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All government agencies suffer equally when the budget is reenacted, right? Wrong.
The following is from "Go, figure" by Juan Miguel Luz (Philippine Daily Inquirer, 27 February 2006):
A delay in the approval of the budget hurts because it places unnecessary administrative limits in the first quarter of the new year. For all other agencies, the first quarter (January-March) is the start of a spending year and the fiscal managers try to keep government spending down during this quarter. But for the DepEd, it is the end (or the last quarter) of its spending year, which is reckoned with the school year. It is the time that DepEd needs the money in order to finish strongly by making sure children are meeting their competency levels.
Click on the arrow in the middle of the screen if you'd like to watch the video. It will take some time to load, so I suggest you click on the "pause" button while waiting. The video will stop playing, but it will continue to load.The singers include, in order of appearance: Sharon Cuneta, Gary Valenciano, Martin Nievera, Lea Salonga, Aiza Seguerra, Joey Ayala, Kuh Ledesma, Janno Gibbs, Pops Fernandez, Freddie Aguilar, the APO Hiking Society, Sarah Geronimo, Christian Bautista, Bayang Barrios, Kitchie Nadal, and Rico Blanco.
Chorus:Sino pang magdadamayanKung dumaraing ka
Kundi tayo tayo rin?
Kung may pagkakataong tumulong
Huwag palampasin
Simulan na ang magtanim
Ng mabubuting gawain
Dahil sino pang aani
Kundi tayo tayo rin
Masdan mo ang musmos
Gusto sanang mag-aral
Ngunit nanlilimos
Kung nagigipit ka
Masdan mo ang dalaga
Di maabot ang pangarap
Dahil babae siya
Bawat tao’y may problema
Ngunit bawat tao’y may lakas
Magsikap ka, magsama-sama
Lahat ng iya’y may lunas!
Repeat Chorus
Kung nalulungkot ka
Masdan ang isang ina
Di mabigyang buhay
Ang sanggol niyang dala
Kung nangungulila
Masdan ang may sakit
Hangad niya'y unawa
Ngunit walang lumalapit.
Repeat Chorus
Halika, kumilos ka, sabay tayo
Tara may oras pa, tulungan tayo!
Ang pag aalis ng kahirapan
Pagpapabuti ng edukasyon
Pagsulong ng patas na karapatan
At kalusugan ng lahat
Ang pag-aalaga ng kalikasan
At pandaigdigang pagtutulungan
Ito ang ating Millennium Development Goals o MDGs
Sikapin nating maabot ang mga ito!
May kanya-kanya tayong lakas!
Tulungan tayo!
Repeat Chorus 2x
Noon, ganap ang hirap sa mundo
Unawa ang kailangan ng tao
Ang pagmamahal sa kapwa ilaan
Isa lang ang ugat na ating pinagmulan
Tayong lahat ay magkakalahi
Sa unos at agos ay huwag padadalaChorus 1:Ngayon, may pag-asang natatanaw
Panahon na ng pagkakaisa
Kahit ito ay hirap at dusa
Chorus 2:
Magkaisa (may pag-asa kang matatanaw)
At magsama (bagong umaga't bagong araw)
Kapit-kamay (sa atin s'ya'y nagmamahal)
Sa bagong pag-asa
May bagong araw, bagong umaga
Pagmamahal ng Diyos isipin mo tuwina
Repeat Chorus 1 & 2Chorus 3:Magkaisa at magsama
(Magkaisa) May pag-asa kang matatanaw
(At magsama) Bagong umaga't bagong araw
(Kapit-kamay) Sa atin s'ya'y nagmamahal
(Sa bagong pag-asa)
Chorus 4:
Panahon na (may pag-asa kang matatanaw)
Ng pagkakaisa (may bagong araw, bagong umaga)
Kahit ito (pagmamahal ng Diyos isipin mo tuwina)
Ay hirap at dusa
Kapit-kamay sa bagong pag-asa
Magkaisa...
Di na ko papayag mawala ka muli
Di na ko papayag na muling mabawi
Ating kalayaan kay tagal na nating mithi
Di na papayagang mabawi muli
Magkakapit-bisig libu-libong tao
Kay sarap pala maging Pilipino
Sama-sama iisa ang adhikain
Kelan man di na paalipin
Chorus:Handog ng Pilipino sa mundoMagsama-sama tayo, ikaw at ako
Mapayapang paraang pagbabago
Katotohanan, kalayaan, katarungan
Ay kayang makamit na walang dahas
Basta't magkaisa tayong lahat
Masdan ang nagaganap sa aming bayan
Pagsasama ng mahirap at mayaman
Kapit-bisig madre, pari, at sundalo
Naging langit itong bahagi ng mundo
Huwag muling payagang umiral ang dilim
Tinig ng bawat tao'y bigyan ng pansin
Magkakapatid lahat sa Panginoon
Ito'y lagi nating tatandaan
Repeat Chorus 2x
WE CONDEMN, in the strongest terms, the latest plot by misguided members of the military. In the same breath, and in the very same terms, we also condemn President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's declaration of a state of emergency...But to those who think that martial law has already been imposed, I have to disagree... at this time. This is what Lualhati Bautista wrote (followed by my own translation) in Dekada '70 about the period before the imposition of martial law in 1972:
We condemn both the coup plot and the presidential proclamation as acts of violence against the body politic...
