Statement of Unity
Bukluran Para sa Katotohanan

We come from all walks of life, from different political, cultural, and economic persuasions, different points of view. But in diversity, we find a cause for unity. That cause for unity is our common objective to secure the truth.

We all seek the truth. We want the truth to come out. And yet every means for seeking the truth has been frustrated; every avenue for arriving at the truth has been blocked; and every opportunity to find the truth is being closed.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s response to our call for the truth has been to suppress evidence, hide her accomplices, engage in a grand cover-up, sow fear, foment distrust and use every instrument at her disposal to encourage division among our people.

We will not be divided in these critical times.

We say with one voice, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo must go. For the good of the country, she must go. For the sake of our nation’s future, she must go. For the preservation of hope as a motive force in our national life, she must go.

We are united by the belief that this crisis must be resolved in a manner that is peaceful and democratic. Without the truth, there cannot be peace; without the truth, there is no genuine democracy. The truth must set our nation free.

Unite for the truth. Demand the truth. Defend the truth.

Kami ay ang Bukluran Para sa Katotohanan.

Action for Economic Reforms
AKBAYAN Citizen’s Action Party
Ateneo Concerned Faculty and Youth
Bangon, PilipinasBagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN)
Be Not Afraid
Black & White Movement
Citizens for TRUTH (Transparency, Responsibility, Unity, Trust, Hope)
Citizens for Truth, Resignation, Impeachment, or Ouster (C4T)
Coalition for National Solidarity
Counsels for the Defense of Civil Liberties (CODAL)
De La Salle
FPJP Movement
Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC)
Interfaith Movement for Truth, Justice and Genuine Change (IFM)
Kilusan ng Makabansang Ekonomiya (KME)
Laban ng Masa
Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)
Peoples Assembly for Genuine Alternatives to Social Apathy (PAG-ASA)
Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP)
Reporma
Union of Muslims for Morality and Truth (UMMAT)
United Opposition (UNO)
Unity for Truth and Justice
UP AWARE
UP Diliman Student Council (UPD USC)
White Ribbon Movement
Women MarchYouth
DARE

I was at Corregidor island yesterday for the Geography 1 field trip. It’s my first time there. Corregidor was like one giant World War 2 island theme park. (Well, it is a World War 2 theme park). We took an hour-long ferry ride from some port terminal at CCP to get to the island. When we got there, we boarded tranvias which took us around the island into the different ruins, battery sites and memorials.

There wasn’t much of a tourist crowd at Corregidor that day. Most of the visitors in the island were college students on field trips.

I was with my blockmates/orgmates Eka, Leo, Tia and Kevin the whole time in Corregidor. In the afternoon, after the island tour, we were given two hours of free time to have lunch and whatever we wanted to do in two hours. It’s a good thing I brought my own lunch. The food in Corregidor is expensive. The guys who didn’t bring lunch had no choice but to buy a very ordinary packed lunch for a hundred pesos.

After eating, we went to the beach. I took my shoes off and frolicked in the shore. Bad trip lang dahil nawalan ng battery ang camera ko half-way into the trip.

Sorry for the lack of cohesiveness in my entry. Napagod ako sa paggawa ng photo scrapbook collage. Haha.

Haven’t posted a picture of me with the facial hair I’m trying to grow, so forgive me for another rare bout of ‘camwhoring’.

Social dance class was tiring. My partner and I are joining this pseudo-competition for social dance students, to get exempted for all the exams for the rest of the semester. We were practicing a while ago and we couln’t do the steps well because we’ve both forgotten a lot of them.

We watched “Himala” for Film 102 this afternoon. It’s the first time I saw it in whole. I was anticipating Elsa’s (Nora Aunor) immortal “Walang himala!” speech. I can’t help but giggle when it was shown. I can’t help but picture gay Nora Aunor impersonators exaggerating the act. It’s so funny! I’m weird.

Marella and I went to the sunken garden after class to meet Ate Armi (belated happy bithday!), Ate Rory, AD, Eric and Kid where we all had ice cream. After an hour or so, we parted ways. I went with Kid to the shopping center then we went back to CMC to see who were still at the CAST tambayan. We bumped into JP and C-an who were both wearing yellow and were walking together (isyu! hehe).

It rained all of a sudden when I was walking home. I didn’t have an umbrella so I got wet all over. Pero masayang mabasa sa ulan ah. I think it made my colds worse though. Tinatamad na tuloy akong tumuloy sa Corregidor field trip. But I’ve paid the fee already so I’m still going.

I hate Gloria Arroyo so much. I’m really disappointed at people who insist that we should “look up to her” as our “last hope”.

Minsan may mga maliliit na bagay na nagpapasaya sa buong araw mo.

I went with Max after my last class to Katipunan to look for possible locations for our Film 112 shoot. What’s nice when you’re with Max is that male store managers and clerks are always willing to accomodate us when she does the talking, so she ends up doing most of it. Anyway, I bumped into Josh and Jake, my high school classmates from Ateneo, when we were at this internet place. We caught up on each other for a while until Max and I had to leave to look at another place. We ended up just eating at Jollibee and then we parted ways. (This has nothing to do with the first line of this entry).

I’m off to Corregidor tomorrow for our Geography 1 class field trip.

We’re now just polishing the script and other details and scheduling the shoots for our Film 112 production. I’m looking forward to this. It’s the first time most of us are actually doing a prod from scratch, by ourselves. I’m also growing a mustache for one of the roles.

I wore a pink shirt yesterday. Trip lang.

I went to school a while ago and watched Bayaning Third World and Kisapmata with my groupmates at the AV library for our report about Mike de Leon.

That’s all for now.