tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63219612168555052792024-03-12T21:27:34.482-07:00Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya-Cebu[Movement for National Democracy]Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-16429406239128745032020-07-16T03:01:00.000-07:002020-07-16T03:01:51.194-07:00A PUBLIC STATEMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST TYRANNY ON THE SIGNING OF THE ANTI-TERROR ACT OF 2020<br />
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<b><i><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">Authoritarian
Upgrade in a Shrinking Democratic Space</span></i></b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">July 4, 2020</span><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At
a time when the government relaxes Covid-19 quarantine in most parts of the
country - except Cebu City and a few other areas - which hopefully would give
relief to the Filipino people from the distress suffered under the pandemic
lockdowns, comes the passage of the proposed Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020.
Despite widespread protest and opposition, the latest of which is the call by
the Bangsamoro Transition Authority for the President to veto it, the
Anti-Terrorism Bill was signed into law yesterday, July 3, 2020, a date of
infamy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Peoples’ Campaign Against Tyranny [PCAT] joins the growing and heightened
rejection of the bill by many more concerned and protesting groups, on the
bases of <i>content, context, conduct and consequence</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The definition of terrorism is so vague in
its broadness that it is prone to<span style="color: #365f91;"> </span>be abused
by proven abusive law enforcers seen in the bloody war on drugs. Provisions of
the proposed law are dangerous because they violate the Constitution,
specifically the basic human rights of the Filipino people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For example, it allows warrantless arrest and
detention of suspects up to 14 days and extendable by 10 more days or a total
of 24 days without<span style="color: #365f91;"> </span>formal charges, while the
Constitution allows only 3 days even under a suspended writ of habeas corpus or
under martial law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Likewise, it vests huge powers to the
Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) it creates [composed of 8 Cabinet Members and the
Chair of the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC)]—that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>determines and identifies suspected
terrorist/s and authorizes enforcers to arrest—a power the 1987 Constitution
vests only to judges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consequently, this
vests the president with almost absolute power. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Moreover, the ATA of 2020 deliberately
omitted Section 41 of the Human Security Act 2007, which penalizes state agency
or personnel for arresting and detaining a suspect eventually found innocent.
Said agency or personnel would be required to indemnify the victim in the
amount of P500,000 for every day of his/her illegal detention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By deleting this section, the proposed ATL of
2020 paves the way for its abuse by enforcers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 gives the
President far greater powers than martial law with suspension of the writ of
habeas corpus. Under the ATA2020, the entire country is placed in a permanent
state of emergency rule that is more restrictive and punitive than martial law.
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Context<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Like a thief in the night<span style="color: #365f91;">, </span>the bill is being processed into law at a time
when people are restricted<span style="color: #00b0f0;"> </span>from holding mass
gatherings due to quarantine protocols. With the prevalence of incoherent,
disorganized<span style="color: red;"> </span>policies in managing the pandemic
that provoked criticisms from various quarters, it is not difficult to perceive
that such bill is part of a design to silence dissent in this time of pandemic
crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Furthermore, the bill was certified as urgent
by a head of state with penchant for meting ruin and/or revenge against
perceived enemies, especially women—Senator de Lima is still in detention for
trumped-up charges; Vice President Leni Robredo was forced to quit as housing
secretary in December 2016 and fired as antidrug czar in November 2019; then
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales was hit with an impeachment attempt in
December 2017; Ma. Lourdes Sereno was unconstitutionally<span style="color: #00b0f0;"> </span>ousted as chief justice in May 2018; Australian missionary
Patricia Fox was deported in November 2018 for joining protest actions; and,
Rappler executive editor Maria Ressa was convicted of cyber-libel on June 15,
2020.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In several speeches, President Duterte was
quite outspoken about declaring martial law either as threat or inclination. He
actually put Mindanao under martial rule for two years and has been<span style="color: #00b0f0;"> </span>vocal<span style="color: #00b0f0;"> </span>of his
admiration of the former dictator Ferdinand Marcos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Conduct<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Since the outbreak of the pandemic, the
people have been cowering in anxiety and fear due to the risks and threats to
health and life brought about by Covid-19.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Such distress worsened when the Duterte regime unleashed a response to
the pandemic dubbed as “war on the covid-19”. War being the framework of the
response entailed the key role of state security forces in the subsequent
declaration of quarantine and/or lockdowns in the middle of March, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thus, the ensuing common sight, in many
areas, of police and military forces—conducting checkpoints, doing searches,
issuing warnings and threats, making arrests, rounding up violators and even
shooting/killing a mentally ill former army soldier—is to acclimatize the
people to a militaristic design that can happen sooner or later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This militarized conduct of the Covid-19
response compounds further the angst and dread of the populace especially the
poor and vulnerable—still agonizing from loss of jobs and livelihood;
constricted mobility and space; and hunger—caused by the quarantine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is disturbing and alarming indeed, that
amidst the combined public health and economic crises are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the arbitrary closure of ABS-CBN; the
conviction of Maria Ressa and Rey Santos of Rappler News for the improbable crime
of cyber-libel; and, the arrest of two netizens who offered online hefty
“rewards” for anyone who can kill Duterte, the arrest and detention of six
jeepney drivers in Caloocan City for “violation of quarantine protocols”, and
of eight persons mostly from UP- Cebu for “illegal mass gathering” while
protesting against the Anti-Terrorism Bill. These incidents undoubtedly send a
chilling message not only to media people and cause-oriented groups but to the
whole citizenry as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
firmly believe and are convinced the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 (ATA) would
certainly curtail and impair the people’s basic Constitutional rights and
therefore would sow fear and passivity that could ruin people’s economic
initiatives and productivity and could engender more psychosocial, physical and
mental health problems among the people, especially in the ranks of the
impoverished majority that have been increasing exponentially during this
prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. ATA 2020 narrows further our democratic space,
choking the nation and people already gasping for fresh air of civil liberties
and other basic human rights. Indeed, this tyranny sees no end in inflicting
burdens on the people. This ATA appears to be the last straw that will break
the camel’s back of Philippine democracy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A Contradiction<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">IRONICALLY,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>in moments when our Government should be very concerned about the
people’s plight due to this global pandemic<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>they who vowed to defend and protect the people, to engage in more
productive and liberating laws, are the ones bringing the people and nation to
ruins, bondage and discord. The state comes up with an anti-terrorism bill
purportedly to quell terrorism but in the process will terrorize the very same
people they claim to protect from the same. Is this not state terrorism in the
guise of an anti-terrorism act?<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We call on all people of goodwill and faith,
here and abroad, to register their stand against the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020
in whatever form and capacity they can muster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Reject Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fr. Jose S. Bagadiong, Jr., SVD<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sr. Evangelina Labanda, SFIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Provincial Superior, PSP<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fr. Ephraim Arciga, MSC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Secretary, AMRAMSOC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Vocation Director, MSC Philippines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sr. Maureen Cariaga, OSB<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Officer, AWROC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fr. Melencio Balay, Jr. SVD<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chaplain, University of San Carlos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sr. Malu Javier, DC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Colegio de la Immaculada Concepcion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fr. Christian Buenafe, OCarm<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Spirituality Officer, AMRAMSOC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sr. Agnes
Labitoria, SFIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">St. Joseph School of
Mactan<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bro. Simon Peter Jardinico, FFC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Vice-Chairman, AMRAMSOC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Sr. Fausta Cabrillas, SFIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fr. Paul Yntig, SSP<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Treasurer, AMRAMSOC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Sr.
Eufemia Villegas, SFIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fr. Renel Cabag, OAD<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Auditor, AMRAMSOC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Sr. Mariam Dungog, SFIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Sr. Mercedes Salud, SFIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Sr. Ailene Jamang, SFIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Sr.
Julienne Condrada, SFIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Sr. Jocelyn Alado, SFIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Sr. Milagros Jayma, SFIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Grace Magalzo-Bualat, MPS LIB<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">University of San Carlos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Faculty Member, USC Department of Political Science, School
of Law & Governance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rosario Sequitin, RSW<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Professor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Atty. Rounald A. Sitoy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lawyer/Activist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Atty. Magdalena M. R. Lepiten <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Co-Convenor, Cebu for Human </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rights (C4HR)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Atty. Anna Fionah L. Bojos<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Co-Convenor, Cebu for Human Rights (C4HR)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Atty.
Vincent Isles<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Chair, Cebu Action Group<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr. Weena Gera<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Associate Professor, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">UP Cebu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ritz Lee Santos, III<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Executive Director,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Balaod Mindanao<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Haley Atienza<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">PhilDHRRA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Brenda de Guzman<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Direct Service Program Staff<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">TFDP-Visayas<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Emalyn M. Aliviano<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Spokesperson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-41350145801671203602020-04-23T20:30:00.001-07:002020-04-23T20:30:53.399-07:00 No to Militarized Responses to COVID 19<br />
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">April 24, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Reference:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Emalyn M. Aliviano- 0932-357-6253<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Spokesperson-
KILUSAN Cebu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The
high-handedness of local authorities in dealing with issues related to the
current COVID epidemic in the country is alarming, especially as this happens
under threats of “martial law-type of lockdown”.</div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">The deployment
of battle-ready soldiers and policemen and Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) in
imposing the “total lockdown” of Sitio Zapatera, Barrio Luz, Cebu City was
indicative of the “martial law-type lockdown” threat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">The total
lockdown was imposed after the City Health Office, declared the sitio of some
9,000 residents as “totally contaminated. It was presumed “the residents are infected”
after the City Health Office has reportedly found positive cases of Covid-19 infection
from testing done at the two end sections of the barangay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That assessment was used as basis for the
decision to discontinue further testing. At that point, 135 individuals have
tested Covid-19 positive, after several tests were done since the first case
was identified on April 12. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">The residents,
expectedly, were adamant at first because the first confirmed cases, instead of
being moved to proper quarantine facility, were told to “self-isolate at home”.
That was really a careless advice from the personnel of the City Health Office.
Are they not aware that the houses in that congested community are too small to
even do social or physical distancing? Covid-19 transmission is highly probable
in this community. But uncaringly, succeeding cases of Covid-19 positive residents
were also told to stay in the sitio, despite the community’s requests that they
should be moved to a proper isolation or quarantine facility. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">To underscore
its uncaringness or at least, carelessness, the City Health Office ceased COVID-19
testing without transferring the positively tested residents to hospitals or
other proper quarantine or isolation facilities. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is tantamount to criminal negligence! By
not pursuing contact tracing and COVID-19 testing of other possible infected
persons, the spread or transmission of the novel coronavirus within the
community could not be determined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Without doing these, however, the city government declared the community
“totally contaminated”, i.e., a presumption of illness of all residents, without
basis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Nearly all of the
residents have had experience consulting with doctors. They know and understand
that definitive conclusion of illness comes as a result of diagnosis – medical
check-ups and tests. They want the continuance of testing; they demand
protection of their health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Brgy.
Captain, heeding the residents, formally filed an appeal to the City Mayor on
April 17 for resumption of the testing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Yet over and
above their reaction to the City Health Office’s assessment and decision of
discontinuance of testing, a mix of anger, anxiety and fear is being sensed by people.
The deployment of APCs to enforce the “total lockdown” left marked in the people’s
consciousness the fear that they can be gunned down anytime. The order “shoot
them dead” which was earlier told by Duterte to “his policemen” echoed in the
collective memory of the residents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">The war is
supposed to be with the coronavirus and the plague it is causing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So why deploy the threatening APCs at all
entrances to the barangay and sitio? APCs are meant against armed and visible enemies
not the unseen virus. The presence and sight of these killing machines sent
chilling message to all the people in Sitio Zapatera, Barangay Luz and to all
people who could fall in the same situation later. Are the people in the
barangay who fear the infectious and killer virus and are demanding their right
to proper health care, now considered enemies of the state? If not, shouldn’t
the city government sent the health and medical frontliners instead? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Though the local
health office resumed testing after so much public demand for it, repression
however is continuing. Ms. Maria Victoria Beltran, a two-time media awardee and
well renowned writer/artist and a businesswoman, was arrested, without warrant,
at the dead of the night (12:30 am, Monday) for her reaction to the presumption
of illness of 9000 residents of Sitio Zapatera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her post read “9,000+ new cases (All from Zapatera) of Covid-19 in Cebu
City in one day. We are now the epicentre in the whole Solar System “.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">The City Health Office’s
assessment of the coronavirus infection in Sitio Zapatera, which saw print, was
an overstatement and baseless. Without observing proper procedure and no proper
diagnosis, the “assessment” is now proven factually erroneous. Succeeding tests
showed only one resident tested COVID-19 positive on April 18, as per DOH
report on April 19.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Cebu City Mayor
Labella called Ms. Maria Victoria Beltran’s posts “fake news” and that she is
“criminally liable” for that. The Mayor maybe does not understand or has no
aesthetic sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ms. Beltran’s posts
were certainly reactions done in exaggerated manner and with sarcasm and
overstatement; a figure of speech used to underscore a point, but obviously,
just that. In short, it was just a reaction to a grave injustice to the residents
of Sitio Zapatera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anti-virus or anti-people response?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Utterances and
actions by the local government executive and by the police and military, which
are consistent with authoritarian orders from the tyrant in Malacanang, are
aggravating the people’s burdens and fears. They are making insignificant the
heroic deeds and sacrifices of the medical, health and other front liners and
the commendable initiatives and efforts of a good number of local government
officials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Millions of
people are hungry and have not received food or cash aids. Many of the people
that should be given priority to COVID-19 testing are impatiently waiting for
their turn. Despite this reality and Duterte’s “advices” like, “bear a little
with your hunger, you will not die from it” and threats like “shoot them dead”,
reactions or opinions that do not conform to announcements and claims by government
officials can be considered a crime. “Violations” of ECQ rules such as stay at
home, social distancing and curfew are crimes. In fact, anyone can be shot and
killed for this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">It seems public
officials now are beyond reproach. The use of figures of speech is now illegal
or criminal liability and one can be warrantlessly arrested at the dead of the
night for that. The signals coming from the government are complications of
misdeeds and delayed deliveries but very prompt with threats against freedom
and human rights, especially right to life and right to health. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Threats and real
curtailment of civil rights are continuing. Last April 17, additional 860 armed
security forces from the Central Command and Regional Police Office were
deployed to Cebu City. Is extending ECQ or lockdown of Cebu City mean
transforming it into a war zone and not a public health crisis zone? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">These successive
incidents in Cebu City seem to confirm that martial-law-like lockdown will be
done in this city and perhaps the whole of Metro Cebu. They have chilling
effects that overshadow the chills brought by the COVID 19 pandemic-- the
threat to our freedom, our civil liberties, and our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">These are trying
times for all people, especially the most vulnerable poor and marginalized
sectors of the population. They are already victimized several times over.
