The local group Naughty Notes sings a medley of Hagibis songs on Sunday's "Relief Surge" benefit concert for Yolanda victims held at Abreeza Ayala Mall. The concert, co-organized by ABS-CBN and Abreeza gathered relief items and cash up to P130,000. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
"RELIEF SURGE" Singer and former AfterImage frontman Wency Cornejo is one of the performers on Sunday's "Relief Surge" benefit concert for Yolanda victims at Abreeza Ayala Mall. The concert gathered renowned Davao artists such as Chad Borja, Himig Singers, Naughty Notes Band, Dayana Adtoon and Musikademya. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
The swift netizen defense of alleged Yolanda looters establishes that violence is permissible in the name of survival. But, we have to ask, survival under what conditions? Survival according to whose standards? The answer to the first seems to be that violence is permissible under conditions over which people have no control, such as natural disasters.
“It’s not God who was absent or was somewhere else when Yolanda struck. It was the Aquino administration that was and still is nowhere to be felt, found or seen by our hapless kababayans (fellow Filipinos),” said Davao-based lawmaker, Atty. Carlos Isagani Zarate of Bayan Muna Partylist.
The poor though, could only share coins and even used clothings, but the magnanimity and sincerity was overwhelming, volunteers of Tulong Kabataan said.