Fight for nationalist change!

Platform of Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan (Makabayan)

The past eight years of the Arroyo administration has been an era of unbridled corruption and
exploitation, poverty and hunger, human rights abuses and puppetry to foreign powers and elite
interests. It is but right to call the regime of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the worst and most
hated regime since the fall of the US-Marcos dictatorship.
Yet beyond Mrs. Arroyo and her regimes exploitation, repression and deceit, exists the more
basic problems of the country.
The existing rotten system of exploitation and oppression by foreign and local ruling classes
remain to be the root of the problems of Philippine society. This system breeds widespread
poverty and chronic economic crisis, corruption, a decadent culture, and fascist repression of the
people.
It is because of these that the struggles of the people not only to change the leadership but also
the system continue to intensify and strengthen.
Nationalist change! This is the call of the people. This is also the platform that Makabayan fights
for a pro-people and patriotic change. It is our ultimate goal to overhaul the system of
domination, exploitation and repression by foreign and local elite in order to build a free,
democratic and prosperous Philippines. For change to come, it is crucial that we end the political
domination by foreign powers and local traitors to the country and that the people are truly
empowered.
Arroyos wicked regime
Mrs. Arroyo, together with her husband, cabinet, favored cronies and politicians, ruled over the
land in the most callous ways, running roughshod over the rights and welfare of the people. The
Arroyos and their clique have been linked to plunder cases accounting for billions of pesos.
Many have been exposed, including scandals like the IMPSA deal, Code NGO peace bond, Jose
Pidal, fertilizer fund scam, Northrail Project, Quedancor, NBN-ZTE and the Euro-Generals.
Many more scandalous transactions have yet to be uncovered.

Aside from the exposes of plunder cases, the legitimacy of the Arroyo presidency was questioned
after the Hello Garci scandal erupted in 2005. In turn, Arroyo used the states iron fist to prevent
the truth from being made public, and sought to suppress her critics and the militant mass
movement. The Arroyo clique used repressive tactics reminiscent of the dark years of martial law
when it enforced the Calibrated Preemptive Response, Proclamation 1017, executive privilege
and included unarmed activists to be targetted by military attacks. Thousands of activists and
journalists had been killed or were forcibly disappeared under her brutal regime.
Under the regime, the countrys crisis only worsened and poverty only deepened. The people
never felt the the nominal progress in the economy yearly bragged about by the regime. Contrary
to claims of the having strong economic fundamentals, local industries and agriculture further
weakened and collapsed because of the regimes policies of liberalization, privatization,
deregulation, or globalization of the economy. The economy failed to create adequate jobs and
food for the country. More than 9 of the almost 90 million population flee abroad to work, yet the
government still boasts that there are enough jobs created in the country if only the workers were
not so picky.
Arroyo continues to enjoy the support of the United States, Japan, and other imperialist
countries, despite massive distrust among the people of her leadership. In exchange for this
support is the trampling of our countrys sovereignty and dignity. In his phone call to Mrs.
Arroyo, newly-elect US Pres. Barack Obama assured the continued implementation of the
unequal RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement. This very agreement was used by the US to maintain
permanent presence in the country, and spring Lance Corporal Smith from jail in Makati, thereby
violating our Constitution. The US State Department itself admitted that not less than 600
American soldiers are stationed in the country at any given time.
Japan and China, meanwhile, strengthened their grip on our economy after the Arroyo
government went into agreements with them. These agreements include the Japan-Philippine
Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), as well as the various agreements between the
Philippine and Chinese governments for the use of Chinese companies of millions of hectares of
Philippine agricultural land.
The countrys local agriculture and industries were further devastated by the neoliberal
globalization policies of the Arroyo government. Land conversion intensified in agricultural
lands and landlessness worsened. The prices of rice, oil, electricity, water and other basic
commodities and services skyrocketed, to the benefit of foreign and local monopoly capital.
Arroyo and her coalition Lakas-Kami led the efforts in Congress to amend the constitution to lift
term limits or allow the president to run again for President or even Prime Minister under a new
constitution. There were also moves to intensify the repression by declaring a state of emergency
or even martial law.
In order to get the support of the US and other powerful nations, Arroyos allies jointly pushed
for amendments lifting restrictions to foreign land ownership and foreign military bases and
nuclear arms in the Philippines.