First, their long-running deprivation. Second, the loss of jobs and livelihood
because of the lockdown. Third, the illnesses that threaten the lives of their
friends and loved ones; and, finally the fear and anxiety of the virus’ threats
to their lives. These are lingering and are being enhanced by growing state tyranny.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Fear does kill
too. Psychiatrists and psychologists can attest to it. The people are being
inoculated with an overdose of threats by a tyrannical state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>THIS MUST END</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">At this time of
crisis, the people need healing and compassion, not intimidation. They need immunity,
and protection from the virus. They need proper information and education about
this health problem and not insensitive orders like “stay at home” and “do not
go out”. They need concrete solutions to their health needs- face masks,
testing kits, medicines, PPEs, hospital beds, ICUs, and ventilators, quarantine
facilities, more doctors, nurses and medical technologists and other care
givers. They need income and not to simply wait, endlessly, for alms. Flaunting
authority and naked force will weaken the people against the virus but will
build their resolve to resist repression. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">With the people,
we demand no less than the utilization of public resources and public power to
serve the people’s needs and interests. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Oppose militarization
of responses to the COVID 19 epidemic in the country! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Assert and
defend the people’s right to good health, to life, to freedom of expression and
to all civil liberties. ###<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-2575671880853910112020-04-23T20:28:00.000-07:002020-04-23T20:28:37.769-07:00An Open Statement on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Contamination of Brgy. Luz, Cebu City<div style="text-align: justify;">
April 17, 2020</div>
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Reference: Emalyn M. Aliviano, Spokesperson</div>
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Mobile phone number: 0932-357-6253</div>
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Kilusan-Cebu expresses its utmost concern and strong objection to the government’s response to the coronavirus infection in the country, as exemplified in the case of Sitio Zapatera, Barrio Luz, in Cebu City.</div>
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There are reports of a policy to implement absolute lockdown of the community of Sitio Zapatera, Barrio Luz in Cebu City, supposedly because it is ‘considered totally contaminated’. Swab testing in the community has, reportedly, been subsequently withdrawn. Apparently, the DOH has given up on the community, and on the more than 9,000 people living there.</div>
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The following questions must be posed – is it presumed that everybody in Sitio Zapatera has been infected with the virus? How did they arrive at such conclusion? Have all the people been tested? And what are the government’s plan to minimize the damage to lives?</div>
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Sitio Zapatera in Bo. Luz is a 23, 690 sq. meter urban poor community of some 620 families. Like other urban poor communities, it is densely populated. Each family was officially provided only 30 sq. meter in 2004 by a Cebu City Legislation. Offspring, themselves poor, who eventually formed their own families added up to each household. Two to three families to a household have become common. Industrial and service workers, odd-jobbers, teachers, government employees – toiling people who make the factories churn out goods and who deliver essential services to society – inhabit Sitio Zapatera.</div>
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On April 7 the first case of coronavirus infection in the sitio were identified and on April 11 another two cases of infection were identified, presumably as a result of contact tracing. Though they tested positive, they were told to self-quarantine, in their home in that community, which in such types of community, means no quarantining at all. As expected, they infected 21 others, first some members of their family and eventually members of some other families in that congested neighborhood. The number of reported infections grew to 29 in April 15, to 53 in April 16, and to135 currently April 17. Of these positive cases, only 1 taken to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Hospital. The rest were again told to self-quarantine in that congested community.</div>
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The policy of absolute lockdown of Sitio Zapatera, with positive cases of infection among the residents,, is akin to putting these 9,000 people in a ship and sending the ship out to sea (akin to infected cruise ships); or putting them all in some enclosed rehabilitation center for detainees with infected persons among them. The virus will definitely spread, as it spread in the Diamond Princess Cruise ship (to more than 800 people, causing no less than 20 deaths) or in the Chicago prison, infecting more than 276 detainees and jail keepers. Yet in those two cases, for humanitarian reasons, under the presumption that society still value human lives, efforts were exerted to identify and isolate those infected and treat them, and save as many human lives as possible. It seems that such humane treatment cannot be accorded to the people of Sitio Zapatera. </div>
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Government authorities are either ignorant, but more likely callous, to think that the enhanced community quarantine (as is, where is) when there are already known cases of infection, will work to contain the infection in urban poor communities.</div>
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These communities are the most vulnerable to local transmission of virus. Houses have hardly any space between them making ventilation poor. Each house, of some 25 to 40 sq. meter is normally shared by two or three families. For most residents, the roadside is the only available open space, where they can breathe some fresher air. Social distancing, much more, isolating those positive for infection, are simply not possible under such conditions. Worse, because of pervading poverty, people in urban poor communities are not sufficiently and properly nourished, nor properly treated for various illnesses; hence a considerable number of them have pre-existing medical conditions. The conditions in urban poor communities present all the ingredients for a massive spread of coronavirus.</div>
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To lock them down, with cases of infection among them, and withdraw efforts at identifying and isolating those infected in proper quarantine facilities, bespeaks of the virulence of moral decay that has crept into the highest echelon of our society. That is endorsing ‘herd immunity” and subscribing to the law of the jungle of ‘survival of the fittest’. But those concerned beasts, not human beings.</div>
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The government has sufficient resources at its command to prevent the unnecessary spread of COVID 19 and hence, loss of lives. We demand that it use these public resources to save the lives of our people:</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Conduct community-level testing using the rapid tests being used by other countries. And hasten the process of bio-safe testing being done in laboratories. Hire the necessary health personnel for these –nurses, medical technologists, etc.; buy the necessary reagents for the test to be done.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Buy these testing kits from where they are being massively produced, possibly China, South Korea and Singapore – counties that have contained infection; do not simply wait for donations. Better still, mobilize local laboratories – of universities and pharmaceutical companies to mass-produce these test kits by subsidizing mass production through various means- subsidized credit, co-financing, tax incentives, and the like;</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Set up the proper quarantine facilities for those positive of infection but without symptoms yet, and for those who have been exposed to persons who have tested positive (PUIs and PUMs); that would improve monitoring and ensure social distancing;</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Treat those already sick; render hospital services and medicine accessible to them, free for those certified as indigents;</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Evacuate vulnerable communities from the flood of infection to effect social distancing. This is a calamity; as in all calamities, evacuate and secure the vulnerable people.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Prepare, and disinfect for use, currently idle public facilities – school classrooms, school grounds, sports arena, and parks. When needed, tap the resources under the control of private individuals, corporations and organizations as the country clubs, private school grounds, and when necessary, under-occupied hotels, pension houses, apartels, and inns; Only by doing so can social distancing be practiced by the poor and can we put an end to this epidemic in the country.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Ensure the well-being, and protection for our frontliners, both in public and private hospitals. . Many have been infected already (7% of all infections) and more than 20 have died because of insufficient protection. Provide them all the necessary protection –N95 and surgical masks, gloves, protective gowns, headdress and shoe covers, soap and sanitizers – and more importantly, access to testing. Mass-produce those that can be produced locally. Hire all necessary personnel to prevent work overload. Penalize hospital authorities/owners who deny such protection to scrimp on costs. Provide free health insurance to uninsured health care workers, at least for the duration of this pandemic. Provide hazard pay to relieve them of pressures from their families’ daily needs. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Fast-track the build-up of necessary hospital facilities and equipment – hospital space, hospital beds, ICUs, ventilators to prepare for any surge.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, ensure that every family has its most basic necessities – food on their table, soap and other toiletries for basic hygiene, clean water for drinking and personal use, others.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">More importantly, empower the people with knowledge about this problem that is wreaking havoc on their lives.</li>
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Positions in government are sought for, as they entail authority and power. However, such are also paid for by the people and should always be treated as public trust. We now demand that such authority and power be used, not against the people, but in the service of the people, especially in this time of crisis. This COVID 19 pandemic now provides another crucible through which everyone in the supposed public service will be tested.</div>
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We call on all who value human life to join us in pursuing these calls. Let us work as one for our people in these times of need. ###</div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ano
ang itinutulak na “rebolusyonaryong gubyerno” ni Duterte?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ang deklarasyon ng rebolusyonaryong gubyerno ng
nakaupong presidente ay isang extra-constitutional na hakbang. Lampas at
tuwirang labag ito sa itinatadhana ng Konstitusyon at sa gayun ay nagpapawalang-
bisa o nagbabasura ng Konstitusyong1987. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ang Konstitusyon ay pinagtibay ng mga mamamayan sa
reperendum-plebesito noong 1987. Sa gayon, ang Konstitusyong 1987 ay
kumakatawan at ekspresyon ng soberanong kapasyahan at kapangyarihan ng
sambayanang Pilipino. Sa ilalim ng Konstitusyong 1987 nahalal at binigyan ng
mandato si Duterte para gampanan ang mga tungkulin ng pangungulo sa estado at
gubyerno alinsunod sa mga kapangyarihang iginagawad sa kanya ng Konstitusyong 1987. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ang pagdedeklara ng rebolusyonaryong gubyerno ni Duterte ay tuwirang salungat sa Konstitusyon at sa gayun, ay malinaw na
pang-agaw at pagmonopolyo ng kapangyarihan upang solong maghari. Lampas-lampas
ito sa ipinagkaloob ng mamamayan na mandato.
Ito’y kudeta mula sa Malacanang o kudeta mula se sentro.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pagbasura ito ng Konstitusyon at lahat ng garantiya –
ekonomiko, pulitikal at kultural na karapatan – na ipinagkakaloob nito sa mga
mamamayan. Kung mangyayari,wala nang mapag-uusapang konstitusyunal na mga
karapatan at kalayaang sibil na maigigiit ng mamamayan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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absoluto, diktaduryal na paghahari na walang pinananagutan kundi ang sarili.
Isasara ang Konggreso at Korte Suprema at si Duterte ang batas – siya ang
gagawa at magpapatupad ng batas. Kung mangyayari, maaari pang gawin ni Duterte
ang sumusunod:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><span style="font-size: large;">• Ideklarang
bakante ang lahat ng pusisyon sa gubyerno – inihalal man o hinirang nang may
proteksyon mga batas sa serbisyong sibil
– at tanggalin ang mga di niya gusto upang palitan ng mga nagpapakayupapa sa
kanya; <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Ipaaresto at ipakulong nang walang taning ang
sinumang kalaban niya o sinumang layon niyang supilin (ginawa ito ni Marcos sa
pamamagitan ng Preventive Detention Act at Presidential Commitment Order); <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Maaaring kumpiskahin niya ang pribadong ari-arian ng
mga katunggali (ginawa ni Marcos laban mga Lopez, Rufino at Jacinto) upang
magkamal ng higit na yaman; <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Maaring magpataw siya ng parusang kamatayan (ginawa
rin ito ni Marcos);<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Pasaklawin pa ang kasalukuyang walang -pakundangang
pamamaslang sa mga suspek na drug user, pusher at criminal;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Ipakandado ang lahat ng imprenta, at lahat ng
istasyon ng TV at radio, pahayagan o diaryo, at pahintulutan lang ang
magbabandila ng mga gusto niyang makaabot sa publiko;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Bigyan ng ganap na akses ang mga dayuhan sa mga likas
na yaman ng bansa at supilin ang anumang pagtutol ng mga komunidad ng mamamayan
na naggigiit ng karapatan dito;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Buksan sa mga dayuhang kapitalista ang mga
pampublikong serbisyo (edukasyon, pangkalusugan, pang-isports), gayundin ang
mga pampublikong utilidad (tubig at patubig, transportasyon at kaakibat nitong
pier, airport, haywey, komunikasyon, media) sa dayuhang control, at ipailalam ang
mamamyang Pilipino sa walang-pakundangang pagkakamal nila ng tubo; <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Pahintulutan ang pagbabase at operasyon ng mga
dayuhang tropa sa bansa, at kaladkarin ang bayan sa tunggalian ng mga higanteng
pandaigdigang kapangyarihan;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Hati-hatiin ang bayan sa mga teritoryong paghaharian
ng kanyang mga kakutsabang pampulitikang panginoon, tulad ng nais nilang
mangyayari sa panukalang pederalismo; at<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Iba pang mga hakbang na susupil sa mga demokratiko at
soberanong karapatan ng mamamayan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sa ilaalim ng diktadurang paghahari na siyang
katunayan ng “rebolusyonaryong gubyerno” ni Duterte, makapagbabalangkas ang mga
taong tapat at sunud-sunuran sa kanya ng Konstitusyong kanyang inaasam, na
siyang magtatakda ng “bagong normal” na kaayusang nais ni Duterte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sa ilalim ng diktaduryal na paghahari ng
rbolusyonaryong gubyerno ni Dutere, walang makakatutol nang di makatitikim ng
kanyang marahas na kamay na bakal. Tanging pwersang militar ang makahahadlang
kay Duterte sa naturang kaayusan. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nais
mo bang mamuhay sa ganitong kaayusan?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kung ikaw ay nagpapahalag sa demokrasya, nagmamahal
sa kalayaan at nagmamalasakit para sa bayan nang higit sa sarili, kumilos na
ngayon pa lang bago maging huli ang lahat. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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pekeng People Power Revolution ni Duterte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lumahok sa mga protesta laban
sa pakanang “rebolusyonaryong gubyerno” ni Duterte at iba pa niyang mga tiraniko
at kontra-demokratikong hakbang.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><span style="font-size: large;">Labanan ang tiraniya! Isulong
at itaguyod ang demokrasyang bayan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">We, members of Kilusan, an anti-imperialist democratic movement in the Philippines and the People’s Campaign Against Tyranny express our deepest concern over the terrifying effect of this supposedly anti-terrorism law that allows preemptive arrest, detention and punishment of persons planning or preparing any of the 227 crimes in a list. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last November 21, Japanese security forces clamped down on the Jinmin People’s News in Osaka. Without any warrant from proper authorities, they entered the house of its editor in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, 7:00 am, ransacked the entire house, confiscated his personal belongings, including computers and cell phones arrested the editor and took him to the Ikuta police station of the Hyogo prefectural police.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">The raid of the People’s News press office followed at 9:00 am. Over 20 police officers surrounded the office and as soon as a staff member showed up for work, the police started the search inside the office. They neither allowed the newspaper staff to use their phones nor use to take photos. As the office was located in a residential building, they frisked and interrogated all the residents and inspected their units. The police confiscated their personal computers and the list of their subscribers. They held the editor incommunicado for several days.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">This clampdown on a legitimate community newspaper that provides Japanese working people a venue for critical views that otherwise would not see print in the millionaire-controlled mainstream media in Japan is therefore a clearly means gagging the Japanese common man.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">We call on all human rights advocates and democrats all over of the world to speak out and campaign against the rising militarism in Japan and call on the Japanese government to reverse this track, uphold democracy and freedom. The Japanese ruling elite cannot, and should not be allowed to revisit its fascist past that caused widespread suffering to the people of Asia, including their own people, and for decades left its stigma on the Japanese people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">November 30, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Foil Duterte’s Scheme to Declare “Revolutionary Government”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Duterte’s “revolutionary government” track is in high gear. Local government officials and DSWD personnel are frantically working to haul a horde of millions for the coming November 30 government-sponsored rally. The rally is being projected as a “people power revolution”; an “expression of the people’s will and clamor for a ‘revolutionary government’ to be established by Duterte”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They first attempted it last February 25, just barely eighth month of Duterte’s presidency. Using every trick to coerce and deceive, especially the 4Ps beneficiaries, to join and pro-Duterte organizations such as MRRD, FORD, Kilusang Pagbabago mustered all their forces. They failed however to mobilize a million horde.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They are working doubly hard now for the second try.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The road-show has its front-liners. ‘Organizers’ and ‘key movers’ of the so-called rebolusyong Duterte – a curious motley of hangers-on: frustrated and failed ‘rebel’ leaders (former military rebels, ex-CPP ‘revolutionaries’), and political aspirants from among ex-movie stars and celebrities – who cannot even articulate what their so-called “revolutionary objectives’’ are, except as being “anti-oligarchy”. This was along the claim that such ‘objective’ can only be entrusted to Duterte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They fail or refuse to see that Duterte himself comes and benefits from an oligarchic, political dynasty that lorded over Davao for nearly three decades. He claimed to be a multi-millionaire even before he started to work; flaunted his iron-fist rule in Davao City for decades; and makes no bones about the dynastic rule of his family. He is the ultimate oligarch now, supported by other oligarch cohorts – the Florendos, the Alvarezes, the Arroyos, the Gordons, the Villars, the Remullas, the Cayetanos, the Farinases , and others, but not the least, the hated and dethroned Marcoses, whose patriarch Ferdinand, he shamelessly idolizes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In reality, Duterte, the star of the show, does not need those front-liners or “extras” for apologists. Even before assuming office and early on his presidency, he has expressed his disdain for any limit to his power. “Do not do any investigation on me” he demanded other co-equal branches of government (Congress, Supreme Court). He is undermining Constitutional bodies (Ombudsman, CHR, COA) threatening he will “declare martial law”, or a “revolutionary government” and “abolish” them if they dare exercise their regulatory powers over the presidency. He offered no “revolutionary” excuses. Later, he also eyed “charter change” as a mechanism to increase his power and minimize regulation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For Duterte, it was all about power – unfettered exercise of power.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Duterte is playing all three cards now, probing which card or combination of cards would serve him well. His objective let him rule as he wishes, unfettered by established laws and regulations, by accountability and transparency. Absolutely anti-democratic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What does declaration of ‘revolutionary government’, his most preferred move, mean? It is an extra-constitutional act – an act beyond, and thus, in total defiance of the present Constitution, which was ratified by the people in a plebiscite in 1987. The 1987 Constitution is supposedly the embodiment of the people’s will and expression of people’s sovereignty. He was elected under this Constitution and supposed to rule subject to what is stipulated in the Constitution. Declaring a ‘revolutionary government’, against the expressed will of the people is, therefore, a clear power grab beyond what is mandated by the Constitution. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If he succeeds, his revolutionary government will trash the 1987 Constitution and all the guarantees – economic, political, cultural rights – it provides every Filipino. There will be no constitutional rights and freedoms to talk about and assert.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It means a rule unbounded by fundamental law – an absolute, dictatorial rule unaccountable to anybody except himself. He will be the law-maker and law-enforcer. He will rule by decree.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He can declare all positions in government – elective and those protected by civil service laws - vacant, and replace those who displease him with people who please him. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He can have anybody arrested and incarcerated anytime (Marcos did it with his Preventive Detention Act and Presidential Commitment Orders). He can have private property expropriated (Marcos did it against the Lopezes and Rufinos) and public properties privatized and amass wealth for himself and his minions. He can even impose the death penalty as he pleases (Marcos did it too).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He can allow full foreign access to our natural resources and suppress communities that assert their own rights to such resources.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He can open all public services (education, health, sports facilities) and utilities (transportation, ports, roads and highways, airports, communication and media) to foreign capitalist control, and subject the country and the Filipino people to unbridled plunder and profit-making by foreign capital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He can allow foreign military bases into the country, allow their troops to operate here, and drag the nation into big power contention.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He claims that he will “declare martial law or a revolutionary government”, only if there is “destabilization”. But for Duterte, any criticism of his rule, any dissenting view to his view, is “destabilizing” and is a “personal insult”. Thus his abhorrence for democracy and democratic processes. Still, he even dares claim that his contemplated power grab will be in the service of the people! How can denial of freedom and rights, of their sovereignty, serve the people? Duterte is added insult to the people’s injury. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He promises that such state will be transitory for he will work immediately to restore the country to normalcy by having a new Constitution crafted and ratified by the people through a plebiscite. But what normalcy, if not the normalcy HE WANTS. Who will draft the Constitution if not the people he likes and trusts? What Constitution can come out of it if not the type of Constitution HE DESIRES? And how can the people decide in a condition that is without freedom and rights?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What in Duterte’s record can the people hang on to believe him? He has openly admitted to “planting pieces of evidence against suspects”. He has unabashedly admitted to “making up stories” to suit his ends. He has publicly admitted to extra-judicially killing at least two suspected criminals in Davao and yet denies there is EJK in the country. He has made declarations on serious matters only to pass them off later as jokes. Duterte’s gang is notorious for ‘fake news’ and malicious lies, they thrive on deceit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">His rule is pursuing, with even more zeal, the same neoliberal economic policies that have exacerbated inequality in society; that saw the demolition of whole communities to give way to big capital; the perpetuation of contractualization of labor; the increasing tax burden on the poor that pushes the nation deeper in the debt quagmire. And now, making the people bear the increasing burden of high prices of essential commodities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The budget of the Office of the President increased several times and so as expenditures for the military and the police. This meant drastic cuts in funding for social services, especially health and education.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Despite all of his anti-US bluster, the regime has retained all the unequal treaties and ‘special relations’ with the US that makes the Philippines the most convenient and reliable base of US imperialist geo-political designs in this part of the world. Worse, the regime has further compromised Philippine sovereignty to Chinese and Japanese interests, in exchange for investments and loans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Duterte regime has further mangled the already ineffective judicial system, increasingly denying the poor any access at all to judicial processes. It is so notorious for its contempt for human rights, especially the right to life and to due process of every human being. Its record on extra-judicial killings of mostly poor civilians (no less than 10,000 in just one year!) has surpassed that under 8 years of Marcos’ Martial law, and ranks third in notoriety in Southeast Asia to the Indonesian coup (against Sukarno) and the Khmer Rouge massacres under Pol Pot. It has promoted misogyny in Malacanan and the halls of Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Handing Duterte dictatorial powers will drive us deeper into the darkest depths of our social life. Filipinos need not suffer at his mercy as a dictator. We have to assert our sovereign and democratic rights. We uphold our collective will and employ our collective strength.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Campaign against the forcible mobilization of people to participate in government-sponsored rallies, especially the rally on November 30 that will bestow dictatorial powers to Duterte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protest against the ‘revolutionary government’ on and before November 30, in various forms of actions possible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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thing Duterte is consistent about, his obsession for absolute rule and his
aversion to checks and balances, the Constitution and rule of law. “Until the
police and the armed forces say the Philippines is safe, this martial law will
continue. I will not listen to others. The Supreme Court, Congress, they are
not here,” Duterte told soldiers in Jolo, last Saturday, May 27.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Before this
latest revelation of his autocratic passion, Duterte, last May 26, spoke before
Philippine Army soldiers in Iligan City and exhorted them to support his
martial law. He impressed on the soldiers that under his
martial law, with the privilege of writ of habeas corpus suspended, soldiers are
vested with the power to arrest without warrant and the privilege of not having
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To stress his
muddled view of the power of soldiers to make “warrantless arrest”, which
directly contradicts an earlier statement from the government’s information
agency explaining martial law, Duterte assured soldiers that he would be
responsible for abuses committed by them. To drive his point, Duterte came out
with one of the marks of his notoriety by telling the soldiers that if anyone
of them “raped three women”, he would claim responsibility for it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Though how
much his spokesperson tried to make a “post-speech editing”, the rape “joke”
reveals Duterte’s utter disrespect and contempt for women. It was also an insult
to soldiers, particularly women soldiers, who are in their right senses. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the pursuit
of his passion for dictatorial rule, Duterte most recently boasted before
soldiers that he would ignore the Supreme Court and Congress if they exercise
their constitutional powers to revoke or rule against the declaration of
martial law. He was trying to cajole
soldiers by saying he’d rather listen to them at same time contemptuously
describing justices of the SC and all those critical of him, as people who do
not know the “real conditions” of the troops on the ground. This was a not so
subtle attempt to drive a wedge between the military, the courts and the
legislature. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In both
instances, with soldiers and their officers who were obliged to stand before
their commander-in-chief, Duterte was insinuating power grab - of solely exercising power in a regime where he will be the law. He had hinted at it before. Even before his inaugural as President, he warned
Congress not to question nor hinder his plans, lest he would close it by declaring
martial law. He also threatened Chief Justice Sereno with martial law when the
CJ asserted the court’s supervision over judges in Duterte’s drug list. In his “war on drugs” he likewise called on
the police forces to kill, kill, kill and gave assurances that he will protect
them from prosecution. He is more direct
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That he
delivered those messages to the men and women in uniform is deliberate. Duterte
knows that the power grab he is contemplating requires the unequivocal support
of the military. In the face of Constitutional
restrictions on the martial law powers of the presidency, the power grab can
only be through a “coup from the center.”
