Tula
Magkabilang Dulo
Iba’t iba ang puno at dulo,
Bumayo ang matinding lamig
Mula Artic patimog
Nanginig sa lamig ang Gitna at
Silangang Amerika,
Tinabunan ng yelo
Ang lahat ng dako:
14,000 na lipad
Ang di nakaangat sa lupa,
Tigil ang transportasyon
Natuwa ang lahat dahil
walang pasok
Sa kabilang dulo, rumagasa
Ang tubig-baha,
Natibag ang mga bundok,
Delubyo sa Australia at India,
Maging sa Tsina at Indonesia,
Nagpuputukan ang mga bulkan:
Samantalang sa Pilipinas
Pinatigil ng Pangulo ang logging
Para huwag daw mapanot ang gubat
Habang walang tumutubong buhok
Sa kanyang panot na ulo.
Doon naman sa Ehipto
At sa Silangang Dulong Asya,
Sampung araw na walang tigil
Ang protesta kayat araw
Ay naging gabi
Sa Jordan, Yemen at Sudan
Ang masa ay nagbabangon
Laban sa mga paghahari
Ng mga bagong paraon,
Hari at reynang
Puno ng kupal at panghe
kahalo ng mira at pabango.
Sa magkabilang dulo ng mundo
Ang kalikasan ay gumaganti;
Habang ang masa ay nagbabangon
Sa daan taong pagkaapi.
Pebrero 3, 2011
3.2.11
1.2.11
The People of Egypt Rising
Analysis
The People of Egypt Rising
“The people of Egypt has spoken: “Enough of more than 30 years of oppression, Out with Mubarak and his group!” rang out for last eight days..
The progressive Filipino American community and their allies militantly supports and are one with the rising and militant people of Egypt for standing up and striving to overthrow the US-supported Mubarak regime which has long oppressed and exploited them for more than 30 years.
They massed in support at the Egyptian Los Angeles consulate and at the Wilshire federal building to dramatize their solidarity for the rising brave people of Egypt. More and more people in America are growing frustrated with the Obama-Clinton play of words. All semantics and lip service, no action taken.
The Egyptian people in their millions have acted to repudiate the regime for its oppressiveness, its servility to US imperialism and its conformity to the US-dictated “neoliberal” economic policy which has brought about the high rate of unemployment, decline of the economy and breakdown of social services.
Egyptian People vs US and Mubarak
Millions of Egyptians poured out into the streets braving police and secret intelligence open terror. And they were successful in their redress of grievances. The brave inheritors of the nationalist Nasser have proven to the world that ordinary Egyptians can stand up against a tyrant.
The Egyptian and the whole Arab world can still remember when Egypt stood tall and claimed its leading role against the imperial powers in the Suez canal crisis of 1956. They remembered how the imperialists conspire with Israel to wrest Jerusalem and parts of Egypt in the 1967 war.
They stood with Nasser through victory and defeat and with his successors in the hope that they will continue his fighting anti-imperialist tradition. Sadat for a time looked like "little Nasser' especially during the Yum Kippur War of 1973.
But Mubarak and his boss the United States are calling for “orderly transition” like the way they maneuvered “ people’s power” in the Philippines, Thailand and elsewhere.Like Marcos of the Philippines, Mubarak is clinging on to his last straws and is proposing to step down by September.
The United States is playing its card even to have Egypt ruled with Mubarak puppets.There are indications that behind the scenes the US and the generals are trying to engineer a new arrangement.
US Supports Mubarak and his retinue
The Egyptian people are aware that the Egyptian state for too long since 1977 has been dependent on a wide range of economic, financial and political relations with the US and other imperialist countries. The US alone has poured more than USD 50 billion into Egypt in order to coopt its rulers and use them as tools of US hegemonism,
Sadat is his desperation turned to diplomacy to get concessions from Israel like the return of the Gaza Strip after their failed offensive in 1973. His assassination turned Mubarak as the next leader for the next 30 years.
The Egyptian military under Mubarak became dependent on a huge amount of US military assistance amounting to more than USD 1.38 billion, which is next in size only to that given to Israel. The US also gives economic assistance amounting to more than USD 800 million.
The US is agenda is clear. They are highly interested in the restabilization of the situation in Egypt in order to forestall the rise of anti-imperialist forces and thus maintain a balance of forces in favor of the US-Zionist combine in the region.But the people of the near east is rising up.The trend in the Arab world is revolution!
Advance towards People’s Democracy
The American people are happy at the fact that the revolutionary forces have the chance to expand and consolidate their strength. The Egyptian people are asserting their sovereign power. They are opening the way to further advances and further possibilities in the struggle for national liberation, democracy, development and social justice.
It has been a lesson in history repeatedly demonstrated that particular despotic regimes can be overthrown, such as those of Duvalier, Marcos, Somoza, Pinochet, Mobutu and Suharto. But the US will do it utmost to put up a subsequent false facade of democracy. It can only be fleeting like in Haiti, the Philippines and elsewhere for as long as the US and the local exploiting classes can rule through a bureaucratic and military machinery beholden to them.
