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  PAMAYANAN LEADERS

People's Primaries Project
Deserves Full Support

In these exciting times in the current chapter of our history, we ought to see the great opportunity for the people to attain political empowerment by building it up and asserting it during this coming nine months and even decisively affecting the results of the 2010 national and local elections.  

We are now looking at a very real opportunity to build People's Power founded on a stong People's Synergy, made up of local synergies in most of our barangays and congressional districts closely teaming up in a Grand Bayanihan at the scope (not "level," please!) of the entire archipelago. 

The description of this current historic conjuncture, as written by Philip Camara (click to read), should be a must-read for all Filipinos within and beyond the homeland.  At the very least it deserves to be read intently (and further widely circulated) by all sincere, socialy- concerned and deep-thinking Filipinos, a category which i firmly believe, includes most, if not all, of the members of organizations that make up the Pamayanang SanibLakas ng Pilipinas, a network we have been building up, slowly but surely, for the last dozen years.

The efforts of the newly-formed multilateral movement now undertaking the "People's Primaries" deserves the active participation and support of all of us. Now, let me rephrase that: we all deserve to participate in a real broad and deeply-rooted process of nominating together and carrying to victory a common set of people's candidates. We all have this historic opportunity, thanks to the leaders of this new movement, And people they have earlier reached who have shared with us the information.

Each of us has two options to choose from:

-- -- ONE, ignore it, belittle it, crack "witty" jokes about it; discredit it; spread your defeatist attitude about it; be unwilling to lift a finger for it, and accept a life of perennially complaining but of not exerting efforts for solutions to what we are perennially complaining about (and what we are worrying about pertaining to the lives of our children and our children's children).

-- -- TWO: welcome the opportunity to participate actively in collective positive work against our people's continuing disunity used mainly by trapo politics, and participate directly in the People's Collective Self-Empowerment.

Let each member-organization of Pamayanang Saniblakas ng Pilipinas write and issue a statement supportin the "People's Primaries" undertaking. More importantly, let each group motivate their respective individual members and friends to sign up with this effort. Let each one of us support the "people's primaries" process! Let each one of us use all opportunities, big and small, to continually build up the people's powerful synergy, as a contribution to nation-building and as a contribution to the conscious oneness of humanity!

Mag-Sanib-lakas, Pilipinas!

Ihandog sa mundo ang Kaisahang Totoo!

 Prof. Ed Aurelio (Ding) C. Reyes

lead founder and secretary-general

S A N I B L A K A S

(Pamayanang SanibLakas ng Pilipinas)

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  FRATERNAL GROUPS / FRIENDS

Cory's Legacy: Vision, Not Ambition

Cory was one of the few if not the only Philippine President who was not driven by ambition but by a vision of restoring the freedom of Filipinos. A freedom that was taken away for some 14 years under a regime of her exact opposite: lust for power, greed beyond imagination, machinations to stay on and build a family political dynasty.

She was thrust upon the Philippine landscape not by design but by circumstances that many believe were Divine in nature. A Heavenly response to prayers for an end to tyranny from a people unorganized and afraid.

From the assassination of Ninoy to the snap election of 1986 and the protests and failed coup d’etat that led to the People Power Revolt or EDSA 1, events unfolded almost as if on cue to hand over the highest executive post to Cory.

Cory was not driven by ambition. She had a vision of restoring democratic institutions destroyed by Marcos and she did it well even in courageous defiance of many attempts by military officers to unseat her and re-install a non-democratic order.

23 years later she is gone. But she leaves a legacy of a President who had a vision and worked for it tirelessly, courageously, and successfully. She did this not through the usual machivellian guile that most past Presidents (and most especially the present one) used with the argument that the ends justifies the means, but no, by her faithfulness, her steadfastness, her truthfulness, her charity.

This, for me is Cory’s Legacy: Vision, not Ambition!

And as we approach the 2010 Presidential election will we be so guided by Cory’s Legacy? Who are coming forward to offer themselves to the country to fill the job of Philippine President? From the traditional political parties we see nothing but ambition; what with their self-declared nominations as candidates. There are many non-traditional politicians and non-politicians also offering themselves to fill the job.