He thus seeks to cajole the soldiers and officers with the power of
being above the law; agitate them to disregard the laws and the Constitution;
instil in them the culture of obeisance and blind loyalty only to him, their commander-in-chief
and lord, who given the power, would protect them against reprisals for whatever
criminal acts they may perpetrate
against the people in their compliance with his orders. </div>
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<span style="color: red;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The martial law Duterte is promoting is contrary
to the Constitution, the provisions on restrictions on presidential powers on declaring
martial law, which he openly criticizes
and seeks to be removed. It is contrary to the assurances his apologists have
been dishing out since he declared martial law in the whole of Mindanao on May
23. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Duterte minced
no words in saying his martial law will be ruthless, brutal, and merciless. It
will know no bounds, other than the bond between him and the security forces
that he is trying to build as his own. Duterte himself spares no effort to express
it. He said <b>military rule under him will be no different from Marcos’ martial law</b>.
It will be harsh. It will be atrocious, as
Marcos dictatorial rule was.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Duterte is calibrating
martial law, to cover only Mindanao for now and for only 60 days, as allowed by
the Constitution. It is obviously designed
to avoid widespread opposition, pending the success of what he has embarked on <b>since he took office</b> and especially in
the last one week since he declared martial law in the whole of Mindanao. He seeks <b>to
seal the bond between him and the state security forces on an obsession for the
exercise of sheer power by those who wield the gun and to rule with impunity. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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While his
objective is clear, Duterte’s acts are tempered by <i>real-politik. </i>He moves in measured steps towards his goal as
allowed by exigencies, real or not --- emergency powers solve the “traffic crisis”,
state of lawlessness in Mindanao and state of national emergency and martial
law in the whole of Mindanao<b>,</b> in
less than a year of his 6- year term. While saying that he will be “happy” if
the terrorist threat is solved in less than 60 days, he has said that his
martial law should be in one year at least but should even “sign of terrorist
threat appears in other parts of the country”, he would declare martial law in
the whole country in no time.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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Duterte has so
far succeeded in letting loose the Philippine National Police (PNP) and his
Department of (in)Justice in a rampage against judicial processes and due
process. He yet has to win over and utilize the whole of the Armed Forces of
the Philippines (AFP) for his power grab. The AFP, a vital institution, for
Duterte’s desired martial law, until recently, has been adamant in its
assessment that there is no basis for declaring martial law. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Just yesterday
afternoon (May 30), it was revealed by opposition senators that Defence
Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, in a closed-door briefing, on May 29, admitted,
“the Maute group can be contained even without martial law”; the military and
DND “did not recommend martial law”; and, that they just learned that Duterte
has declared martial law and thus, “were obliged to implement it”. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There is no
disclaimer from DND Sec. Lorenzana as of this writing. It can be recalled, just before the
announcement of martial law declaration, Lorenzana and National Security
Adviser, Hermogenes Esperon, Jr. told media in Moscow, the military was in
“full control” of the situation in Marawi City.
Also, just two hours after the proclamation of martial law in Mindanao,
the AFP announced, the situation in Marawi is “under control”. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To deny these
facts and to grant Duterte has good intention in his martial law and suspension
of the writ of <i>habeas corpus</i> in the
whole of Mindanao is to reject his dubious and record. To be blind to the
reality that he has grabbed on every opportunity, from the time before his
inauguration president, to assume more power than allowed by the Constitution – the drug problem, “lawlessness”, terrorism and
recently, the events in Marawi City . To grant that his good intention at
making a “hill out of a mole” outweighs his pronouncements and actions that
have caused violations of human rights as in thousands of victims of extra-judicial
killing in the name of fighting criminality and the drug menace. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“The road to
hell is paved good intentions”<b>. Marcos
justified his dictatorial rule with the promise and intent of making this
nation great again. </b> The outcome was
exactly the opposite. It plunged the country into the darkest years in its
history<b>. Hitler justified Nazism to the
German people with a promise and declared intent to make Germany great again. </b>It is now recorded as among the most
gruesome crimes against humanity in human history and left a legacy of national
guilt among the German people. History indeed is replete with tyrants’ promises
of heaven only to lead whole nations to hell.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Similarly, <b>Duterte justifies his iron-fist rule with
promises of and intent for peace and
order and security for the people</b>. As
in all tyrannical regimes, Duterte’s rule can only lead to the people’s doom. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The truth about
Duterte’s rule is now fast unravelling, and foreboding of what awaits the nation if
Duterte succeeds in his quest for dictatorial rule. Injustice
is widespread, as thousands of mostly poor suspects and bystanders are summarily
killed and dissenters are threatened, while the biggest plunderers and crime lords
are scot-free. Peace will not be
achieved without justice. “Order”
enforced by suppression is order that serves tyrant’s whims. There can be no sense of
security in an environment where security forces can arbitrarily search one’s
person, domicile and work place, effect one’s arrest, or worse, put an end to
one’s life, without having to establish, through duly established processes,
the just basis for such. Worse, when members of armed state security forces can
flagrantly violate one’s person, as in cases of rape, and rights to life, as in
summary killings, are guaranteed immunity from suit and reprisal. <o:p></o:p></div>
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NO WAY! Democracy, the people’s fundamental rights
and freedom - cannot be traded for promises of peace, order and security. No
one must be allowed to toy with our freedoms under pretext of whatever problems
the country is facing. Indeed, the country has multifarious problems – terrorism,
criminality, drug addiction, prostitution, graft and corruption, insurgency –
rooted on existing social conditions and relations, and thus requiring more
comprehensive and systematic solutions, rather than taking away or curtailing
the rights of people. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Duterte’s
obsession for absolute power is further reason to be alarmed. Duterte’s record, both as mayor of Davao City
and in nearly one year as the country’s president, most especially in recent
days, speaks eloquently and leaves a clear mark on the type of ruler he is and
can be. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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The argument
of giving him the benefit of the doubt in his declaration of martial law does
not hold water. Duterte is clearly working for a power grab - extra powers
beyond what was accruing him in his election, as a plurality President, and
diminution of the regulatory powers of co-equal branches of government and
disregard for the rule of law.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">
Duterte’s lust
for extra powers must be stopped before he successfully infects and corrupts
the armed men and women in uniform. And
he must be decisively stopped now. If
allowed by their dereliction of Constitutional duties, the “leaders” of both houses
of Congress are giving Duterte free hand to do away with the constitution and
with Congress itself as what Fe4rdinand Marcos, Sr. did 45 years ago. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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More than ever,
the reasonable section of the men and women in uniform who are aware of their
duties to respect and protect the people’s rights and lives must see through
Duterte’s ploy and enticements of unfettered power for them. They must stop his
mad drive to make them tools against the people, against the laws, against
freedom and democracy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Officials in
the legislature and judiciary, who have not been blinded by the glimmer of
momentary personal or party gain, must likewise act decisively to stop
Duterte’s attempt to grab power before it is too late for them to assert and defend
the power of the legislature and the judiciary. <o:p></o:p></div>
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More
importantly, the Filipino people who will be denied of rights and security
well- being, and whatever has been gained in their assertion of sovereignty, must muster the strength that can only emanate
from the concerted exercise of collective will to defend democracy. They can
call on their children, siblings, and friends,
in the military and police, and in the legislature and the judiciary to
put the interest of the people above all
else. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Every voice,
every warm body, counts in this struggle to assert democracy and resist
tyranny. Let’s use every available form, and every available forum to register
our resistance to martial law NOW.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Never again to
martial law! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>People’s
Campaign Against Tyranny<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>May 31, 2017<o:p></o:p></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-11510274544149833932017-05-31T05:53:00.002-07:002017-05-31T05:54:25.160-07:00War and Militarism and the Scourge of Rape and Trading of Women<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The wars that the US and its
allies carried out after WWII until now in the early 21<sup>st</sup> century
have brought untold sufferings to millions of people and swathes of destruction
in different countries. Despite this,
the Trump government is further boosting its war industry, is urging NATO
countries and his allies in Asia to raise their military budgets and to join him
in more wars against what they consider as primary threats to global security.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
KAISA KA, a women’s organization
working for women’s liberation and social change, heeds the call of the World
March of Women for solidarity against these wars and war threats that further
engender the scourge of sexual assault, trafficking and prostitution of women. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>The continuing wars and destruction<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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The purportedly “humanitarian”
US-led wars that aimed to get rid of Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction,” stop
Libya’s autocratic rule that “authorized military mass orgies,” and get rid of
President Assad who “ran a death machine” and “used chemical weapons” against
Syrian citizens, are still raging. Investigations have unraveled the imperialist
designs of the US and its allies. They aimed for oil, gas, minerals, billons in
gold and cash, Libya’s great source of fresh, precious water that could be
lucrative business for foreign companies.
Led by the US, imperialist powers wanted these countries and several
others as new markets.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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These are ruthless wars. The US, Britain and other allies have used weapons
that were among the most lethal and destructive. They exploit racial, religious, ethnic,
economic and other differences to help build, arm and train terrorist groups and
sway them to create mayhem in countries where governments are not subservient to
the dictates of the US and EU, thereby justifying their armed intervention while
saving US and the EU from getting blamed for the atrocities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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As these wars turn large areas
into barren land, hostile to all living things, they demolish livelihoods, destroy
communities, deprive people of clean drinking water, maim, kill and displace
millions of people. These wars ever
increase the number of refugees in modern history, bigger than during WWII.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
In Syria, death toll until 2016
has reached 470,000. This is the biggest
in the so-called Middle East-North Africa (MENA) area. Its displaced population is also the biggest. More than 4.2 million have become refugees
outside the Syrian border while 8 million more were internally displaced. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b>Rape, trafficking and prostitution worsen under war conditions<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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The wars that came out of the “Arab
Spring” are causing menace to women and girls.
Women, when still in the areas of conflict, aside from suffering what
the men endure, are often victims of rape, kidnapping and forced marriages
especially to members of terrorist groups.
Those who are kidnapped are often sold as slaves or to be wives even at
very young age of eight or nine years. Thousands of young girls get married and
divorced and remarried, with marriage becoming mere “legal” cover for
prostitution. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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A big number of those who escape
to other countries, even to Europe become victims of trafficking. While men also get raped or traded, women and
girls are more prone to sexual assault, trafficking, prostitution and
enslavement especially now when governments have made the process of accepting
and integrating refugees extra difficult.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Threat of More Wars<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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It is revolting that while the
US, Britain and leading EU states that pushed and manipulated information in
order to justify intervention in these 21<sup>st</sup> century wars and are,
therefore, answerable for the creation of the refugee crisis, are the ones that
taking a strong position against accepting and integrating more refugees.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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It is horrible that despite the
catastrophic level of the problems their wars created, they, especially the US
are prolonging their involvement in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen while doing
actual preparations to open new war fronts to rein in North Korea and Iran and
prevent the growth of Russia and China.
Peoples in the region should take the danger of war seriously as the US
did not withdraw the Asia-Pacific pivot that primarily aims at China. Trump has revealed, two nuclear submarines
are in Korea. Two naval fleets patrol
the China Sea closest to China and within the contested area of South China Sea. US forces in Japan are in their strongest
level. </div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<o:p></o:p><b>War at home and open threats to women<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The Filipino people, particularly
those in Mindanao, including the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu and
Tawi-Tawi are in war situation presently, particularly for the residents of
Marawi City and adjoining towns in Lanao Sur.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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Without factual basis and despite
the assessment by both the police and armed forces that the terrorist threat is
under check and that it can be contained without declaring martial law, Rodrigo
Duterte imposed martial law and suspended the privilege of writ of <i>habeas corpus</i> in the whole of Mindanao starting
May 23. This is a de facto declaration of war on over 22 million Filipinos
living there. Moreover, Duterte threatens to place under martial law the entire
Philippines even just on mere report of terrorist presence in the islands of
Luzon and Visayas. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
As thousands have left Marawi
City to seek refuge elsewhere, the president and commander-in-chief of the
Armed Forces of the Philippines is exhorting and cajoling soldiers to exercise
their martial law powers, assuring them that he would answer for those who may
be accused of committing abuses and other crimes, including rape. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
He enjoined the soldiers to his
lust for power and his contempt for women, unmindful of the fact that those
before him were men and women in uniform.
