Arroyo to pursue local peace talks with Reds

(TO SKIRT JOMA SISON)
By Michael Lim Ubac - Inquirer
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MANILA, Philippines--Impatient over the resistance of Communist Party of the Philippines founding chairman Jose Ma. Sison to talk peace, the government will pursue “localized” negotiations with the rebels with or without their leader’s cooperation.
National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales told the Philippine Daily Inquirer (parent company of INQUIRER.net) over the weekend the government will kick-start the stalled talks with the CPP and its armed wing, the New People’s Army, through their local commanders across the country.
On Friday, President Macapagal-Arroyo presided over a regional peace assembly in Tagbilaran City where she instructed the Armed Forces of the Philippines to crush the communist insurgency, the Moro rebellion and “sheer terrorism” by 2010.
The AFP “must evolve a strategy of rapid conclusion to address rebellion, with the National Security Council providing policy direction,” the President said as she unveiled the government’s hard-line template for winning the insurgencies. “I have a specified time-line—three years—to end armed rebellion in the Philippines,” she said. “It’s either get rid of them now, or get rid of them later. Whatever happens, they must be stopped,” she added.
The National Democratic Front, the political arm of the CCP-NPA, has opposed localized peace talks.
A legislator, who asked not to be named, told the Inquirer newspaper on Sunday: “Sison will not give to (Ms Arroyo) but to her successor the glory” of ending the longest-running insurgency in the world.
The amnesty proposal was forged during the two-day Local Peace and Security Assembly (LPSA) for Central Visayas, a gathering of local government, sector leaders and experts to find solutions to security problems in their localities.
LPSA participants presented to Arroyo an action plan to address the communist insurgency which included an offer of amnesty to the rebels and “their legal or aboveground organizations,” a cease-fire, support for localized peace talks, studying the revival of reserve officer training and the adoption of anti-poverty policies.

UPDATE ON VETERANS

With the nation's attention now focused on domestic issues, the Filipino American community is gearing up to rabble-rouse once again about the plight of Filipino World War II veterans when Congress resumes on April 29. The participation of Filipino American servicemen in the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it is hoped, will cast the veteran’s story in a more favorable light.

The American Coalition for Filipino Veterans is renewing its push for the passage of a health bill, HR 664 and S.68. The immediate goal: hold hearings in the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees.

The National Network for Veterans Equity (NNVE), with chapters in San Francisco, New Jersey and Chicago, is preparing to launch another grassroots campaign. As it did in the last two years, NNVE is working hard to put pressure on Congress to pass HR 677 - the Filipino Veterans Equity Bill of 2003. Here in Chicago, NNVE's affiliate chapter is intensifying its education and organizing work.

For instance, it is collaborating with the Pintig Cultural Group to present "Alien Citizen" during Asian Heritage Month. Headed by IVEC President Arcadio Calabas and FilCRA coordinator Jerry Clarito, this effort to highlight the immigrants and veterans issue deserves community support. The play itself, described as "a riveting piece of theatre," calls attention to the injustice created by the U.S. Rescission Act of 1946, which denied rights and benefits to many Filipino veterans.

The Los Angeles-based FilAmVets Foundation, Inc., for its part, plans to take advantage of President Arroyo's state visit on May 19 by organizing a caravan to Washington DC. It plans to appeal to President Bush to issue an executive order forming a Filipino World War II Veterans Commission under the auspices of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

In the view of its members, this measure would help facilitate "a final resolution for entitlement of full U.S. veteran’s benefits for those Filipino veterans who served under the U.S. Army Forces and the American Flag regardless of their present residence and citizenship."

Organizers of these various initiatives all agree that their strategic mission is to restore the honor and dignity of Filipino veterans. Nothing short of HR 677's passage will bring closure to their long struggle for equity and justice.

The National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) and the Philippine Embassy are working closely with these groups to achieve this goal.

