PAGLAAN at PAG-IBIG!

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Ito ay tungkol sa pag-ibig!

Ang unang bahagi ay ang isang tulang isinulat ko noong 30 November 2007!

Bibigyan ko ng pabuya ang makakapagsabi sa akin kaagad kung ano ang nangyari sa araw na ito na dahilan ng aking pagkakasulat sa tulang ito.

Gabay ko sa sarili kung convictions and ideyang nasa tulang ito. Iniaalay ko din ito sa aking mahal na asawang nauunawaan ang kailangan kung gawin at ng marami pa sa ating tunay na nagmamahal sa bayan.

Ang pangalawang bahagi ng blog na ito ay ang "edited" version ng chat naming mag-asawa na personal na palitan namin na gusto naming ibahagi sa lahat.

Makikita nyo dito ang nibel ng aming pagsasama at unawaaan; lalong lalo na sa bahagi ni Bel na napakalaki ng sakripisyo upang unawain at mahalin ang mga bagay na mahalaga sa akin.

Tulad ng dumadaming sitwasyon ng pamilyang Pilipino, kaming pamilya at mag-asawa ay nagsasakripisyong magkalayo upang itaguyod ang aming mga sarili. Dulot ito sa tindi ng kahirapan dito sa ating mahal na sambayanang kapos sa pagaaruga ng mga nagsasamantala at kapos sa pakikialam ng karamihan.

Ang aking mga pahayag sa aming chat ay kaparaanan ko rin upang i-organisa ang aking personal na opinyon, pagaanalisa at batay sa aking limitadong kaalaman.

Sigurado akong di lahat ng nandidito ay tama at maaring kapos sa detalye o malamang ay may ilang bahaging tuwirang mali ang detalye.

Alam ko din na maaaring marami ang di sumangayon sa aking isusulat dito.Bukas ako sa komento, opinyon at tulong ng lahat upang maisaayos ang opinyon at analysis ko na ito. Kaya bukas akung tumanggap sa inyong kontribusyon.

Mag kumento po.

Ang pagkakabuo ng aking mga ideya sa chat na ito ay attempt ko rin upang simulan mula sa aking personal na pananaw ang isang iniatas sa aking year-end political brief and analysis ng Partido Kalikasan na imumungkahi kung working document para pagusapan at ipinal ng Partido Kalikasan leadership consulting our members at constituencies.

Ang resultang PK statement ay ipapadala din namin bilang ambag namin sa similar na pagninilay-nilay ng aming mga partner green movements na bahagi ng aming broader party public constituencies

....para sa aking asawa, mga anak at sa sambayang ito na mahal na mahal ko...

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UNANG BAHAGI

PAGLAAN AT PAG-IBIG!
30 November 2007

Ang pagmamahal sa sambayanan ay wagas at dakila!
Ito'y salita ng ninunong nagpalaya!

Malinaw ang kontradiksyon na nagdudulot ng pahirap...
Kulang lang ang lakas ng loob na maglaan... magtaya!

Sa aking paglabas ng bahay... tanaw ang ngiti ng asawa't anak...
ginuguhit ko sa aking isip kung ganito rin kya ang naramdaman ng mga naunang lumaya...

Kaginhawaan.. katarungan...
Pareho at patuloy pa ring ipinaglalaban!

Dasal kung di ako mag-isa at di tayo iilan...
Dasal kung di sa malayong lugar nakikitaan ang pag-asat kaginhawaaan.

Magising sana ang karamihan...
sa sakripisyo ng iilan
upang makita and pag-asa
dito't... ngayon

... sa ating mga kamay...
... dakilang gawa...
Paglaan at pag-ibig....


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PANGALAWANG BAHAGI


Bel: luv

Roy: hi kaka breakfast lng nga mga bata. nilutuan ko sila ng hotdogs, egg at rice at ice tea. tuwang tuwa sila. ngayon lang uli nagka breakfast ng matino dino. ty daw sa money na pinadala mo

Bel: mabuti naman

Bel: sabihin mo, kumain lang sila

Bel: saka ikaw, kumain ka rin

Roy: oo kumain na ako

Bel: good

Bel: luv, anong masasabi mo sa nangyayari ngayon sa Mindanao?

Roy: yng martial law?

Bel: oo pati nanaman sa kidnapping

Roy: that is part of a scenario to create an atmosphere of di estabilization.