He was in his natural shameless, misogynistic self when he said, “If
anyone among you rape three women, I will own responsibility for it.” This is
how Duterte, the commander-in-chief revs up “his soldiers” for war against
women and men who oppose his drive towards dictatorial rule and everyone who would
fall prey to Duterte’s lust for absolute power.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Now, more than ever, as we join
the global fight against US war and militarism, we raise our vigilance and
resist the open attempt to establish one-man tyrannical rule, threatening to
make terrorism real in the Philippines.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
No to war and militarism!<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
No to martial law!<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Let us affirm our global
solidarity against war and militarism on June 3, 2017. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Pagkakaisa ng Kababaihan para sa Kalayaan (Kaisa Ka)</b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-18288555709074125672017-05-23T22:54:00.003-07:002017-05-23T22:55:01.570-07:00Martial Law in Mindanao, Overkill<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
May 24, 2017<o:p></o:p></div>
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Like the State of National Emergency,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Martial Law in Mindanao, Overkill<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Following clashes between government troops and alleged members of the
Maute Group in Marawi City, President Rodrigo Duterte has made good his earlier
threats to declare Martial Rule over the region. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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The 60 day declaration came as the Maute group was said to have “set
ablaze establishments” and the firefight with government troops which started
3:20 pm, Tuesday, May 23. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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A closer perusal of the news brings up critical questions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Four minutes (9:56PM) before the ten pm declaration by President
Duterte, Marawi City Mayor Majul Gandamra was reported to have been pleading
with authorities, especially the AFP to send reinforcements despite assurances
that “help was on their way”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another report featuring Mayor Gandamra said that by 7:32 PM, the
local government still has all control of the government establishments and the
streets are quiet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Mayor Gandamra’s statement is consistent with that released by AFP
Public Affairs Office Chief Marine Colonel Edgard A. Arevalo in social media,
declaring that “the situation (in Marawi) has stabilized” and there is “no
truth to the earlier reports that Amai Pakpak Hospital has been occupied and
that the people there were held hostage”, the “City Hall was not occupied” and
that the “sporadic firefight heard was harassment actions by terrorist
sympathizers”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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In the same statement, the AFP pointed out that reports linking ISIS
to Maute are “spurious” and characterized them as a “ small, local terror
group”, which is opposite of the statement made in the impromptu Press
Conference in Moscow by government officials announcing the 60 day Martial Law
of Mindanao branding Maute as part of or affiliated with ISIS.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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Like the unjustified declaration of a State of National Emergency
following the bombing in Davao Market last year which have yet to be lifted,
the declaration of Martial Law for an entire region is another overkill move as
the clash cannot be imagined to be either invasion or rebellion, the necessary
Constitutional Basis for declaring Martial Law. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In more than a dozen instances, the President himself has articulated
his preference to impose Martial Law for varying reasons, the latest of which
was in the event that the conflict in Mindanao will spiral out of control. The
situation has already stabilized says the AFP, logically the declaration is
superfluous. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In fact, no armed group is posing as a threat against government and
one cannot help but think that the Maute threat is being blown up way out of
proportion. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We view this declaration as a confirmation of Duterte's obsession with
strong hand rule which he has always threatened to do every time his plans and
decisions, his exercise of presidential authority, are questioned. He has said
before that if he is pushed he would do. Now finding even a flimsy reason he
declares martial law. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The declaration is arbitrary having not considered the report and
assessment by the AFP and the local government that the situation is under
control.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Furthermore, just as the open-ended "state of emergency",
this martial law declaration was announced by the presidential spokesperson not
by Duterte himself. The declaration was made while the president was in Russia
underscoring the fact that there was no serious and objective study of the
situation. Such arbitrariness betrays Duterte's tendency to abuse authority.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Though the declaration cited the constitutional provision stating the
basis for imposing martial law, such situation however does not exist, even in
Marawi city.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The declaration is too vague and therefore open to abuses. It
dangerously threatens the people's democratic and legal rights, the functions
of the civilian government and the courts. In fact, it will surely further the
culture of fear and impunity already besetting the nation and not to mention
open doors to rights abuses that would befall the citizens of Mindanao.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We demand that this declaration be recalled immediately and make the
president answer for his action.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-30485038927625954902017-04-29T00:34:00.000-07:002017-04-29T00:34:23.603-07:00D.O. 174: Isa pa sa mga Pakana sa Nagpapatuloy na Tiranikong Atake sa Paggawa<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Muling bigo ang
mga manggagawa sa inaasam na paglaya sa salot na kontraktwalisasyon. Minsan pa,
napatunayang walang maasahan sa nakaluklok sa kapangyarihan.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Tulad ng mga naunang rehimen, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">tagapagtaguyod din ang administrasyong Duterte
ng neo-liberalismo at ng interes ng mga kapitalista. Sa pamamagitan ng Department
Order # 174, ginawang lehitimo ang kalakaran ng kontraktuwal na pag-empleyo ng
manggagawa para sa kailangan (necessary) at esensyal (essential) na trabaho.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ang
kontraktuwalisasyon ng paggawa ay isa sa mga mayor na salik sa paglaya ng kapital
o pag-aalis ng mga sagabal sa malayang paggalaw at paglago ng kapital na siyang
kahulugan ng neoliberalismo. Ang paglaya ng capital, sa gayon, ay
nangangahulugan ng pagsupil sa paggawa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pangako ni Duterte
nuong kumampanya na kanyang wawakasan ang bulok na sistema ng kontraktwalisasyon
sa bansa. Matatandaan na buong yabang na isinumpa niya ito na “<i>anti-people</i>”. Marami sa ating kamanggagawa ang nanalig sa
pangakong ito. Hanggang mabulgar mismo ang
kahungkagan ng pangakong ito ni Duterte nang ianunsyo, Abril 15, ang paglabas
ng D.O. 174, pamalit sa D.O. 18-A.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hindi na
ikinagulat ng mulat na sekyon ng mga manggagawa ang kinalabasan ng bagong DO. Sa serye pa lamang ng mga kumperensyang
ipinatawag upang dinggin diumano ang tinig ng manggagawa, malinaw na ang
posisyon ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), wala ito sa panig ng mga
manggagawa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Paglinlang at pagsupil sa manggagawa <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">ANG D.O. 174 ay halos
pag-uulit ng D.O. 18-A. Niligalisa at pinagtibay lamang nito ang kontraktwalisasyon
na pumapawi sa mga karapatan ng manggagawa sa permanente at regular na trabaho
at mga benepisyo. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Itinaas ng D.O.
174 ang minimum na kapital ng <i>labor
agencies</i> mula sa tatlong milyong piso (P 3M) tungong limang milyon (P 5M).
Ito diumano ang pinakamababang sukatan para sabihing may kapasidad ang <i>labor agency</i> na mag-opereyt. Ngunit alam
naman nating nandiyan lagi ang kutsabahan ng prinsipal at <i>agency at kadalasan</i>, ang prinsipal din ang nasa likod o siyang
may-ari ng mga <i>labor agency.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Itinakda rin ng
bagong D.O. ang <i>qualifiers</i> na “<i>specific</i>”, “<i>work for a definite and pre-determined period</i>” at “<i>identifiable jobs</i>” para umano maging
malinaw at tiyak ang mga trabahong ipapakontrata. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ngunit ang mga
terminong ito ay dati nang gamit ng mga kapitalista para ipatungkol sa “<i>job orders</i>”, “<i>project</i>” at iba pang iskema upang ikutan ang batas at maipakontrata
ang mga trabahong “<i>essential and/or
desirable to the principal business operation.</i>” Sa gayon, lalong pinagtibay ng bagong D.O. ang
kinasusuklaman nating sistemang kontraktuwal. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sa bagong D.O. ay
malinaw na ire-regular ang manggagawa sa <i>agency</i>,
hindi sa principal. Isa itong katayuan na napaka-bulnerable dahil sa oras na habulin
nating manggagawa ang karapatan sa pag-u-unyon at iba pang karapatan sa
trabaho, tulad ng dagdag na sahod, ay napakadali
tayong tanggalin sa trabaho. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Magkukutsabahan
lamang ang <i>principal</i> at <i>agency</i> at kunwang hindi na bibigyan ng
bagong kontrata ng una ang huli. Wala na
tayong trabaho. Nakatali ang ating
pamamasukan sa kontratang namamagitan sa prinsipal at ahensya. <i>Separation
pay</i> lamang ang katapat ng ating panunungkulan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sa pagsusuma, ang
D.O. 174 sa panahon ni Duterte ay pagpipino at pagkikinis lamang ng iskema ng
kontraktwalisasyon na institusyunalisado na sa ilalim ng mga naunang rehimeng
naluklok sa Malakanyang. Kumpletong pakete ang D.O. 174 ng tiranikong atake ng
rehimeng Duterte sa paggawa. Papawiin nito ang natitirang pag-asa para sa
regular/permanenteng trabaho, at sapagkat hindi regular o permanente ang
pag-empleyo ng manggagawa, wala silang karapatang mag-organisa, mag-unyon at
sama-samang makipagtawaran.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Muli mabibigo
tayong manggagawa kung iaasa lamang sa iba ang ating paglaya sa pagsasamantala
at pang-aapi ng uring kapitalista at sa sistema ng paghaharing nagtataguyod ng
kanilang interes. Tuwirang salungat ang interes nating manggagawa sa interes ng
uring kapitalista. Ipinakikita sa nakaraang kasaysayan at sa kasalukuyang sitwasyon
ang katunayan ng tunggaliang ito.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hungkag ang
pagpapanggap ng Panguluhang Duterte na ito’y maka-manggagawa at maka-kaliwa.
Katunayan, bukod sa D.O. 174 ay pinagbabantaan nito ng ibayong karahasan ang
mga organisado o unyonisadong manggagawa, laluna sa mga economic zones.
Sapagkat wala ngang pangimi sa karahasan at tahasang paglabag sa mga karapatang
pantao, ang rehimeng Duterte ay banta ng ibayong pagsupil sa mga manggagawa at
mamamayan, sa pangkalahatan. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pandaigdigang paglaban sa pagsasamantala at pang-aapi
<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pandaigdigan ang pag-iral ng
neoliberalismo at sa gayon ng kontraktuwalisasyon. Pinasiyaan ito sa United
States of America (USA o US) at sa United Kingdom (UK) o Britain umpisa ng
dekada 80 sa sistematikong pag-atake sa karapatan ng manggagawang mag-unyon at
magwelga at pag-uumpisa ng patakaran at sistema ng pleksibleng paggawa
(flexible labor)—pleksible o hindi pirmi/di-istable ang katayuan sa empleyo at
panahon/oras ng trabaho. Pagsalakay at
pagpawi sa mga dating karapatan ng paggawa ang susi sa liberalisasyon o
pagpapalaya ng kapital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Itinulak ang neoliberalismo at kaakibat
nitong pleksibleng paggawa upang maiwasan ng pandaigdigang<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">kapitalismo ang krisis. Kararaos lang
ng kapitalismo sa krisis ng makatambal na resesyon at labis na tantos ng implasyon
na humambalos, laluna sa US at Britain, nuong ikalawang hati ng dekada 70. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ngunit ang ibayong pagpapalaya ng
kapital ay humantong sa lalong krisis. Muli’t muling pumutok ang krisis ng
kapitalismo. Mula nang huling pagsiklab ng pinansyal na krisis nuong 2008 ay
hindi pa nakakaalpas ang pandaigdigang kapitalismo sa krisis nito na
kinatatampukan ngayon ng malaganap na resesyon; pagkalubog sa utang ng mga
gubyerno, pribadong korporasyon at mga pamilya; malaganap na kawalang trabaho; at,
mababang sahod at hindi istableng empleyo para sa mga may trabaho. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Isinabatas na ang pagpapahaba ng
oras-paggawa, nang walang dagdag sa sahod, sa hindi iilang bayan, kabilang ang
mga abantenng kapitalistang bayan tulad ng France. Sa US, pinakamarami sa mga
bagong nagkakatrabaho ay pansamantala o temporary (<i>temps</i>). Ang pansamantalang trabaho ay maaaring tatlong buwan o
ilang linggo lamang. Ipinapatupad sa buong mundo ang ibayong pagpapababa ng
sahod katambal ang pagpapahaba ng oras-paggawa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Isulong at patalasin ang paglaban ng masang manggagawa, sa
unahan ng mamamayan<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Malinaw na hindi kontraktuwal na
paggawa lamang ang problema. Katunayan, isa lamang ito sa mga anyo ng
pagsasasmantala at pang-aapi sa manggagawa. Isa lamang ito sa mga pamamaraan sa
tangkang ibayong pagpiga ng tubo o pagpapalago ng kapital sa kabila ng krisis
ng kapitalismo. Isa lamang ito sa mga patakaran ng neoliberal na disenyo para
sagipin ang kapitalismo sa angkin o likas na krisis nito. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kailangang kung gayon na lampasan ng
mga manggagawa sa bawat bayan ang paglaban lamang sa mga particular na anyo at
paraan ng pagsasamantala at pang-aapi. Kailangang itaas at isulong ang paglaban
sa kapitalismo, laluna ang pinakasukdulang inabot nito na monopolyo at
tiranikong kapitalismo na pangunahing kinakatawan ng imperyalismong US. Ito rin
ang principal na manggigera at ngayon ay pinapasaklaw ang pananalakay nito sa
iba’t-ibang panig ng daigdig.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Manggagawa ng bawat bayan magkaisa,
pangunahan ang mamamayan sa paglaban sa imperyalismong US!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">WORKERS FOR PEOPLE’S LIBERATION<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1 Mayo 2017</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-21437435958352529092017-04-21T01:35:00.002-07:002017-04-21T01:41:36.577-07:00Statement in Support of Venezuelan People Against US Intervention<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<b>Statement<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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April 17,2017 </div>
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<b>Reference: Atty. Virgie Suarez,
Secretary- General, KILUSAN</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">We Condemn US
Eagerness for Force<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> vs. Government of Venezuela<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It is not just Luis Almagro
of the Organization of American States (OAS) threatening the government of
Venezuela. Now, it is Admiral Kurt W.
Tidd, commander of the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) warning that
“the crisis in Venezuela could eventually compel a regional response.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We view such a warning from
Admiral Tiddas dangerous and alarming. KILUSAN, an anti-imperialist and a
democratic movement in the Philippines, strongly denounces it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To Unseat a Democratically Elected Government <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It was a statement made as
Admiral Tidd presented a report last April 6 in front of the US Senate wherein
he cites shortage in supplies, political uncertainty and economic crisis as
conditions meriting a “regional response” from the US.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Such a statement clearly
telegraphs US’ eagerness for immediate action, aimed at unseating a
democratically elected sovereign government, which has refused to kowtow to its
hegemonic dictates and directives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Though short of pronouncing
direct intervention, the warning comes at a time that US President Trump has
consistently and repeatedly warned the rest of the world of its keenness to
show its “might”, which can be understood to mean military action. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">By citing shortage, political
uncertainty and crisis, Admiral Tidd conveniently covers up the big role played
by his country’s operatives in the current predicament facing the Bolivarian
movement in Venezuela and its people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Winds of War<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">His report, however, betrayed
a more plausible reason for US to send in its military forces to Venezuela. He
mentioned the relationships fostered by Russia, China and Iran with Venezuela
and the rest of the region. We believe that in this light, the US is raring to
get back what were once under his dominion—markets and sources of raw materials
and compliant labor especially in the light of its inability to recover from
the economic slump since 2008, along with other imperialist nations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Peoples
in Latin America and around the world should be alarmed by this threat from the
USSOUTHCOM. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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failure of the US and its imperialist allies to recover from the crisis further
fans the winds of war and conflict across resource-rich and strategic regions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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military is “the greatest in the world” has recently used </span><b>GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast
containing 11 tonnes of explosives, </b>a 20,000 pound bomb worth $16 Million
and developed for $300 Million<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> christened the “mother of all bombs” in Afghanistan with a blast
radius of a mile in each direction<a href="file:///C:/Users/kilusan/Downloads/USSouthCom%20%20%20on%20Venezuela.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has further relaxed rules for preventing civilian casualties. Already, civilian
casualties have jumped from 1,782 in February to 3,471 in March according to <b>Airwars</b>, a group that tracks bombings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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provoking a full-blown war with Russia by using 59 Tomahawk missiles aimed
against Shayrat Airbase of the Syrian government. It is set for war in Korea. NATO
forces and aircraft deploy </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">close to Russia's
borders, along with the missile defense shield in Romania, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and missiles
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Freedom-loving peoples must
resist such moves by the US and its allies by others who for their own
interests push the rest of the world to a time of never-ending and perpetual
war and chaos. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="5yl5">It takes people of free and sovereign
nations to protect peace and promote social justice by resisting war and
escalation of conflict</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">. We demand respect
for Venezuela’s sovereignty and oppose intervention of the US in that country!
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-39885749616076874762017-03-09T01:06:00.000-08:002017-03-09T01:19:33.894-08:00A statement by the United Small Vendors and Traders of Cebu City (USVTCC) commending the city government for dutifully demanding the right taxes from the big and moneyed bank like BDO<div style="text-align: center;">
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In the light of the issue between Banco de Oro Magallanes Branch and Cebu City Government regarding the former’s non-payment of correct business taxes to the latter, contrains us vendors of Cebu (United Small Vendors and Traders of Cebu City, USVTCC) to put forward our view and stand on the matter inasmuch as the issue involves not only between the LGU and BDO but covers the City’s constituents and law abiding citizens as well. For, if the assertion of the City is true - that BDO pays six pesos a day in business tax or 2,000 pesos a year, considering that the location of the bank is right at the heart of a commercially busy downtown area where trading is teeming and thus earns much from “other peoples’ money” – it is a must that the city collect the right rates from the bank. </div>
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For, if we vendors pay P10 day or P3,600 in a year, individually, to the city as a form of business tax, in order to sell our goods and items to people under the heat of the sun and other natural elements; and a city hall janitor pays around 5,000 pesos a year in taxes, there is something terribly wrong here. It is simply unfair and unjust. Not only does the bank cheat the government, it also deprives the small and poor people like us vendors of the city of the needed basic services that government is supposed to extend to us and other struggling people of cebu. The more money the city can collect in taxes from business establishments, the more the city is enabled to deliver social services to the people.</div>
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We commend the city government for dutifully demanding the right taxes from the big and moneyed bank like BDO. It is for us, an eloquent statement that the city can be fair and just if it wants to. Acts of government like this deserve good feedback for we vendors had been victims of harrassments and demolitions/clearings in the past while earnestly striving to survive by vending while paying dues to the government. May more of this kind of move by the city visit the big, moneyed and powerful businesses. May the city government become really a state of, by and for the people – by being considerate and compassionate to the small and weak of our urban community/citizenry – most of the time. It is our ardent wish that it is about time that the city begin to be inclusive of the least and weak like us by looking after our welfare not only in the short term but especially on the long term.<br />
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<i>(Original transcript is in the vernacular translated and proof-read by the moderator of this blog site)</i><br />
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<i>USVTCC is an aggrupation of small sidewalk and ambulant vendors along N. Bacalso St., Leon Kilat St and was formed after the anti-poor policies and clearing operations of then mayor Mike Rama under the city's "beautification drive" paving way for more foreign investors in the city, inconsiderate and non-inclusive of the poor people's plight.</i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-41368138245107038862016-03-07T21:43:00.001-08:002016-03-07T21:44:44.561-08:00Ang Pagpanaug-daug, Babagan! Militarismo, Pakigbisugan! Gyera, Tapuson, Karon Na!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkTzK0Jb7ACxl3mTCER0d3kFDirMmKr-dMBqNboY8DAVCgP8XpIr2-67pu4e-mfgyVqwACEUOGlFDRsFehqB9zuIHuuGb2ELEYNIiZPf6RBkmMuB5zV7Dkl4cZWb6mlFxK6jsTr6P6RMQd/s1600/kaisaka+caricature.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkTzK0Jb7ACxl3mTCER0d3kFDirMmKr-dMBqNboY8DAVCgP8XpIr2-67pu4e-mfgyVqwACEUOGlFDRsFehqB9zuIHuuGb2ELEYNIiZPf6RBkmMuB5zV7Dkl4cZWb6mlFxK6jsTr6P6RMQd/s320/kaisaka+caricature.jpg" title="kaisaka Women's Day" width="232" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">caricature by: Matthew Karaan (YND)</td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7;">Sa Pagsaulog sa International Women's Day</span></b></h3>
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Karong adlawa, Marso 8, 2016,
gisaulog ang adlaw sa mga Kababaenhan kun ang International Women’s Day. Usa ka gatos ug 2 ka tuig (102) nang
kasumaran sa pag-ila sa katungod sa kababaenhan nga makabot’o ug ang pag-ila sa
kamahinungdanun nga papel sa katilingban sa mga kababenhan. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sulod sa usa ka gatos ka tuig na
kining gisaulog, kumusta ang mga kababaenhan sa kalibutan? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ang kalibutan karon gilibutan sa
mga hulga sa krisis ug gyera. Wala pa
lum-i ang katawhan sa kalibutan apil ang mga kababaenhan sa lapdos sa krisis sa
kawad-on bunga sa duwa’ sa salapi ug hinubrang katigayunan nga nalikom sa kamot
sa mga pipila. Nagpadayon ang pinakaulahing
bunal sa krisis nga nibuto’ sa tuig 2008 ug nagkagrabe kini nga nagsugod sa US ug nikatag sa tibuok
kalibutan ug naapektuhan ang tanan, apil na ang mga nagpabiling lig-on nga
ekonomiya susama sa Tsina. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ang US, mga nasud sa European
Union, Japan, China—ang mga nag-unang mga ekonomiya sa kalibutan, nalukop sa
utang. Gikan sa pagkalubog sa utang sa
mga bangko niining mga nasura, latas na ang pagkalubog sa utang sa mga katawhan
niini ug ang pinakagrabe, ang gubyerno mismo niining mga nasura ang lubog sa
utang karon. Ang US, $19.3 trillion ang
pagkakautang niini, 102.98% kung ikumpara sa iyang GDP. Halos kini nangutang para makasugakud sa
iyang mga pagagastusan. Ang EU, 87.8% sa
suma-total sa tanang mga nasud niini kumpara sa GDP. Sa Japan 247.82% ang pagkakautang sa GDP.
