Author Archives: DON J. PAGUSARA

An abridged English version of a Talk I delivered at a Youth Forum in UP-Mindanao last November 21, 2014

This gentleman who has held the reins of the BALSA is none other than Ka Francis “Bong” Morales who has tirelessly engaged the tyrant seasons’ scourges of sun and rain,relentlessly braved the storms, swam against the tide.

I could not help but recall the almost inaudible voice with which he briefed me about the role I had to play in that people’s uprising in Eastern Visayas, the seat of People Surge.

A symbolic performance act opened the Kumperensiya ng mga Disaster Survivors at 8:00 AM in Cawachsi Conference Hall in Tacloban City last November 5, two days short of the November 8 anniversary of the tragedy caused by Yolanda Supertyphoon.

A germ of anger is whispered by the wind
To the heart of the calm ocean
Where it was seeded at its deepest
And soon grew into a whirlwind,

Churning and whirling and churning

The Oplan Bayanihan of Noynoy Aquino as a deceptive program of “peace and development” has continuously displaced tribal inhabitants and dispossessed indigenous peoples of their ancestral domains.

Here is the inexorable reality—matagal nang nataga sa bato! (long etched on rock)— the thievery that one President does during his term has always been the same form of thievery the succeeding President does in his own time. And so on. . . and so on. . . and so on. . . ad infinitum.

The recent developments in our country are consequences of unabated enslavement—or puppetry—of our government to the government of the United States of America. All these deplorable consequences are evident in all aspects of our social life—from our economy to our politics to our culture.

‘Unsung heroines’ are these admirable women’s groups. Their lives have been transformed by the significant shift they made in their farming practice in the same breath that they have transformed the quality of the farm products they have heretofore produced.

The news of the death-slay of Jennifer Laude by an American soldier in Olongapo caused a lively discussion at the neighborhood Eatery the other day. My good neighbor friends threw random thought-provoking questions arising from their curiosity about the whys and wherefores of the incident. It was a welcome circumstance. The discussion touched on the significant questions about the lopsided agreements between our Government and the USA. The discussion went this way –