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This video is of the nationally-networked ORACLE page junction which was being transmitted on ITV on this day, but this version, broadcast from Ulster Television's Belfast studios, contained The Man With The Harmonica and Step Away From Lincoln Centre from the BBC2 Sunshine In Paris tape, and then, playing to the strains of Nobody Is Perfect and Over The Rainbow from BBC1's The Trolley Song, are the Ulster clock, holding slide and schools clock so enjoy!!!!
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Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo joints farmers in hunger strike to seek legislation for the renewal of comprehensive agrarian reform program; the hunger strike started 10am, December 15, 2008, front of Congress.Manila, December 15, 2008—Manila Auxiliary bishop Broderick Pabillo will go on hunger strike starting today on behalf of the poor of this country, the farmers who stand to benefit if the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) will be extended with reforms. Pabillo is the chair of the National Secretariat for Social Action (NASSA) of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).Some farmers and religious sisters will join Pabillo in the hunger strike in front Congress that will start with a press conference at 10:00 oclock this morning. Legislators will vote on the bill seeking to extend CARP on December 17, the last day of Congress. Many believe that since most legislators are either landed or influenced by the landed will either disapprove the extension of CARP or approve it but without the land distribution component. A letter from the Church officials will be transmitted to House Speaker Prospero Nograles this afternoon. The letter exhorts the legislators to uphold national interest and pass before Congress goes on recess the proposed law—HB 4077 and SB 2666—extending and putting significant reforms on the CARP.Agrarian reform concerns all of us because if it is left unfinished, we would be participants and witness to the poverty of millions of our brothers and sisters and to the perpetuation of injustice, bishop said in the letter. You need to do this for the millions of farmers who are set to become beneficiaries of the undistributed lands, the bishops also said. You need to do this so that they would not experience agrarian injustice as those occurring to the beneficiaries in Calatagan, Laguna, and Camarines Sur, they added. Nograles was reported saying that lawmakers will be voting this week the bill seeking to extend CARP for another five years. After a recent all-party caucus on CARP, Nograles said House members did not arrive at a consensus but will hold another one on Wednesday where they will put the CARP extension bill to vote. The bishops also thumbed down proposals of some congressmen of Negros Occidental who favor for CARP extension but without the provision on compulsory acquisition. Representative Genaro Alvarez (6th district) said on Thursday that he along with Negros Occidental Representatives Julio Ledesma IV (1st district), Alfredo Marañon III (2nd district), Jose Carlos Lacson (3rd district), Jeffrey Ferrer (4th district) and Ignacio Arroyo Jr. (5th district) have similar positions on the proposed extension of CARP.Changing property regimes is the heart of agrarian reform and rural development. Without it, we are tolerating injustice and unrest, the bishops said. The signatories of the letter to Norgrales are Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), and Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo. A similar copy of the letter was also sent to Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile. They said that after 20 years of CARP implementation, 1.3 million hectares of CARPable lands remain undistributed, consisting mainly of large haciendas of those who have been resisting CARP from its inception. In solidarity with the farmers and Pabillo, Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles will go on fasting throughout the days of hunger strike. He asks the faithful to support the cause of the poor farmers with more prayers and fasting. (CBCPNews)
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