We condemn both the plot and the proclamation as assaults on democracy...
Not least, we condemn both the plot and the proclamation as betrayals of the highest ideals of the Edsa People Power revolution.
Isang linggo bago ibaba ang martial law ay nagkaro'n ng maraming pag-aresto sa mga lider estudyante sa kampus... Ikinandado ang Free Press, Leader, Manila Times, at iba pang "subersibong" babasahin. Sinuspindi ang mga student councils... pati paglilimayon ng mga tao sa kalye pagpitada ng alas-dose ng gabi.The Tribune may have been raided, but if GMA were, in fact, doing a Marcos, then the Inquirer wouldn't even have been able to print the editorial I quoted above. In fact, Marcos probably would have found a way to shut down even bloggers like me. GMA hasn't shut down the Inquirer or any bloggers... yet. And I pray that she never will.
[One week before the imposition of martial law, many student leaders were arrested... The Free Press, Leader, Manila Times and other "subversive" publications were shut down. Student councils were suspended... and a curfew was imposed, forbidding people from being in the streets after midnight.]
From "Philippines tears itself apart" by A Lin Neumann (Asia Times, 25 February 2006):
The Philippines is marking the 20th anniversary of its finest political hour with a demonstration that its democracy remains brittle, its political institutions on the point of collapse, its economy as corrupt as ever and its leaders embroiled in endless rounds of infighting.Neumann tends to exaggerate some things, but I can't really say that he's wrong in what he wrote in the paragraph above. But he seems to be rather biased.
There is, of course, PCIJ's series of podcasts in relation to its "Edsa 20/20" special edition of iReport. You can download interviews with major and not-so-major players, as well as ordinary citizens, who participated in the EDSA Revolution.
And then there's the BBC series entitled "From Dictatorship to Democracy," which includes the following:
If you want to see the different kinds of library blogs, listen to a song, read its lyrics and laugh out loud, try and sing along to "The Blogga Song." If you've ever wondered what librarian humor is like, this is as good as it gets.
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Category: Humor
Twenty years ago, the late Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila, called on Filipinos to go to Camp Aguinaldo to "defend" Juan Ponce Enrile and Fidel Ramos, who had withdrawn support for then-President Ferdinand Marcos. Many heeded Sin's call, and what happened after is now referred to as the People Power revolution, the EDSA revolution, and even EDSA 1.
I do not know whether Sin's call is available online, but there are quite a few Church documents on the Internet that convey a sense of the Church's role in the struggle against the Marcos dictatorship.
As early as 1971, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) was already calling for electoral reforms. After the declaration of Martial Law in 1972, the bishops expressed satisfaction with "the assurance of the President that he was concerned not to prolong martial law unduly." Unfortunately, some presidents are not known for keeping their promises.
And so in 1978, the CBCP had to state that, "there was ample evidence of fraud and deceit, of connivance... to tamper with the results and to frustrate the will of the people" in the Batasang Pambansa elections. It would take a visit from Pope John Paul II for Martial Law to be lifted.
But not much changed, and that's why before the snap elections of 1986, the bishops had to say, "this election will be judged not only in terms of the persons and issues involved, but also by the way it is conducted and the way we respond to its conduct." Finally, after the elections had taken place, the CBCP proclaimed that, "The people have spoken. Or have tried to... the polls were unparalleled in the fraudulence of their conduct."
During the same period in the 70s and 80s, Cardinal Sin as head of the Archdiocese of Manila was also making his own pronouncements. Before the 1978 elections, he urged Filipinos to "go out and vote according to your conscience." After the elections, he called on the Commission on Elections to "investigate all charges brought to its attention, to give everyone a fair and public hearing, and to punish the guilty..." Still, not much happened with regard to election reform.
In 1986, Cardinal Sin told his flock before the snap elections that "MONEY OFFERED TO YOU IN NO WAY OBLIGES YOU TO VOTE FOR A PARTICULAR CANDIDATE. ALWAYS VOTE ACCORDING TO YOUR CONSCIENCE" (emphasis in original). There was probably no more time—or need—for another document on irregularities after the elections. A few weeks later, Enrile and Ramos made their move, Sin called on Filipinos to go to EDSA, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Note: The documents available on the website of the Archdiocese of Manila and the CBCP are not complete. Some of the documents, in fact, have erroneous URLs or need to be cleaned up.
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