Lakambining Pilipina, Hindi Tisay

ITO si Gregoria de Jesus, ang "Lakambini ng Katipunan" nang kanyang kapanahunan. Dalagang Pilipina/Taga-Ilog. Magandang dilag--isang katangian na maaring nagustuhan ng kanyang naging asawa na si Katipunan Supremo Andres Bonifacio y de Castro. In the English language, Gregoria is a "native beauty." Sa kasamaang palad ay hindi ang ganitong kagandahan ang hinahangaan, pinupuri, hinahangad, o binabandera sa mga parada at sagala.

Tulad ngayong buwan ng Mayo, panahon ng Santacruzan. Ang binabandera o kung hindi man ay ang laging pinakasikat at sinasabihan ng "maganda" ay iyong mga tisay o malapit sa tisay, yung mga mapuputi. Sila madalas ang mga Reyna Elena, Reyna Emperatriz. Simply put, these types of Filipina beauties command the longest stares, the greatest admiration.

Much as this has been the seemingly 'natural' state of affairs in the Philippine Islands for centuries now, mukhang hindi yata tama na agrabayado ang katutubong lahi natin dahil hindi ba't nakalaya na daw tayo sa kuko ng mga kolonyal/imperyalista Kastila at Kano? Ang ating lahing kayumanggi at may katamtamang ilong ay bakit ba mababa ang antas sa lipunan? Hindi tama ito. Hindi dapat na tinatanggap na lamang ito.

"Natural" to appreciate more the fair-skinned and mestizas but racism against one's own race is never natural. Accepting what the pale-skinned colonizers taught us--that their race is superior and ours is inferior--is crazy and pathetic.

May isang negrong Amerikano na nakapansin ng rasismo dito sa ating bayan. Matagal ko nang nabasa ang kanyang artikulo at hinding-hindi ko malimutan dahil puno ito ng katotohanan. Ayon kay Morgan Johnson, kalat at laganap ang rasismo sa Pilipinas. Dagdag niya:

...this is not racism in its purest form. Filipinos are not so much discriminating on the basis of race as much as mere skin tone. Philippine society is very much segregated by skin color. The paler your skin the greater the level of success is available to you. Likewise, dark skin is a fast ticket to the bottom. Another writer on this topic comments on the fact that most of the idols of Philippine music and cinema are fair-skinned with sharp, European features. I noticed that myself.

Napansin ni Morgan ang isang bagay na nakakaligalig sa ating lipunan--na karamihan sa mga malalakas na pamilya sa politika ay mapuputla ang balat. Itinuro niya na galing sa pananakop ng Kastila ang rasismong ito. At kahit hindi niya idinagdag na ang kanyang pamahalaan Kalbong Agila ay sinakop ang ating bayan gamit ang argumentong rasismo ay sinabi naman niyang nagpatuloy ang hindi magandang ugaling o aspeto ng kultura nating ito noong pananakop ng Amerikano.

Morgan added that "Unfortunately, one of the traits of Spanish Catholic cultures is to deny any faults and to become angry and defensive if somebody points them out." Sangayon ako dito. Panahon na upang mahalin natin ang ating lahi, ang ating ugat. Hindi tamang hanggang ngayon ay tinatapakan natin ang ating mga ninuno, sarili nating pinagmulan.

Nakakaawa naman tayo sa pagpapatuloy ng rasismo laban sa sariling-lahi. Sa sobrang pagtataas ng maputlang balat sa ating lipunan ay kahit anak sa labas lamang ng puting G.I. sa isang sex worker (noong bukas pa ang mga Base Militar ng Estados Unidos) ay tinitingala. Tayo lamang ang ganito sa parteng ito ng mundo dahil sa ibang bansa sa Asya ay awtomatikong mababa ang tingin sa mga hybrid na anak ng G.I.s. Hindi sa minamaliit dapat ang mga ipinanganak sa nasabing kalagayan pero tama ba namang ang kanluraning kulay ng balat at kaanyuan ng mukha ay itaas sa pedestal at ibaba naman ang kaanyuang Malay sa ating sariling bayan?



