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+ Follow CHARTER CHANGE ADVOCACY COMMISSION Tag
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                    [Title] => Payback
                    [Summary] => 

There is a popular Facebook posting that has been doing the rounds for some time now: “Karma. No need for revenge.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133891 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1794477 [AuthorName] => Yoly Villanueva-Ong [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 366655 [Title] => Post Mortem sa People’s Initiative [Summary] => MATAPOS ibasura ng Korte Suprema ang People’s Initiative (PI), tama na ang turuan at sisihan. Lalu lamang makaliligalig iyan sa takbo ng pamahalaan. Gumawa na lang tayo ng pag-analisa sa desisyon ng Korte.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133395 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804793 [AuthorName] => Al G. Pedroche [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360986 [Title] => Thailand experience won’t happen in RP, says ad-com [Summary] => The military takeover of the Thailand government and its plan to amend the Thai constitution are an "exceptionally unlikely" scenario to happen in the Philippines, a commissioner of the Charter Change Advocacy Commission (ad-com) said yesterday.

According to former ad-com commissioner Rita Linda Jimeno, Thailand has had a long history of military coups dominating its government for more than 65 years.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360536 [Title] => Mayors insist people’s initiative genuine [Summary] => The country’s municipal mayors maintained yesterday the legitimacy of the people’s initiative as they pounced on the elite groups blocking constitutional reforms for their incessant attempts to disparage the petition for grassroots-driven movement, which has won the support of most Filipinos including local executives.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1165072 [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr. [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359707 [Title] => Palace: Cha-cha drive at a ‘high point’ due to public support [Summary] => Malacañang said yesterday the administration’s Charter change campaign has reached "a high point" with the public’s growing support for the proposed amendments to the 1987 Constitution.

The Palace has also urged the country’s political leaders and concerned sectors not to stifle the clamor for constitutional reforms.

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the Palace-backed information drive on Charter change will continue, even as the fate of the people’s initiative campaign now rests in the hands of the Supreme Court.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359710 [Title] => Sigaw defends people’s initiative anew [Summary] => Charter change advocates assailed critics of the people’s initiative for allegedly peddling lies and resorting to character assassination of leaders of the move to amend the Constitution.

Sigaw ng Bayan spokesman Raul Lambino said the opposition is pursuing "intellectually bankrupt" arguments against Charter change, and this only betrayed their desperate attempts to discredit the people’s initiative which he described as the fastest, least expensive and very democratic mode of making reforms.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1165072 [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr. [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359529 [Title] => ‘Thai’s militaristic culture led to Thaksin’s ouster’ [Summary] => The Thai military succeeded in ousting Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra not because of the weakness of the parliamentary system, but because Thais have a "militaristic culture" that allows coups as a means of changing the government, the head of a government agency advocating Charter change said yesterday.

Lito Monico, Charter Change Advocacy Commission chairman, said Thais tend to favor military rule over civilian governments so the parliamentary system should not be blamed for the political crisis in that country.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804767 [AuthorName] => Cecille Suerte Felipe [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359555 [Title] => May kudeta pa ba sa parliamentary system? [Summary] => MATATAPOS ngayon (Sept. 23) ang mission ng 15-kataong Charter Change Advocacy Commission sa pagsusulong ng mga reporma sa ekonomiya sa pamama-gitan ng pagrebisa sa Konstitusyon. Sa gawaing ito ay kaagapay ng AdCom ang Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) at ang Sigaw ng Bayan. Walong buwan ding binuno ang kampanya para maipaunawa sa taumbayan ang kahalagahan ng Chacha.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133395 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804793 [AuthorName] => Al G. Pedroche [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 358842 [Title] => No more time to lose [Summary] => Our public officials’ bickering may be perceived as democracy in action by some, but to one out of every three Filipinos, it means subsisting another day on P50. That is the stark reality for 2.54 million Filipino families.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 356420 [Title] => SC asked: Overturn Comelec on ‘initiative’ [Summary] => After suffering a setback, proponents of the people’s initiative petitioned the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday to reverse the Commission on Elections (Comelec)’s ruling junking their bid to amend the Constitution.