Roy: takot ang mga Arroyo at mga nakinabang sa kanila sa mga kasong nakaambang sa kanila pag naalis sya sa puwesto

Roy: kaya may several scenarios to keep her in power

Roy: One is the NO EL (no election) scenario through the imposition of martial law and/or failure of elections pag di nabilang ang Mindanao votes sa election kasi magkakagulo

Bel: so, me basis talaga yung mga analysis ng mga experts

Roy: YES

Roy: in the event kasi that there is failure of elections of the national positions coz of Mindanao and with PGMA likely to win in congress and be elected by the LAKAS-KAMPI dominated house as speaker, she will be next to lead coz we will not have a president and VP after 2010 coz of the lack of the mindanao vote

Bel: ay ganun

Roy: yng mga foreign interest are with her coz in turn she and the political oligarchy has promised the revision of the economic provisions of the constitution favoring the weakening of our many patrimony provisions including 100% foreign ownership of land, access to seas/marine resources

Bel: naku, dikit-dikit na pala yung mga issue

Roy: the 2nd scenario has to do with a proposal for a transition government. it will also require de estabalization and the establishment of a Council of Leaders and suspending the office of the President, VP and Congress. Dito military generals naman ang nililigawan dahil uupo sila sa council and facilitate a transition supposedly against the oligarchic system pero mahirap pagkatiwalaan din ito dahil di natin masyadong kilala sinong kakampi at kalaban tlaga sa military

Roy: this transition government scenario ay nakasawsaw sa interest ng ilang social movements who favor this. im not sure if they are fully aware of the danger of a military-led process. Isa pa, this requires that we trust the military.

Roy: the 3rd scenario is PGMAs deal with NP and Villar. Villar and NP kahit na presented as maka masa ang opposition are actually the oligarchy. The last time na makamasa tlaga ang NP was when Macario Sakay headed it as SecGen towards the end of the Katipunan revolution. Since then, NP has been coopted by the oligarchy

Bel: ah

Roy: the real candidate of PGMA is Villar NOT Gibo. Gibo has little chance to win coz he is new in the game and people dont know him nor trust him. Villar is trusted more and people dont know of the secret deal between PGMA and VIllar. Villar has agreed NOT to pursue any charges against the Arroyos in exchange for this deal. If this scenario prospers, Gibo might give way to Villar and NP and KAMPI/LAKAS will form a coalition right before the elections. Or maybe not. But just the same Villar secures the interest of Arroyo.

This is a last resort kung mag snowball talaga yng non trapo movements or na maaring mag gain talaga ng tunay na momentum ang repackaged LP because of the so called Noynoy factor and might be driven by the "winnability virus" -- that voters may not give their votes to someone better (non trapos) kung la naman sya pagasa manalo and instead settle for the less evil like Noynoy (na cross between non trapo person and trapo party base)

By the way, I personally do not believe in the winnability virus

Roy: wether NP will sell out on the constitutional amendment for weakening the patrimony clauses remains unclear kasi nagaagawan makapasok sa NP ang mga communist (Bayan, Makabayan,etc) and the old Oligarchy headed by Bongbong Marcos.

Recently, the communist announced they will not join since Bong bong and KBL is coming in. NP has stopped proceeding its coalition with KBL but have continued to accept Bong bong Marcos as guest candidate.

Im not sure if this is an acceptable compromise with the communist. In any case, im not even sure if the "communist" will really oppose any attack on national patrimony or if they know NP and the oligacrhy might end up pushing it if they win.

Roy: Of course, in LP, nandyan din ang Oligarchy (or at least a segment or what they call the Kapamilya Incorporated headed by the Cojuangcos,etc). LP by large remain TRAPO and LP remains Liberal in their position on the Patrimony clause.This was shown in their lame position on the JPEPA treaty.

Roy: so as far as the foreign interest is concern, it might very well be that LP victory is part of the 4th scenario that is still within their interest

Roy: at the end of the day, it is the convergence of these "elite interest" against the convergence and defeat of the more collective "peoples' interest" that will spell the difference wether what is happening now is good or bad for the majority

Bel: aku luv, parang walang bago...

Roy: meron. mas marami ng nakakauna ng isyu na ito

Roy: ang contradiction is clearer, even to the military

Roy: nakakaunawa i mean

Roy: ang problema ngayon, malakas ang kalaban kasi nagcoconverge and mga interests nila

Bel: so, anong dapat magandang gawin

Roy: the response must also be as organize and collective. problem is hati hati pa din ang people's forces althought i think there have been a lot of improvement on the convergence of these forces. something good might still happen

Roy: warlordism is a simple phenomenon of myopic family interest. it is easily subservient to the more sophisticated interest of the oligarchy. so madali silang magsama. the "trapo" generals who are abusive, corrupt and have enrich themselves in office are also the same as the warlords in terms of the level of their interest. the broader interest is again the foreigners whose own national interest would always want a waeaker Philippine state they can continue to plunder in our neo colonial relationship

Bel: yung mga kwento ba ni miriam eh related dyan

Roy: ano yng kuwento ni miriam?

