May 1, 2013

Taong Grasang para sa Senado

Kung may kandidato sa pagka-senador na hinahangaan naming mga Taong Grasa, ito ay walang iba kungdi si Risa Hontiveros.

Totoong hindi namin siya kauri. At sa totoo lang mas maituturing naming kauri si Nancy Binay. Sa kulay pa lang ng balat hindi maitatatwa na si Nancy ay isang Taong Grasa.

Pero itong si Risa Hontiveros, maputi man at mestisahin, mas kakulay naming mga Taong Grasa ang mithiin.

Mithiin kasi naming mga Taong Grasa na mabigyan kami ng oportunidad sa buhay at ito ang isinusulong ni Risa mula noong siya ay nasa Kongreso pa bilang kinatawan ng Akbayan.

Nabigyan ng pagkakataon ang mga tulad naming masisipag ngunit walang lupang magsasaka nang isinulong at naisabatas ang Carper o Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program with Reforms.

February 13, 2013

#malingmali


Bakit ayaw lumaban ng patas nitong mga partido sa ilalim ng sindikatong Makabayan Coalition?

Kulang na lang ay isaksak sa ating mga lalamunan ang kanilang  kakupalan.

Aba'y tila naghahari-harian at nag-operation dikit (OD) sa kung saan saan.

February 3, 2013

Democracy and socialism


Democracy and socialism
By Francisco Nemenzo
January 31, 2012

Democracy is the most popular word in the vocabulary of politics but also the most brazenly abused.

Since the defeat of fascism in World War II, everybody has become a democrat. Even the neo-Nazis in Germany call themselves the National Democratic Party. Marcos entitled the book preparing us for martial law Today’s Revolution: Democracy. Suharto and Pinochet slaughtered thousands to save democracy. And Pol Pot’s murderous regime was officially named Democratic Kampuchea.

These demonstrate that the absence of a universally accepted definition of “democracy.” The concept is so vague that it can accommodate any regime, any social movement, any political philosophy. On account of its ambiguity, democracy is useless as a tool for analysis but very useful as a tool for demagoguery. By affixing the word “democracy” or “democratic,” even a malevolent cause can be made to  look sublime.

Lincoln’s a cute definition of democracy as “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people” leaves open the key question of who comprise “the people.”

January 24, 2013

Birthdays are more fun at the Senate



Ito ang pamatay na video para sa mga Taong Grasa.

Inihanda ang  video para sa ika-50 kaarawan ni Atty. Gigi Reyes, na mas kilala bilang chief of staff ni Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile.

Kamakailan ay malaking kontrobersiya ang kinasangkutan ni Gigi dahil sa banat ni Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano na pumapapel bilang ika-24 na senador ng bansa si Gigi.