Sigaw ng Bayan Movement and the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippine (ULAP) argued that the Comelec erred in using a 1997 SC ruling as a basis for its 6-0 decision junking their petition for a people’s initiative.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
CHARTER CHANGE ADVOCACY COMMISSION
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    [results] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 745453
                    [Title] => Payback
                    [Summary] => 

There is a popular Facebook posting that has been doing the rounds for some time now: “Karma. No need for revenge.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133891 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1794477 [AuthorName] => Yoly Villanueva-Ong [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 366655 [Title] => Post Mortem sa People’s Initiative [Summary] => MATAPOS ibasura ng Korte Suprema ang People’s Initiative (PI), tama na ang turuan at sisihan. Lalu lamang makaliligalig iyan sa takbo ng pamahalaan. Gumawa na lang tayo ng pag-analisa sa desisyon ng Korte.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133395 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804793 [AuthorName] => Al G. Pedroche [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360986 [Title] => Thailand experience won’t happen in RP, says ad-com [Summary] => The military takeover of the Thailand government and its plan to amend the Thai constitution are an "exceptionally unlikely" scenario to happen in the Philippines, a commissioner of the Charter Change Advocacy Commission (ad-com) said yesterday.

According to former ad-com commissioner Rita Linda Jimeno, Thailand has had a long history of military coups dominating its government for more than 65 years.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360536 [Title] => Mayors insist people’s initiative genuine [Summary] => The country’s municipal mayors maintained yesterday the legitimacy of the people’s initiative as they pounced on the elite groups blocking constitutional reforms for their incessant attempts to disparage the petition for grassroots-driven movement, which has won the support of most Filipinos including local executives.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1165072 [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr. [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359707 [Title] => Palace: Cha-cha drive at a ‘high point’ due to public support [Summary] => Malacañang said yesterday the administration’s Charter change campaign has reached "a high point" with the public’s growing support for the proposed amendments to the 1987 Constitution.

The Palace has also urged the country’s political leaders and concerned sectors not to stifle the clamor for constitutional reforms.

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the Palace-backed information drive on Charter change will continue, even as the fate of the people’s initiative campaign now rests in the hands of the Supreme Court.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359710 [Title] => Sigaw defends people’s initiative anew [Summary] => Charter change advocates assailed critics of the people’s initiative for allegedly peddling lies and resorting to character assassination of leaders of the move to amend the Constitution.

Sigaw ng Bayan spokesman Raul Lambino said the opposition is pursuing "intellectually bankrupt" arguments against Charter change, and this only betrayed their desperate attempts to discredit the people’s initiative which he described as the fastest, least expensive and very democratic mode of making reforms.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1165072 [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr. [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359529 [Title] => ‘Thai’s militaristic culture led to Thaksin’s ouster’ [Summary] => The Thai military succeeded in ousting Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra not because of the weakness of the parliamentary system, but because Thais have a "militaristic culture" that allows coups as a means of changing the government, the head of a government agency advocating Charter change said yesterday.

Lito Monico, Charter Change Advocacy Commission chairman, said Thais tend to favor military rule over civilian governments so the parliamentary system should not be blamed for the political crisis in that country.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804767 [AuthorName] => Cecille Suerte Felipe [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359555 [Title] => May kudeta pa ba sa parliamentary system? [Summary] => MATATAPOS ngayon (Sept. 23) ang mission ng 15-kataong Charter Change Advocacy Commission sa pagsusulong ng mga reporma sa ekonomiya sa pamama-gitan ng pagrebisa sa Konstitusyon. Sa gawaing ito ay kaagapay ng AdCom ang Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) at ang Sigaw ng Bayan. Walong buwan ding binuno ang kampanya para maipaunawa sa taumbayan ang kahalagahan ng Chacha.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133395 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804793 [AuthorName] => Al G. Pedroche [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 358842 [Title] => No more time to lose [Summary] => Our public officials’ bickering may be perceived as democracy in action by some, but to one out of every three Filipinos, it means subsisting another day on P50. That is the stark reality for 2.54 million Filipino families.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 356420 [Title] => SC asked: Overturn Comelec on ‘initiative’ [Summary] => After suffering a setback, proponents of the people’s initiative petitioned the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday to reverse the Commission on Elections (Comelec)’s ruling junking their bid to amend the Constitution.

Sigaw ng Bayan Movement and the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippine (ULAP) argued that the Comelec erred in using a 1997 SC ruling as a basis for its 6-0 decision junking their petition for a people’s initiative.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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