Bel: yun nga me conspiracy daw with the cia?

Roy: malinaw yan.

Roy: Our intelligence agencies were trained by the CIA

Bel: ah

Roy: As far as i know the system and heirarchy of our local intelligence community has not change since martial law

Roy: Their budget is free from COA review and it is automatically alloted every year

Roy: our DND head now is Norberto GOnzales who co heads the PDSP (Partido Democratiko Sosyalista ng Pilipinas) with Ateneo's Fr Entenga. PDSP is a pseudo socialist group that may have been created by the CIA in the 1960s

Bel: oh

Roy: Phils remain a strategic military, political and trade/economic interest of the USA in this part of the world. Their permanent interest here remains despite not having the US bases. In fact with the VFA, they do not need the US bases coz the entire Phil territory is now open to their military mobilization at any time and with our full cooperation pa.

Roy: Furthermore, another deal that the US interest has with the Arroyo is the Archipelagic baseline law which relegates our claim to the most lucrative spratly islands with the most oil in favor of chinese claims under the facilitation of the US.

The next global order is a US-China alliance. Unfortunately, we are only piece in this whole game betweent the US and China. US is facilitating Chinas claim on Phils Spartlys as a confidence bldg process. Remember, as far as global geo politics is concern, the Phils is under the US

Roy: The archipelagic baseline law was passed recently in favor of the chinese. and this is what we submitted to the UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Laws of the Seas), the international counterpart of this territory defining law.

Roy: GANYAN ka tindi ang kalaban luv

Bel: hay.parang sila-sila ang nagpapatakbo ng pinas. sila-sila lang...

Roy: 200+ families are running the government and owns 80% of all economic resources and private lands

Roy: its no wonder why many are opting to take up arms

Bel: yan pa nga, san hahantong yung paghahanap ng mga guns. For real ba yang mangungumpiska o palabas lang

Roy: tamang yng dinidisarmahan ang mga private armies sa Maguindanao. Pero since ang naguutos nyan ay mga self serving generals and PGMA who have many skeletons to hide in their closet (remember the Ampatuan's are known to have supported the military's dirty jobs and PGMA used them para mandaya big time noong last elections - remember the 1M vote assurance sa Maguindanao in the Garci tapes), the bigger question is, ano naman yang mga mas matitinding ibedensya na iipit sa kanila ang nililinis nila?

Bel: oo nga

Roy: sabi ng isang certain Count na nakausap ko last Monday; during Ramos time, the biggest recorded surrender of arms in ARMM was facilitated by the sultunate of sulu. The Count is part of the royal family and he is I think a believer of active non violence and peace. in this surrender daw, all they did was asked the people of armm to surrender their 3 oldest weapons and keep the remainig 5-7

Roy: ganyan kadami ang arms sa ARMM and Maguindanao. it will not be a surprise for them to disarm a few that may look big but the bigger and newer guns ... i dont think they will be able to get that.

Roy: the good think here is ma disarm and the CAFGU at CVOs (militia aka private armies ng Ampatuan). Yng mga hawag pa ng ibang mga muslim communities, di nila makukuha yan kasi majority are stilll supportive of seccessionism and will never give up their arms and end hostilities until the 4 part step in the peace process is achieved. the peace process has been stock on the 3rd - the discussion and adoption of the agreement on the MOA on Ancestral Domain

Bel: mean, wala pa sa kalingkingan yung mga nakuha

Roy: YEP. ang long term solution dyan is still the peace process. the MILF, MNLF as a discipline army can wipe out the warlords and the abu sayaff who are both military creations against them if they are fully empowered under a peace agreement betweent he GRP and the MNLF/MILF

Roy: la pa more than 20 years na yan

Roy: kasi laging all out war and policy. NOT all out peace

Roy: dapat all out peace

Roy: btw, Ramos, the perrenial king maker is President of one of the largest arms marketing company in the world. he is assumed to be a prominent agent of this military industrial complex here in this region and may be one of the political links of the CIA.

Roy: war is good business to them

Roy: the biggest US industry is their military industrial complex. yan ang kinalaban ni President Kennedy and he died for it remember

Bel: oo nga

Bel: so ano kayang possible ending re martial law, saka ng ampatuan case

Roy: if people are not mobilize solidly soon, PGMA, et all will play out the scenario.

