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Why buy chacha?

Last Saturday, in the Symposium on the proposed Charter Change (Chacha) sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Baguio both the pro and the anti-Chacha camps in Baguio aired educated and informed positions.

While the pro-Chacha representatives were articulate in their rhetoric, they were not prepared for the point by point critical queries and opinions from the audience.

Opposition groups, from the academe, people’s organizations, student councils and labor groups were serious and generous with their opinions and views on the proposals put forward by the Chacha speakers.

One reactor from the urban poor community said, “At this juncture, if the Chacha (sic) proposals can not bring food to the table of the bigger population of poor families nor address issues of ordinary folk, then charter change is not the order of the day.”

Again, the people of Baguio have spoken the proposed constitutional amendments set by the present dispensation are not the changes the nation wants or needs.###

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