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Original photo credits:

http://bahaynakpil.org/images/lola_gorya_invite.pn
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Reference:

Johnson, Morgan. Racism in the Philippines. http://www.helium.com/items/600557-racism-in-the-philippines

TanDem Press Conference on the HOCUS PCOS

HOCUS PCOS Press Conference: Thursday, May 26, 2011, 10:30am
Angono Room of the Valle Verde Country Club.


Theme: "PCOS: A Tool for Honest or Fraudulent Elections?"


Tanggulang Demokrasya (TanDem) will introduce the group and its advocacies, and will present views on the PCOS Technology as well as a case study.

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Sana ay makatulong sa paghahanap ng katotohanan. SINO MAN ang tunay na nanalo noong Halalang Mayo 10, 2010.



Photo credits: 

MIGHT e2010, Nicanor Perlas, JB

Ang Mga DAPAT MABATID Ng Mga TAGALOG/Taga-Ilog/Pilipino Ukol Kay SUPREMO ANDRES BONIFACIO y DE CASTRO

Ayon sa historyador na si Luis Camara Dery:

Ipinanganak si Andres Bonifacio sa kalye Alvarado, barrio Meisic, bayan ng Tondo noong Nobyembre 30 [1863]. Ayon sa isang kasamahan niya, may mga katangian na nagpapatunay na siya's tunay na taliba ng Inang Bayan:

Sa malas, sa anyo at sa kalagayan ay hindi sukat asahang makagawa ng kanyang ipinaging bayani.

Isang payapang mamamayang gaya ng lahat, isang masunuring kawani sa isang bahay-kalakal, isang mabait na Pilipinong laging matahimk, dapatwa't nang dumating ang oras at panahong kinailangan ang pagkilos, upang masugpo ang mga napakalabis at masasagwang paguutos ay natutong tumutol, tumayo at nag-usig ng kanyang matwid at karapatang niyuyukuran.

Si Andres Bonifacio yaong walang kibo, nguni't dinaramdam at pinag-aaralang lahat ang daing ng kanyang bayan sa pang-aaping ginagawa sa kanya, at nangulo ng pag-uusig sa mga nang-aapi.

Ang magiting na iyan ang nagluwas sumuba sa Balintawak, at pati gabi'y ginagawang araw, maihanda lamang at maisagawa ang pagbangon ng bayang itong malaon ding inalipin.

Si Andres Bonifacio yaong matapang na hindi nilingon ang kakauntiang ng tao niyang kasama, kahinaan ng kanyang panlaban at kakapusang ng lahat ng kailangan, ay nagsimula ng isang gawaing napakalaki at dakila."

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Ayon kay G. Jose Turiano Santiago, isa sa mga unang kasapi ng Katipunan, may mga isinulat sa pader ng mga kuweba sa Montalban si Bonifacio. "Mabuhay ang Kalayaan" ang pangungusap na isinulat ni Bonifacio sa pader ng kuweba ng Pamitinan at sa kalapit na kuweba ng Makarok kanya namang isinulat ang mga sumusunod: "Sumapit dito ang mga Anak ng Bayan. Humahanap ng Kalayaan." Ayon naman sa isa pang dating kasamahan, sinabi sa kanila ni Bonifacio ang mga sumusunod: "Ang paglaya ay mahirap matuklasan, kinukuha sa patalim o pumatay o mamatay." Kay G. Aurelio Tolentino, isang matalik na kaibigan ni Bonifacio at isa sa mga nagtatag ng Katipnan, si Bonifacio ang "Ama ng Katipunan" at ganito ang mga anyaya niya sa mga kasama nang simulan nila ang himagsikan:

Kalayaan o Kaalipinan?
Kabuhayan o Kamatayan!
Mga Kapatid. Halina't ating kalabanin ang mga baril at kanyon upang kamtin ang sariling Kalayaan!