Roy: the best option sana for the peoples movement is to oppose the realization of these scenarios and be extremely vigilant sa election. if many non trapos can get in government, it will weaken the self serving interests of the oligarchy, warlords, generals and the foreign interest. kahit magkakaiba ang ideology ng mga non trapos, they are all nationalists and pro people's interest. pag ganyan, the real spirit of multipartism and democracy will work

Roy: pagandahan ng ideolohiya at ideya

Roy: ngayon pa lang the oligarchs are frontly assaulting the non trapo governors who won in the last elections - Among Ed, Padaca, Gov Reyes of Bulacan, etc

Roy: pag malakas kasi ang peoples support, the vested interest will be very wary and step back

Roy: ganyan lang ang laro dyan.

Roy: ipipilit nila gusto nila pag walang umalma

Roy: kya nga nila sinandya ng OFW phenomenon para ang karamihan ay di na umasam umalma pero umalis na lang

Bel: ah

Roy: kaya yng conscienctization ng mga OFW families, OFW and filipino communities abroad is very crucial

Bel: naku

Roy: OFW political clout may not be very important but their economic contribution is. If this is channeled well to community sustainable enterprises and empower communities in thier development (including political participation), it can fuel the necessary bottom up peoples revolution that should happen

Roy: The greens believe that such a revolution is not the armed or violent means dahil that will create an endless cycle of violence and destruction. it is really through active non violence

Roy: yan and pinagkaiba namin sa communist response

Roy: the dillema with active non violence is that it requires martyrs and sacrifice

Bel: kasama ka ba dun

Roy: oo naman.

Remembering Hacienda Luisita!

Sa mga umaasa ka NOYNOY!

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In a few hours from now, as the day dawns: groups of old and young people, from different sectors: students, workers, women, will embark to join the farmers of Hacienda Luisita in remembering the life, death and struggles of the (7) seven striking farm workers who had watered this fertile soil with their very blood.




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Hacienda Luisita's case is but just one, of the growing number of atrocities and abuse, and exploitation of workers, that are gone unchecked if not actually perpetuated by the current regime of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, that stresses her pro-landlord and pro-capitalist stance.

Hacienda Luisita has a land area of approximately 6500 hectares, or about 15,000 in acres, and is the second (2nd) largest contiguous land in the Philippines. It is owned by a powerful feudal and political lord, the Cojuangco and the Aquino, one of which became the country's President and (supposedly) champion of democracy, and the one who even established a fake Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program that allowed a lot of backdoor escapes for landlords to legally dodge the inclusion of their land in the land reform program.



The farm workers of Hacienda Luisita only gets P9.50 (in Philippine currency or barely $0.20 in US Dollars) for a day's work in the farm. Clearly not enough to feed one person as much as feed a family. Five years ago, about 5000 striking workers from two (2) unions, assmbled themselves peacefully to demand their democratic rights. The Aquino - Cojuangco clan should have granted the workers with improved wages and working conditions, and redistributed the land to the farmers, as required by law... yet they choosed to:




...throw tear gas, and aim water cannons to the strikers, but the workers stood their ground. Gunshots were heard next, the farmers, become sitting ducks in an alley.


It took down 7 farmers, 200 wounded and injured and 120 farm workers and activist arrested.


Five years have already gone. But not much moved in the original scheme of things. The Cojuangcos are still the biggest landlord in the country. Now one heir, a senator, contemplates on running as a President in May 2010 elections. And a lot of people are still naive enough to jump in his bandwagon in the name of "change", a "change" for what, and of what, that he still have yet to define. Or maybe that will have to remain undefined, since his class dictates, that he, protects at all cost his class interests.

Five years have already gone, there are few victories, but victories indeed. Like some parcels of land have been already reacquired by the farmers through their continuing collective work and struggle. Yet more and more the fascist regime, had showed where its interest and protection lies, never at the side of the people and always at the side where it could gain money, and more power. As of today, the Ombudsman have absolved all civilian officials of their criminal liability, and all cases against military and police agents are still pending in court.




But five years and more, we shall always remember, that fateful afternoon of November 16th, 2004. When out in the open, they have fired, and gunned down 7 farmers. Watering the soil, with the blood of those who have tilled it.

The struggle for "land to the tillers" or genuine agrarian reform and social justice will continue, until the day where exploitation of man and man, will no longer be.


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*hindi kami nakakalimot = we have not forgotten...

giving up....

ive reached the end of my line. i can no longer proceed.

Pagpapatuloy Ayon sa Batayang Prinsipyo ng People's Primaries: Isang Minoryang Opinyon?

Hindi kaila sa inyo na hindi ako sumasangayon sa mayoryang opinyon sa loob ng People's Primaries Technical Working Group (PP-TWG) sa pananaw nito ukol sa kasalukuyang katayuan at dapat na pagbabagong direksyon ng proseso ng inisyatibong ito.

