On the 25th year anniversary of Gabriela last week, the militant group formally announced Rep. Liza Maza’s bid for senator in the 2010 elections. Maza has been with Gabriela for more than two decades, the last nine years (three terms) of which she served as Gabriela Women’s partylist 1st nominee.
In a statement, Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan of Gabriela Women’s Partylist and chair of Gabriela, said, “It is high time that we send to the Senate a woman honed by the women’s movement who continuously serves the interest of marginalized women and children”.
The anniversary highlighted Women’s Platform for Action in 2010 which was unveiled during the group’s national convention held in Amoranto Stadium in Quezon City.
Gabriela’s regional spokesperson Nisa Opalla bared the women’s agenda for the 2010 election, which includes food security, regular employment, equal opportunity for women and sufficient social services. Also among the cornerstones of the Gabriela program of action in 2010 are good governance, protection of women and children against all forms of violence, and consumers’ protection.
Opalla said the convention also tackled the “worsening human rights violations against peasant women, especially in certain areas in Mindanao, and the rising number of women and children victimized by intensified all-out military operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines against the communist insurgency and Moro separatists.
“We recounted the testimonies of pain experienced by women victims to our sisters from Luzon and the Visayas. Those from Luzon empathized with us because millions have also been displaced as a result of the series of typhoons which swept the country,” said Opalla.
Gabriela Women’s Partylist also expressed its call for the resumption of NDFP-GRP peace talks, said Opalla, “ because this is another venue for the attainment of a just and lasting peace in the country which is a crucial issue in the attainment of fundamental social and economic change in the lives of Filipino women.”
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