Filipino Youth for Peace

MBC’s Bill Luz Should Just Shut Up If He Has Nothing Sensible and
Useful to Say

By No to War, Yes to Peace Coalition

The Makati Business Club (MBC)’s executive director Guillermo “Bill”
Luz says that boycotting US products and businesses as protest
against the US agression in Iraq will harm the Philipine economy and
Filipino workers and consumers. We say this is plain bull.

Read more

Tuluy-tuloy pa rin ang pambobomba ng coalition forces sa Baghdad, samantalang nagbabanta naman ang pangalawang pangulo ng iraq ng marami pang mga suicide attacks laban sa mga sundalo ng coalition.

Basahin ang mga detalye sa ulat na ito ng Guardian Unlimited.

By Sen. Robert Byrd
March 20, 2003

Reprinted from Alternet.org

From the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Byrd (D-W.Va.) asks, “Why can this President not seem to see that America’s true power lies not in its will to intimidate, but in its ability to inspire?”

I believe in this beautiful country. I have studied its roots and gloried in the wisdom of its magnificent Constitution. I have marveled at the wisdom of its founders and framers. Generation after generation of Americans has understood the lofty ideals that underlie our great Republic. I have been inspired by the story of their sacrifice and their strength.
Read more

Throughout the history of humanity, war has proven to be the leading cause of environmental destruction. The past world wars and such wars as the U.S. wars in Vietnam, Iaraq, Yugoslavia and Afaghanistan have shown how wars easily destroy the sanctity of human life and the environment.
Read more

Filipinos from various faiths and persuasions tomorrow will march through the streets of Makati City and stage an antiwar rally for peace to demand an end to the illegal, inhuman and brutal American occupation of Iraq.

Tomorrow’s antiwar actions will be highlighted by a concelebrated mass at the Greenbelt Church at 12:00 noon, a “Walk for Peace” around the Ugarte Triangle from 3:00 - 5:15 p.m. followed by an interfaith prayer assembly at the corner of Ayala Ave. and Paseo de Roxas St. from 5:15 - 6:15 p.m.

Read more