Samtang ang Tsina, adunay $28 trillion nga pagkakautang, 230% kung
ikumpara sa GDP. Buot ipasabot lang
niini, wala na sa matarong nga barug ang dagkong ekonomiya sa kalibutan nga
maoy nagdala sa ekomiya sa kinatibuk-an.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ang epekto niini sa katawhan
nagkadaiya, ang pinakamahinungdanon nga mga epekto mao ang pagkapiot sa nakuha
nga serbisyo sa gubyerno sigon sa Austerity measure (pagdaginot sa Gubyerno) ug
nawad-an sa trabaho bunga sa pagpanaktak.
Sayod kita nga kung kini ang maapektuhan, atong panginabuhi ug kalidad
sa kinabuhi ang mukunhod pa sa pinakubos nga ang-ang.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Apan ang pangutana, ingon usab ba
ang nahitabo sa mga adunahan? Karong tuig
2016, samtang igû sa grabeng krisis ang kalibutan ug mas nagkaubos ang kalidad
sa kinabuhi sa mga katawhan, 62 ka mga indibidwal sa kalibutan ang giila karong
sobra-sobrang adunahan (richest). Adunay
naitala nga $1.76 trillion nga katigayunan! Katumbas ang 3.6 billion ka pinaka-kabus
nga tawo kung ipunon ang mga katigayunan niini.
Halos katunga sa kalibutan ang katumbas nga pagpanag-iya sa 62 ka mga pinaka-adunahan
nga mga indibidawal, samtang ang 3.6 billion ka mga pinakakabus nga katawhan
gisaw-an ang ubos sa katunga nga katigayunan sa kalibutan. Kadakong katingalahan! 70% sa pinaka-kabus sa kalibutan, mga
kababenhan!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kini nahitabo gumikan sa wala nay
undang nga pagkahakug ug paghinangol ning sistema sa salapi ug ginansya kapuli
ang dignidad ug kinabuhi sa katawhan.
Dungan pa sa kini nga kapait ang epekto sa gyera sa nagkalain-laing
parte sa kalibutan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sobra na sa 3 ka tuig ang gyera
sa Syria, nisunod kini nga gyera human sa Ukraine (2013). Sa Ukraine, 9, 167 na ang namatay (suma-total
sa mga civilian, sundalo ug mga rebelde).
215,000 sa 1.6 million sa mga napalayas nunot sa gyera ang dili na
makabalik sa ilang kanhing gipuy-an tungod sa grabeng pagkaguba. 1.7 million ka mga bata sa Ukraine ang
nakasinati ug grabeng epekto sa gyera hangtod karon ilabi na sa panahon sa
ting-tugnaw (winter). Hangtod karon,
wala pay resolusyon para sa kalinaw sa maong nasud.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sa Syria, 50.5% ang kababaenhan
ug 49.5% ang kalalakin-an. Sisyenta isingko (75%) sa mga Syrian refugees, mga
kababaenhan ug mga bata, ug 716,492 ang hingkog na ang pangidarun nga
kababenhan. Naitala na ang halos 3
Million ka Syrian refugees ang nahimutang sa mga silingang nasud paglikay sa
gyera, nga nahimutang sa Lebanon, Jordan, ug Turkey. Apan 4.6 million nga Syrians ang refugees, ug
6.6 million ang napalayas na sulod mismo sa Syria; katunga niini mga bata. SILANG TANAN, NAKATAGAMTAM SA SOBRA-SOBRANG
KAGUTOM, KATUGNAW, WALA’Y TUBIG, KAGUOL UG KALISANG!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Likod niini nga mga reyalidad, asa
man kita paingon? Dili na nato angayan nga huwaton ang gyera nga mubuto sa
mismong atong tugkaran gumikan sa wala pa nahupay ang kaguliyang sa South China
Sea. Ato nang ipaduso sa atong Gubyerno
ang pagpakgang sa laing gyera nga mahitabo.
Mahimo kini nato sa pagsiguro sa pagpili sa sunod nga administrasyon nga
dili muduot sa Gyera ug mubabag sa EDCA (kasabutan nga magpahimutang sa mga
sundalong Amerikano sa atong nasud, pangandam sa gyera tali sa Tsina). Ituboy nato ang Gubyerno nga nagbaton ug
kasayuran sa pagpanalipod sa katawhang Pilipino gikan sa lapdos sa
ekonomikanhong krisis, ilabi na sa mga kaigsuonan natong mga OFW. Usa ka Gubyerno nga mudapig sa katawhan para
sa matarong ug kaangayan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kung sa lantaw nato, wala kita’y
kapilian sa han-ay sa mga dumadagan
karon, panahon na nga kita ang mugunit sa tinuod nga gahum. Ipakita nato ang esenya sa tiunay nga
demokrasya, ang pakigbisug sa kaugmaon nga matarong para sa atong mga anak.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hinunua nga kini ang esensya
ilabi na natong mga kababaenhan nganong adunay giingong International Women’s
Day. Dili kita mahadlok nga mobarug
tungod ug alang sa kagawasan ug kaluwasan sa atong nasud!! Makig bisug ug magtinabangay kitang mga kabus
aron atong malumpag ang sistemang walay balatian. Bangon! Barug! Makigbisug! ###<o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-21112311704790119022016-02-09T06:29:00.001-08:002016-02-09T06:29:54.727-08:00THE MEANING OF RAMA’S AND LABELLA’S VETOES OF MORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In November 2015,
Councilor Alvin Dizon filed a proposed resolution to approve <b>an ordinance imposing a moratorium on
evictions or demolitions of dwelling in public lands to be undertaken by the
Cebu City Government for a period of one year from effectivity of this
ordinance within the City of Cebu</b>. The City Council gave due course to the
proposal and after having met the required processes and procedures, the
proposed ordinance was subjected to a vote. The resolution was passed by a
majority of the council. When it was
submitted to Mayor Rama, the latter vetoed it citing as basis the proposed
ordinance negates a National Law, the R.A 7279 or the Urban Development and
Housing Act of 1992. The Council
attempted to override the Rama veto but failed to get the required numbers
because the Councilors who belong to the opposite party but voted in favor of
the ordinance either absented or reversed their stand on the issue. Meanwhile, Rama was suspended for sixty days
due to a pending Administrative case. Encouraged by Vice Mayor Labella’s pro
vote on the measure in the first filing, Councilor Dizon re-filed the ordinance
confident that Labella as Acting Mayor will not veto it. The re-filed bill again unanimously won the
voting but Labella vetoed it on the same basis cited earlier by Rama.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What puzzles and
infuriates many about the vetoes is the fact that the proposed ordinance
invokes R.A. 7279 or UDHA as impetus, support and enhancement of the
latter. A thorough and cautious reading
of the resolution reveals nothing that contravenes UDHA. It is provided in
Section 4.4 of the proposed ordinance<i>: <b>Notwitstanding the moratorium, the Cebu
City Government may implement eviction or demolition in the areas covered in
the following instances:<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></i></b><!--[endif]--><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is an urgent necessity to
immediately relocate families to prevent loss of lives and property. Provided, that the city may provide temporary
relocation but it shall immediately identify those qualified for permanent
relocation;<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">B.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></i></b><!--[endif]--><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The new structures constructed by
informal settlers in the areas covered after the effectivity of this ordinance
as certified by the barangay local government unit concerned;<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">C.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In both instances, the Division for
the Welfare of the Urban Poor shall conduct adequate consultation and notice.
Provided, that the Prevention, Restoration, Order, Beautification and
Enhancement (Probe) team shall implement humane demolition.</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thus, the above
provisions indicate that in letter and spirit, the proposal is in furtherance
of the UDHA. <b>What the vetoes simply show is that Rama and Labella lacked due
diligence and conscientious study of the ordinance for them to have missed the
whole point of the measure. Their
actions betray either utter absence of regard for the welfare of the poor and
marginalized of Cebu. Or worse, it is a
product of unprincipled partisan electoral patronage politics rearing its ugly
head – at the expense of the very people Rama and Labella shamelessly vowed to
serve. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The moratorium enjoys
broad support from different sectors: the affected “squatters”-urban poor of
the city; various cause-oriented NGOs and peoples’ organizations; the academe,
professionals and even from the religious nuns, brothers, clerics, as well as
pastors and ministers of churches. <b>And
yet despite this, Rama and Labella ignored them – opting to be insensitive and
callous to the clamor of the people.
Even the just concluded International Eucharistic Congress did not make
a dent on the sensibilities and sensitivities of the two officials
notwithstanding the clarion calls of the Catholic Church to care and serve the
poor and excluded in our society. </b>After all, their attendance and presence
at the Congress activities, if anything, were just plain posturing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another meaning-gleaning of the veto is the question whose
welfare and interests are Rama and Labella really protecting?</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Are they abandoning the poor to defend moneyed, powerful, corporate and
foreign interests? For whom is development and
general welfare - if it sacrifices the many poor deprived and oppressed
in the process. It cannot be anything but sheer misplaced priorities and moral
bankruptcy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We call on the
councilors who voted against the measure to rethink and reconsider their
position on the matter. Heed the cries
of the disadvantaged and neglected of your constituents. We call on the
councilors who voted in favor of the measure: remain steadfast and continue
your principled stewardship of the poor and excluded. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We call on the people
to assert your rights. Discern well who
to vote for in the coming elections. Resist government assault on the weak,
small and poor. Expose and oppose abusive and anti-people practices, policies,
programs and projects. Reject massive violation of peoples’ rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">NAGPAKABANANG MGA KAHUGPUNGAN SA KATAWHAN SA SYUDAD SA SUGBO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">C/o KILUSAN office at 690-C D. Jakosalem St., Brgy.
Kamagayan, Cebu City<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Tel. No.: (032) 253-9682<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Email add: </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:kpd_n_cebu@yahoo.com"><b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">kpd_n_cebu@yahoo.com</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Blogsite: </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://kpd-cebu.blogspot.com/"><b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">http://kpd-cebu.blogspot.com</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sulat para sa mga Konsehal sa Syudad sa Sugbo nga Mabination sa mga
Kabus nga taga-Dakbayan<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">(Para sa
pagpapasar sa Moratorium on Demolisyon Ordinance)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Ang katawhang kabus nga taga Dakbayan sa Sugbo masulub-on sa karong
panahon human sa balita nga gibabagan ni Mayor Mike Rama ang pagpapasar sa
Ordinansa nga nagdumili sa pagdemolish sa mga pampublikong kayutaan subay sa
hurisdiksyon sa Syudad sa Sugbo sulod sa usa ka tuig (Moratorium Against
Demolition Ordinance).</span></b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Nagdag-om ang kalangitan subay
sa pagkadismaya sa katawhang kabus ning maong balita. </span><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Ang desisyon inanay sagpa
ug pangandoy sa mga kabus nipanaw. Unta nga ang tinguha wala’y lain kung dili
patas nga katungod dili gahum sa Gubyernong nitalikod sa konsituenteng
gipanumpaan nga pagasilbihan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Ang pangandoy alang sa desinte ug makatawhanong
pagpuyo angay lang ipaduso hangtod maangkon kini. Tungod ug gumikan nga batakang panginahanglan
ug nilagdaan sa Balaod nga usa ka tawhanong katungod. Apan wala kini ilha sa Gubyernong buta’ ug
hakug sa gahum, ingon balaod gigamit pabor para sa mga adunahan ug mga dagkong
tigpapatigayon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Sa kahimtang namong mga kabus –walay yuta, walay
balay, walay trabaho- gigamit ang among kaugalingong kusug aron makahatag ug
serbisyo ngadto sa ubang kabus sama namo, imbis mahimong pabug-at sa
katilingban, kini mismo kay dalaygon. Nakasugakod kami sa among pagpuyo pinaagi
sa matinud-anon, kakugi, taas nga trabaho, bisan paman dili igo ang kita, dili
sama sa mga opisyal sa gobyerno nga naglungkab sa kwarta sa publiko.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Kay miserabli ang among kinabuhi, ug ang among
pagtumaw sa kayutaan sa Syudad kay hugaw sa panan-aw sa mga adunahan ug
gamhanan, kini dili among tinuyuan. Ang katilingban mao ang nagpaubos sa
ing-ani nga kahimtang; ug ang katilingban ang angayang magbuhat ug maayong
opurtunidad alang kanamo aron mapalambo kini. Ang kamaut ug kakabus sa among pagpuyo
dili matabunan sa mga pangpagwapa lang nga kausaban, sama sa gustong buhaton sa
gobyerno ni Rama. Hinuon, ang lihok ni Mayor Rama sa pagpagwapa/panindot
naghatag ug mas grabing kadaut sa kinabuhi sa mga kabus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Sama sa uban, nagbayad usab kami ug buhis. Tungod walay
makaikyas sa VAT. Naa kami’y susamang katungod ni bisan kinsang nagbayad ug
buhis nga maserbisyohan sa gobyerno.
Kami mga Pilipino, kinsa anaay patrimonyang katungod niining Pilipinas
ug labaw sa tanan sa ni bisan kinsang langyaw. Sama sa ubang Pilipino,
naghandom kami ug paglambo. Simpli lang namong gipangayo nga sa unsa man o
tanang kalambuan kinahanglan maapil, dili kay walay labot, ang kabag-ang kabus, ilabi na ang apektado/nagpakabanang
sektor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Ug labaw sa tanan, mga tawo kami, kabahin sa katawhan.
Naghuna-huna, mubati, nag-ugmad nga mga tawo nga naningkamot nga magamit among
tawhanong kapasidad aron mabuhat among bahin sa kini nga katilingban. Apan sa among kapasikaran nanginahanglan sa
inyong tabang, tabang para kami mulambo ug makatagamtam man lang sa gamay’ng
kahupayan ug alibyo gikan sa demolisyon.
Minghangyo nga unta kamo bumati kanamo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Nga ang Administrasyon ni Rama mihikaw kanamo sa
among pulos isip tawo ug ang among dignidad isip tawo- aron ang langyaw nga
mamuhunan moginansya ug ang mga turista malingaw.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Unta dili kamo susama ni Mayor Mike Rama nga
mitalikod na kanamo. Hangyo namo nga
unta inyong ipapasar ang Ordinansa nga muhatag kanamo ug kahigayunan nga makig-alayon
sa Gubyerno aron kami makiangayon nga mapahimutang ug dili yanong
sikad-sikaran. Inyong boto sa ummabot
Miyerkules, Nobyembre 25, 2015 among bantayan.
Itratar isip inyong timaan sa inyong gipanumpaan. Hangyo kami kaninyo, saksi ang langit, dungga
ang tingug sa katawhang kabus kaninyo nangaliyupo. IPAPASAR ANG ORDINANSA!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Nagkahiusa sa ngalan sa katawhang nagpakabana,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Emalyn M.
Aliviano<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Spokesperson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya-Cebu
(KILUSAN-Cebu)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">President<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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KA-Mambaling)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Alliance of People’s Organization Working for
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Ronald Lamberte<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Warwick Barracks Relocated Vendors’ Urban Poor
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Virginia Canoy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The administration of President Benigno “Noynoy”
Aquino (PNoy) is hosting the 23</span><sup style="text-align: justify;">rd</sup><span style="text-align: justify;"> Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) Economic Leaders’ Summit on November 18-19. This is the second time the
Philippines is venue for the gathering of 21 heads of “economies” that all
belong to world’s top 50.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><br />
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The neo-liberal globalization jargon “economy”,
instead of state or government, is used not just to accommodate Hong Kong and
Taiwan. The word “economy” creates a false sense the summit is not a global political
event. This is despite the fact that the world’s leading economic and military
powers, the US, China, Russia and Japan, are members of APEC. Any major move by any of them, especially by the
US, influence and can change the world situation <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Crisis and war clouds
overshadow APEC 2015 <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Several earth-shaking developments have happened
since 1996, the first time APEC Leaders’ Summit was held in the Philippines.