The fruit is rotten because the tree is rotten

The fruit is rotten because the tree is rotten. Arroyos horrible regime was only produced by the
horrible system in the country. The presidents may change, but the country cannot prosper until
this horrible system is not destroyed. After all, this is a system of domination, expoitation and
repression of the people by the foreign and local ruling elite.
This system prevents the Filipino peoples development towards enjoying genuine sovereignty,
democracy, prosperity and peace.
This moribund system is preserved and reinforced by the reactionary politics of the status quo.
Political power is concentrated in the hands of a few big capitalists and landlords. They treat the
people as mere pawns to be used to achieve their political ambitions. They use their political
positions to amass even more wealth and power for themselves and their families, cronies, and
business interests, be it local or foreign.
Elections is generally a contest of guns, money and machinery of factions and parties of the
ruling class. The best that a worker, peasent or even a professional can win in elections in in
positions in the barangay or municipal levels. The higher levels of governance, the more difficult
it is for representatives of basic sectors and middle class to be elected. The party list system
which is supposed to be devoted to representation of marginalized and underrepresented sectors
have now been exploited and penetrated by fake party list groups formed by Malacaang and the
ruling class.
The countrys backward economy geared towards exporting raw materials and semiprocessed
goods and depend on importing finished products, materials and goods remain a problem as
grave as rotten politics. Foreign dictates and government policies hinder genuine agrarian
reform, industrialization and the development of agriculture that creates adequate employment
and food. The country usually loses out on trade with industrial countries, and we end up mired
in dept to sustain importation of goods. The pesos real value has steadily declined. Neoliberal
globalization has intensified poverty, crisis and the backwardness of the economy.
Large foreign corporations and banks, their subsidiaries and their big capitalist cohorts and
landlords continue to lord over the countrys wealth. Bureaucrats likewise benefit from the
plunder, giving favorable contracts, passing laws and policies favorable to foreign and big
businesses. Less than 1% of the population control the wealth and power. In the mean time,
peasants suffer from landlessness and exploitation by the landlords. Workers toil under cheap
labor, as their rights are wantonly violated. Professionals, small and medium-scale entrepreneurs
and the middle class witness their profits, incomes and livelihood dwindle.
Many of us now become aware of how this rotten system creates the grave social problems and
cultural degredation our society is experiencing. The deep-seated poverty, in turn, creates
massive problems like vices, drugs, criminality, prostitution and others. Many families are
shattered because of the parents are forced to leave the country to work abroad. Neoliberal
globalization has intensified unabated consumerism, individualism, and Western consciousness
that sap the national spirit and unity.
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Ten-Point Principles and Program

National sovereignty and democracy these are among the two basic principles espoused by
Makabayan. The struggle for national sovereignty and democracy will solve some of the basic
problems of exploitation and oppression by foreign and local ruling classes in the country.
National sovereignty and democracy are the two basic principles guiding the ten-point principles
and programs of Makabayan.
Makabayan promotes the politics of change aimed at ending foreign and elite domination over
the country and handing over political power to the people. True empowerment of the people is
crucial in achieving the changes needed in the field of economy, politics and culture.
Here are our ten-point principles, our general and particular programs:
1. Give power to the people
Espouse the empowerment of the people that is crucial to changing governance and society.
Endeavor to arouse, organize and mobilize the people until they will have taken political power.
Join the broad peoples movement to end the control and decisive influence of the US
government, local big capitalists, landlords and corrupt politicians. Together with other forces,
let us fight to build a government that is truly representative of, and managed by, the people the
workers, peasants, professionals and patriotic businessmen. We will fight for electoral reforms to
ensure clean, peaceful and fair elections.
Arouse, organize and mobilize the workers, peasants and other impoverished and exploited
sectors and the people to become decisive forces of change.
Resist domination and control of foreign and local ruling classes in our politics and governance,
whatever the form of government presidential or parliamentary, unitary or federal, or a
combination of these.
Struggle to build a government that is truly representative of, and guided by, the people. Press for
the creation of a congress of the people as the heighest organ of government in the different
levels of governance, with proportionate representatives of the workers, peasants, professionals
and patriotic businessmen.
Fight for greater representation of the people especially the workers, peasants and other
oppressed people in the existing and future decisive organs of national and local government.
Establish a system and mechanism of representation and election for these.
Enhance the civilian power over the military. Fight attempts at coup detat and enforcement of
military power. End militarization and civilian bureaucracy.
Forbid political dynasties and ensure equal opportunities for everyone to have a chance to be
elected into public service.

