Monday, February 2, 2009
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Right to be right
"Ang Kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan."
Those are the words of our national hero. The words of one of the country's famed people. The words that are still heard though years and years have passed since it was first uttered. But what happens if the "kabataan" are starting to be left behind? What will happen if the youth are being used by those who have the power over them? What will happen to the country's future if the supposed sparks of hope are slowly dying literally and figuratively?
Yesterday, children coming from different communities came to march to the streets of Mendiola to make a stand against those who are suppressing their rights and the rights of those who are responsible for their growth as the future shapers of human history.
According to Alfons Rivera of Salinlahi, an alliance for children's concerns, the current government is not child-friendly and that it's sad that even the Filipino children are experiencing the cruelty of the Arroyo government.
Meanwhile, according to Gary Martinez of Migrante International, the children are highly affected by all the troubles that the Arroyo government is bringing about. He even said that the children of Overseas Filipino Workers are greatly affected just like the children whose parents are in the country working or not. He stands that the OFWs' children are emotionally being repressed because of the absence of their parents and he believes that there should be a bigger number of stable jobs here in the country that the parents need not go abroad.
When the children are asked why they were there at the protest, we were all expecting eager answers like those of the representatives of different organizations. Guess what? Aside from those who spoke in front of the audience, the children were busy playing under the scorching heat. When asked why they were there, it would take them long periods of time before they could come up with an answer. It was a little disturbing. It made me wonder if those children really know what they were doing there in the first place. They are so innocent that they do not know that their rights are being suppressed by the government as what Martinez and Rivera were saying. They are so innocent that they do not know when they are being used by other people for other purposes. Their innocence is pristine and I hope it would be kept that way. After all, they are our country’s future- the hope of the future Philippines.
Ang kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan, huwag po sana silang magamit at gamitin ng kung sinu-sino lang. We have rights and so do they. No one should ever step on those rights. No one should ever use them. NO ONE has that right. NO ONE.
dami mali?sori naman.
Those are the words of our national hero. The words of one of the country's famed people. The words that are still heard though years and years have passed since it was first uttered. But what happens if the "kabataan" are starting to be left behind? What will happen if the youth are being used by those who have the power over them? What will happen to the country's future if the supposed sparks of hope are slowly dying literally and figuratively?
Yesterday, children coming from different communities came to march to the streets of Mendiola to make a stand against those who are suppressing their rights and the rights of those who are responsible for their growth as the future shapers of human history.
According to Alfons Rivera of Salinlahi, an alliance for children's concerns, the current government is not child-friendly and that it's sad that even the Filipino children are experiencing the cruelty of the Arroyo government.
Meanwhile, according to Gary Martinez of Migrante International, the children are highly affected by all the troubles that the Arroyo government is bringing about. He even said that the children of Overseas Filipino Workers are greatly affected just like the children whose parents are in the country working or not. He stands that the OFWs' children are emotionally being repressed because of the absence of their parents and he believes that there should be a bigger number of stable jobs here in the country that the parents need not go abroad.
When the children are asked why they were there at the protest, we were all expecting eager answers like those of the representatives of different organizations. Guess what? Aside from those who spoke in front of the audience, the children were busy playing under the scorching heat. When asked why they were there, it would take them long periods of time before they could come up with an answer. It was a little disturbing. It made me wonder if those children really know what they were doing there in the first place. They are so innocent that they do not know that their rights are being suppressed by the government as what Martinez and Rivera were saying. They are so innocent that they do not know when they are being used by other people for other purposes. Their innocence is pristine and I hope it would be kept that way. After all, they are our country’s future- the hope of the future Philippines.
Ang kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan, huwag po sana silang magamit at gamitin ng kung sinu-sino lang. We have rights and so do they. No one should ever step on those rights. No one should ever use them. NO ONE has that right. NO ONE.
dami mali?sori naman.
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