Ayon naman  sa historyador din na si Manuel Artigas y Cuerva, ipinamalas ni Supremo ang kanyang katapangan hanggang sa kanyang mga huling sandali ("su caracter, que hasta ultima hora due el de una valiente"). Ito ay sa gitna ng sukdulang kawalanghiyaang ginawa sa kanya matapos niyang bigyang buhay ang Himagsikan para sa ating kalayaan.

Ang tinutukoy dito ni Artigas ay ang kwento ni Lazaro Makapagal, tauhan ng nang-agaw ng kapangyarihan mula sa Supremo na si Emilio Aguinaldo, at sinulat nila Teodoro Agoncillo na kesyo tinangka raw tumakbo ni Bonifacio nang sila ay babarilin na nito. Malabo ang kwentong ito ni Makapagal dahil unang-una ay mahina ang katawan ng Supremo batay na rin sa sinulat ni Hen. Santiago Alvarez na maliban sa pagkakabaril kay Bonifacio ay sinaksak ito sa lalamunan sa pagtatangka ni Kol. Ignacio Paua na patayin ang Supremo noong Abril 28, 1897 noong patraydor na atake at pagdakip sa kanila . Bumulwak daw ang dugo mula sa Supremo kung kaya't nanghina ito at kinakailangang ilagay ito sa duyan sa sa pwersahan nilang pagdala sa pamilya Bonifacio sa Naic (ang Supremo, kapatid na Procopio, at asawang si Gregorio de Jesus habang napatay ang isa pang kapatid na si Ciriaco).

Isa pa eh, ayon pa rin kay Alvarez, ginutom ang magkapatid na Bonifacio bago iharap sa 'kangaroo court' nila Aguinaldo ito ay pinagkaitan ng tamang pagkain! Saka sa malubhang pagkakasaksak sa Supremo, may nabalita bang gumamot dito ng tama habang ipiniit ng mga taga-Magdalo? Sa kanyang kahabag-habag na kalagayan ng Supremo, paanong makakatakbo iyon? Isa pa, napakatapang nga niyang Pilipino  at sumugod pa nga sa Himagsikan nang mabuking na ang Katipunan  kahit tutol ang mga kagaya ni Aguinaldo, tapos tatakbo ito sa harap ng walang katarungan at traydor na pagpatay?

Tandaan natin na si Lazaro Makapagal ay masasabing hindi patas o hindi mapagkakatiwalaan ang kanyang mga pahayag ukol sa Supremo. Unang-una ay dahil siya ang kalihim ng 'kangaroo court' na Hukom ng Panggiyera na binuo ng kampo ni Aguinaldo. Pangalawa ay PATAGO ang pagpatay nila sa Supremo--taliwas sa dapat ay publikong katangian ng 'execution'--kung kaya't sino ang makakapagsabi na tunay ang pahayag ng berdugong si Lazaro. Pangatlo ay maraming detalye sa Kumbensyon sa Tejeros, paghuli at paglilitis sa Supremo mula sa panig nila Aguinaldo ang pinawalang katotohanan ng mga sulatin ng mismong naging tauhan ni Aguinaldo--sina Hen. Santiago Alvarez at Artemio Ricarte.

Hindi siguro gagawin ni Supremo Bonifacio ang karuwagang ginawa ni Hen. Aguinaldo na hindi lumaban sa mga Amerikanong humuli sa kanya at bagkus ay sumumpa pa ito sa bandila ng Kalbong Agila sa loob lamang halos ng isang linggo. Baka nga ang ginawa nila Makapagal ay patalikod pang pinatay ang Supremo na siya namang tumangkang lumaban sa berdugo ni Aguinaldo....

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Pinagkunan:

Dery, Luis, Camara. Bantayog ni Inang Bayan: Panibagong Pagbibigay Kahulugan kay Andres Bonifacio.

