[OPINION] Pandemic 'People Power'

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'Community pantry is so powerful yet outwardly benign. It does not intend to confront government and instead bypasses it. It is legitimate citizens' action like we have not seen in a long time.' ThoughtLeaders piece by Dan Songco:

As in previous people power exercises, it is a manifestation of a people's desire for change, a voluntary effort to do something to remedy a social problem. Nothing as sophisticated as the past, but simply feeding the poor who are hungry and destitute. Unlike before, this fledgling movement is taking place spontaneously in different parts of the country instead of occurring in one location.

So why is government agitated by it? Don't the reactionaries in government realize that by antagonizing it, they are themselves the one giving it political color and therefore courting the possibility for people to make this a political action to defy their repressive tendencies? Has government become so insecure that it suspects every citizen action as an affront to its power?

Beware, when people have moved from inaction and have found their power to take matters into their own hands – it could become a dangerous weapon against tyrannical regimes. –a civil society leader who has spent 35 years as a development manager and social change activist. His main interest lately is social entrepreneurship. He is an adjunct faculty at the Asian Institute of Management and a freelance international consultant.

 

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puro people power ang nasa utak nito. pinipilit para makasakay at maging relevant sya

Yan ang nakakahanga kay kahit community pantry naikoconnect pa din sa mga dilawan.. Simple question: Ano ba ang nagawa ng mga 'mafiang dilawan' sa panahon ng pandemya (aside from being destractors and a perfect opposition)? 🤔 Answer: nothing more, nothing less

ayun may na tigok

Mabuhay ang CPP-NPA! (CommunityPantryPH - NoPoliticiansAllowed)!

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