Pinoy Voters' Academy (PVA) - Legazpi Edition // Session 1: PILIPINAS, NAG-GROW KA NA BA?

Diocese of Legazpi Voters’ Education Module for the May 2007 Elections

PAGPOON

Sabi daa, igwa nin tolong season sa Pilipinas: dry season, wet season, election season. Election season na naman! “The circus has come to town”, sabi kan headline kan Inquirer sa pagpoon kan campaign period sa national level. May kantahan, may baraylehan (boom-tarat-tarat!). May padurukutan ki posters (itanim sa semento!). Kanya-kanyang gimik para marumduman (K’ na ‘Tol? Corecto! Pero kung bad ka…) Pero may naghaharapot man: “Arog na sana kita kaini pirmi?”

Dai manenegaran an importansya kan eleksyon sa satong buhay demokrasya. An pagtiripon ta ngonyan sarong pag-aadal kun gurano man nanggad kahalaga an gigibohon ta sa Mayo 14 asin kun ano na an nangyayari matapos tang manusnusan an satong balota. Mag-iristoryahan kita kan kan drama sa likod ng halalan. Game ka na ba?

A. PILIPINAS, NAG-GROW KA NA BA?

Opening Activity: Eleksyong Pinoy II (VCD)

Tryad: Maggrupo sa 3 asin mag-iristoryahan. Simbagan:

a. Ano an pinaka-dai-ko-malingawan duman sa pasali?

b. Ano an makusogon na naiisip o namamatean ko mantang naghihiling?

Talk: Nat-Sit: An Sitwasyon kan Nasyon

1. Ekonomiya

· Presyo nin barakalon: halos nadoble na asin padagos pang naglalangkaw (NSCB)

· Unemployment rate na 8.2% = maabot 3 million jobless Filipinos (NSO, April 2006)

· National debt P3.89 Trillion na, boot sabihon, kun kwentahon sa 84 milyon na populasyon, maluwas na, kada pamilya, may bayadan na P46,309.50 (FDC)

· 33% kan kayamanan kapot kan 5% na elite, mantang 6% sana kan kayamanan na ini an nagagamit kan 25% kapobrehan (World Bank & Tatsulok ni Bamboo ;-)

· 42 milyon Pilipino an nabubuhay sa P100 daily subsistence budget (World Bank)

· 73% pamilya an nagsasabing mas pobre sinda ngonyan kaysa kan nakaaging taon

· 3 sa 10 Pilipino an muyang maghale sa Pilipinas (Pulse Asia, October 2005)

2. Pulitika

· Grabe an pagkabaranga sa satong pulitika

· Pigkukwestiyon pa man giraray kun talagang lehitimo an liderato ni GMA

· People’ Initiative & Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) na pigsulong para gamiton sa Charter Change (Cha-Cha), nahihiling na piggagamit sa pansadiring interes kan mga pulitiko

· P1.2 Trillion an nawara dahil sa graft and corruption sa nakaaging 5 taon (Transparency International); maabot P100 Million an nawawara aroaldaw sa corruption sana (Office of the Ombudsman Report, 2005) ; 48% kan PDAF kan mga Senador asin Congressmen an napasiring sa mga “kumisyon” (Former DBM Secretary Salvador Enriquez)

· #1 most corrupt country in Asia an Pilipinas susog sa pinakhudyan na survey kan PERC.

· Dakulonon na, nagdadakul pa, an biktima kan political and extra-judicial killing

· May mga LGU na nagpapahiling nin maray na trabaho maski dakul an limitasyon

3. Kultura asin Sosyedad

· Dakul an nalilibongan. Dakulang dahilan kaini an hampangan na pag-utik kan mga pulitiko, asin an manipulasyon kan impormasyon, na pigpapaagi sa media.

· An kadaklan habo nang makiaram sa mga problema kan satong banwaan.

· Minaluya an moralidad kan satong sosyedad, minalabog an kaibahan kan sala asin tama. Minsan an sala nagiging tama, asin tama nagiging sala. Minaroro an kunsensya kan indibidwal asin kan bilog na banwaan.

· “Philippine politics, the way it is practiced, has been most hurtful to us as a people. It is possibly the biggest bane in our life as a nation and the most pernicious obstacle to our achieving full development.” (CBCP 1997 Pastoral Exhortation on Philippine Politics)

4. Eleksyon

· Top 5 answers on Who People Voted For (SWS-IPC)

1. Madaling lapitan 4. Kakayahan: Competence

2. Pinagkaka-utangan ng loob 5. Kabutihan: Moral integrity/Decency

3. Kamag-anak

· How Albayanos Voted for their Leaders (Albay Pulse)

Qualities	1st District	2nd District	3rd District	Legazpi City	Albay Province
Credibility / Integrity	8.8	33.3	34.9	25.9	25.6
Dependability and Reliability	17.6	43.9	15.1	19.0	21.9
Capability and Competence	39.2	47.0	34.1	51.7	40.9
Approachability and Compassion	56.9	36.4	30.2	25.9	38.4

5. Simbag kan Simbahan

· “We are to provide moral and religious guidance to our people. This is what we offer in the present crisis… Not to do this would be an abdication of our duty.” (CBCP, “A Plea for Moral Values in Philippine Politics”, July 2005)

· “We have to intensify our commitment to build in our land a ‘civilization of love’ by

o prophetically critiquing and denouncing injustice; and

o prompting positive actions that will promote a ‘society befitting mankind because it befits Christ’ (CSP 8,63).” (CBCP, “Building a Civilization of Love”, May 2006)

· We commit ourselves to a threefold program of pastoral action of

o building character through a continuing advocacy of fostering moral values in public life;

o building capacity through programs that empower our people, especially the poor, to participate in their own development and in the continuing work of creation; and

o building community through the promotion of a spirituality of citizenship, which is a concrete way of living out in our country the “fundamental social virtue”– solidarity.

· “We seek only one thing: to apply the values of the Gospel to our electoral process. We are calling every parish organization and institution – and the BECs most especially – to be mobilized to the utmost to do what each can do towards that end. This means, too, that they must form linkages with one another and with other like-minded civic and religious associations that are working to help clean the dirt from our easily corrupted electoral process.” (CBCP, “Letter to Dioceses and Parishes”, January 2007)