ANG IYONG BANG PANULAT AY KAYANG MAGMULAT?

CONGRESSMAN IS COMING TO TOWN
(Tune: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”)

Hey!

you’d better watch out
you’d better not cry
you’d better not pout, I’m telling you why
congressman is coming to town

he owns the land you live in
he’s ninong to your kids
you know that he’s got guns and goons
so be good or he will take and take

you’d better watch out
you’d better not cry
you’d better not pout, I’m telling you why
congressman is coming to town

he does not win elections
you know that he’s a fake
and when his term expires next year
you know his wife will take his place

Hey!

THE TWELVE DISS OF CHRISTMAS
(Tune: “The 12 Days of Christmas”)

On the 1st day of Christmas, the president gave to me: A SCANDAL FROM ZTE!

On the 2nd day of Christmas, the president gave to me: DILUTED FERTILIZERS and a Scandal from ZTE!

On the 3rd day of Christmas, the president gave to me: TRIGGER-HAPPY COPS, Diluted Fertilizers, and a Scandal from ZTE!

On the 4th day of Christmas, the president gave to me: JOBLESS FILIPINOS, Trigger-happy Cops, Diluted Fertilizers, and a Scandal from ZTE!

On the 5th day of Christmas, the president gave to me: FIVE ABALOS BURGERS! Jobless Filipinos, Trigger-happy Cops, Diluted fertilizers, and a scandal from ZTE!

On the 6th day of Christmas, the president gave to me: GOVERNMENT STATISTICS, FIVE ABALOS BURGERS! Jobless Filipinos, Trigger-happy Cops, Diluted Fertilizers, and a Scandal from ZTE!

On the 7th day of Christmas, the president gave to me: IMPORT LIBERALIZATION, Government Statistics, FIVE ABALOS BURGERS! Jobless Filipinos, Trigger-happy Cops, Diluted Fertilizers, and a Scandal from ZTE!

On the 8th day of Christmas, the president gave to me: POLITICAL REPRESSION, Import Liberalization, Government Statistics, FIVE ABALOS BURGERS! Jobless Filipinos, Trigger-happy Cops, Diluted Fertilizers, and a Scandal from ZTE!

On the 9th day of Christmas, the president gave to me: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, Political Repression, Import Liberalization, Government Statistics, FIVE ABALOS BURGERS! Jobless Filipinos, Trigger-happy Cops, Diluted Fertilizers, and a Scandal from ZTE!

On the 10th day of Christmas, the president gave to me: CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION, Human Rights Violations, Political Repression, Import Liberalization, Government Statistics, FIVE ABALOS BURGERS! Jobless Filipinos, Trigger-happy Cops, Diluted Fertilizers, and a Scandal from ZTE

On the 11th day of Christmas, the president gave to me: CHA-CHA TERM EXTENSIONS, Corrupt Administration, Human Rights Violations, Political Repression, Import Liberalization, Government Statistics, FIVE ABALOS BURGERS! Jobless Filipinos, Trigger-happy Cops, Diluted Fertilizers, and a Scandal from ZTE!

BUT ON THE 12TH DAY OF CHRISTMAS, THE PRESIDENT RECEIVED FROM ME:

WIDESPREAD CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (widespread civil disobedience!)
NEGATIVE APPROVAL RATINGS (negative approval ratings!)
MULTI-SECTORAL DEMONSTRATIONS (multi-sectoral demonstrations!)
SCAMS, EXPOSES, and SCANDALS (scams, exposes, and scandals!)
INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION (international condemnation!)
HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTS and BRIEFINGS (human rights reports and briefings!)
PLUNDER and IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS (plunder and impeachment hearings!)

FIVE ABALOS BURGERS!

Brother Mike’s REFUSAL
Prayers for the DAMNED
A Diet Plan for FG
And a New Pair of ELEVATOR HEELS! =)

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO-maalis

Glo-o-o-o-o-o, o-o-o-o-o, o-o-o-o-oria
Di maalis sa pwes-to

Glo-o-o-o-o-o, o-o-o-o-o, o-o-o-o-oria
Ayaw umalis sa pwe-es-to

Queen of queens
(Forever and ever!)
With feudal lords
(Nakaluluha! Nakaluluha!)

She will not reign forever and e-ver
Nakaluluha! Nakaluluha!

Naka-lu-lu-haaa!

ANG PASKO KO’Y SUMABIT (Hinaing ni Bolante)
(Tune: “Ang Pasko ay Sumapit” ni Levi Celerio)

ang Pasko ko’y sumabit
ngunit ‘di pa rin aawit
kahit sa magdamagang hearing
dahil, diyos ko, ako’y may feeling

kung ako ay magsiwalat
may tatlong pari na dadalaw
at ang bawat isa
ay may ihahandog na dasal pang-patay

bagong taon kala’y bagong-buhay
humingi ng asylum du’n kay Uncle Sam
ako ay nagsikap upang di makita
ginawa ko para kay ma’am!

ayaw ko talagang umawit
balak ko lang ay tumahimik
kalusuga’y naiipit
kapag namatay, bagsak ko’y di sa langit
St. Luke’s pa naman may kamahalan
kaya inyong sundin ‘tong gintong aral
kung mabubuking kayo
sa probinsya magtago, ‘wag nang mangibang-bayan!