That was 5 years to 9/11 and start of “US War against Terror”. There were then no
US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and no US-backed wars in East Ukraine and
Yemen. There was no Islamic State (IS) yet at that time, though the al Qaeda
and Taliban were already known. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That was 19 years to the start of Russia-led “War
against Islamic State (IS)”. It was 18 years before the simmering conflict in
South China reached boiling point. It was 19 years before the US pointed at
China and Russia as the challengers to the global order it has been shaping since
the end of World War 2. That was 12 years to the 2008 outbreak of the global
crisis that persists until now. <o:p></o:p></div>
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APEC 2015 is overshadowed by crisis and war clouds.
The 7-year crisis has further worsened. Since the outbreak of the crisis, every
succeeding annual APEC Summit was tense. In the 2014 summit in China, US
President Obama held sideline meetings with heads of countries that were approved
for membership in the China-less Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). <o:p></o:p></div>
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finance and trade rivalry between US and China<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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APEC 2015 comes at the heels of the signing of the draft
agreement on TPP by 12 countries last October 5. TPP is a US scheme to remain
the dominant economy dictating the terms of global investment and trade.
President Obama confirmed this to media, “Because if we (US) don’t, China
would”. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The TPP countries are APEC members: Australia,
Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, USA and
Vietnam. TPP would be open to new members after the draft agreement is ratified
by the 12 founding members. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The TPP is worse than critics expected. It would thoroughly
liberalize and deregulate national economies for the greater freedom of movement
and profit-making of leading American and Japanese private monopolists
especially in automobile, agriculture and pharmaceutical industries. TPP would make
labor more flexible and deregulated, especially on wages and job security. It opens wider the gates for trade in
services, which is mainly the traffic of skilled labor and professionals, whereby
foreign investors can bring workers from their home bases and low-wage
countries. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The stalled negotiations for TPP were activated and
pushed by the US after 50 of 57 founding member-countries of China-initiated
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) confirmed their membership in the signing
ceremony in Beijing last June 29. Other
than China, signatories include Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Switzerland,
Netherlands, Norway, Iran, Israel, Brazil, Russia, India, South Korea,
Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam and others.
The 7 other founding members- Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Saudi
Arabia, Denmark, Poland and Kuwait, are yet to confirm membership and each
one’s amount of share in the bank. Twenty (20) more countries applied for
membership in the AIIB. <o:p></o:p></div>
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China-led AIIB is not in the purview of APEC though
it certainly would matter in the coming summit. The US and Japan are not
joining AIIB. It would surely compete with the World Bank and Asian Development
Bank that the two countries dominate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Wars and escalating
war provocations <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Millions of refugees from wars in Syria,
Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere poured into Europe, welcomed by
Europeans, but barred by their governments. The endless wars that US wages and
supports have displaced over 60M people worldwide, the largest number of
refugees since World War 2. Annual US
war and military spending is nearly 50% of world’s total defense and military
expenditures! But the fund of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is
not even 1% of US’s annual military and war budget! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Despite the refugee crisis, the frequency of
beatings of war drums intensified. US-Russia and US-China wars are now close to
reality. Russia-US war is hairline to reality since the former engaged directly
in bombing the IS and other terrorist groups in Syria. The world knows that the
IS, Al Nusra and al Qaeda are “allies” of and aided by the US in the already
four years “civil war” to overthrow the Assad regime in Syria. The war that has raged from 2011 has already caused
the death of more than 250,000 Syrian civilians.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The US is not serious about Russia’s proposal for a
political solution to the war in Syria. For the US, it’s ”the head of Assad or
war”. After its training of “moderate rebels” failed miserably, the US is ready
to deploy 50 soldiers from its Special Forces to assist the “Free Syrian Army”
even as it continues to arm the IS. Lately the US is considering the deployment
of F-15 jet fighter planes to Syria. F-15 is designed mainly for aerial battles
with US’s enemy’s warplanes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the APEC side of the world, the US, a non-party
to the dispute, has taken over and has raised the territorial row in the South
China Sea among China, Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan, to direct confrontation with China. The adamant
assertion by China of “territorial sovereignty” over reefs and shoals altered into
“islands” with structures for defense purposes and its outright disregard of
the rights of other claimants, give reasons for the US to raise its war banner with
“freedom of navigation” slogan. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The US has stepped-up its challenge to China’s
assertion. US Navy destroyer, USS Lassen deliberately sailed within the 12
nautical mile territorial limit of China-claimed Subi Reef last October 27.
This elicited sharp, “We are not afraid of war”, reaction from China. Just days
before the 2015 APEC Summit, the US, the declining but still the mightiest
nation-state on earth, jacked-up war provocations on China. Two US B-52 bombers
conducted “routine flight” over the “artificial islands” of China. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is despite the case filed by the Philippines against
China before the International Tribunal on Law of the Seas (ITLOS). Other
claimants have done the same before, but China just ignored them. Now, in the
eve of APEC 2015, China is passing on to the Philippines the burden of undoing
the “troubles” arising from filing the case.
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Japan is also adding to the rising tension. The Abe government of Japan, in contravention
of its constitution, passed militarist laws redefining Japan’s self defense
posture into “collective self-defense” and its pacifist policy into “proactive
pacifism”. This move was condemned by
China and South Korea and earned negative remarks from Australia. Only the US
and Philippine presidents praised Abe for the passage of the laws despite
strong opposition by the Japanese people. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>APEC: Dysfunctional mechanism for
economic co-operation and peaceful co-existence <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Twenty heads of “economies” are coming to Manila.
The leading figures are US President Obama, China’s President Xi Jin ping,
Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe, Russia’s PM Dmitry Medvedev and, South Korea’s President
Park Geun-ye. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The theme of the APEC 2015 Leaders’ Summit, “Building
inclusive economies; Building a better world”, is ironic. The China-less TPP that favors big private
monopoly capitalists is top in the agenda of the summit. The agenda includes
climate change and disaster preparedness. But the US and the other big powers
are pursuing wars and preparing for bigger wars that would certainly aggravate
the humanitarian crisis resulting from present wars. <o:p></o:p></div>
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APEC security was beefed-up starting today
following the series of shootings and bombings by alleged IS elements that left
more than 120 people dead in Paris, France. The vicinity of Philippine
International Convention Center in Pasay City has been transformed into
veritable war zone, complete with anti-aircraft weapons.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The 2015 APEC Leaders’ Summit is a monument to a
more dysfunctional multi-lateral mechanism for global progress and peace. The
Filipino people have to bear the burden of hosting the summit, which is an
arena for big power rivalry, at the cost of P10B of public funds and the
curtailment of their freedom of movement and right to protest along with
peoples of other nationalities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Genuine international progress and peace rely on
the solidarity and struggle of the world’s peoples against the moribund,
decadent and predatory – crisis and war prone- global capitalism.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Dismantle APEC!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Advance international solidarity and
struggle against imperialism, crisis and war!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-83180594166386368792015-11-14T21:55:00.001-08:002015-11-14T21:56:50.575-08:00IPAPASAR ANG MORATORIUM ORDINANCE ON DEMOLITION AND EVICTION WITHIN THE PUBLIC LANDS OF CEBU CITY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Nobyembre 13, 2014<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Ang desente, hapsay, ug adunay
dignidad nga kapuy-an ug pabalay usa ka batakang panginahanglunon sa taw isip
mag-protekta sa atoa sa unsa mang matang sa panahon. Usa kini ka pundamental
nga katungod nato ug kini giila sa mga International Human Rights Movement ug
sa atoa mismong Konstitusyon ug sa ingon nga angay kini nga paga-respetuhon.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Apan ubos sa administrasyon ni Mayor Mike Rama ug sa iyang mantra nga<b> <i>“Hapsayon
ang gubot, Limpyuhon ang hugaw, Pahumuton ang baho”</i></b>, gikan sa iyang
paglingkod isip mayor sa syudad ug hantod karon, daghan ang mga demolisyon ug
mga clearing operations nga napatuman sa nagkadaiyang komunidad ug mga
kadalanan kung hain kini hingpit nga gipatuman. Pero kung imong tukion ang mga
nahitabong clearing operations nga ilang gipatuman ug gipahigayun, kasagaran
ini iligal o wala naga-subay sa saktong proseso ug pamaagi sa balaod. Susama sa
nahipalgan sa mga taga Warwick Barracks, Carbon kun hain human sila nasunugan o
gi-sunog atong Enero sa niaging tuig, wala na sila gi-pabalik sa maong luna
kung asa sila tawhanong nagpakabuhi, ug ang sobrang panimalay nga wala masunog,
gi-demolis pud sab, madugo nga demolisyon ang nahipalgan sa mga taw didto. Hangtud
karon nagpabiling nakigbisug ug naghandom ang mga taga Warwick Barracks nga
sila mahataga’g hustisya tungod kay katungod sa kapuy-an ug panginabuhian mismo
ang gihikaw sa ilaha. Mao pud sab ang nahipalgan sa mga sidewalk vendors sa
syudad, ubos sa polisiyang Zero Vending Policy, sila nakasinati ug
pagpang-harass sa han-ay sa mga PROBE gikan adtong Nobyembre niaging tuig ug
hantod karon, biktima pud sab sila sa mga clearing operations nga dili
makiangayon tungod kay wala gyud kini konsultasyon sa han-ay sa mga vendors ug
walay saktong alternatibo o relokasyon para sa ilaha ilabi na sa mga vendors sa
N. Bacalso(E-Mall ug South Bus Terminal), katungod kini sa panginabuhian ug
dili dapat nga ihikaw sa ilaha.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Daghan pang mga komunidad sa dakbayan ang nakasinati aning mga demolisyon
sa ngalan sa mga dagkong negosyo nga mao ang prayoridad sa atong gobyernu
karon, ang kapait lang ang mga kabus gipangsalikway. Gatusan na ka pamilya nga
hangtud karon, nagpabilin nga wala pa gyud intawn mahiluna, tungud kay
desenteng panimalay ug panginabuhian ang nahikaw sa ilaha, mga estudyante nga
nahunong nalang sap ag-eskwela. Unsa nalay palaabuton sa atong mga pamilya,
kaugmaon sa atong mga anak kun kini nga pamaagi nila magpabilin nga hingpit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Busa magkahiusa kita sa pag-uyon ug pag-suporta aron mapapasar kini sa
Mayor ang duh aka ordinansa nga <b><i>Moratorium on Eviction or Demolition of
Dwelings in Public Lands o gang Ordinansa pagpasiguro sa pagpatuman sa Sec. 28
sa UDHA kun Urban Development and Housing Act.</i></b> Kini nga mga ordinansa
mupugong sa demolisyon kungwala pa kini mu-agi sa saktong proseso sa balaud ug
kung hain siguruhon nga anaa ang pag-konsulta sa mga apektado, ug pagtugot sa
Local Housing Board nga muhimo para sa checklisting, maghimu ug guidelines, ug
magsiguro pagpasunod sa probisyon sa UDHA, ug labaw sa tanan ang paghatag ug
alternatibo nga haum sa mga direktang apektado sa demolisyon o sa katawhang
kabus. Kini nga mga ordinansa gi-aprubahan o napapasar na sa Konseho, kang
Mayor Mike Rama nalang. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Walay maayong rason nga dili kini aprubahan sa mayor kay obligasyon
kini niya isip amahan sa syudad ug labaw sa tanan, interes kini sa katawhan
tungod kay katungod kini nato isip taw nga adunay dignidad, dili kita mga hayop
nga pwede lang sa bisan-asa magpuyo.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 46.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-text-raise: -5.5pt;">T</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">he 31<sup>st</sup> edition of Philippine Amphibious
Landing Exercise—Phiblex, has just ended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The annual war exercise of US and Philippine Marines and Navies was held,
October 1-9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 2015 version, Phiblex
16, was joined by 1,000 US Marines from Okinawa, Japan and 1,000 Filipino sailors
and marines, according to news on Phil. Navy website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Japanese and Thai soldiers also took part in
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Phiblex 15 of 2014 was joined by 5,000 American and
Filipino marines and sailors. One of the US Marines is Joseph Scott
Pemberton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phiblex 16, thus, rubs salt
on the ever-open wound of continued trampling of Philippine sovereignty. This
is an insulting reminiscence of the murder of Jennifer Laude by US Marine Lance
Corporal Pemberton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The crime was committed in the evening
of October 11, 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The American
marines and sailors were on liberty after Phiblex 15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The US Navy ships that saw action in Phiblex
15 were berthed at former permanent, now “regular”, US Naval Base in Subic,
Zambales. One of the ships was USS Peleliu where the US Marines unit of
Pemberton was assigned. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The trial of Pemberton, on murder charge, at the RTC
branch 74, Olongapo City, is through. Pemberton admitted he choked the transgender
Filipina in “self-defense”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only a moron
would believe him. The autopsy done on the body, which was bruised all-over and
with broken neck, tells Jennifer was killed in a manner the US Marines are
trained to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">But the court is yet to rule on Pemberton’s case. It is
expected by December, one year since the trial </span></div>
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began. Paragraph 6, Article 5 on
Criminal Jurisdiction, of the US-RP Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) states: if
the judicial proceedings are not completed in one year, “the US is relieved of
obligations…” The obligations include presenting the accused before the court
and most of all, keeping custody of the accused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The circuitous and verbose provisions of
Article 5 confirm the US-RP VFA favors the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">From the time he was charged until now, Pemberton is
detained in the US facility inside Camp Aguinaldo, the Headquarters of the
AFP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is guarded by US Marines. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A scratching insult to all Filipinos who
dearly value sovereignty!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Justice for Jennifer, demanded by
Filipinos, is hanging in thin air. Though the evidences for murder charge are
strong, Pemberton’s admission could likely lessen the penalty. The next
struggle is on the location of Pemberton’s imprisonment. The Filipino people
should fight for Philippine jurisdiction against US’s wielding its advantage under
the one-sided VFA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The people should pursue the struggle for genuine
sovereignty. The US has long trampled upon it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The series of governments until the present have been subservient to US
designs and interests. The government of Noynoy Aquino, instead of ending the
VFA, even signed, with the US, a new basing arrangement for “rotating” US
military forces in the country thus, perpetuating unequal relations with the US.
</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Justice for Jennifer and the Filipino
people!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Fight for national sovereignty! </span></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-55065472139868147482015-10-09T19:04:00.000-07:002015-10-09T19:08:39.610-07:00PADAYAG PARA SA ADLAW PAGHINUMDUM SA KAMATAYON NI JENNIFER LAUDE, SA KAMATAYON SA SOBERENYA SA PILIPINAS<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
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Acct.:<b> KILUSAN CEBU</b></span><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">/ Email Add.: </span><a href="mailto:kpd_n_cebu@yahoo.com"><b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH; mso-themecolor: text1;">kpd_n_cebu@yahoo.com</span></b></a><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">October 11, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Usa ka tuig na ang nilabay gikan sa makalilisang nga pagpatay
ni Jennifer Laude, ang transgender woman nga nahipalgang patay sa usa ka motel
human nga gi-arm lock ug gilumsan ni Lance Cpl. Scott Pemberton. Usa ka kagabhiun nga wala damha sa pamilyang
Laude nga katapusan na nilang makitang buhi si Jennifer. Usa ka panghitabo nga masulub-on dili lamang
para sa pamilya ni Jennifer, apan masulub-on usab para sa tanang mga LGBT ug sa
katawhang Pilipino sa kinatibuk-an.</span></div>
<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Walay katarungan ang posibleng makabarug aron maingon
nga insakto lang ang pagpatay ni Jennifer, siya nga walay ikasarang nga
mudepensa sa kaugalingon, si Jennifer nga napahiubos sa kusog ug kapungot ni
Pemberton tungod ug gumikan sa pagkapakyas ni Pemberton sa iyang tumong nga
matagbaw sa iyang lawasnong panginahanglan!
Susama sa uban pang LGBT, naalaot si Jennifer sa usa ka tipo ug mabangis
nga diskriminasyon. Susama sa kabag-ang
kababayen-an nga naalaot kung dili man napanamastamasan ug nadaug-daog ubos sa
kabangis sa sistemang patriyarkal ug pagtratar nga butang kapahimuslan (object
of desire) ang babaye sa katilingban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Apan ang pagkamatay ni Jennifer di lamang usa ka
simple og ordinaryong krimen nga angay natong kapungtan ug pagkakondenahon, ang
iyang pagkamatay timaan sa pagkalubog o pagyatak sa tibuok natong katungod sa
atong nasud ilabi na sa atong katungod sa kaugalingnan o soberenya! Ang mga basehan mao ang mga musunod:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Ang nakapatay ni Jennifer Laude nga si Lance Cpl.
