Friday, May 11, 2007

Support Gabriela Women's Party!

FiRE Supports Gabriela Partylist Nominee, Flora Baniaga-Belinan! (Official statement at link.)


Bulatlat feature found here: http://www.bulatlat.com/news/7-9/7-9-igorot.htm

Gabriela Women’s Party is a sectoral party dedicated to promoting the rights and welfare of marginalized and under-represented Filipino women through participation in the country’s electoral system and organs of governance. It is a sectoral party composed of women 18 years and above, having varied occupations, education, interests, ethnic origin, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation. The Gabriela Women’s Party seeks to harness the potential, initiative, skills, and leadership of marginalized women towards empowerment, justice, and equality. gabrielaphilippines.net





Please take a minute to send the following message to your relatives and friends in the Philippines. Send them via text message, e-mail, Yahoo messenger, gmail chat or any other form. Post them to various listserves, websites, discussion groups. Send them as testimonies on friendster or messages on myspace. Any which way, just spread them as far and wide as possible:

FULL TEXT VERSION:
Itong araw ng mga nanay
Ipakita ang mahal na tunay
Pandaraya labanan
Para sa isang bayan na malaya
Political killings tutulan
Para sa kabutihan ng taong-bayan
Iboto Gabriela Women's Party
From TEXT B.A.C.K. USA

TRANSLATION:
On this mother's day
Show love that is true
Fight against fraud
For a nation that is free
Stop political Killings
For the goodness of our people
Vote Gabriela Women's Party
From TEXT B.A.C.K. USA

SHORT TEXT VERSION:
I2NG ARAW NG MGA NANAY
IPKTA MHAL N 2NAY
PANDARAYA LABANAN
PRA SA ISANG BYAN NA MLAYA
POL KILINGS TUTULAN
PRA SA KBUTIHAN NG TAONG-BYAN
VOTE GAB WOMNS PARTY!
FROM TEXT B.A.C.K. USA