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With Malice Toward None
Instead of our darkest and most ruthless fears ruining us, in 2010, we have to embrace them.
Farewell 2009, Hello 2010!
This opus by Maestro Joey Velasco is certainly not your traditional Yuletide scene.
But I’m sharing it this Christmas day as it perhaps evokes our collective hopes after a years of disasters and murderous tragedies.
The children embody our hopes and our dreams for the coming year.
More important. it is this generation with its abiding energy, creativity, [...]
The Challenge of the Next President of the Philippines
In Ham and Eggs, I wrote that the time for staying in the sidelines is over. That the choice shouldn’t be made on election day, but right now. That each Filipino must choose now, who their candidate is. I’ve also mentioned that my personal barometer for success– no matter who wins in next [...]
Of Aquino, Escudero, Roxas and Villar On the Road to 2010
There is much uncertainty on the road to 2010. The Palace’s unrelenting attempt at keeping power is a threat whether it is through constitutional amendments via constitutional assembly or extreme ways like emergency rule. The lack of a candidate who is sincere and capable is another. More than that, the Filipino expectation that their leader is a messiah is as valid a concern today, as it was when Cory was president; when Marcos was dictator. How else can we expect to explain the Filipino’s disappointment towards their leaders? In such an environment, how can there be a permanent revolution of people power? How then do we explain that all leaders are but human?
The Permanent Revolution of People Power
A few days ago, we were remembering yellow, remembering Cory. As the nation buried Corazon Aquino, the generation that I belong to got a taste of Power Power. We grew up never knowing the atrocities of Marcoss, and were either fledgeling to remember or too young to have lived through People Power. As [...]
On the Road to 2010: This is Why Chiz Escudero Shouldn’t be the Next President
On February 2007, Atheista wrote a post on Chiz Escudero for a Dumber Philippines. I’m going to quote the same privilege speech because ironically the house server couldn’t open it out:
So here goes the privilege speech:
Mr. Speaker, ang isang dahilan kung bakit kada taon marami tayong classrooms na kinakailangan ay dahil napakaraming nasisira sa [...]
Missing the Point On the Road to 2010: Election Automation and Mobilizing Young People to Vote
I had a timely discussion with Norman Sison on twitter regarding automation. Let me say right now: that I am not against automation, at all. I’m just saying, automation and organizing young people to register and vote for 2010 is missing the point of what’s wrong with our politics.
The problem of Philippine democracy isn’t that [...]
On the Road to 2010: “Why Internet?”
Imagine packets of photons crisscrossing the planet. These packets become waves as it goes up to satellites in geosynchronous orbit and as it comes down to Earth and as packets travel across submarine lines beneath oceans, to networks of fiber optics and copper wires until finally it lands on your wireless router, broadcasting email, video, [...]
On the Road to 2010, Ako Mismo Nagtatanong: Where’s My Cut?
Amidst this quarrel with Ako Mismo, the minutia of Martin Nivera’s singing, the great book blockade and the never ending trouble and scandal, I say, our nation is in the precarious position of losing the future. In my humble opinion, there is a fatal misunderstanding of what’s wrong and thus, people will apply the wrong [...]
Digital Campaign and Political Strategy On the Road to 2010
Will 2010 be the Election when campaign and political strategy leverages the network?
Logic would dictate that given limited infrastructure and technology, the answer would be no.
But couldn’t we use the tools we already got?
What if a politico could leverage existing infrastructure? Meaning SMS. What if, as a first step, campaigns took a page from Social [...]
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