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Musika, Tula at Pelikula laban sa pampulitika at pang-ekonomiyang krisis na kinakaharap ng mamamayan.

MUSIKA

Bobby Balingit
Gapos
Jeff Pagaduan

TULA

Kilometer 64 Poetry Collective
Tata Raul Funilas
Mao Dela Cruz
Roselle Pineda

PELIKULA/MULTIMEDIA

Yasnina Jumalon
Ali Alejandro
Raphael Fernandez
Renz Fernandez

- Rustum Casia
May pangamba ang iyong tinig, may look of great concern.
May mga panahong gumagaralgal ang boses
mo. At some point- teary eyed.
Worried ka habang tinatantya mo ang
magiging lagay ng sakitin nating ekonomiya kung
ipipilit ang umento.

Kinukumbinsi mo kaming lahat
na hindi pa napapanahon, magtiis, maghigpit
ng sinturon, makuntento at
maging grateful sa kung anong mayroon.

Mga bagay na di mo
naman kayang gawin dahil hindi
mo alam ang ibig sabihin.

PAGTUPAD   Habang taas kamao mong sineselyuhan ng sigaw na umaalingaw-ngaw sa loob ng Iglesia Filipina Independiente at Taft, ang pangako mo sa nakabuwal na katawan ng ating ka bel- na tuloy ang kanyang laban. Mabigat na tungkulin ang iyong tinanganan. Una, sa kanya. Pangalawa, sa sinisinta niyang bayan.   Paalala kasama, bayaran na naman ng mataas na matrikula, lingguhan nagtataas ang diesel unleaded at gasolina, di man lamang umabot sa bente ang umento -kung umento man itong matatawag ni ka bel, dinudukot, pinapatay, tinatapon sa ilog ang mga kasama, nakakulong. At kasama, nasa Malakanyang pa din si Gloria. Wag nang antayin ang nine days, forty days at babang luksa- umpisahan na ang trabaho. Tuparin agad ang pangako.    

sa ating pagkilos lang sila mananatiling buhay.. -gelacio guillermo

Artists’ Response to the Call for Social Change and Transformation (ARTISTS’ ARREST) and Lupon ng mga 

Alagad ng Sining Para sa Hustisya at Katotohanan (LUMAHOK) 

present 

pRICEless

Featuring

Kilometer 64

Musicians for Peace

Sinagbayan

Bobby Balingit

Lourd De Veyra 

Datu’s Tribe

The Outlaws

Jeff Pagaduan

Musical Performace by Internal Refugees from Southern Tagalog

Raul Funilas

and more

8 April 2008, Tuesday. 7.00 pm to 9.30 pm. Conspiracy Garden and Cafe. Visayas Avenue, Quezon City. 

A discussion on the current “pRICE crisis” will be held before the program. Starts at 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm. Invited speaker -  Sonny Africa of IBON Foundation. 

Admission is Free. 

Sa isang panahong
pinag-aawayan sa loob ng jeep
na may plakang
Tanggo,
Bravo,
Charlie 701-
ang student at senior discount

pati na ang singkwenta sentimos
na sukling nalimutang ibigay-

Nakatakdang ibulsa
ng ilang greedy group
at isang couple
ang multi milyong patong.

Ganitong milyon kay ganito.
Ganoong milyon kay ganoon.

And so on, and so on.

At ang ating pina-uusapan
ay hindi milyong palakpakan
o milyong confetti
o multi milyong plankton.

We’re talking in dollars.
Millions.

Multi milyong singwenta sentimos
na hindi maibibigay
sa mga mamamayang
habangbuhay nag-aantay ng sukli.

Artists’ ARREST
Protest Night

The name of the program is borrowed from the title of art scholar Lisa Ito’s
article of the same title. Published in 2005, Ito observes in this article that
“as the rallies for GMA’s removal grow exponentially, so does the resolve to
find more creative forms of articulation and expression grow.” Three years later
and with more reasons to remove Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from office, prose,
poetry, paintings, music, dance, performance and other art forms continue
to be defined by dissent. This event, as it name implies, is thus dedicated to
how the (intensified) call for the ouster of Arroyo is rendered through art.

