Now is the Time for Change

Before sliding further into chaos, the Filipinos are again called on to stand up and act. The act of granting independence to a country does not make that country a nation. So many nations-states created after World War II have now disintegrated. Kosovo has just declared its independence this week from Serbia, which was once part of the nation-state Yugoslavia created after World War II.

The process of nation-building is long and eventful. Nationhood cannot be taken for granted. After EDSA 1986, the Filipinos had the opportunity to correct all the wrongs done to it by the Marcos administration and his new oligarchs as well as administrations previous to Marcos’. But the people were not vigilant. The old oligarchs simply came back to power. And later, the old and the new oligarchs joined forces and cut the Philippine pie among themselves.

We do not have the luxury of having a Barack Obama for a leader. But we can lead the change ourselves — each of us advocating for truth, transparency and accountability from the government. Sovereignty resides in the people, not in governments. The people must assert its rights — the right to a free press, the right to assemble, all the basic freedoms, especially the freedom from want, and the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

There is a “fierce urgency of NOW.” Before it’s too late, we must all act. We can all become co-creators of a new Philippines — a pluralistic, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural equitable society that is based on Freedom, Justice, Truth, Knowledge and Merit.

Let us all clamor for the resignation of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Ate Glo, It’s Time To Go!

Datu Jamal Ashley Yahya Abbas
President, Sawt al-Haqq (Voice of Truth) Foundation

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1,115 Responses to “Now is the Time for Change”

  1. dan says:

    can i copy your logo and stuff.. i’d like to somehow post it in my site.
    http://bisdak.net
    im from mindanao, and i just want you to know that the sentiments here are the same as you guys in Manila.. if you want.. u can add me to your blogroll.. I will hotlink u there once u reply.

    thanks.

  2. Gloria Resign Web Team says:

    Hi Dan,

    We don’t think there would be any problem with your posting our logo and other materials, so long as Gloria-Resign.net and the authors are acknowledged as the original sources. Thanks for your interest in our site!

    In solidarity,

    Gloria Resign Web Team

  3. lonsi+is+the+enemy says:

    Shoot the bitch down now !

  4. Dave says:

    Please explain to me why Gloria should resign. I lived in the Philippines for 5 years and i was their during the last election. In my opinion she is the best president that the Philippines has seen in a long time, But then again ive been out of the country for almost 3 years. Ive seen many sites with GLORIA RESIGN banner, But none of them have posted any reason on why she should resign. I’m from New Zealand and I love the Philippines, its where i intend to spend the rest of my life. So explain to me and your other foreign readers why she should resign and the proof that goes with the allegations.

  5. Jamal Ashley says:

    Dear Dave,

    Let me count the reasons why:
    1 – the 2004 elections was rigged as evidenced by Hello Garci Tapes.
    2- She admitted talking to COMELEC Comm. Garcilliano during the counting period!
    3- The 2007 elections cheating was well documented. The ballot boxes did not even contain ballots!
    4- Corruption is terrible. From Jose Pidal to the ZTE-NBN to Northrail and Southrail.
    5- The amounts of kickbacks are staggering, — US$ 200 Million dollars for a US $ 329 Million project!?!
    6- Governors and congressmen given 500,000 pesos each in Malacanang. The bundles of money were given without receipts. And who pays for those?
    7- The GDP figures are buoyed up only by OFW remittances. Remove those remittances and the Balance of payments would be in the red.
    8-Extra-judicial killings abound. This is confirmed by no less than a UN rapporteur.
    9- Tendency for dictatorial powers as evidenced by her Declaration of State of Emergency, Imposing a Curfew and disallowing her Cabinet members from testifying in the Senate.
    10- New York-based Freedom House has downgraded the Philippines to a “partly-free” country.

    I can go on and on.

    The proofs are everywhere. But those who are blind to them simply cannot see them.

  6. Dave says:

    Ok. thank you for clearing that up, All i wanted was reasons why. It would be better for people posting that banner on their site to put reasons why they feel that way about the woman who has stabilized the Philippine economy which grew at a 31-year high of 7.3 percent last year, when inflation was kept at a 20-year low of 2.8 percent. Thats news Quoted from a Philippine newspaper dated 10th March 2008.

  7. Jamal Ashley says:

    From Peter Wallace’s column in Manila Standard Today:

    …Well in 2007, the economy, had exports and imports grown as they did during the past 20 years (a healthy 5.5 percent p.a. for exports, 5 percent for imports with almost a third of purchases abroad being capital equipment), would only have grown at about 4.8 percent. What created the 7.3 percent wasn’t a dramatic improvement in the factors that contribute to growth but, instead, a worrying massive decline in imports.

    Imports were 6.6 percent less in 2007 than they were in 2006. Now in a healthy, growing economy that’s a most unlikely event. Within that oil imports fell 5.6 percent. Now that’s just impossible. You can have some slowing if there’s a shift to alternative fuels, but in 2007 there wasn’t to any significant degree. Oil imports should be growing close to GDP growth, a bit slower but close, and not showing a contradicting trend as it did in 2007. So you’re left with only one logical alternative: smuggling increased substantially.

    That’s probably the case for other imports too. Although imports of capital equipment are harder to smuggle, so the figure there is probably reasonably reflective of what actually happened. And what actually happened there was they were almost flattened out—that doesn’t indicate strong investor confidence in the country, but rather, a worrying lack of the interest that should be there. And is elsewhere in Asia. ….

    …So because we had less imports, GDP looked good. From where I sit, that does not indicate a strong, growing economy, the best in 31 years. It indicates one where there’s probably a lot of skullduggery going on, and I’d better find out what it is—and fix it. ,,.
    …We should be seeing better results by now. Instead, more people are poor today, and more people don’t have jobs than was the case in 2000. Percentages fool you, percentages are irrelevant when you talk people. In 2000 there were 11.2 percent unemployed according to government statistics. In 2006 there were only 7 percent—but they changed the definition. Using the old definition (only available up to 2006) there’s been no improvement, its still 11 percent. But there were 7.7 million more people eligible for work, so the 11.2 percent in 2000 was 3.5 million people and the 11 percent in 2006 was 4.1 million people. That’s 600,000 more people and that doesn’t even include the eight million who reluctantly deserted their families and fled overseas seeking a job that wasn’t available here. But it does include lowly paid, even unpaid, agricultural workers working on the family farm. I don’t consider that satisfactory employment…

    For full text go to: http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=peterWallace_feb29_2008

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