Batay sa mayorya, ang mababang bilang ng nag rehistong “joiners” sa PP sa pamamagitan ng text (halos 500 katao sa boung Pilipinas); bagamat naabot nito ang higit sa 67 sa 219 na electoral districts (30%) at may higit na 23 sa mga electoral districts (10% ng kabuuan) na ito ang may minimal na nibel na ng nagtatayang volunteer na ipatakbo ang district-level processes, hindi pa din daw ito sapat kung kayat sinasabing hindi nakausad ng maayos ang proseso at di nito narating ang “momentum” na kailangan natin upang makapagpatuloy.

Sinasabi rin ng mayorya na di maipagpapatuloy ang presidential primary eleksyo sa dahilang wala ng naiiwang kandidato. Totoo na nagbitiw na si Governor Grace Padaca, si Governor Ed Panlilio sa kanilang interes na tumakbo bilang pangulo. Gayunpaman, hindi ako sumasangayon na wala nang potensyal na kandidato ang PP sa presidential primary nito dahil nariyan pa ang nomination ni Dr Ernie Ramos, isang Fil-American citizen na tatakbo bilang pangulo sa ilalim ng isang emerging national party; ang Democratic Party of the Philippines. Nariyan din si G. Nicanor Perlas na presidential candidate ng isang emerging national political party; ang PANGMASA (Partido ng Marangal na Sambayanan). Gayundin, madalas sumama sa ating mga proseso ang mga kinatawan ng BANGON Pilipinas at wala pang categorical na deklarasyon si G. Eddie Villanueva na hindi na sya tatakbong pangulo.

Si Dr Ramos ay na nomina na sa PP pero hindi pa nauupuan ng ating National Candidate Screening Council (o ng National Steering Council) ang nominasyon na ito at I subject sya sa criteria ng TRAPO o NON-TRAPO upang maideklara ng council kung sya ba ay TRAPO o NON TRAPO at puwedeng maging kandidato ng primaries.

Si G. Perlas naman ay nagsabi na ng categorical na bukas sya sa PP pero meron syang mga kundisyon na nais nyang gawin ng PP process upang mapaunlad ito bago sya tuwirang papayag na sumama, ma nomina at tumakbo sa PP. Para sa kaalaman ng lahat, narito ang kanyang mga kundisyon:

(1) retracting of press release (i suppose the one where the slant was pro Nonoy)
(2) invalidation of the straw vote as premature and contrary to PP principles
(3) program to address winnability virus at all levels
(4) program to prevent biasing of district votes in favor of a particular candidate
(5) making the PP results non-binding

Si G. Eddie Villanueva naman ay di pa naglalabas ng categorical na statement na hindi sya sasama at susuporta sa People's Primaries. Naniniwala akong may pagasa pa na sila ay sumama.

Gayunpaman, kahit walang nagnomina, ang ating National Candidates Selection Council ay proactively nagdeklara kay G. Noynoy Aquino bilang non-trapo na nagbibigay daan sa kanya upang tumakbo sa People's Primaries kung pipiliin nya. Sa kasalukuyan ay di ba tuwirang nakakausap si G. Aquino ukol dito.

Kung titingnan ninyo ito, may potensyal na higit sa dalawa ang posibleng kandidato sa ating Presidential Primaries. Totoong lumampas na ang mga deadline sa pagpapasa ng nominasyon, pero totoo din kayang wala ni isang kandidato tayo o naging kapos lang tayo sa kailangang gawa upang maisara ang pakikipagusap sa kanila upang makumbinsing sumama? Paano ang nominasyon ni G. Ramos? Paano ang kundisyong hindi pa naaksyonan sa bahagi ni G. Perlas? Ang katahimikan ba ng BANGON Pilipinas ay nangangahulugang ayaw nila tlaga?

Pinanghahawakan ko ang isang desisyon ng ating National Candidate Selection Council na kung may kahit dalawa man lang na kandidato sa PP, ay itutuloy natin ang proseso.

Dahil sa dalawang kadahilanang ito (pananaw na di sapat ang naging momentum at kawalan daw ng interesadong kandidato para sa PP presidential primaries), ang mayorya ay nsa opinyon na na dapat pagkaisahan na natin na nagkaroon na nga ng failure ang ating Presidential primaries at di na dapat ipagpatuloy.