Protect and advocate the rights of the people to organize, assemble, and express their opinions or
grievances against the government.
Push for reforms to ensure clean, honest and fair elections. Fight electoral fraud and violence.
Advocate for a modern and automated system of voting and counting, with adequate safeguards
against cheating and errors. Clean up the voters list. We will push for stringent regulation of
campaign advertisements and spending.
Give primary emphasis on platforms, records, and integrity of parties and candidates. Seek to
end the dominance of money and guns, as well as the system of patronage and personalityoriented campaigning for elections.
Resist all attempts of foreign and ruling classes to change provisions of the Constitution in order
to further flout our national sovereignty and democracy. We are united with the peoples call for
change in the system of the country and its constitution at the right time and occasion.
2. Fight for good governance
Fight for good governance that entails clean and efficient service by our leaders and strict
supervision by the people. We will not allow cheating, stealing and lying in government.
Assidously fight corruption and prosecute erring officials from the highest down to the lowest
levels of government. Establish effective mechanisms to ensure honesty and accountability
among officials, check and balances between units of government, and a system of recall of
service and supervision by the people. Give high value to integrity, competence, diligence,
honesty and proficiency among those in public service.
Prosecute Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Mike Arroyo, and their cronies who are high government
officials and personalities, for cases of grave violations of human rights, plunder, electoral fraud,
covering up crimes, and other crimes. Among those to be prosecuted are Executive Sec. Eduardo
Ermita, Defense Sec. Norberto Gonzales, Gen. Jovito Palparan, Gen. Rodolfo Garcia, Jocjoc
Bolante and Virgilio Garcillano. Push the government to immediately confiscate ill-gotten and
unexplained wealth of the Arroyo clique.
Ensure the independence of Congress, the courts, and the executive departments, and strengthen
the systems of checks and balances in the different agencies of government. Return to Congress
the power over the national budget, forbid automatic appropriation of funds and automatic
implementation of past budgets.
Ensure a system of honesty and accountability. Seek an end to the use of executive privilege to
conceal crimes of high government officials. Move to enact into law the bills aimed at enhancing
the publics right to access information. Seek to enact bills to protect whistleblowers. Present to
the public the yearly statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) of all public officials.
Push for lifestyle checks of the highest officials of government.
Expose the cases of corruption, misdeeds and crimes of high government officials. Prosecute and
punish those involved in such cases.
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Strengthen the involvement of independent watchdog groups of the people in all levels of
government. Ensure the undertaking of public hearing among the affected sectors and people
before implementation of projects and decisions that will affect them.
Put an end to corruption in the armed forces and police by prohibiting fund conversion and other
anomalous practices. Prosecute ranking military officials involved in such misdeeds.
3. Develop a pro-Filipino economy
We envision a pro-Filipino economy controlled by and benefiting the Filipino people and not
foreigners of the elite. End the domination and destructive imposition of the US and other
foreign interests on the countrys economy. Push for programs supporting genuine agrarian
reform, cooperativization, and modernization of agriculture and industrialization of the country.
Persevere in ensuring a fair distribution of the countrys wealth and benefits of the economy.
End foreign impositions and domination.
Terminate economic impositions and agreements with the US, Japan, IMF, WB, ADB,
GATT/WTO, APEC and others, that trample upon our national economy and the peoples
interests. End liberalization, privatization, deregulation and denationalization of different aspects
of the economy.
Renegotiate and establish new relations and enter into new economic agreements with other
countries and regional and global institutions that would advance the program for developing our
productive capacity and for mutual benefit.
Implement genuine agrarian reform.
Push for scrapping the sham Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. We will repeal the
Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act, and amend the Local Government Code.
Pass and enforce new laws for genuine agrarian reform that contain free distribution of land,
encompassing all agricultural lands. Scrap the deceptive stock distribution scheme and other
forms of exemptions to land redistribution. End the massive land use conversion and make steps
to once again use agricultural lands that were erroneously classified otherwise. Cancel the loans
of farmers who have been given land under CARP and PD 27.
Campaign and support the formation of cooperatives from the poor and middle peasants. End
usury and keep check of commercial abuse by landlords and big traders on the small and middle
farmers.
Advance the countrys industrialization program.
Protect and support local agricultural and industrial producers through increase in tariffs and
return of quantitative restrictions of imported products. Decrease the taxes and give incentives
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and help to local businessmen, especially the small and medium enterprises and cooperatives.
Nationalize strategic industries and services for the benefit of the public. Through the efforts of
the state and with the help of the private sector, let us implement programs and projects to
establish and/or develop related industries like steel, petrochemicals, textile/clothing, light
manufacturing, energy, transportation, telecommunication, housing and consumer goods.
Implement programs to build local industries to process minerals and other raw materials instead
of exporting them.
Implement the Filipino First policy in trade and finance, and procurement of government needs.
Campain and institutionalize the appreciation of Filipino-made products.
4. Lift the majority out of poverty
We will endeavor to lift the majority of the people from poverty that is exacerbated by the global
and local economic crisis. Insist on providing the following demands of the people: relief from
payments of foreign debts; adequate land and support for the farmers; production of adequate
and affordable food; adequate jobs and liveable wages; advanced and accessible social services
in education, health, housing, water and electricity; and progressive taxation.
Stop the payments to foreign debt and channel these to fund the much-needed services and
development projects. Repeal PD 1177 and EO 292, or the automatic appropriation to debt
payment. Suspend for nine years the payment of debts to IMF, WB, ADB, and other foreign
financial institutions and foreign commercial banks. Cancel anomalous foreign debt. Renegotiate
the terms of payment of foreign loans according to the countrys capacity.
Protect and give financial, material and technical support to farmers and fisherfolk. Ensure
adequate irrigation, transportation and other services needed in production and selling of goods.
Remove the irrigation fee.
Push for an increase of P125 in the daily wages of workers and employees in the private sector,
and P3,000 monthly wages of workers in the public sector. Increase to salary grade 15 those in
the Teacher I level. Implement the Nursing Act for nurses and other workers in the health sector.
Fight contractualization and other forms of flexible schemes of work, and ensure job security
among the workers and employees. Fight for their right to form unions and to strike.
Increase by 50% the government budget for public education, health, daycare centers, irrigation
and farm-to-market roads. Endeavor to follow international standards on the budget for
education, health, housing and other services.
Give adequate attention, protection and help to OFWs and local workers who were dismissed
from work because of the crisis of global economy, and establish a general system for
unemployment insurance.
Implement meaningful reforms in SSS, GSIS, Pag-ibig, OWWA, and Philhealth, to improve the
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services and benefits of its members. Correct the misspending and corruption of funds of those
agencies, and prosecute the perpetrators. Put these agencies under the control and supervision of
its members.
Implement programs for food self-sufficiency. Increase by 25% the subsidies to the supply of
rice and corn. Stop the massive importation and strengthen production. Ensure affordable prices
and adequate food supply.
Bring down electricity and water rates. Repeal RA9136, or the Energy Power Industry Reform
Act. Expand and strengthen the public sector of energy generation and transmission. Abrogate
the sovereign guarantee and take-or-pay agreement between independent power producers. Seek
consumer refunds from independent power producers. Remove the system loss charge and other
unreasonable charges in the electricity services. Increase the government budget for and
reacquire the water services.
As immediate steps, we seek to slash the price of oil to its real value and recover through low
prices the exhorbitant charges: a) regulation of the oil industry; 2) reaquisition and real control of
Petron by government; 3) nationalize the importation of oil. Create other measures to eventually
nationalize the oil industry.
Change the repressive system of Value Added Tax (VAT) with a progresive system of taxation.
Immediately abolish VAT in oil, electricity and water, and the royalty tax on natural gas.
Junk poliocies of deregulation of tuition and take steps to control tuition hikes. Expand and
develop the public school system.
Respect the rights and help small vendors, self-employed individuals, and those in the informal
economy.
Stop the demolition of urban poor communities. Execute programs for free or affordable
housing, and ensure adequate work, livelihood and social services to the resettlement sites.
Provide needed service and care to children, elderly, disabled, and other similarly situated
people.
5. Protect the environment
Protect the environment so that everybody and those in the succeeding generations can benefit
from its riches. We will move to protect our ecological systems, especially from massive
exploitation and destruction by local or foreign big commercial interests. Control commercial
mining, logging, and fishing, guided by the program for sustainable economic development. Let
us do our share in finding solutions to global warming and climate change. Let us endeavor to
improve our countrys capacity to discover and use clean and renewable energy sources.
Repeal the Mining Act of 1995, and advance a policy of mining with adequate care for the
environment, and one that benefits the people most, not foreigners or the elite.
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Implement a moratorium on the approval of permits or agreements on commercial logging while