Alvarez, Santiago. Pamagat The katipunan and the revolution: memoirs of a general : with the original Tagalog text. Tagasalin. Paula Carolina S. Malay. Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1992.

Photo art: Jesusa Bernardo

Pasasalamat: Michael Charleston Briones Chua

Hey, Uncle Sam, YOU made Bin Laden

 Updated May 6, 2011

THE UNITED States. celebrates the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Hey, did you Americans forget that your government MADE that "terrorist"?

Osama bin Laden deserves his end. He employed terrorism directed at civilians for his "freedom fighting" ideology. I especially thought he needed to be eliminated because of his role in supporting the evil former Taliban government in Afghanistan.
Kaso lang, sa anunsyo ni Kalbong Agila Pangulo Barack Obama at mga kaakibat na mga pahayag ng kanyang imperyalistang pamahalaan ay para bang wala silang naging papel sa pagiging terrorista ni Bin Laden.

No doubt bin Laden was a demonic 'freedom fighter' who targeted civilians. But let us not forget that the Al Qaeda's/bin Laden's rise to terroristic power was a product of covert CIA intervention in Afghanistan during America's Cold War competition with the Soviet Union.

The U.S. had an important role in promoting Islamic extremism in its bid to gain hegemony against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Some analysts even believe the security training of Bin Laden came no less than from the CIA. The Bald Eagle nation secretly battled the Soviet Union, which was propping up a pro-Soviet Kabul government, through the then recently Islamized neighbor, Pakistan. The U.S. used Pakistan to course aid to the mujahedeen fighters.

Between 1982 and 1990 the CIA, working with the ISI and Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, funded the training, arrival, and arming of some 35,000 Islamic militants from 43 Muslim countries in Pakistani madrassas to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan,” said Rashid, who is also author of the non-fiction bestseller Taliban. This “was to sow the seeds of al-Qaeda and turn Pakistan into the world center of jihadism for the next two decades,” he added."

http://emu.edu/now/peacebuilder/2010/03/ history-matters-understanding-afghanista n-and-pakistan/

In other words, Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda group were at least partly a product of imperialist or Cold War U.S. policies. How come the U.S. virtually denies its role in the making of that monster by portraying bin Laden as an enemy without mention of their military collaboration in the past? Just hear Mr. Obama's famous broadcast a few days ago--there's absolutely no mention of their 'mistake' in helping create that monster. All we hear is that bin Laden was terrorist bla bla bla. What about the role of the bigger terrorist--all right, the "great nation"--in helping Osama's group become an international terrorist entity of September 11 caliber?


Suspect Timing: Failed NATO assassination in Libya?

Look at the timing, which was right after the very embarrassing news of a failed NATO 'assassinate Kadhafi' (no matter the denial) operation that killed the SON and GRANDCHILDREN instead. Rather conveniently, the Obama administration then came up with this Bin Laden's death news.

Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said: "The attack resulted in the martyrdom of brother Saif al-Arab Muammar Gaddafi, 29 years old, and three of the leader's grandchildren.

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"This was a direct operation to assassinate the leader of this country," the spokesman added..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13251570


When did they really carry out the operation against bin Laden (or first learn of his death) in the first place and why flaunt it to the world now? Supposedly, the operation to kill bin Laden took place only the other day or so ago, according to mainstream Western news media. If true, the timing of the operations is nonetheless suspect and apparently designed to bury the news of the blatant assassination/interference in Libya involving Western attacks on  CIVILIANS.

At any rate, by supporting terrorist--future terrorists from their viewpoint--like Bin Laden, the U.S. ought to be honest to its citizens and the world by atoning for their hand in having made Bin Laden a terrifying, powerful terrorist as we know or even experienced him to be. Hindi iyong pag sila ang binalingan ng terorismo na sila din mismo ang nagturo ay saka lang nila palalabasing kaaway na "terorista."