Alinsunod din sa ganitong pananaw, sinasabi din ng mayorya na ang inaasahang groundswell ng public support para sa pagbubuo ng puwersang non-trapo para sa proseso ng People's Primaries ay di nangyari sa sarili nating proseso ngunit naipakita ito sa pangyayaring naganap sa kamatayan at sa libing ni Presidente Cory Aquino at sa pagkakatulak sa kanyang anak na si Noynoy upang piliing tumakbong pangulo sa 2010 elections.

Dahil dito, iminumungkahi ng mayorya na hindi lamang I declare na failure ang Presidential Primaries natin kundi I adopt natin si Noynoy bilang ating Presidential Candidate at sa pamamagitan nito ay gamitin ang kanyang momentum upang maipagpatuloy natin ang pagoorganisa at pagpapatakbo ng PP process para sa Bise Presidente, mga Senador at mga lokal na posisyon upang maisagawa pa din ang malawakang paguusap ukol sa People's Agenda, People's Common Slate at sa pagbubuo ng isang People's Political Coalition Party para sa 2010.

Sa aking tinggin, lampas sa personalidad ay ang proseso. Kailangang maranasan ng marami sa ating mamamayan ang prosesong iminumungkahi natin sa Peoples' Primaries. Nsa prosesong ito ang ating kolektibo at malalim na partisipasyon sa darating na halalan at sa pagbubuo ng isang People's Coalition Party na gusto nating mamuno. Naniniwala akong ang prosesong ito ay susi sa ating pagulad. Ito ang dahilan kung bakit ako ay personal na sumusuporta at nagtutulak ng PP.

Naniniwala akong dapat at kaya pang ituloy ang PP; parehong mula sa bottom up at top-bottom na paraan; sa pamamagitan ng mga local district na proseso at proseso ng paguusap at pagsasama sama sa mga national/nationwide na non-trapo political movements and parties; at sa sa paraang inuuna ang programa, kasunod ang posisyon at tao (slate) at panghuli ang pagsasama-sama (coalition).

Ang mga paunang kahinaan ng ating proseso (joiners, partisan group confirmation) ay bahagi pa din ng pagaayos at marami pa tayong puwedeng gawing mga kaparaanan upang mapaunlad ito. Hindi pa ako sumusuko sa ating pinagsimulan.

Ang alternatibong inihain ng mayorya; para sa akin ay kapos sa batayang prinsipyo ng prosesong ating pinagkaisahan para sa PP. Hindi pa ako kumbinsido na ang isang short cut sa ating proseso ay mas makakabuti sa atin. Lalong lalo na kung and dahilan ay oportunidad batay sa personalidad.

Iminumungkahi kung ipagpatuloy pa din natin ang PEOPLE'S PRIMARIES batay sa orihinal na desenyo nito at huwag I deklarang failure ang Presidential Primaries at wag gawing atuomatic ang pagdadala natin bilang kandidato kay G. Noynoy Aquino.

Ito ay maaaring maisakatuparan sa pamamagitan ng mga sumusudon na paraan:

(1)Una, I proseso na sa susunod na linggo ang nominasyon ni G. Ernie Ramos

(2)Pangalawa, payagan ng GA na ito ng PP ang pagsunod natin sa mga kundisyon ni G. Nicky Perlas sa kanyang pagsama sa PP. Sa unang kundisyon, ito ay simpleng public statement lamang ng pagpapaliwanag na hindi pa tuwirang endorsement ng pagtakbo sa pagkapangulo ang ibinibigay ng PP kundi imbitasyon sa kanyang sumama sa PP. Madali ang pangalawang kundisyon dahil madali nating maisasantabi ang resulta ng straw vote na ito na hindi pa din naman naipapakalat sa publiko. Sa pangatlo at pang apat, kung ating susundin ang orihinal na proseso ng PP ay naka built in sa proseso na ito ang mga safeguards upang maisakatuparan ang dalawang kundisyon na ito. Para sa panghuling kundisyon, sa kadahilanang hindi pa din naman naipapakita ang tunay na political advantage na dulot ng PP process hanggat hindi natin marating ang ating mga target electors, sa palagay ko ay hindi nakakalagay sa alangan ng integridad ng proseso ng PP ang pagsasaalang alang pansamantala sa ating rule na dapat ay binded sa simula pa lang ang mga kandidato sa resulta ng primaries. Kung maabot natin ang ating dami ng electors, ang mga kandidato na mismo sa PP ang di magkakamaling di magpapa subject sa resulta nito.

(3)Pangatlo, pormal ng imbitahan si G. Noynoy Aquino na sumama sa People's Primary elections.

