VFA

"As the US military beefs up its presence in the Asia Pacific region, our people and environment will suffer the consequences of thier intrusion into our national sovereignty. We will be fodder for increased incidences of toxic waste dumping in the future; poor women and children will increasingly fall prey to abuse and exploitation by US soldiers in their pursuit of “leisure and recreation.” More importantly, we will be more drawn into regional conflicts that have nothing to do with our national interests but everything to do with US interests.  read more »

“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 »

Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan assailed today President Aquino’s continued consent to the unhampered port calls of US high powered military warships and submarines. “We are back to where we were over twenty years ago.”  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan today said Congress would do well to independently pursue its review of the Visiting Forces Agreement following news of President Aquino’s commitment to the United States government allowing increased US military presence in the country.  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 »