October 24, 2008

Reference: Dr. Carol Pagaduan-Araullo, Chairperson

The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) condemns in strongest terms the arrest of Atty. Remigio Saladero on trumped-up charges of multiple murder in Mindoro. As of this morning, he is being held by police and military forces in a red Toyota vehicle supposedly bound to Mindoro.

The arrest of Atty. Saladero is clearly a case of political persecution. A few weeks before his arrest, Atty. Saladero together with twenty-six leaders and members of people’s organizations in Southern Tagalog, was charged with arson, destruction of property and conspiracy to commit rebellion. They were accused of being members of the New People’s Army (NPA) who allegedly blew up a Globe cell site in Batangas. The enforced disappearance of James Balao in Cordillera, the abduction and torture of 9 peasants in Cavite and this latest arrest of Atty. Saladero prove that political repression in the country remains even as the cases of extrajudicial killings declined after drawing outrage both in the Philippines and the international community.

Atty. Saladero’s clients are workers victimized by low wages and unjust working conditions. His detention will mean depriving the poor of a lawyer who humbly renders his free legal services at the risk of harassment and grave persecution.

Bayan joins the family of Atty. Saladero in demanding the PNP to drop the false charges against Atty. Saladero, to release him immediately and to abort any plan of unlawfully arresting other activists. Bayan also calls on international lawyers groups and human rights defenders to join the Filipino people in demanding the Arroyo regime to release Atty. Saladero. He is neither a murderer nor an arsonist. It is the Arroyos, police and military forces involved in large-scale corruption and human rights violations who deserve to be arrested and jailed for their multiple crimes against the Filipino people.

The Arroyo regime appears to be poised for more attacks on activists as it faces continuing protests for worsening economic crisis, unresolved cases of corruption and human rights violations. Bayan calls on its allied organizations to step up their campaign against the fascist attacks of this regime which aims to cripple the mass organizations that are at the forefront of people’s struggle for land, jobs, dignity, freedom, sovereignty, democracy and social justice. #

Cited as one of notable San Beda College alumni, Atty. Saladero is the Chief Legal Counsel of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) who defended the late Anakpawis Representative Crispin Beltran against fabricated charges by the Arroyo regime. Aside from handling numerous labor cases, Atty. Saladero represented KMU in challenging the constitutionality of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Proclamation 1017 that placed the country under a state of national emergency and gave powers to Arroyo similar to what the late president Ferdinand Marcos had when he declared martial law.

Cops nab KMU lawyer on murder charges

Arrest ‘cover up’ of Moscow fund mess

MANILA, Philippines — Police arrested a lawyer of the leftist labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (May First Movement) in his Antipolo City office Thursday night on non-bailable multiple murder and frustrated murder charges filed against him before an Occidental Mindoro trial court.

Chief Superintendent Ricardo Padilla, Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon) regional police chief, confirmed that lawyer Remigio Saladero Jr. was arrested Thursday night by joint operatives of the Calabarzon and Rizal provincial police.

He also confirmed that Padilla has been brought to Occidental Mindoro for turn over to the court.

KMU members and other activists had trooped to Cam Vicente Lim in Laguna Thursday night to protest the arrest.

The KMU slammed the arrest of the lawyer and claimed the police had arrested the wrong person.

It also claimed the arrest was part of efforts to “cover up” the scandal surrounding the apprehension of a retired police general found carrying millions of pesos worth of undeclared currency by Russian customs officials in Moscow earlier this month.

Padilla said the arrest of Saladero was based on a valid warrant of arrest. “We don’t want to violate any human rights,” he said.

But KMU chairman Elmer Labog said the police had arrested the wrong person, pointing out that the warrant of arrest was against someone named Reme Gio Saladero. “The spelling of the name was different. His [Saladero’s] name was misspelled. At isa pa, hindi naman nagpupunta ng Mindoro yan [Besides, he never goes to Mindoro in the first place],” he said.

Labog also said the arresting officers seized Saladero’s laptop and personal computers.

He said the lawyer, who is in his 50s, is “sickly” and suffers from hypertension and diabetes.

Padilla said the KMU should address its complaints to the Mindoro trial court.

“Kami naman, hindi naman namin sinasabi na masamang tao siya, inutusan lang kami eh [to arrest Saladero]. Kung may reklamo sila [KMU], i-explain nila sa court, huwag sa amin [On our part, we are not saying he is a bad person, we were just ordered. If they have any complaints, they should explain that to the court, not to us],” he said.