(4)Pangapat, kung magkakaproblema man tayo sa nominasyon ng mga potential na candidates na ito, ang isa pang option na meron tayo ay baguhin ang ating rules sa ganitong kaparaanan: Imbis na kailangang pumayag ang kandidatong na nominate para tumakbo sa primaries, maaari nating gawin na tanggapin ang nominasyon mula sa kahit sino mang grupo at I subject ito sa screening ng selection council kahit hindi pa sila pumamayag. Imbis na ang magtataya na sumunod sa resulta ng primaries ay nsa mga kandidatong ito, ang puwede nating ipagpapangakong sumunod sa resulta at ergo ay bumoto sa aktuwal na eleksyon sa Mayo 2010 batay sa resulta ng ating primaries ay ang mga PP electors mismo at di ang mga kandidato.

(5)Panglima, magtayaan na ng mas maayos ang bawat kasapi sa National Facilitator's Group (NFG) kung aling distrito ang kaya nilang tayaan upang maabot natin ang target na 154 districts (70% of total) Nsa 23 na tayo sa ngayon at may potential kaagad na 67. Kailangan na lang natin maabot ang 87. Kung ito at sobrang dami pa din, maari din nating ibaba ang ating target sa 50% man lang ng lahat ng distrito o 110. Sa potensyal na bilang nating 67 sa ngayon ay mas madali na itong maabot

(6)Panganim, kung nabibigatan tayo sa target na 1,000 voters para sa minimum na unang electoral district votes, maarin nating ibaba pa ito sa 100 para sa paunang electoral vote at sa mga susunod na boto at dagdag na 1T.

(7)Pangpito, pagkaisahan ng GA ngayon ang isang bagong schedule ng operation ng PP na magiging batayan ng ating mga deliverables at targets. Ito ang mungkahi kung bagong schedule:

Rest of September:

> Final deadline for any group to nominate is 28 September (Mon)
> Deadline for NCSC to review and declare the PP candidates (Pres, VP, Senators) – 30 September
> Call a meeting among potential non -trapo national political parties (accredited and those in the process of accreditation) to present the new PP process and call on them to join the coalition, contribute their platform agenda, contribute their contacts as potential district coordinators and call for them to nominate candidates to PP at the national and local positions – 25 September (Friday)
> Prepare and Print Coalition Flyers for Organizing District Chapters and Joiners
> Create an updated website (www.peoplesprimaries.org) with new schedules & rules
> Send SMS to all joiners to ask who among them can act as district level coordinators in their respective districts subject to requirements of coordinators (endorsement of a credible local institution, etc)
> Ask all District Coordinators to prepare feasible financing plans: Estimate required for Mobilization and Campaign
> September 29 – 30 – Call a workshop among the non trapo partisan groups and NFG members to refine a common draft

October:

> Organize District Facilitators Groups (DFGs) in 110 Districts defined as at least 3 individuals with access to internet, vehicles, office space and not connected with any other local or national partisan groups.
> October 9 – Hold and video taped a NON TRAPO Presidential & Vice Presidential Candidates Forum. Edit the video and upload them to the internet and produce CDs to be circulated to all PP district coordinators
> October 16 – Hold and video taped a NON TRAPO Senatorial Candidates Forum. Edit the video and upload them to the internet and produce CDs to be circulated to all PP district coordinators
> 3rd & 4th week of October – simultaneous district level workshops to discuss the common political agenda, define their local political agenda, identify local candidates for nomination, elect their representative to the PP convention, organize a district candidates selection council and watch the videos of the NON TRAPO Candidates Forum. All districts are encourage to organize physical candidates forum among the non trapo candidates of the PP
> Deadline for local PP candidates nomination is 28 October.
> Deadline for District Selection Council to review and declare the local PP candidates – 31 Oct

Nov:

> Nov 1 – 7:Conduct Primaries for President
> Nov 8 -14: Run Off Elections (if necessary)
> 1- 2nd week of November – Districts to organize local PP Candidates Forum
> Local PP Elections is Nov 16-20
> PP National Convention is held Nov 15-16. Election of VP, Senators. Adoption of the national platform of governance. Presentation of complete national slate. Public declaration of the PEOPLE'S NONTRAPO COALITION (3rd force for 2010)
> Nov 17. Filing of Petition for Coalition
> End of November – Filing of Coalition Candidates

Month of Dec

Campaign Strategies , Intensification of Fund raising (slogan: each District raise its own funds from many small sources)

January to May:
Level the Playing Field, Full Blast Campaigning.

On Mar & Noynoy Tandem for 2010

Mar Roxas backs out for Noynoy Aquino. But will Noynoy run under the Liberal Party (LP) as its Presidential candidate?

If so, let us forget him to lead us.

He may be a non trapo being thrown into the pit of the trapos and YES, we do have the obligation to try to convince him to take the tight track.

