Youth Demanding Arroyo’s Removal and TXTPower promise to bring a new feature to the anti-Gloria campaign with a Hello Garci computer game.
“Before we had the Hello Garci ringtones. Now, software engineers and college students are finalizing the Hello Garci computer games which will be the next craze among the youth. Our protests are becoming more sophisticated,” Youth-Dare spokesperson Mong Palatino said.
INQ7 reports on the details of the game:
Cybersquatters have taken over the Internet domain names that has Miss International Precious Lara Quigaman’s name.
The domain name laraquigaman.com leads surfers to the porn site Young Asian, while preciouslaraquigaman.com has been bought by an unlisted registrant on September 26 and is now being offered for sale at a minimum for a minimum price of $500.
Meanwhile, laraquigaman.net redirects to a page with Precious Lara Quigaman’s picture and a link to her official website. This page is hosted by youth e-zine Tinig.com.
In his paper “Forgetting, or Not Knowing: Media and Martial Law,” Prof. Luis Teodoro said Martial Law “left a legacy of secrecy that up to now, 27 years later, (he delivered the paper in 1999 during a conference on the legacies of the Marcos dictatorship at the Ateneo de Manila University) is still very much in government.” This legacy of secrecy, he said, is seen in the journalists’ limited access to information, and cited that police officers sometimes even consider the police blotter as “classified.” Indeed, secrecy has become one of the characteristics of how the government operates.
People Power 2 promised to abolish this system of secrecy. When Arroyo became President after Joseph Estrada’s ouster, she said in her inaugural address:
To ensure that our gains are not dissipated through corruption, we must improve moral standards. As we do so, we create fertile ground for good governance based on a sound moral foundation, a philosophy of transparency, and an ethic of effective implementation.
But then again, those were Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s words.
Gonzales, who heads the Partido Demokratiko Sosyalista ng Pilipinas, has been an activist for most of his life. That he is now one of the rabid defenders of an unpopular president like Arroyo surely puzzles many of us. Here are some articles that would help us understand the person:
A Newsbreak article, Unraveling Norberto Gonzales traces his career from his early activism to his stint with the current administration. Meanwhile, Manila Times’ From the streets to government service meanwhile chronicles not just his career, but also his personal life.
Whether you love him or hate him, I’m sure he’ll still be on the news for some time.
“Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest,” RSF wrote on its website.
The handbook is intended for such bloggers. It explains the basics of blogging, and offers handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship.
Prof. Haydee Yorac was laid to rest at the Libingan ng mga Bayani today. “A sucker for helping the country” like her more than deserved it.
“She will be a tough act to follow. Not only did she embody what it means to be an honest and transparent public servant, she was consistent and unyielding in her position that justice be served to those who call for it.” — Akbayan Rep. Etta Rosales