reviewing the existing laws and policies concerning these.
Resist the proposed reopening of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. Develop natural, clean and
renewable energy sources.
Decisively contribute to efforts to mitigate and cope with the effects of global warming through
the implementation of progressive policies. Prosecute and demand compensation from
industrialized countries and big corporations that are primary perpetrators to global warming.
Make comprehensive responses to different kinds of calamities. Make comprehensive studies on
the countrys disaster pronness and preparedness, especially in the context of global warming and
climate change. Implement comprehensive programs to prepare the government and the people
to immediately respond to devastation during calamities.
Launch massive campaigns for tree-panting and programs for genuine protection and
rehabilitation of forests, seas, rivers, lakes and other endangered areas.
Be firm and exert more effort in protecting endangered species. Nurture the countrys
biodiversity.
Implement a national program for organic farming and for development of traditonal and
adequate agriculture that is not harmful to the environment.
Implement laws and regulations on recycling and garbage management.
6. Advance national sovereignty and equal foreign relations
Stand for national patrimony at for foreign relations based on the principle of respect for
sovereignty and mutual benefit. Resist all forms of foreign domination and intervention in
internal affairs of the country. Review, revise and/or abrogate unequal agreements and treaties
with the US, Japan, and other countries. Advance the unity of different peoples to attain justice,
progress and peace in the world. Do everything to protect the rights and interests of Filipino
workers abroad and give them adequate protection and support, inside and outside the country.
Abrogate the Mutual Defense Treaty, Visiting Forces Agrement, Mutual Logistics Support
Agreement, Bilateral Immunity Agreement, and other unequal agreements betweent the
Philippines and the US. Immediately expel US troops in the country.
Push for the ratification in the Senate of the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal
Court (ICC).
Push for meaningful reforms in the ASEAN and resist the influence of US and Japan in it. Push
for the formation of a strong human rights body in ASEAN. Support the fight of the Burmese
people for their democratic rights and end to military rule in Burma.