Managsuon gibugha tungod sa yuta

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/superbalita/08-19-2007/balita3.html
KAPULISAN sa lungsod sa San Fernando, Sugbo nisentro na karon sa ilang imbestigasyon labot sa kasungian sa yuta.

May labot kini sa pagpusil patay sa duha ka mga managsuon ug pagkaangol sa ilang inahan ug katabang.

Kahinumdoman niadtong Biyernes sa buntag ang managsuong Crispin ug Emmanuel Llanto gipusil sa duha ka wa mailhing mga tawo nga nagsakay og motorsiklo.

Ang duha namatay diha-diha human mangaigo ang ilang ulo samtang ang ilang inahan nga si Evangeline ug katabang nga si Lolita nasamdan ug anaa karon sa tambalanan.

Basi sa imbestigasyon ang mga biktima gikan nitambong og hearing sa kaso may kalabotan sa yuta apan sa pagpamauli gipusil sa duha ka mga tawo sakay sa motorsiklo. Mga mamumuno nagtaptap sa ilang mga nawong.

Nakuha gikan sa crime scene ang napulo ka mga kabhang sa bala, lima sa 9MM pistol ug lima sa .45 caliber pistol.

Si Chief Insp. Atonieto Cuyos, hepe sa San Fernando police station, nga nahinabi sa Sun.Star Superbalita niingon nga wa pa silay suspek sa hitabo.

Apan iyang gitataw nga usa ra ka anggulo ang ilang gisunod nga maoy posibleng motibo sa kremin ug kini may kalabotan sa kasungian sa yuta. “Wala man tay laing gitan-aw ka dili man ni sila mga pulitiko, so, walay pulitika ani dili pod ni sa business,” asoy ni Cuyos. (DRT)

Rolly Borrinaga’s brief…by boy rigo farma

Rolly was born to a simple family in the eastern part of the country. He had 3 brothers and 4 sisters lived with their parents in barangay Padre Inocentes Naval Biliran. His father worked as a policeman who doesn’t know how to walk in military way and the family was accused of hereditary madness and that his father’s salary is not enough, so he takes-up scholarship. And it was that lack of extravagance in Rollys lives which helped shape him into a person he is today.

With no television or radio in the house their family would spend their evenings reading and talking about life and their problems. It was from that He developed hatred among his hearth. It was a tough beginning but he wouldn't trade it for anything.

Rolly and the siblings lived in a simple way of life, throughout his teenage years and discovered he had a real knack for being an ideologist and activist. He found himself a responsible man for the development of his knowledge. But when he earned that knowledge from the coconut tree he becomes more aggressive in dealing with his principles.

He got into an achievement which he is proud for; and began to yearn against people who he said “that oppressed them.” Deep down he knew that one day this people will suffer what he longed for.He struck out for his own seeking greater knowledge about his self-restraint and the world around him.

He studied religions, and upgrade his knowledge on Timothy Mc Veigh’s Oklahoma’s bombing thru his associate Philip C. Ting who lately destroy the Bankaw website. His specialty is science which he uses to acquire job as UP professor in Palo Leyte.

He takes up journalism to cover-up his hereditary madness and dig’s some Balangiga fiction stories to boast his hard earned knowledge.

Rolly can fought but cowardly and sometimes struggling against insurmountable odds, making alliances with some of the most unlikely people you could imagine. During the fought for Biliran separation from Leyte, Rolly and his team fought behind door to avoid confronting Agta who is serving a jail term.

Rolly accused the opposition and some political personalities as pretenders and back biters. But he realized he had to get back to his roots and with the help of his wife, a quack doctor in Jaro and the support of his relathieves, Rolly decided to try to change his personality by helping rather than poisoning.

It was only four years ago when the world wide web started making news and Rolly worked as an underpaid reporter when it struck me: the web could be used to help people and make this world a better, more peaceful place however Rolly and his megalomaniac ilk make it their place of his disappointment. And thus, ask Rolly! was born. The rest can be read into Rolly’s! Website. It's all there and free.