Scott Pemberton, usa ka sundalong Amerikano</span></b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> nga nidapit
sa atong nasud para sa usa lamang ka military exercise o
pagbansay-militar. Usa ka langyaw!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> Ang
nagtugot sa pareho ni Pemberton nga makalaroy-laroy sa atong nasud nga libre sa mga panubagon sa
unsa mang mga kalapasan sulod sa atong nasud mao ang kasabutan nga VFA ug
gipatuman sa </span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">EDCA kun Enhanced Defense
Cooperation Agreement hain nagtugot pag-usab sa presensya sa mga dinaghan nga
mga sundalong mga Amerikano ug pagdala sa ilang mga armas ug mga pasilidad de
militar sulod sa atong nasud</b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> ug sa pagtinuod, magbase na usab dinhi sila!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> Kasamatangang giatubang ni Pemberton ang kasong
Murder ug gipaabut na ang desisyon sa Korte sa dili pa o sa mismong adlaw sa
Disyembre 14 ning maong tuiga. Apan
adunay huhungihong nga kini mapaubos sa kasong Homicide—usa ka </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">krimen nga
sa simpleng pag-isplikar, wala matuyo o walay intensyong mupatay.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Dako ang mamahimong epekto niini kung sa
hisgutanan sa silot nga mapahamtang sa kang Pemberton.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Labing kapait pa, posibleng aregluhon lamang
sa atong Gubyerno o sa gubyerno sa US ang maong kaso ingon </span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">dili hingpit nga mapatuman ang hustisya sa pagkamatay ni Jennifer</b></li>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Ang tanan nga gisaysay nga mga basehan, mga punto nga
gikinahanglan ang atong pakabana ug paglimbasug! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Kung dili mapatuman ang balaod ug ang silot sa mga
kalapasan sa atong mga balaud ngadto sa mga abusadong mga langyaw, <b>mudaghan pa ang mga pagpangabuso sa mga
langyaw natong mga Pilipino, ug kini anaa pa sa atong kaugalingon yutang
natawhan! <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Kung dili
mababagan ang EDCA ug mapabasura ang VFA, mas mudaghan pa ang susamang mga
krimen nga mahitabo tungod mas daghan pang mga sundalong Amerikano ang mudapit
sa atong nasud</span></b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"> sa umaabot nga mga buwan kung kini maaprubahan sa
Korte Suprema ang <i>constitutionality </i>niini! Karong Disyembre 15 usab ang desisyon kabahin
ani! Sa kasayuran sa tanan, ang EDCA,
wala magahatag ug gahum sa atong Gubyerno aron madumalaan o maipatuman ang
atong mga balaod tungod sulod sa maong kasabutan gyud mismo ang pagkalas sa
gahum sa Gubyerno sa Pilipinas sa mga sundalong Amerkano ug sa ilang mga
kagamitang-militar!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Kung dili maipatuman ang pagkabalhug ni Pemberton sa
atong prisohan, samot kung mapaubos ang krimen ug silot niini, walay integridad
ug walay kabililhun na ang atong soberenya sa nasud, ang atong sistema sa
hustisya! <b>Usa kini ka pag-biay-biay sa atong demokrasya! Sa atong katungod isip
gawasnun ug may soberenya nga nasud!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">GIAWHAG
NAMO ANG PUBLIKO NGA MULANTAW SA ATONG KAHIMTANG SA NASUD UBOS SA MAO GIHAPONG
PAGPANGULIPON SA U.S. nga nagpakita sa pagkamatay ni Jennifer. </span></b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Dili pa
maundang ang susamang mga krimen parehas sa pagkapatay sa SAF 44 hain aduna
usab nga kalambigitan sa maong opersayon ang US military kung dili nato pugngan
ang pagpapasar sa EDCA ug kung dili nato mapabasura ang VFA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Pakigbisugan nato ang atong katungod sa soberenya
pinaagi sa pagpadangat sa atong tingog ngadto sa kagamahanan nga ipahamtang ang
hustisya para sa pamilyang Laude ug para sa tibuok katawhang Pilipino pinaagi
sa pagpapabalhug ug pagsilot ni Pemberton ubos sa balaod sa Pilipinas!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Lig-on nga
panalipdan ang atong integridad ug dignidad isip PILIPINO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Ipaduso
ang tiunay nga Hustisya ug Demokrasya!</span></b></div>
<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">alikatan 2015 is soon over. This year’s war exercise had almost 12,000
soldiers participating. They include 6,656
Americans, 61 Australians and 5,023 Filipinos. Last year’s Balikatan<b> </b>included 2,500 US<b> </b>soldiers<b>. </b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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exercise, Balikatan 2015 signifies something more. By the time it ends in
ceremonies at Clark Special Economic Zone, the former US Air Force base in
Pampanga, the Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) will have turned one
year old. Also, a contingent of
thousands of US soldiers is a grave insult to Filipinos who are seeking justice
for a transgender Pinay a US marine corporal gruesomely murdered just 6 months
ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Clark and the erstwhile
US Naval base in Subic, Zambales are among several sites for the war games. The
US military contingent of more than 6,000 soldiers, 3 ships and 76 aircrafts
would definitely need the facilities of its former bases for billeting, ship
berthing and aircraft parking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">With its size,
Balikatan 2015 is a prelude to the eventual re-basing of US troops in the
country. US’s and Philippines’ military officials consider the two former US military
bases among “agreed locations” as defined under EDCA. Representatives of the
two governments signed the new basing arrangement for US armed forces on April
28, 2014 during US President Obama’s visit in the Philippines. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">EDCA provides
for US military’s use of “agreed locations” within Philippine military camps
for the basing of its “rotating forces”.
A Philippine Air Force camp is located near Clark international airport,
which was originally designed for use by US military aircraft of all types. In
fact, an air unit of the US Navy, the Patrol Squadron 45, now stations in Clark
on rotational basis. Patrol Squadron 45
is a support unit the US 7<sup>th</sup> fleet and is equipped with a P-A8 Poseidon,
the newest maritime intelligence-gathering aircraft of the US Navy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The Armed Forces
of the Philippines (AFP) has reserved a 200-hectare area covering the former
naval magazine or arsenal, ship repair facilities and airfield in Subic as
Philippine Navy Base. Subic, which like Clark supposedly ceased to be a military
base after the Philippine Senate rejected a new basing agreement in 1991, is a
regular “port of call” of US Navy ships and submarines even before the drafting
of the EDCA. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The
Philippines in more than a century of US global designs<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The strategic location of the
Philippines has consistently served the US in projecting, expanding and
maintaining its global hegemony ever since it arose as an imperialist power at
the turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.
Such importance of the country to the US first concretely manifested in
1900 when the US sent its soldiers from the Philippines to China. The dispatched
US Marines and Army troops formed the US contingent in the international force
that suppressed the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.
Some years later, in 1918, around 2,000 US Marines sailed from the
Philippines to Vladivostok to support the rebellion of “White” Russians. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">As the only imperialist
superpower at the end of World War 2 and at the start of the Cold War era in
1948, the US launched wars of intervention and aggression to “contain
communism” and “defend the free world” whenever and wherever there is threat to
its interests. The Philippines as host
to two strategic US military bases was party to US war in Korea (1950-1953) and
later, in the longer war in Indochina, especially in Vietnam (1954-1975). The
Philippines also sent combat soldiers to Korea and armed civic action troops to
Vietnam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">This role was
assigned by the US to the Philippines through various treaties and agreements
the two parties signed on the day and after the US granted “independence” to
its “former” colony in 1946. The US, in
47 years of its direct rule over the country from 1899, has laid the
foundations for its continued use of the Philippines as launching pad and as
“partner” for its global designs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">For years since
“independence”, the US assumed unrestrained authority over Philippine
territories reserved for military and defence purposes and jurisdiction over
its military and defence personnel in the country. The US-RP Military Bases
Agreement (MBA), signed on March 14 1947 and the Military Assistance Pact,
March 21, 1947 further enforced the powers that the Treaty of General Relations
(signed July 4, 1946) dictated. The Treaty of General Relations, ironically, is
the document that states the “granting of independence” to the Philippines. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The Mutual
Defence Treaty (August 30, 1951), which remains in force until now, sustains
the authority of the US. The MDT perpetuates the “special security relations”
between the Philippines and US. The MDT
serves as the framework and basis for the US-RP Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA)
and EDCA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The Filipino
people, especially those in Pampanga, Zambales and Tarlac, and, in more recent
years, those in Sulu, Basilan, Zamboanga and in other places in Mindanao, had known
what it takes to host a dominant foreign military force. A long string of crimes
perpetrated by US troopers—murders and massacres, abuses on women, maltreatment
of workers, harassment of fishers and indigenous people—have accompanied
hosting of foreign troopers who were free from Philippine jurisdiction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Generations of
Filipinos have struggled against US domination and opposed US troops’ presence
and operation in the Philippines. Every generation contributed a significant number
of their finest sons and daughters to the struggle. The struggles however had only managed to
assert certain rights and some significant concessions like shortened term of
the MBA but US domination persists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Heighten
the struggle to be free from being an appendage of the militarist USA <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">A high point in the Filipino
people’s struggle for sovereignty was reached when the Salonga-led Philippine
Senate rejected another basing treaty in 1991. The rejection of the treaty gave the
opportunity to convert Subic Naval Base and Clark Air Base from military and
war purposes into commercial and productive economic uses. Almost 100,000
hectares of land the two former bases occupy are now special economic zones
that include industrial parks, real estate and commercial areas and tourism-oriented
sites. The two economic zones are employing
more than double the number of people employed when these were military bases. While open to all, however, the two economic
zones are catering principally to foreign investors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Certain areas
also remain restricted like the naval magazine site in Subic and the practice
bombing and gunnery site in Crow Valley in Tarlac, an extension of the former
Clark airbase. The US naval
communication station in San Antonio, Zambales, although officially has become
a Philippine Naval base, remains functional for the US military. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The fading
derogatory labels of the US military base cities of Olongapo as “Sin City” and
Angeles as “City of Angels” re-shine whenever American troops are around for
the regular war exercises. In fact after EDCA was signed, bar and club owners,
prodded by both cities’ governments, displayed streamers with messages like
“Welcome, we love you US military”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">With or without
bases, special arrangements between the two parties sustained US troops’
presence in the Philippines. Just before
the 1947 MBA expired in 1992, the chiefs of US and Philippine armed forces
signed the Access and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA) on November 7,
1992. The US succeeded later in having
the VFA ratified by the Philippine Senate on May 27, 1999. Then the US Department of Defence and its
Philippine counterpart signed the 5-year extendable Mutual Logistics Support
Agreement (MLSA) in 2002. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">But these
agreements are not enough for the superpower US to concretize the ambiguous
terms of the MDT for its current needs and schemes. The present US strategy of
Asian Pivot or the deployment of 60% of its naval and air forces to
Asia-Pacific means more bases for increased number of US troops in “rotating”
tours of duty. The US principally
directs the Asian Pivot against its chief rival, China, which has territorial
disputes with, among others, Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The US and the
Philippines used China’s aggressiveness in asserting and claiming its extended
territory as a strong argument for a new basing arrangement for “rotating” US
forces in the Philippines. Thus, they
crafted EDCA through more than 8 rounds of secret talks but finally signed
publicly last year. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Resist
US troops’ basing in the Philippines! Reject EDCA and all unequal security
relations with US!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Oppose
US global militarism! <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Fight
for the Filipino people’s sovereignty!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya
(KILUSAN)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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28, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-14947099364096932252015-02-23T22:04:00.001-08:002015-02-23T22:04:04.525-08:00EDSA people power commemoration <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Pebrero
25, 2015</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Ipaduso ang Katungod sa Kaugalingnan (Soberanya) sa
Katawhang Pilipino!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Mukabat na’s halos 3 ka
dekada ang milabay human malumpag ang diktadoryang pangagamhanan ubos sa
rehimen ni Marcos, ug sa adlaw karon (Pebrero 25) kini nahitabo. Karon ang pagpahinumdum
sa pila ka dekadang pakigbisug sa katawhang Pilipino sa paghandom ug pagpanday
sa “Demokrasyang Bayan”, ang pakigbisug sa katungod para sa malinawon ug taas
nga kalidad nga kinabuhi. Apan human ang EDSA People Power, human makab-ot ang giingong
<i>Demokrasya</i>, komusta naman tang mga
Pilipino karon?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Isip gawasnong nasud nga
adunay kaugalingnan o soberanya, interes sa bagang katawhan ang pagdumala sa
gobyerno, nasudnong patrimonya ug ekonomiya. Apan adunay nag-urong nga hulga sa
soberanya karon, usa niini ang <b>Enhanced
Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA)</b><i> </i>o
kasabutan tali sa Pilipinas ug Estados Unidos giingong kabahin sa pagpakusog sa
depensa ug hugot nga panagtambayayong sa duha ka nasud sa hisgutanan sa
militarismo. Apan ang dakong katuyuan niini mao ang pagtugot sa Amerika nga <u>magtukod
ug mga base militar diri sulod sa nasud!</u> Usa ka dakong hulga sa nasud ug sa
katawhan. Ang presensya sa mga sundalong kano ubos sa <i>Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA)</i> ni-resulta’g mga dili maayong
panghitabo. Nagka-grabi ang prostitusyon sa mga lugar hain nahimutang ang mga
base militar ug muabot pa gani kini sa mas grabi pa nga pag-abuso sa mga kababaenhan
susama sa mga kaso sa pagpanglogos ug pagpatay, usa niini si Nicole sa Subic
Rape Case niadtong 2005 ug niaging tuig lang nga mao si Jennifer nga gipatay
human masakping usa ka transgender. Samtang walay kasiguraduhan kung mahatagan
ba’g saktong silot ang mga sundalong kano bisan pa ma’g na-konbikto na kini. Dakong
hisgutanan pud sab karon ang trahendya sa Mamasapano kung hain nakalas ang
kinahuhi sa 44 ka <i>Special Action
Force(SAF) </i><u>ug kung hain napamatud-an nga dikta kato nga operasyon sa US
ug walay tibuok kasayuran ang atong gobyerno sa maong operasyon.</u> Na-ong-ong
ang <i>Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL)</i> o ang
panagsabot tali sa gobyerno ug <i>Moro
Islamic Liberation Front(MILF) </i>nga para sa kalinaw, kay lagi tungod sa insidente
sa Mamasapano, walay kooperasyon gikan sa gobyerno nga adunay operasyon nga
mahitabo sulod sa teritoryo sa giilang mga rebelde, hinungdan nga nagkagubot
napud sab. <b>Samtang, wala man lay
gihimong aksyon para papanubagon ang US sa kalimbigitan niini sa operasyon, tataw
gyud ang kahadlok sa atong gobyerno didto sa US</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Subay niining mga panghitabo,
<u>tataw nga dili gyud magka-pareho ang interes natong mga Pilipino ug sa US,
kay ang pinaka-rason nga naa sila diri’s nasud</u>, gusto niyang kab-oton ang
pinaka-dako nga merkado mao ang Asya, ug sa Pilipinas siya manukad. Gibantayan
pud sa US ang China isip pinaka-kompetensya niya sa negosyo karon. Ug mismo ang
Pilipinas nga iyang neyo-kolonya kung hain iyang merkado ug huthutanan sa mga
hilaw nga materyales para sa iyang produkto ug negosyo. <u>Interes sa US nga
magpabilin ang hegemoniya o pinaka-makagagahum sa hisgutanan sa politika ug
ekonomiya sa tibuok kalibutan, andam kini nga makig-gubat sa ngalan sa gahum</u>.
<b>Angay gyud babagan ang <i>EDCA</i> ug ibasura na ang <i>VFA</i> kay peligro kini nga mga kasabutan
para sa Pilipinas ug sa mga katawhan.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Ug lain pa! Ang <i>Charter Change (Cha-Cha)</i> giluto napud
sab, usa kini ka dakong hulga sa atong soberanyang katungod. Kung kini
mapa-pasar, adunay mga pag-usab sa mga mahinungdanong probisyon sa Konstitusyon.
Ubos sa globalisasyon, gi-tugutan sa gobyerno ug 100% pagbinayluay sa mga
produkto sulod-gawas sa nasod <i>(free
trade).</i> Gitugutan pud sab ang mga langyawng mamuhunan og dagkong
korporasyon para diri na mismo mag-negosyo, ubos sa programa ni PNoy nga <i>Public-Private Partnership (PPP)</i>. Buot
usbon ang <i>Article XII (Nasudnong
Patrimonya ug ekonomiya), </i><u>tablang itugyan sa gobyerno ang atong
teritoryo ug ang mga bahandi ngadto sa mga langyaw.</u> Ma-lugi ang mga local nga
negosyante ug mapapha ang mga gagmayng manindahay nga Pilipino.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Nagpakita ang kini nga
polisiya sa sitwasyon sa mga vendors sa syudad partikular sa may E-mall, South
Bus Terminal, P.Del Rosario, Panganiban, Jones Ave., Colon, Carbon, ug nagka-daghan
pa ang gipang-clearing o demolish. Gi-aganid ang clearing sa mga gagmayng
manindahay sa mga kadalanan para sa pagtukod sa mga <i>commercial</i> <i>building</i> ug
mga <i>malls</i> sa syudad, dili na sila
kinahanglan nga maninda, ubos sa mantra ni Mayor Mike Rama nga <u>“Limpyuhon
ang hugaw, hapsayon ang gubot, ug pahumuton ang baho”, apan, ang mga kabos ang
iyang gi-pasabot nga hugaw, gubot ug baho! </u>Tabla nga gihikaw ug hikawan
kita’s atong katungod sa panginabuhian para maka-sugakod sa pang-adlaw-adlaw
nga gastuson bisan paman nga grabi ug nagkamahal ang mga panaliton, kuryente ug
tubig. Mao nga dili ta maka-basol nga mu-sulod sa mga iligal ug dili produktibo
nga mga buluhaton ang mga tao, naa puy uban nga maghikog nalang sama sa
nasinati ni Artemio Javieng usa ka manindahay ug DVD sa may Jones Ave human
gi-demolish ug gi-kumpiskar iyang mga paninda niadtong niaging buwan. Inubanan
pa sa mga nagka-daiyang demolisyon sa mga komunidad sa syudad nga walay tarong
relokasyon sama sa nahitabo sa taga Warwick Barracks, Carbon nga nahimo nalang
parking lot karon, ug hangtod karon wala gyud nahatagan ug desenteng relokasyon,
nag-antos sa barong-barong sa usa ka luna sa Inayawan, sobra’s usa ka tuig na
human sila gipapha sa Carbon. Lain pa, sa mga kaigsuonang mga mananagat nga
halos walay kasiguraduhan kung anaa ba silay makuha pa sa dagat, kini tungod pud
sa mga commercial fishing o dagkong panagatan sa mga langyaw’ng negosyante nga
nag-tukmod sa mga mananagat nga magbuhat nalang ug iligal para lang gyud nga
naay makuha sa dagat. Gihinay-hinayan pud sab ug kural ang mga hunasan para kuno
adunay maka-sagang sa mga dagkong bawod kung adunay kalamidad, apan kini usa
lamang ka pag-pangilad, gigamit og gamiton kining mga yutaa para sa mga
proyekto sa pribadong sector sama sa mga resorts ug uban pa. Sa Sitio Mangal,
Punta Engano, Lapu-Lapu, wala na ka-panagat ang mga mananagat didto tungod kay
wala na sila tuguti sa Sta. Lucia Land Inc. nga musulod niadto pang niaging
Pebrero 5 lang ug hangtod karon. Mukabat sa 300 ka pamilya ang nag-puyo sa
maong lugar ug 99% niini nagsalig ra sa dagat. Nagka-daghan pud sab ang mga
walay trabahong produktibo ug regular, kadaghanan naa sa kontraktwal kung hain walay
benepisyo, barato dili-makiangayon ug maka-buhi; ug kuwang-kuwang nga sweldo. Nagka-daghan
pud sab ang <i>out-of-school</i> nga
kabataan gumikan sa sobra ka mahal sa mga bayrunon sa skwelahan, mao nang
mapunta na lang sa mga dili maayong buhat sama sa drugas ug sayong ka-minyuon.