Assert ownership over Spratly islands and Scarborough Shoal as part of the territory of the
Philippines.
Develop the unity among the countries and peoples of the world who resist wars of aggression
and intervention by the US and its allied countries in Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the
world.
Ensure that adequate legal, financial, diplomatic and political support is given to the OFWs in
need. Protect them against abuses in their workplace and host governments.
7. Defend the peoples democratic rights!
Advance the peoples democratic rights civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.
End the killings, abductions, violence and repression of activists, journalists and critics of those
in power. Prosecute and punish the perpetrators and give justice to the victims of human rights
violations. Advance the right to self-determination of the Moro and indigenous people.
Enforce the recommendations of UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston, particularly on the need
to put an end to the killings of activists as part of counter-insurgency operations, prosecution of
perpetrations who are state agents, strengthening of witness protection, and defense of human
rights within the peace process.
Scrap the anti-insurgency programs like Oplan Bantay Laya II and strictly ensure that the AFP
and PNP abide by international agreements on human rights and International Humanitarian
Law. Implement the Comprehensive Agreement for the Respect of Human Rights and
International Humanitarian Law (CAHRIHL) between the government and the National
Democratic Front of the Philippines.
Pass and implement bills against extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture and
command responsibility.
Free all political prisoners and stop the criminalization of political cases. End the use of fake
cases of rebellion, psywar tactics, black propaganda and other forms of harassment against
activists and critics of government.
Free all soldiers imprisoned by the government who were involved in protest actions against
misdeeds in the AFP and the Arroyo government.
Pass the long-delayed Marcos Victims Compensation bill. Create laws to give justice to, and
compensate for, victims of human rights violations under the Arroyo regime.
File cases against Mrs. Arroyo and her ilk for crimes against humanity and violations to the laws
on the conduct of war in appropriate international courts.
Enact laws to prohibit strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP). Amend libel laws
and decriminalize it.
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Ensure swift justice for the poor through increase in the number of public attorneys and broad
implementation of laws on release on recognizance of persons standing trial.
End the deployment of troops in schools, universities, factories and poor communities. Prohibit
the use of military troops in labor and land disputes. Remove the power of Assumption of
Jurisdiction from the Secretary of Labor and Employment.
Repeal the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Recognize and respect the right to self-determination and ancestral domain of the lumads, Moro
and Cordillera people. Stop discrimination against them and other national and cultural
minorities.
8. Promote a nationalist, progressive and scientific education and culture
Promote a culture and education that is nationalist, pro-people, pro-environment, scientific and
progressive. Resist colonial and corrupt thinking, consumerism, individualism, and moral and
cultural decay. Pursue a nationalist, pro-people and pro-environment thinking and advance a
scientific and progreessive education and culture. Strengthen national unity through promotion of
our history, culture, common values, and development of the Filipino national language. At the
same time, respect and enrich the cultures, customs, languages, and dialects of our different
ethnic groups and peoples.
Promote a nationalist, mass-oriented, scientific and progressive thinking, values and culture
through the use of different media and cultural institutions.
Advance a movement and campaign for moral and cultural renewal. Systematically tear down
colonial and corrupt thinking, excessive consumerism, excessive regionalism, selfishness and
pessimism. Resist the psychological roots of drug addiction and bad vices while fighting poverty
and corruption.
Develop Filipino as the official language and language of instruction in the higher educational
levels while using Tagalog, Visaya, Ilonggo, Ilocano, Waray and other local language as
language of instruction the the primary levels.
Revive the study of civic values, Philippine history and social sciences as major subjects in all
levels of education.
Respect, protect and enrich the cultures of the Moro, Cordillera, Lumad and other cultural
practices of the different indigenous peoples.
Provide a different orientation to the National Broadcasting Network, Philippine Broadcasting
System, and other agencies as independent news and information sources and to promote
Filipino culture.

