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Ritwal ng pagtataboy

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Kay Imee Marcos

Wikipedia image.

Nais mapaalis ang espiritung panis 
sa tanggapan ay guni-guning naiwan ni Trillanes

Mula noon hanggang ngayon
gamit ng angkan ang ritwal ng pagnakaw

Lahat ng bagay, inangkin at hinuthot
dulas ng dila, inari pati liping Igorot

Pakawkaw* ay basbas ng pag-indak at pagpadyak
sa kabutihan ay pagpukaw, sa kamalasan ay pagsindak

Gangsa** ay may tunog ng kilabot
nanaghoy ang katarungan kay Macli-ing Dulag sa tribu ng Butbut
Gusali ng yabang, dinaan sa paspasan
dinilig ng dugo, buhay na tinabunan

Kinatay na aso, manok at baboy na inialay
aninag ang imahen sa apdo’t atay

Mambunong,*** napuno nang takot 
at bitaw ang nginig na tinig

“Senadora, ay mi…dalawang mukha ng espiritu ng ‘demonyo’…
walang dili iba, kundi ang ‘yung ina’t amang tirano!”

Kwentulang Marino (Ed Romano Labao)
28 Hunyo 2019
1:30 n.u

*pakawkaw-sayaw sa pagtawag sa mabuting espiritu at pagtaboy sa masama

**gangsa-bronze gong

***mambunong-native priest

On candidates’ honesty

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“Walang isang kandidato diyan na hindi nagsisinungaling, kaya hindi dapat nagiging issue ang honesty ngayon.” (There is no single candidate who does not lie, so honesty should not be an issue now.)–Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, defending her Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP) candidates accused of dishonesty and corruption.

(Cartoon by Mark Suva/Kodao)

Neri to Imee: Let’s debate at Plaza Miranda

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Makabayan senatorial bet Neri Colmenares challenged Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos to a debate at Plaza Miranda on the issue of human rights violations during Ferdinand Marcos’ iron-fisted rule.

Angered at Imee’s statement that reports of human rights violations during Martial rule were just ‘political accusations’, Colmenares said he himself was tortured and imprisoned as one of the youngest political detainees during the Marcos eara.

“I was tortured and imprisoned for four years during martial rule for merely espousing the return of student councils,” Colmenares said.

“[I]f Gov. Marcos will insist that the human rights violations during her father’s regime are mere political accusations then I challenge her to a debate on the topic in Plaza Miranda,” added Colmenares.

After filing her certificate of candidacy at the Commission on Elections Tuesday, Imee said her entire family would never admit to human rights violations committed during the late strongman’s martial rule.

“If what they demand from us is admission, I think we could not do that. Why would we admit to something we did not do?” Imee said in Filipino.

Colmenares said Imee and her entire family are blatantly lying about the atrocities under the Marcosian martial law.

“[T}he Philippine government itself recognizes thousands of human rights violations under Martial rule by enacting Republic Act No. 10368 or the Human Rights Victims Reparation & Recognition Act of 2013. With this law Marcos human rights victims are recognized and indemnified from the US$ 650 million ill gotten wealth returned by Swiss banks,” he said.

“Even the Supreme Court in Marcos vs Manglapus and many other decisions declared Marcos dictator and human rights violator and ordered the return of ill gotten wealth,” he added.

Before and during the first years of Marcos’s rule as president and strongman, Plaza Miranda was the country’s most popular site for debates and political events. # (Raymund B. Villanueva)

UP educators, alumni and students condems Imee Marcos and Kabataang Barangay Reunion at UP

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Naglunsad ng press conference ang No Revisions, No Erasures: Educators Against the Rehabilitation of the Marcoses upang kundenahin ang ginanap ika-43 anibersaryo ng Kabataang Barangay sa UP Bahay ng Alumni noong Agosto 25, 2018 kung saan panauhing pandangal si Rep. Imee Marcos.

Sinagot din ng alyansa ang mga pahayag ni UP President Danilo Concepcion sa kanyang pagdalo sa nasabing pagtitipon at ang pahayag ng administrasyon ng UP tungkol sa pagpapahintulot na magamit ni Imee Marcos at Kabataang Barangay ang mga pasilidad ng UP. (Video by Maricon Montajes)

 

Sigaw

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Ni Raymund B. Villanueva

 

Andres,

 

Ilabas ang sundang!

Hasain, hasaing mainam, hasaing mabuti

May susuunging labang muli!

Tagpasin ang mga sinungaling

Tagain ang mga magnanakaw

Naglipana sila’t tila dumarami!

 

Sa isang daang milyong bunganga

Na maaring gawing bisita—

Diyos na mahabagin–

Sa araw na kayo’y ginugunita

Bakit naman isang dalahira

Ang panauhi’t tagapagsalita?

 

                                 -6:02 n.g.

                                 22 Agosto 2018

                                 Lungsod Quezon

LODI: ‘Imee as guest of honor degrades Cry of Pugadlawin’

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A group of artists and writers slammed the choice of Ilocos Norte Governor Maria Imelda Josefa “Imee” Marcos as guest of honor at the 122nd anniversary of the Cry of Pugadlawin in Barangay Bahay Toro Thursday, August 23.

The Let’s Organize for Democracy and Integrity (LODI) asked what was a daughter of a dictator doing in an event that supposedly celebrates the people’s heroism as when Andres Bonifacio and the Katipunan tore their “cedulas” to signal the start of country’s revolution against Spanish colonialism.

“Her presence in Pugad Lawin is a desecration of the sacred grounds where Andres Bonifacio once stood with the revolutionaries to proclaim their independence. Once more, it diminishes our collective efforts to fight for justice and emancipation from greed and avarice,” LODI said.

“She is not only the daughter of the dictator. She herself has blood in her hands,” LODI said in the statement, recalling college student Archimedes Trajano who was alleged to have been tortured and killed by Imee’s bodyguards when he dared ask her pointed questions in 1977.

LODI also said Imee is reportedly the owner of the production house that produced many a social media content debunking the people’s victory in EDSA and reducing the people’s anti fascist struggle to a Marcos vs Aquino narrative.

In her speech at the event, Governor Marcos paid homage to the revolution against Spanish colonization and the heroes that fought for freedom of the Philippines.

She also challenged the audience to look past beyond personal interests and serve the country wholeheartedly.

“Ang Pugad Lawin ay historical hindi lamang sa himagsikan kundi historical pa rin noong sunod-sunod na EDSA People Power Revolution,” Gov. Marcos said. (Pugad Lawin is historical not only because of the uprising, but historical also because of the successive EDSA People Power Revolution.)

A source told Kodao that Marcos represented President Rodrigo Duterte who could not attend as he is in Davao City for the 12th anniversary celebration of the Eastern Mindanao Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos’ wreath laying at the Pugadlawin Shrine thursday, August 23 (Photo by QC PAISO)

Quezon City Vice Mayor Josefina “Joy” Belmonte led the anniversary rites in behalf of the city.

Belmonte was the daughter of the late Betty Go-Belmonte who was a prominent figure in the struggle against the Marcos dictatorship.

LODI accused the governor of wanting to run for a Senate seat, thus her current public visibility.

The group said the people cannot and should not allow another Marcos in the Senate.

“We urge Filipinos to remain vigilant and oppose any attempts by the family of the thieving dictator to rule the nation once more,” LODI said. # (Raymund B. Villanueva)