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Leftist group calls people, People Power 1 veterans
to boycott PGMA led EDSA rites

Rabid critics of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo today asked the people and leading personalities of People Power 1 to boycott the separate events to be led by the two former presidents in connection with the 20th year anniversary of the first EDSA that deposed the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos.

“ We cannot allow ourselves to be part of this merry making anchored on the political ambition of an illegitimate, corrupt, brutal and puppet presidency to stay on power at the expense of our warm bodies. The GMA led Edsa celebration deserves a stirring boycott,” the left-leaning fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said in a press statement.

Pamalakaya national chair Fernando Hicap said the EDSA rites celebration to be led by Ms Arroyo will not make it at the political box-office, adding that the people would welcome the 20th year of the first Edsa uprising with roaring rampage of protest in the National Capital Region and other parts of the country directed Macapagal-Arroyo administration.

“ Mrs. Arroyo is harboring illusions that the people would put premium to her EDSA 1 political stage shows on February 24. She is totally paranoid and extra-delusional at this point of her career as a power-starved politician,” Hicap said.

Pamalakaya said the government led celebration of the 20th year of the first successful People Power was nothing but a gathering of politicians and power brokers that betrayed the spirit and legacy of the first Edsa uprising.

“ The spirit and legacy of Edsa 1 will never be in the hearts of President Arroyo and the ruling political gangland in Malacañang. If that is the case, how come they are still in Malacañang and refuse to step down despite their illegitimate and immoral status?”, the militant group said.

Pamalakaya said instead of wasting their time watching a bogus and corrupt presidency doing its own celebration on the occasion of EDSA 1, their members will stage fluvial protests in a number of provinces on February 24 to call for the removal of President Arroyo.

On February 24, Pamalakaya members in Cebu will ride on 20 pump boats from Talisay City to Malacañang of the South in Cebu City to protest Ms Arroyo’s illegally acquired presidency, the corruption in her government, the oil drilling projects in the Visayan Sea and scores of human rights violations committed by the military over the past five years.

Similar protest actions in the form of fluvial protests and slash-and-burn demonstrations are scheduled on February 24 in Bacolod City, Bohol, Digos City, Legaspi City, Sorsogon and other provinces in Southern Tagalog region.

In Manila, fisherfolk activists in Rizal and Batangas will come to People Power Monument on Feb.24 to join Metro Manila-based activists in a People Power Caravan from Edsa to Liwasang Bonifacio where they will hold protest from 4 pm to 9 pm.

Organizers of the February 24 big protest rally led by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and Gloria Step Down Movement initially pegged their mobilization to 20,000 people. Other anti-Arroyo political groups belonging to the camp of ex-President Joseph Estrada and United Opposition (UNO) are expected to deliver 30,000 to 40,000 protesters and will join the Bayan led rallies in NCR. #

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