As Cory was a non-traditional candidate without experience who proved to be the best President we ever had, will the Filipino People again need Divine interference to have another non-traditional candidate fill the post OR have we as a People learned from her Legacy and start the search while there is still time for a non-traditional candidate to end TRAditional POlitical rule in 2010?

What is the Vision that a new President, hopefully a non-traditional one. will serve aside from strengthening of greatly weakened democratic institutions? Where can we harness again real People Power not in one dramatic event of a few days, but in the next 278 days before the elections to concede to the spirit of national aspirations for the country by 2020 and select a slate of non-traditional candidates to bring it to fruition.

The People’s Primaries National Screening Council (composed of Sixto K. Roxas, Bishop Deogracias Iniguez, Bishop Rey Cristobal of the NSCPII, Nina Galang of the Green Convergence, Milwida Guevara of the Movement for Good Government, Tony Roldan of Transparency International and Bro. Roly Dizon of De La Salle) is one body of the People’s Primaries system that seeks to implement a District-based (local) process to elicit the national aspirations and the best team to carry it forward.

We humbly submit that we can best honor Cory’s Legacy by ensuring the next President is truly a People’s President. 

Join the People’s Primaries. Visit http://subsidiaritymovement.net

--Philip Camara

 

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  SANIBLAKAS MEMBER-ORGANIZATION: SANIBDASAL

Proposed 'Chorused Prayer'
Right After Cory's Interment

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  SANIBLAKAS MEMBER-ORGANIZATION: SANIB-SINING

Let not the Artists be Divided

The Sanib-Sining Movement for Synaesthetics seeks to express serious concern that the ranks of practicing artists are being divided over GMA’s acts of obvious abuse of discretion with the recent choice of the latest batch of National Artists, where her decisions removed one, clearly miscategorized another, and insensitively honored a government functionary in charge of an office involved in making the choices. 

Let not such abuse on the part of Arroyo cause further division among the ranks of people whose role in society is above that of mere partisan politicians like GMA is. Let art be above the reach of the lack of quality of politics in this country. 

Let us focus our righteous indignation on what are the misdeeds and who the real culprits are.

(circulated by John "Lakan" Olivares and Ed Aurelio C. Reyes, head and co-founder, respectively, Sanib-Sining Movement for Synaesthetics)

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  SANIBLAKAS MEMBER-ORGANIZATION: NEPA

Success in Philippine Industrialization

I WAS TOUCHED by the letter of Mr. Manuel F. Almario, dated July 15, 2009 regarding industrialization as key to development.

Having been in the electronic components industry for twenty three years and teaching Production and Operations Management in an International Academy in Makati City for fifteen years, I was able to expose and obtain actual experiences in the so- called Philippine industrialization.

According to Claro M.Recto, a noted Philippine statesman and senator, the industrialization in the Philippines was not real and genuine but only superficial. Two examples he mentioned were on the Beverage and Pharmaceutical Industries being operated by the Multinationals. Beverage industry was using imported malt and cola concentrate to mix with Filipino sugar and water. Pharmaceutical Industry was using imported concentrate to repackage them into capsules and tablets. Profit generated from this process was repatriated to the home country rather than invest it on again for further economic activities.

Working as a Tin Plating Engineer in late 70’ to a Semiconductor company in Taguig Metro Manila, I was instructed and pushed by a Plating consultant from United States to buy only American analytical reagent grade acid chemicals and postpone the use of locally made acid chemicals. I wonder at that time if analytical chemistry was different from that being used in the United States. I follow him only for three months and help develop ChemPhil chemically pure grade acid.  I was able to reduce cost from 450 pesos per liter to 120 pesos per liter and help the Pasig- based company to continuously provide jobs. 