Saka, gaano ba ka 'anti-terrorist' talaga ang Amerika? FYI, in the U.S.' first imperialist war--the Philippine-American war the Bald Eagle nation specifically punished the civilians via the inhumane reconcentration camps in the effort to flush out and emaciate our freedom fighters ("insurectos" in imperialist parlance). These reconcentration camps, at least those in Batangas, were described by one of the U.S. commandants as the "suburbs of Hell." Deaths from disease and hunger in those camps is said to have run high, some say up to 20%.

One reaction to the killing of Obama was by former head waiter of the Windows on the World restaurant in the North Tower of the World Trade Center, Fekkak Mamdouh. He says he is glad about Bin Laden's death supposedly because of him, "we got into two wars and killed a lot of people in Afghanistan and Iraq".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698


Susmeyo. Napaka-ignorante talaga ng ibang Amerikano sa mga ginagawa ng imperyalistang pamahalaan nila. George W. Bush blatantly lied to the American public when he claimed that Iraq's Saddam Hussein was supporting the Al Qaeda/Bin Laden in order to justify their war of invasion against the Iraqi people.

And how many more monsters did the U.S. create when it was to their "interests"? Amidst the history of American superpower domination  (or is it imperialist terrorism?) the U.S. policy is to use/ally with whoever serves its interests for the moment--no matter if these convenient allies target innocents or not--as well as their virtual creation of Bin Laden's network of operations, ain't the Bald Eagle at least somewhat terroristic as well?


Isang Larawan Naman Diyan, O

Saka bakit para yatang walang larawan ng patay na si bin Laden? How come the U.S. government has failed to show not even one, as in ANY photograph of the operation. No picture of a dead bin Laden. Supposedly, in reaction to "conspiracy theories," U.S. officials are debating whether to belatedly release a "“gruesome” photo of the dead bin Laden, conscious that such an image would likely inflame strong passions in some Muslim countries." Really.  How silly and lame is that excuse.  They can't even show some shots taken from some distance or one with the "gruesome" parts selectively blurred?

And why didn't they bring in those embedded journalists, the practice being the U.S. government's S.O.P. since just about the Gulf War? Some behaved and trusted reporters could have been brought in and made to stay in a safe distance until Operation Geronimo has been successfully concluded so as not to compromise security. To put it simply, the bin Laden operation was so big that having no photo or no coverage is unforgivable. Or most suspicious.


Buried at Sea. Really?

Inilibing daw sa dagat. Ows? Baka naman sa ibang paraan namatay... o matagal nang patay kaya....

he U.S. story goes like bin Laden's body having been  buried at sea. This is probably the best conspiracy-theory-triggering part of the bin Laden operation report. Why so fast as in less than a day and why give a man Obama condemned as a "terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children" a very proper Muslim burial? Alright, the U.S. wants to show to the Islamic world that it respects and religion. So, WHERE ARE THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE of bin Laden's supposed burial.

And why at sea? Do Muslims traditionally bury their dead at sea? Actually, according to authors Marc Gellman and Thomas Hartman, Muslim "Burial at sea is permitted only if it's unavoidable." What's so unavoidable about the circumstances of bin Laden's reported death. Won't a simple land burial been good enough? You know, a land burial that would have in the future facilitate some cadaver authenticity check....

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Sources:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13257110

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13256676

http://emu.edu/now/peacebuilder/2010/03/history-matters-understanding-afghanistan-and-pakistan/

http://taga-ilog-news.blogspot.com/2011/05/kadhafi-survives-nato-air-strike-son.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13256959


Photo credits:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/10/osama_bin_laden_on_t.php
http://www.aviapress.com/viewonekit.htm?ICM-35221
http://kuroigurasude.blogspot.com/
http://incredibleimages4u.blogspot.com/2010/03/soviet-invasion-of-afghanistan-1979-and.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13257110
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13256959