By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Liar, because the speaker is an incorrigible liar and the promises are lies. Dream, because the people are made to hope and expect “a kingdom come” or “a state of better living” or “a more comfortable life,” or at least a more “humane earthly existence.” Which never ever comes. Not today, not tomorrow, not until the end of time!
By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today
Imagine a mother, a daughter, a sister or a cousin made to suffer in the hands of our government officials. They are touched, probed, forced into submission, psychologically and physically tortured by one who is supposed to help and protect them in a foreign land? How would you feel? Rage!
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
But in the 1970s, at the height of the student movement to which I belonged, I learned about the history of the Aglipayan Church or the Philippine Independent Church founded by Gregorio Aglipay and Isabelo de los Reyes. I found out, to my remorseful realization, that it was the Church of the Filipino revolutionaries!
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Colonial-mindedness should have been a thing of the past among us Filipinos. But it seems, the political helmsmen of our government, the educators and cultural policymakers of our society, are just drifting along with the trends set by the Americans. They should know better than to cater to these hollow circus brands of cultural acts. These only paint a deprecatory image of ourselves as a people and nation.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Education in this country is an elitist enterprise that caters only to the thin stratum of the upper middle classes who can afford, but subjects the grassroots to a buwad smell of literacy enough for them to be able to write the names of politicians in elections.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
The political gods and landlords and other would-be gods of this society that subject the vast majority of the Filipino people to penury to be third class citizens of this country are the ones privileged to sing to the high heavens their hearts bursting with greed and profiteering schemes This land is mine, God gave this land to me.
By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today
If I may correctly recite the Sibika at Kultura lessons during my elementary years, the three stars in the flag represent the three major islands and the colors blue and red represent peace over war. It affirms our belief, our conviction, our choice, that peace should reign in our land.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Democracy, Freedom, National Independence, National Sovereignty are but hollow words and phrases that insult our intelligence and rational sensibility and stretch the elastic limits of our forbearance and integrity as a people.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
It is good and salutary that there are cultural guardians among us. We have people who have built fortifications to protect our language from being ripped off and blown away, demolished and trampled upon by ruffians and scoundrels among us.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
And soon the camote dreamers became the ANAKPAWIS, an association of the toiling masses that dream of bettering their lives and the lives of their children and the children of generations of toiling people yet to come.
