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Volume 2, Number 18              June 9 - 15,  2002                     Quezon City, Philippines

Militants, Consumer Groups Close Ranks Vs. PPA

BAGUIO CITY – A new consumer group, the Metro Baguio People Opposed to Warrantless Electricity Rates (MB POWER), was launched here on June 6 to support the growing opposition to the Power Purchase Adjustment (PPA).

By Ace Alegre

Bulatlat.com

The group’s formation followed a series of protest actions against the PPA in the city marked by a noise barrage along Session Road early last week.

Voltaire Tupaz, one of the convenors, said MB POWER is a broad consumer network that aims to develop an informed and vigilant consumer movement here.

Among the convernors are Roman Catholic Vicar for Baguio and Benguet Msgr. Carlito Cenzon, local goverment executives, lawyers, government employee organization leaders, non-government organization (NGO) leaders and figures in the militant movement here.

Tupaz said that the group is now into raising the consciousness of local consumers and mobilizing them on the issue of PPA and other related consumer concerns.

Last week’s noise barrage was part of a nationwide protest action dubbed by militant groups as National Day of Protests against the controversial PPA. The indignation day was capped by a 9-10 p.m. power shut-off in several communities in Metro Manila and in other cities.

MB POWER and other groups here say that the PPA is an immoral and unjust imposition and aggravates the misery of the Filipinos. Bulatlat.com

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