Featuring:
The Wuds
Republika de Lata
Babes Alejo and Roselle Pineda
Jeff Pagaduan

Performance art:
Bunch Garcia

Poetry:
Kilometer 64 poetry collective
Lourd de Veyra

Video/Film:
2nd volume of Rights
Sampaguita music video (rough cut)

Street Art:
Pilipinas Street Plan
ARREST visual artists

*In lieu of Easter which comes a day before the event, free “ouster eggs”
and stickers will also be given out. We also encourage those who have OUST
Gloria merchandise to bring their stuff and sell during the event.

By Lito Zulueta
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:13:00 03/17/2008MANILA, Philippines - Stage and film
actor Fernando Josef has resigned as
vice president and artistic director
of the Cultural Center of the
Philippines after the CCP board voted
to deny the request of a group of
artists to stage a concert to raise
funds for the “sanctuary fund” of
national broadband network (NBN)
corruption scandal witness
Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada.

Josef said he had supported the
proposal of the artists’ group in the
name of artistic freedom.

He added he is also “Lozada’s friend.”

But what made him resign was not the
CCP board’s decision, which he said
he “totally respects,” but because a
board member “attacked Lozada” after
the vote was made March 11.

“I don’t think it is proper to
criticize someone whose life is
obviously in danger,” Josef said.

He added that artists were trying to
raise money for Lozada’s sanctuary
fund because he and his family faced
threats for telling what he knew about
the $329 million controversy.

Josef explained he decided to resign
as “a public apology” for Lozada
from “an artist and a cultural worker.”

Josef refused to name the board member
who attacked Lozada.

The CCP board is chaired by Emily
Abrera. Members are Nestor Jardin (who
is also president), Behn Cervantes,
Lorna Kapunan, Jaime Laya, Martin
Lopez, Teresita Luz, Ruperto Nicdao,
Zenaida Tantoco, Nestor Torre Jr. and
Isabel Caro Wilson.

Laya was not present during the
controversial board meeting.

Established in 1989, the CCP is a
performing arts venue attached to the
Office of the President and under the
umbrella of the National Commission
for Culture and the Arts. Its board
members are all appointed by the
President.

Lozada’s friend

Josef said he was a friend of Lozada.
In fact, he said he was among those
who waited for Lozada at the Manila
airport for his arrival from Hong Kong
on Feb. 5.

Josef added he was among those whom
Lozada frantically called through
mobile SMS when he was picked up by
men who turned out to be police
operatives sent by Environment
Secretary Lito Atienza.

Lozada has since called the incident
an abduction, saying the
administration tried to stop him from
testifying in the Senate inquiry on
the NBN scandal involving multimillion-
dollar commission allegedly being
demanded by then Commission on
Elections chair Benjamin Abalos,
reportedly with the blessings of the
President’s husband, Mike Arroyo.

The government has denied the charges.

Josef said he frantically texted back
Lozada for his whereabouts, but did
not get any reply until many hours
later when Lozada had apparently found
refuge in Catholic nuns and brothers
who shielded him from government
operatives.

“He texted ‘I’m okay na,’” Josef
said. “‘Please tell Violet and my
family I’m okay. I’ve decided to do
the right thing.’”

Josef said he had thought Lozada would
commit suicide until the witness asked
him later to organize the press
conference on the early morning of
Feb. 7. Facing the press finally,
Lozada tearfully recounted his ordeal
when he returned from Hong Kong and
finally blew the whistle on the NBN
case.

Sincere and honest

Josef said he first met Lozada in his
capacity as CCP official looking for
ways to provide housing and livelihood
assistance for artists and cultural
workers.

He said Lozada, who was then the
president of the Philippine Forest
Corp., had thought of converting idle
lands into artists’ colony.

“I was impressed with his honesty and
desire to help the people,” Josef
said. “I was struck by his sincerity
in getting rid of corruption. Even
then, Jun was complaining that greed
and corruption were anti-poor, anti-
Filipino.”

He said last December Lozada had
confessed to him he was getting
threats because of his role in the NBN
case. (Lozada, an Electronic and
Communications Engineering graduate
from UST, was dragged into the case
after then….