Company union
THE SCABS have become the company union.
That was the condescending comment of a friend on the organizations comprising the so-called Kapampangan Coalition Inc.
How’s that I asked him, as we sipped coffee at SM Clark’s Extremely Espresso.
Short, if not selective, is your memory. He ribbed me.
How’s that?
So, what are the organizations under the KCI?
Kapampangan Marangal Inc., Abak na Balen, Pampanga Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, Pampanga Anti-Illegal Gambling Council…
Okay, he cut me. What is the common denominator of those organizations?
They are all NGOs. They make up the local civil society.
Yeah? You totally missed their most obvious common ground, dummy. They are the very core of Panlilio’s die-hardest supporters!
Oh yeah, so how’s that?
See how forgetful you have become. And you’ve been harping on the same thing in your column for sometime.
What?
Who were the chorus boys, the myrmidons – to use your own high-fartin’ word – that sang Kapampangan ku as an accompaniment to Panlilio’s signing the document that vetoed Ordinance 176?
Kapampangan Marangal Inc., Abak na Balen, Pampanga Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, Pampanga Anti-Illegal Gambling Council…
Okay. Now, who threatened to unleash the wrath of the people, if not that of God Herself, upon the sangguniang panlalawigan and the Pampanga Mayors League through a people’s initiative to repudiate Ordinance 176?
Why, the same Kapampangan Marangal Inc., Abak na Balen, Pampanga Association of Non-Government Organizations, Pampanga Anti-Illegal Gambling Council…
You still don’t get it?
No.
Okay, listen to this former labor organizer. Yeng Guiao and the sanggunian, along with the mayors virtually declared a strike against Panlilio by virtue of Ordinance 176. Your Kapampangan Marangal, et al tried to break that strike with the threat of a people’s initiative via signature campaign. So how do you call strike breakers?
Scabs.
Right. Now, you yourself have asked whatever happened to the signature campaign. Obviously, Kapampangan Marangal, et al could not muster even just a decent number of signers. So, they have to change tactics.
And that tactic is to try to get the strikers into the company fold through a prayer rally for peace and unity?
A different take on the maxim misery breeding company there. You are not a dummy, after all. So were Guiao, the sanggunian and the mayors who saw through this ploy. Why should they join the very persons who were calling for their damnation?
But the KCI is supposed to be a non-partisan watchdog of good governance, transparency, etcetera…
Precisely, Panlilio’s own company union.
Teka, teka, how about the highly-respected Father Resty Lumanlan?
Have you forgotten the Kapampangan saying? "Nukarin ya maglayunan ing pari nune king kaparehu nang pari?"
So how about the Advocacy for the Development of Central Luzon?
What about ADCL? Whose is the face of ADCL?
Businessman Rene Romero, president of the Pampanga Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
So, where was Romero at the time of the campaign and after Panlilio’s take-over of the capitol, dummy?
I would have enjoyed my coffee elsewhere with a dummy like me.
That was the condescending comment of a friend on the organizations comprising the so-called Kapampangan Coalition Inc.
How’s that I asked him, as we sipped coffee at SM Clark’s Extremely Espresso.
Short, if not selective, is your memory. He ribbed me.
How’s that?
So, what are the organizations under the KCI?
Kapampangan Marangal Inc., Abak na Balen, Pampanga Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, Pampanga Anti-Illegal Gambling Council…
Okay, he cut me. What is the common denominator of those organizations?
They are all NGOs. They make up the local civil society.
Yeah? You totally missed their most obvious common ground, dummy. They are the very core of Panlilio’s die-hardest supporters!
Oh yeah, so how’s that?
See how forgetful you have become. And you’ve been harping on the same thing in your column for sometime.
What?
Who were the chorus boys, the myrmidons – to use your own high-fartin’ word – that sang Kapampangan ku as an accompaniment to Panlilio’s signing the document that vetoed Ordinance 176?
Kapampangan Marangal Inc., Abak na Balen, Pampanga Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, Pampanga Anti-Illegal Gambling Council…
Okay. Now, who threatened to unleash the wrath of the people, if not that of God Herself, upon the sangguniang panlalawigan and the Pampanga Mayors League through a people’s initiative to repudiate Ordinance 176?
Why, the same Kapampangan Marangal Inc., Abak na Balen, Pampanga Association of Non-Government Organizations, Pampanga Anti-Illegal Gambling Council…
You still don’t get it?
No.
