che che lazaro Needs your support
Rene Abad
am forwarding an email from a friend
gsis has really a lot to explain to members
like their plan to invest $10 billion (dollars) abroad
i hope that did not push through
or else cguro half has already been wiped out
by the economic crisis
regards
rene
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Ricardo Lim <ricard...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I need your support.
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> My sister, Cheche Lazaro, was recently criminally charged by GSIS for
> wiretapping.
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> I am biased, of course, but here are the facts as we see them:
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> - Probe was doing a story on how retired schoolteachers were being
> short-changed their pensions by GSIS.
> - Cheche gave GSIS all the opportunities to respond to the issues.
> - In one of these opportunities, Cheche told Ella Valencerina (VP for
> PR, GSIS) three separate times that she was being taped. She was
> given consent. This was duly recorded and transcribed.
> - When the story came out negatively, Ella Valencerina, with lawyers
> paid for by GSIS, filed criminal charges against Cheche.
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> At one level this is an injustice against Cheche, who is conscientious
> about her journalistic practices: she verifies, she asks permission,
> she asks for all sides. She is simply being harrassed, perhaps as a
> warning to all journalists to back off from doing the right thing. At
> a higher level this is waste of people's tax money. For a large
> organization like GSIS to drag this to court is petty and wasteful.
> Rather than spending big bucks on sham trials, they should give our
> poor teachers their just pensions.
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> Please go to one supporting blog,
> http://aboutmyrecovery.com/2009/05/08/cheche-lazaro-and-the-wire-tapping-case-filed-by-gsis/.
> If you are concerned about fairness, pleaes leave your comments in
> support of Cheche there.
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> Ricky Lim
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René G. Abad
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