“Congress will not enact the needed law abolishing pork, so it is up to us people to do it. And that’s what we’re doing now.” – Sr. Mary John Mananzan
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By SARAH RAYMUNDO BLOODRUSH Bulatlat.com It seems clear, especially now that we have yet another Aquino for a president, that the dream of a democratic political field is still a tough and necessary task. The pork barrel system is still alive and well in government despite a year of people’s incessant clamor for its abolition;…
Church and civil society leaders from different regions gathered in Cebu City yesterday to pilot the 6-million signature campaign to abolish the pork barrel system. According to the organizers, more than 1,000 individuals were monitored to have attended the people’s congress. The signature drive will continue at the anti-pork barrel system protest at the Luneta…
“The people should unsheathe and use this power to make laws whenever their elected representatives default in the performance of their sacred duty to enact laws to promote the general interest, or worse, whenever they betray the public trust.” – former chief justice Reynato Puno