Halos wala nay kontrol ang gobyerno sa atong ekonomiya karon, unsa pa kaha ug mapa-pasar
ang EDCA ug Cha-Cha? Bulto sa produktibong sector nga mao ang tiunay nga
nag-hago ug nagpa-dagan sa ekonomiya ang maong dakong apektado niini.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Apil pud sab nga mahilab-tan
ang <i>Article XIV (Edukasyon, Agham at
teknolohiya, Sining, Kultura, at Palakasan) </i>kung hain tugutan ang mga
langyaw nga muomol sa atong pang-huna-huna pina-agi sa pag-kontrol sa
edukasyon, <i>mass</i> <i>media</i> ug <i>advertising</i> <i>companies</i> ug uban pa. Buot ipasabot
niini, hulga niini ang orihinal nga kultura sa mga Pilipino, diri mismo sa
Pilipinas. Hinay-hinay nga mapapha ang atong nasudnong kultura ug maumol ang
maka-langyaw nga pang-huna-huna.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Ang mga probisyon
nga buot usbon sa Cha-Cha, unod niini ang mga hisgutanan sa opurtunidad nga
maka-gamit o makabenepisyo sa natural nga bahandi para sa kalamboan natong mga
Pilipino ug ang seguridad para kini magpabiling tunhay nga para ra gyud kanato.<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Dakong kwesyon niini kung aduna ba gyuy tiunay nga
kagawasan ang Pilipinas, kung nag-silbi ba gyud ang gobyerno sa interes sa
bagang masa. Kung epektibo pa ba gyud ang atong Konstitusyon nga giilang makinasudnon,
demokratiko, para sa katawhan ug dili sa mga langyaw. Ug labaw sa tanan, andam ba
ang mga katawhang Pilipino sa mamahimong epekto niini. Bisan pa man nga wala pa
kini mapa-pasar, tataw na nato nga nahitabo na gyud ning mga problemaha sa
kasamtangan. Unsa nalang kaha ang mamahimong dagway sa Pilipinas kung kining <i>EDCA ug Cha-Cha </i>opisyal<i> </i>na gyung ipa-pasar. Angay pa ba kaha
nga tawagon ang nasod nga Pilipinas nga para natong mga Pilipino?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;">Taas na kaayo nga panahon nga
ang Pilipinas nga atong nasud nagpa-ulipon. Walay silbi ang gobyerno kung dili
kini mag-silbi sa iyang katawhan, obligasyon nila kini diri nato. Tataw nga ang
Administrasyon ni PNoy mas gipa-labi ang mga langyaw kaysa kanatong mga kabos o
bagang katawhan. Busa manawagan kita nga organisahon ug hiusahon nato ang atong
interes ug kaugalingon para lumpagon ning kasamtangang sistemang dili makiangayon
ug dili patas para sa tanan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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kita para sa atong katungod sa Soberanya ug Nasudnong Demokrasya. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Katungod, Angkunon!!!</span></b><span lang="FIL-PH" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FIL-PH;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the 426 approved joint military activities</span></u><b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How many
Jennifers and Nicoles More? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">The gruesome
death of Jennifer Laude in the hands of alleged murderer Pfc. Joseph Scott
Pemberton of the US Marine Corps coincided with the meeting of the US-RP Mutual
Defence Board (MDB). The murder came right after the most recent Philippines-US
amphibious landing exercise, Phiblex. Pfc. Pemberton is one of the 3,500 US
marines who participated in the 12-day Phiblex 15. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">It was already
Phiblex 15 that just concluded and it is terrifying to learn that <b><span style="color: red;">426 more joint
military activities of various categories are forthcoming</span></b>. This is
one of the resolutions in the recent MDB meeting. It is disgusting to know that
the Philippine commander-in-chief, President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy) allowed the country’s
representatives in the MDB to approve hundreds more joint military activities despite
a recent crime against a Filipino by another soldier of the US Marines. This is
gravely insulting to the people, especially to those opposing rising US
militarism and increasing presence of US personnel and materiel in the
Philippines. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">WE, in KAISA KA,
(Pagkakaisa ng Kababaihan para sa Kalayaan) vehemently condemn the brutal
murder of transgender woman Jennifer Laude. Being a victim of a US Marines
trooper raises Laude’s murder to a crime against the Filipino people. The
suspected murderer, Pfc. Pemberton, should be detained in the country while
being tried under Philippine laws. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"> This recent crime highlights again and puts
under question the 1999 US-RP Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), which is under protracted
review since 2012, and the recently signed US-RP Enhanced Defence Cooperation
Agreement (EDCA) which is not yet enforced pending Supreme Court decision on
its constitutionality. The main subject of both agreements is, the presence or
stay in the country of US military forces (personnel, arms and equipments) and
the continuing joint military activities of the armed forces of the USA and the
Philippines. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Article 5 of the
VFA particularly stipulates on the issue of jurisdiction over US military
personnel who commit crime or legal liability not related with the pursuance of
their duties while in the Philippines. The VFA grants the Philippines
jurisdiction over the erring US military personnel. However, custody of the
American soldier/s remains with the US government. Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton is now supposedly
detained by his superiors in the warship USS Peleliu that is left docked in the
former US naval base in Subic. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Furthermore, VFA
stipulates that the resolution of the case must be done within one year
otherwise the US is not anymore obliged to present the defendant in court. In other words, the Philippine government
would have to seek the US government’s decision to transfer custody of the
erring US soldier to the Philippines. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">WE in KAISA Ka,
like many others, fear that the handling of Pemberton’s case will fall in the
same way of US Marine Lance Corporal Daniel Smith who was accused of raping Suzette
“Nicole” Nicolas in 2005. Smith was convicted and was confined for a few days
in the Makati City Jail. He was taken
away by US authorities and kept inside the US embassy until his case was
settled after Nicole allegedly retracted. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">The crime
committed by Pemberton is heinous but its dimension is beyond itself. VFA and
Philippine jurisdiction, i.e. sovereignty over a US soldier who committed crime
in the country are the real issues. The
case of Lance Cpl. Smith confirmed Philippine jurisdiction and sovereignty is
not guaranteed by the VFA. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">The USA, the
number one military and economic power in the world, is continuously wielding
its might not only over the Philippines but over many countries in the world.
The Philippines, by its government’s subservience, serve as a US neo-colonial
instrument and one of its bases in US’ projection of power over Asia-Pacific
and the world. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">The Philippines
is designated by the US to play the role of hosting, on pivotal basis,
increasing number of its military forces for the US <i>rebalance</i> strategy of deploying 60% of its naval forces in
Asia-Pacific by 2020. This is the reason for EDCA and the seemingly permanent VFA.
Under such situation many more crimes against Filipinos by US military
personnel can be anticipated. But what is most disturbing is the Philippine
government being an accomplice in the militarist-imperialist designs in the
world and the Filipino people being dragged in the process.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Justice for Jennifer Laude! Justice for the Filipino people!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Stop US militarism!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH">Rescind EDCA! Abrogate VFA! </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-925679197948101862014-10-25T10:55:00.002-07:002014-10-25T10:55:59.128-07:00PAGSUKO SA SOBERANYA: Pahamak sa Kababaihan at Buong Sambayanan<div class="MsoNormal">
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Nuong Oktubre 14, pinayagan ng administrasyong PNoy ang mga
kinatawan nito sa Mutual Defence Board na aprubahan ang 426 US-Philippine
“joint activities” sa pagitan ng dalawang pwersang-militar.</div>
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Ito ay sa kabila ng pagkakasangkot ng isang sundalong ng US
Marines Corps. sa kalunoslunos na pagpaslang sa isang Pilipinong transgender
nuong Oktubre 11 at ng matinding panawagan ng mga iba’t ibang samahan na
ipailalim ang pinaghihinalaang salarin sa kustodya ng Pilipinas.</div>
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Nanawagan ang KAISA KA,isang samahan ng mga kababaihang
nagsusulong ng panlipunang pagbabago sa pangulo na bumitaw na sa kasunduang
pinirmahan ni Hen.Gregorio Catapang nitong Oktubre 14,2014 at tanggihan ang
anumang pag-uusap hingil sa iplementasyon ng EDCA. Bukod pa sa dapat lamang
igiit ng ating gubyerno ang kustodya sa suspek na si Private First Class (PFC)
Joseph Scott Pemberton sa Pilipinas.</div>
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Ipinanawagan din ng KAISAKA na ikonsidera ng pamahalaan ang
pagbabasura sa EDCA sa dahilang sinusuportahan ng kasunduang ito ang lumalawak
na militarismo ng Estados Unidos.</div>
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Ang pagpaslang sa transgender na si Jennifer Laude sa
pamamagitan ng pagsakal at paglunod sa inidoro ay dapat lang kondenahin ng
lahat ng mamamayang humihiyaw ng katarungan. Si Jennifer ay isang biktima ng
karahasang nakabatay sa kasarian at resulta ng tumitinding militarism ng US.</div>
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May limang US warship ang nakadaong sa Subic para makapaglibang.
Isa si Pemberton sa mga lumalahok sa ginanap na US amphibious exercise kasama
ang mga sundalong Pilipino.</div>
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Ipinakita ng paraan ng pagpaslang sa pamamagitan ng
pagsubsob ng mukha sa iniduro kung paano itrinato si Jennifer na parang dumi.
Kaso ito ng trans-bashing na maituturing na walang iba kundi ang karahasang
sekswal, pisikal o panlalait sa mga transgender- na isang uri ng karahasang
batay sa kasarian.</div>
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<b>Maraming Nicole at Jennifer Basta’t May Tropang Kano</b></div>
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Dahil matagal ng libangan ng mga sundalong kano ang Subic at
Olongapo, naging saksi ang mga ito sa marami-rami na ring insidente ng
karahasan laban sa mga kababaihan, transgender, at maging sa mga kabataan.</div>
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Ayon sa mga iskolar at eksperto, ang karahasa’y bahagi na ng
isang kulturang militar sa patuloy na pagdikdik sa sistema ng kasundaluhan ng
mga awit at komentong kontra-kababaihan at transgender para hubugin sila na
maging matibay at matapang na tagapagtanggol ng interes ng US.</div>
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Dahil dito’y kinamihasnan nang ituring ng mga kasundaluhan
ang katawan ng kababaihan na tropeo ng katapangan at pagpupunyagi kapwa sa
panahon ng pagsasanay at digma. Kung kaya’t ang abuso sa kababaihan (kasama ang
mga lesbiana at gays) ay gawi rin mula sa kanilang sariling hanay hanggang sa
mga lugar na kanilang ginagawang base o sila’y pansamantalang nakahimpil tulad
ng Japan, Korea at sa Gitnang Silangan o Middle East.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
Para sa Marinong US, ang R and R o rest and recreation ay
sadyang pagkakataon para magpakagumon sa kamunduhan, alak at droga. At dahil sa
pinakamalakas na military super power sa daigdig at may maituturing na mahigit
pitong daang base sa mundo, hindi pa kasama dito ang mga security arrangements
tulad ng EDCA at VFA, talagang ang hukbo ng Estados Unidos ay may
pinakamahabang listahan ng mga kaso ng pang-aabusong sekswal.</div>
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<b>Seguridad Ba Natin Kaya Narito Sila? </b></div>
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Pinatunayan ng mahigit sangdaang taong pagiging dominanteng
kapangyarihang ekonomiko at militar ng US sa mundo na pangunahing dahilan ang
makinaryang militar nito sa pagpapanatili ng istabilidad at seguridad nito
bilang dominanteng kapangyarihan. Gayundin, ang paglalagay nito sa peligro at
pagkawasak ng maraming buhay, kabuhayan at sistema ng pamumuhay ng mga
mamamayan at komunidad sa mundo.</div>
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Ang pag-sangayon ng Pilipinas na ipagamit ang mga kampo at
teritoryo nito sa mga tropa at gamit pandigma ng US sa ilalim ng EDCA ay tunay
na naka-kabahala. Lalo pa’t kinakasangkapan nito ang panggigipit ng Tsina
bilang dahilan.</div>
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Ang totoo’y hindi lang talaga matanggihan ni Pnoy ang
kagustuhan ng US na magamit ang teritoryo ng Pilipinas bilang bahagi ng desenyo
nito na magdeploy ng mga pwersa nito sa mga estratehikong lokasyon sa
Asya-Pasipiko para madali at pleksible nitong maideploy sa iba’t ibang bahagi
ng mundo nang di-gaanong gagastos.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
Nitong pinakahuling Phiblex hindi pa man nagkabisa ang EDCA,
may 9,000 sundalong Kano ang nasa teritoryo ng Pilipinas. Sa bisa ng EDCA at
may 426 pinayagang joint military exercises, di malayong ang Pilipinas ay muli
na naming magmistulang isang malaking kampo o garrison ng US.</div>
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Tayo’y wala namang kaaway bilang isang bansa, ngunit dahil
kampi tayo sa Amerika, ang kanilang kaaway/ inaaway ay itinuturing na rin tayong kaaway.
Isang pormula ito ng ligalig at digma lalu na’t mas nauna nang ipinahayag ng
Amerika na itinuturing nitong karibal/kaaway ang Tsina at ang kanyang pivot o
pagpapalakas ng pwersang-militar sa Asya- Pasipiko ay nakatutok dito. </div>
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Igiit natin kay PNoy na ibasura ang MDT, VFA at EDCA o ihanda natin ang sarili
as mga susunod pang Jennifer at Nicole.</div>
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Hustisya para kay Jennifer at sambayanang Pilipino!</div>
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Panagutin si PFC Scott Pemberton!</div>
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Soberanyang Bayan Ipaglaban! VFA IBASURA!</div>
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Oktubre 16,2014<br />
Pagkakaisa ng Kababaihan para sa Kalayaan (KAISA KA)</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-31403755482482906112014-09-29T09:54:00.001-07:002014-09-29T09:54:01.280-07:00PLUMP: The naked truth about The Naked Truth<a href="http://www.theplumpinay.com/2014/09/the-naked-truth-about-naked-truth.html?spref=bl">PLUMP: The naked truth about The Naked Truth</a>: The Naked Truth is supposedly a fashion show by Bench, launching their latest collection of denim and underwear to be flaunted by the bigges...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321961216855505279.post-51635897099773140212014-04-20T02:57:00.004-07:002014-04-20T02:58:50.289-07:00Agreement on Enhanced Defense Cooperation:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Legitimizes Increasing Deployment of
US Troops, Military Hardware in PH<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Kilusan
para sa Pambansang Demokrasya (KILUSAN) call on critical-minded Filipinos to
closely scrutinize the newest security pact between PH and the US that is said
to be ‘80 percent done’ as recently articulated by Defense Undersecretary Pio
Lorenzo Batino. Batino coincidentally heads the PH negotiating panel that has
been brokering this deal since August last year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Rather
than meekly accepting that the Agreement on Enhanced Defense Cooperation <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(AEDC) formerly known as Agreement on
Increased Rotational Presence‘ will merely implement the general provisions of
the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) and the Visiting Forces Agreement,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we need to look closer at what is really at
stake under this new deal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">New Basing Arrangements<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Visiting
Forces Agreement</i> opened the door to the controversial presence of more than
600 fully-armed and highly skilled Joint Special Operations Task Force –
Philippines (JSOTFP) in the heart of Mindanao, for the past 12 years, making
these areas <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cooperative security
locations</b> (CSLs), a new basing arrangement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">AEDC</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> will put in place another form of US
military presence by accessing PH military bases and other areas to their rotating
presence along with the right to pre-position their war machines and other
military hardware in our territory. This is what is known as the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Forward Operating Sites or FOS</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Another disturbing facet of the deal
is that civic operation and disaster rescue are used as a flimsy cover by the
US to showcase its capacity to respond to threat. Militarizing rescue
operations sends the wrong signal altogether and actually de-sensitizes our
people to the fact that these foreign troops are fully-armed and deadly
soldiers. They are not gallivanting civilian tourists, like what Olongapo Mayor
Paulino would like us to believe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">No Mutuality of
Interests<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It is highly unlikely that a small
country like ours will have the same agenda as the United States who wants to establish
sole dominion in the Pacific, using its numerous allies in the region to project
its military might against perceived rivals such as China. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In common parlance, we’re letting
our territory be used as a springboard for US aggression and power-play like in
the past, where US troops from Subic and Clark were deployed to fight its
enemies in Korea and Vietnam and even to Iraq and Afghanistan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Have we forgotten how vulnerable our
OFWs were in the Middle East when we aligned ourselves with the US backed “Coalition
of the Willing” against Iraq, which was a war of aggression to secure Iraq oil
resources for the US? By siding with the US, our government is putting our
national security at risk rather than protecting it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If we align ourselves with a bully
like the US, how can we expect to exist peaceably with our neighbors? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This deal is a win-lose situation. A
clear win for the US as he has another legal cover tucked under its belt to
enable it to make use of our strategic location as well as resources for its
own ends, while we are left at the losing end, left to absorb the cost and
danger of allowing access to foreign military troops in our lands and seas at
the expense of our sovereignty and independence as a nation. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">####<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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