Working as an Engineering Manager with a local Semiconductor Company in Muntinlupa Rizal in the 80’s, I noticed that for every integrated circuit we assembled, 75 percent of the dollar value were being sent back to the country where we purchased the raw materials.The value added concept was very minimal and the usual local components utilized were only labor and energy. Machineries, equipments and technologies were all imported from Japan, United States, and Germany. Some machine tool spare parts were imported from Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea. This has been a good example of how to drain our foreign exchange reserves.

Industrialization in the Philippines will only succeed if our current and future policy makers will seriously and religiously adhere to the tenets of 1987 Article XII of Philippine Constitution-National Economy and Patrimony. Yes I believe Mr. Manuel F. Almario’s idea of leaving agriculture economy but not totally.  My idea is to use agriculture as a first stage and upgrade and strengthen our existing policies to grow and speed up to second stage agro-based industries and further to third stage to service industries. It’s about time to exploit and use our own bountiful natural and marine resources. We can industrialize our agriculture and mineral produce. We can manufacture dairy products out of our carabaos and goat milk. We can maximize fish production from our sea waters and package them to acceptable cost canned goods. We can develop technologies to extend life of fruits and vegetables to weeks if not months. We have Filipinos that can mined our mineral resources and convert these to acceptable application. We have and can be the best tourism haven in this part of the world. We have best mind Filipino inventors and scientists that will answer our research both basic and applied. We have the best human resources that we can utilized to operate these Filipino industries.

It is true that industrialization is a primary tool in country development. However we only accept a development that is sustainable and green. We do not want an Industrial development that will destroy environment and exploit people in the name of profit as Western industrialization did.

(letter sent to the Philippine Daily Inquirer by Prof. Pedrito Salvador, Deputy National Spokesperson, National Economic Protectionism Association or NEPA, as a response to the letter of Atty. Manuel F. Almario, spokesperson of the Movement for Truth in History (MOTH)

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  FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS / FRIENDS

Industrialization: Key to Development

NONE of the presidential candidates for the 2010 elections has mentioned industrialization as a plank of his or her program of government. This is tragic. No country in the world has become prosperous without industrialization without industrialization. Under an agricultural economy, our people will be condemned to perpetual poverty. This is the lesson of history.

"In Europe and North America, countries had gone through a process, lasting in some cases more than a century, in which most workers had left agriculture (and rural areas) and became industrial ... This structural change was seen as the key element in rising incomes and national power." ["The end of the Third World: Newly Industrializing Countries and the Decline of Ideology" by Nigel Harris]

In his book, "The Reign of Greed," Dr. Jose Rizal, through the main protagonist, Don Simoun, gave a trenchant piece of advice on how the Phiippines could prosper. During a party thrown by a wealthy Chinese , a group of merchants who had been complaining just how bad business was,asked Simoun, a well-travelled gentleman, for his opinion on how the Philippines could prosper. "My opinion?" Simoun huffed. "Study how other nations prosper, and then do as they do." (Translation by Charles E. Derbyshire.)

Rizal, who had been to Europe, the United States and Japan, knew that these countries were "advanced" precisely because they were industrialized.
japan, a latecomer, rose to the ranks of the advanced countries by studying how Europe and the United States prospered, and by copying them. The newly industrialized countried countries (NICs) like South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and China, all folllowed the Japanese path.

The constitution of the La Liga Filipina which Rizal founded provided that the "The introduction of machines and industries new or necessary in the country, shall be favored." This policy was followed by the Commonwealth government under President Quezon, and implemented by Quirino, Magsaysay and Garcia, until it was scrapped by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's father, President Diosdado Macapagal, in favor of free trade, liberalization and privatization, dictated by the Washington Consensus and the IMF-World Bank.

Under the theoretical model devised by these Western institutions, our country fell to the bottom of the heap. Under the regime of industrialization, exchange controls and protectionism adopted by the industrialized countries in similar stages of development, the Philippines advanced second only to Japan in economic growth in Asia.

We shoud learn to measure development by the results.

--MANUEL F. ALMARIO
Spokesman, 

Movement for Truth in History (Rizal's MOTH)
mfalmario@yahoo.com

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