Kartilya: Techies Stand For Democracy In 2010 Elections Amid Early Election Violence

CARP vs. GARB

Posted by Ronnie Clarion On February - 2009

Land distribution to landless Filipino farmers is a preset of provision under Art. XIII Sec.4 of the 1987 Constitution. Prior to this provision, former Pres. Corazon Aquino mounted the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) which was later enacted through the passage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) or RA 6657 on June 10, 1988. However, the program had been excoriated for its failure to completely distribute lands to the beneficiaries within its target completion timeframe of 10 years. It was later extended for another 10 years yet the struggle for genuine agrarian reform continues.

Ang Kartilya ng Katipunan

Posted by Christian Espinoza On June - 12 - 2010

The Revolution of the Katipunan may well have been thwarted by American imperialism at the turn of the 20th century, but it is noteworthy to declare that our people, who at that time were only beginning to form the concept of nationhood, were more than able to organize a revolutionary force that would liberate the entire islands from their Spanish colonizers.

Noynoy Aquino Inaugural Speech

Posted by Kartilya On June - 30 - 2010

Ang pagtayo ko rito ngayon ay patunay na kayo ang aking tunay na lakas. Hindi ko inakala na darating tayo sa puntong ito, na ako’y manunumpa sa harap ninyo bilang inyong Pangulo. Hindi ko pinangarap maging tagapagtaguyod ng pag-asa at tagapagmana ng mga suliranin ng ating bayan.

Subjugating the Philippine System of Education

Posted by Christian Lloyd Espinoza On Oct - 2009

The transformation and reorientation of the current rotten system of education in the country is not possible without the development of a critical consciousness that reflects and acts upon the existing social (dis)order. Any meaningful change in our basic curriculum must be liberative of the docility that has long infringed our mentality, dissolving what little nationalist ideal there is left in the heart of every Filipino youth.

Techies Stand For Democracy In 2010 Elections Amid Early Election Violence

Posted by Kartilya On 12:31 PM

Submitted by Kathang Katotohanan on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 19:10

Reposted with permission from Computer Professionals' Union

“The Ampatuan Massacre is but a preview of the chaos in the upcoming elections, one that not only speaks of heightened violence, but also of confusion with the hasty implementation of the automated election system (AES),” said Mr. Rick Bahague, national coordinator of the Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU) on the mass killing of at least 57 civilians in Maguindanao, including journalists and lawyers. “We stand for safeguarding democracy, from educating them with knowledge on how the new system of election works to protecting their vote from election-related violence.”

CPU has already begun its campaign to empowering voters, having recently participated in a voters’ education forum at Baliuag University in Bulacan, teaching to over a hundred students information ranging from the procedures of voting to the safeguards necessary to ensure the integrity of the 2010 elections. Earlier, CPU has already facilitated poll and canvass watch training of trainors (ToTs) in Isabela, Bacolod, Iloilo and Quezon City last week.

“We need to double our efforts in making the elections inclusive, as efforts from the COMELEC to educate the people about something as simple as the process of automated voting is lacking,” pointed out Mr. Bahague.

Guarding votes in the 2010 elections now entails the need for people knowledgable in the technology used. With about 80,000 PCOS machines to be used, at least 80,000 IT-proficient pollwatchers per clustered precinct are needed to watch out for and document anomalies in the software, hardware and transmission of data.

“More important to guard, however, is the human component of the elections,” warned Mr. Bahague. “It is people who operate the technology, and people are corruptible. The recent demonstration of warlordism is indicative of what extent tyrants are willing to reach to maintain their possession of political power.”

“The systematic fraud that we see every time election season comes speaks of how corrupted our system of governance is,” said Mr. Bahague. “If we intend to prevent future Cyber-Garcis and Ampatuan massacres, we need to advance a politics of change: to advance patriotism and not patronage.”

Organizations can invite CPU for Voters' Education Fora and Poll Watch Trainings. Send your invitations to secretariat@cp-union.com. CPU is also releasing www.votereportph.org to monitor fraud and violence related to the 10 May 2010 elections, with the Ampatuan massacre being the first incident to be reported.#