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9. Advance womens liberation and gender equality

Advance equal status and rights of women and gender equality in all levels of governance and
social life. Fight all forms of oppression, discrimination and violence against women and genderbased violence. Correct wrong perceptions and discimination against people with different
chosen genders. Make steps to open up opportunities for everyone to participate and even lead
the fields of economics, politics and culture, regardless of their gender.
Enforce laws on equal representation of women in all levels of governance and equal
participation in all social, political and cultural affairs.
Review, abrogate or amend laws that perpetrate unequal treatment of women.
Legislate laws and strengthen existing laws and policies against sexual violence such as rape,
prostitution, sex trafficking, pornography, wife battery, incest and other similar forms.
Ensure meaningful and appropriate use of the budget for Gender and Development in all levels
of government. Encourage the local government units to pass their own regulations on GAD and
set-up structures for GAD in schools.
Advance the right to comprehensive health service particularly health care related to
childbearing. Develop child care services in places of work and also services to care for the
elderly.
Make a stand against discrimination based on sexual preference and advance the recognition and
protection of the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders.
10. Advance peace process based on justice
Promote the peace process based on justice. Advocate for the the resumption and progress of
bilateral peace talks between the government and the National Democratic Front (NDF), Moro
Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). Ask the both
government and the revolutionary movements to decisively confront and solve the roots of
armed struggles that have been raging for many decades. Press for a dialogue between different
religious and non-religious groups to form an understanding towards a peaceful coexistence.
Oppose the peace framework and policy of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration
(DDR) in the peace talks between the government and NDF and MILF.
Implement agreements made by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and
the NDF, including the 1992 Hague Declaration, Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity
Guarantees and Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Law (Carhrihl). Remove all impediments placed by the government in the
resumption of peace talks, including the terrorist listing of Prof. Jose Maria Sison, the
Communist Party of the Philippines and the New Peoples Army. Resume the suspended peace
negotiations.
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Seriously confront and resolve the issues relating to the failed Memorandum of Agreement on
Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) between the GRP and MILF to restore to its correct basis the
formal negotiations of the two sides. Express solidarity in the struggle and aspirations of MILF
for ancestral domain and self-determination. Condemn the duplicity of Malacanang and US
intervention in the peace talks.
Support legitimate grievances on the distortions, non-implementation and violations of the
government to the Tripoli Agreement and subsequent agreement with the MNLF in 1986.
Advocate for a dialogue between different religions and cultures so that an atmosphere of peace
and understanding can thrive among the people.
Cease the practice of appointing retired or active military officials in the governments peace
assemblies.

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