreign companies like Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron to impinge on our sovereignty and steal our nation’s patrimony,” said GWP Rep. Emmi de Jesus on the President’s statements on the issue.  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan today called for a probe into what she dubbed as the “extensive and intensive intrusion of the US military in AFP operations.”

The Gabriela solon said they will be filing a resolution within the week as she expressed her concern following various reports on the use of US spy planes, predator drones and unmanned aerial vehicles in recent military operations in the Philippines.  read more »

Gabriela Women's Party Representative Luz Ilagan today said President Benigno Aquino III should raise the issue of making US troops accountable for crimes, subjecting the Visiting Forces Agreement to an intensive review and the possible pullout of US troops as part of the agenda when US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton arrives in Manila.  read more »

Gabriela Women’s party Representative Luz Ilagan denounced today the US aggression on Libya and called on the Philippine government to continue its efforts to facilitate the evacuation of Filipino migrant workers amid intensified US-led military attacks on the oil rich nation.
 
“It is important for the Philippine government continue efforts to bring our OFWs to safety. The US-led military intervention targets the Libyan capital of Tripoli where thousands of Filipinos remain, including those working as nurses and hospital workers.”
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Gabriela Women’s Party condemns the US intervention and military aggression on Libya and calls on the Philippine government to denounce the US-led military action that is set to endanger the lives of several Filipino migrant workers in Libya.
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Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Liza Maza today acknowledged the determination of the American people in their struggle for change with the historic election of Barrack Obama as the first black US president. “Like the Filipino people, they have been the ones suffering from Bush administration’s bent policies that plunged them into this financial meltdown. They have endured the brunt of the militarist Bush regime that led them into wars of aggression under the pretext of its so called global campaign against terrorism.”  read more »