We are not short of these efforts but if despite all of these, he doesn't, then we have just seen a preview of how compromising he can be.

Now more than ever, the real "non-trapos" MUST unite.

In my eyes any of the non trapos who jumps into this Noynoy-Mar LP tandem trap is making a wrong compromise.

The Liberals of the past sold us to the Americans. Last year, they allowed us to be sold to the Japanes through JPEPA.

The yellow army was not created because of LP but despite of it.

WE honor the father for his son but not the son for his father.

If Noynoy pursues this, then we know he is of lesser stuff and do not deserve our loyalty.

Just the same, the Peoples Primaries (PP) group is meeting with Noynoy in the next few days to make a last minute attempt to get him out of LP and into leading the PP process.

But i have my sincere doubt that we will get him out of LP.

A close friend texted me that we have the obligation to remind him that he should be the "peoples" candidate and not of the Liberals.

However, I also reminded that friend that the concept of "people" in real politik is defined by how organize and discipline particular groups are to act collectively.

If I were Noynoy and looking at who has the capacity and machinery to get me in power, I too would probably be tempted to go to LP. Even Akbayan of the progressives has joined the practical bandwagon and is in alliance with LP; then with Mar; more so now with a potentially stronger candidate in Noynoy.

The learning and challenge here for me as I reflect upon the Greens and Partido Kalikasan (PK) is that it is imperative that majority or at least many of the areas where PK will be running locally in 2010 elections MUST win and start being a real, relevant force to reckon with in 2016.

The difference I can promise you is that PK will NEVER compromise on principles to build ourselves but we need to build ourselves nonetheless, even several person a week for so many, many years, if necessary.

Reclaiming the "social contract" towards a sustainable society for Filipinos!

This piece was inspired by a short discussion I had today with Rizal-Marikina local party leader and PK chairperson candidate Ka Rene Pineda. He shared with me his vision for how Partido Kalikasan should be to make a difference in the life of our communities as we continue nation building at this juncture of history and opportunities today.

... (please come back in a while. ill finish this later. everything is now up in my head. i just need to find the time to write it mamaya!)

With the Congress pursuing Cha Cha.. Greens must shift to substantive issues!

With this development in Congress that they are still pursuing without let-up the Cha cha issue, the debate must now go to the substantive part of the cha cha question and beyond the myopic issue of term extension.

Do not get me wrong. I never accepted PGMA as a legitimate President and she must not be allowed to stay in power. Furthermore, at the end of her term, justice must be pursued and she must go to jail for her corruption.

However, this issue; as it is emerging now is far bigger than the singular issue of having and being able to get rid of an illegitimate President.

If we dont shift to this in a massive scale now, we may find ourselves lost and irrelevant to influence the eventual outcome.

The Greens must be prepared for this debate.

Many times, we have discussed common analysis and positions on these issues; particularly those of the nationalists provisions of our current constitution concerning Filipino control over land, marine resource and natural resources in general.

We have also raised the many good provisions in the constitution that can help institutionalise people empowerment and grassroots democracy that unfortunately have remained under implemented.

These include the provisions on bottom-up local development planning that has helped us to some extent in some successful but far from mainstreamed experiments in the past at localization of Philippine Agenda 21 and some success stories at peoples councils and the like.

Furthermore, electoral and political reforms (including that of the anti dynasty provisions) as well as the development of mature party systems and improvement of the electoral system (far from the problematic automation that we have right now) are key provisions in our current constitution that to my mind have remained prominent in our appreciation as Greens.

I call on the local green movements who will receive this email; including our own local organizations in Partido Kalikasan and members of the Green Convergence to consider a decisive and shift preparations to confront this debate head on NOW!

Some key questions to ponder:

(1) What exactly are our consensus on the issue of charter change? Which provisions do we want to change or protect consistent with our ideology, political agenda and program of governance as Greens? To what extent does our views differ and divergent on specific constitutional issues?

(2) Given a consensus on the above, how prepared are we to put up several Concon delegate candidate for the possibility of a May 2010 Concon delegate election to coincide with the national and local elections? Who are our potential champions and candidates? How much loyalty can we expect from these potential green delegates? What mechanisms do we set-up to ensure that our common positions and our potential candidates are bonded together in a serious agreement to pursue our common interest?

(3) How should we prepare now for the eventuality that we will have to organize a massive electoral then public education and advocacy campaign to push our green delegates to the Concon election and to ensure that our common positions and analysis on the issues become publiclu know, understood and popularly accepted? How should we organize ourselves then to pursue these?

For your consideration, reflection and our collective actions!

Para sa Kalikasan at sa Sambayan,