Okay, listen to this former labor organizer. Yeng Guiao and the sanggunian, along with the mayors virtually declared a strike against Panlilio by virtue of Ordinance 176. Your Kapampangan Marangal, et al tried to break that strike with the threat of a people’s initiative via signature campaign. So how do you call strike breakers?
Scabs.
Right. Now, you yourself have asked whatever happened to the signature campaign. Obviously, Kapampangan Marangal, et al could not muster even just a decent number of signers. So, they have to change tactics.
And that tactic is to try to get the strikers into the company fold through a prayer rally for peace and unity?
A different take on the maxim misery breeding company there. You are not a dummy, after all. So were Guiao, the sanggunian and the mayors who saw through this ploy. Why should they join the very persons who were calling for their damnation?
But the KCI is supposed to be a non-partisan watchdog of good governance, transparency, etcetera…
Precisely, Panlilio’s own company union.
Teka, teka, how about the highly-respected Father Resty Lumanlan?
Have you forgotten the Kapampangan saying? "Nukarin ya maglayunan ing pari nune king kaparehu nang pari?"
So how about the Advocacy for the Development of Central Luzon?
What about ADCL? Whose is the face of ADCL?
Businessman Rene Romero, president of the Pampanga Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
So, where was Romero at the time of the campaign and after Panlilio’s take-over of the capitol, dummy?
I would have enjoyed my coffee elsewhere with a dummy like me.
posted by A.Caesar Z. Lacson at 10:27 AM
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January 23, 2008
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
PUNTO! Gitnang Luzon
Attn: Mr. Joey Aguilar
Editor-in-Chief
Dear Mr. Aguilar,
Greetings of peace and solidarity!
We write in reaction to the subject of Mr. Bong Lacson's Zona Libre Opinion Column in your paper last January 22 entitled KCI: a company union and pray that in the spirit of your slogan, “Pananaw ng Malayang Pilipino”, we hope that this letter will merit space in your Editorial / Opinion pages.
Mr. Lacson (and his labor organizer friend) in the above-mentioned column were quick in claiming that Kapampangan Coalition Inc (KCI) is “Panlilio's own company union.” To this we must refute.
Kapampangan Coalition, Inc. (KCI) is a newly formed broad-based coalition (launched just over 1 month ago) of individuals and organizations who are committed to uphold and promote good governance, transparency and accountable and responsible citizenship in the province. Certainly, it is a union, and it aims to be a very strong one. It is a union of concerned and hopeful Kapampangans, proud of its roots and its heritage, believing thus that the power of peoples' collective will and action can bring about positive transformation in our province and society.
With this vision, using words that Mr. Lacson's labor organizer friend might appreciate, KCI must never be a company union -- that which is spineless and docile – to a “management” that tramples upon the rights and welfare of its “laborers”.
While it may be true that the organizations which spearheaded KCI inception includes Kapampangan Marangal Inc. (KMI), Abak na Balen Inc (ANBI), Pampanga Anti-Illegal Gambling Council Inc. (PAGCI), Pampanga Association of NGOs (PAMPANGO) among others in the civil society that are known to support or may even be as individual organizations works in formal partnerships with Governor Ed Panlilio and the provincial government's pro-people projects, programs and advocacies, this does not make KCI “Panlilio's own company union”.
We dare say that as long as Governor Panlilio, or any other local government official for that matter, commits and acts in the fullfilment of Kapampangans Crusade for Good Governance, Transparency and Accountable Citizenship, KCI as a whole and / or its members will support and work with them. If however they fail the Kapampangans and violate or abuse their “social contract” with the people, as Apung Ceto humbly reminded all of us, in his message at last week's Prayer Rally for Peace and Unity, KCI with the people will expose, criticize and through the many means provided by law to protect and promote the rights and welfare of the people, we will hold them accountable.
Truly, it is a daunting but certainly not an impossible task. And it is with this task that the civil society here in Pampanga boldly began in its organizing work to build, consolidate and further broaden a solid Kapampangan Coalition as a first but significant step towards the fulfillment of its vision and mission for our province.
We thank you very much and more power to you!
For KCI,
KCI Board of Trustees
(Rev. Fr. Restituto Lumanlan, SVD, Teresita C. Guanzon, Rosemarie J. Herrera, Janet P. Mallari, Agnes Romero, Myrna C. Bituin, Dr. Reynaldo Espiritu, Rev. Arthur L. Tuazon and Dr. Elmer Beltran.)
Cf: Mr. Bong Lacson, FREEZONE
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