By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
The campaign is reduced to a purely ego-tripping affair, making use of advertising and marketing strategies designed for winning the contest at all costs. It is not a venue for informing and mobilizing the people for a discernment of particular social illnesses which have been there for so long.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Today, the relentless struggles by the current activists and revolutionaries manifest a continuing cultivation of this counter-consciousness. It is a matter of conviction and commitment of these new and arising forces to let this counter-consciousness bloom to fullness and fruition. The cultural activist blooms wherever he/she is planted!
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
And, here is an incontrovertible truth: All elections in a society under a state of massive poverty is never a democratic process. It is a vicious illusion, a disgusting insult and a vile assault to human dignity.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
The behavior of the Comelec district attorney is not surprising. Certain public officials, thinking that the little authority invested in their official position, also grant them the license to be arrogant. They act like little emperors or empresses over their little dominions or “turfs.”
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Clearly, this practice of bestowing endorsement to electoral candidates reveals a condition of uninformed electorate. For why should voters base their judgment on the endorsement of someone if they are knowledgeable of the faculties and qualities of the candidates? Is this not a revelation of the ignorance of the citizenry about the politics of their country or about the competence of the political aspirants?
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
So convenient is this practice (or habit?) of attributing “political motives” to every conceivable incident or controversy such that the word POLITICS has acquired an obnoxious connotation in the social life of the Filipino people.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Because of the creative hand of the worker, the face of the world is transformed. Human society has become progressive and colorful.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Our country is not in wanting when it comes to revolutionary acts of heroism and deeds of patriotism by the youth for the cause of national freedom and national salvation. They always rise to the occasion whenever the Motherland needs them. It behooves upon the present generation to hearken to what the country has been crying for in these trying times.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
True social transformation can only occur in a radical movement for change — an uprooting of the primary causes of the problems that beset society, and a subsequent institution of structural elements in the newly established social order.