The Filipino-American community will support the brave people of Egypt on whatever course they may take.
If they need to move forward on the path of national liberation and social revolution and towards Arab solidarity against their enemies, we are behind them.
OUT with Mubarak, Now!
Democracy and national salvation for Egypt and its people!
The People of Egypt Rising
“The people of Egypt has spoken: “Enough of more than 30 years of oppression, Out with Mubarak and his group!” rang out for last eight days..
The progressive Filipino American community and their allies militantly supports and are one with the rising and militant people of Egypt for standing up and striving to overthrow the US-supported Mubarak regime which has long oppressed and exploited them for more than 30 years.
They massed in support at the Egyptian Los Angeles consulate and at the Wilshire federal building to dramatize their solidarity for the rising brave people of Egypt. More and more people in America are growing frustrated with the Obama-Clinton play of words. All semantics and lip service, no action taken.
The Egyptian people in their millions have acted to repudiate the regime for its oppressiveness, its servility to US imperialism and its conformity to the US-dictated “neoliberal” economic policy which has brought about the high rate of unemployment, decline of the economy and breakdown of social services.
Egyptian People vs US and Mubarak
Millions of Egyptians poured out into the streets braving police and secret intelligence open terror. And they were successful in their redress of grievances. The brave inheritors of the nationalist Nasser have proven to the world that ordinary Egyptians can stand up against a tyrant.
The Egyptian and the whole Arab world can still remember when Egypt stood tall and claimed its leading role against the imperial powers in the Suez canal crisis of 1956. They remembered how the imperialists conspire with Israel to wrest Jerusalem and parts of Egypt in the 1967 war.
They stood with Nasser through victory and defeat and with his successors in the hope that they will continue his fighting anti-imperialist tradition. Sadat for a time looked like "little Nasser' especially during the Yum Kippur War of 1973.
But Mubarak and his boss the United States are calling for “orderly transition” like the way they maneuvered “ people’s power” in the Philippines, Thailand and elsewhere.Like Marcos of the Philippines, Mubarak is clinging on to his last straws and is proposing to step down by September.
The United States is playing its card even to have Egypt ruled with Mubarak puppets.There are indications that behind the scenes the US and the generals are trying to engineer a new arrangement.
US Supports Mubarak and his retinue
The Egyptian people are aware that the Egyptian state for too long since 1977 has been dependent on a wide range of economic, financial and political relations with the US and other imperialist countries. The US alone has poured more than USD 50 billion into Egypt in order to coopt its rulers and use them as tools of US hegemonism,
Sadat is his desperation turned to diplomacy to get concessions from Israel like the return of the Gaza Strip after their failed offensive in 1973. His assassination turned Mubarak as the next leader for the next 30 years.
The Egyptian military under Mubarak became dependent on a huge amount of US military assistance amounting to more than USD 1.38 billion, which is next in size only to that given to Israel. The US also gives economic assistance amounting to more than USD 800 million.
The US is agenda is clear. They are highly interested in the restabilization of the situation in Egypt in order to forestall the rise of anti-imperialist forces and thus maintain a balance of forces in favor of the US-Zionist combine in the region.But the people of the near east is rising up.The trend in the Arab world is revolution!
Advance towards People’s Democracy
The American people are happy at the fact that the revolutionary forces have the chance to expand and consolidate their strength. The Egyptian people are asserting their sovereign power. They are opening the way to further advances and further possibilities in the struggle for national liberation, democracy, development and social justice.
It has been a lesson in history repeatedly demonstrated that particular despotic regimes can be overthrown, such as those of Duvalier, Marcos, Somoza, Pinochet, Mobutu and Suharto. But the US will do it utmost to put up a subsequent false facade of democracy. It can only be fleeting like in Haiti, the Philippines and elsewhere for as long as the US and the local exploiting classes can rule through a bureaucratic and military machinery beholden to them.
The Filipino-American community will support the brave people of Egypt on whatever course they may take.
If they need to move forward on the path of national liberation and social revolution and towards Arab solidarity against their enemies, we are behind them.
OUT with Mubarak, Now!
Democracy and national salvation for Egypt and its people!
30.1.11
Awit ng Potomac
Awit ng Potomac
Ilog ng kasaysayan
Daluyan ng katapangan
Ilang ulit na tinagos
Ng mga hukbo sa kasaysayan
Tulad ng Ilog pasig ng Kamaynilaan,
Sakop ng tatlong estadong
nag-aagawan:
Waring perlas ng kapitolyo
Ng imperyalistang bayan
Inagaw sa sinapupunan
Ng ninunong Indyan
Hindi nawawala ang ringal
Ng ilog na makasaysayan
Kahit na daang taong lumipas
At ang dugong tumagas
Tinangay na ng agos
Na naglagos sa baybay
Sa anino ng Kapitolyo
Na sentro ng daigdigan
Ang paghanga ay naroroon
Tuwing dumaraan
Patawid ng daan
Ang puno niya ay Maryland
At timog ng Virginia
Tulad din ng Pasig
Nagmumula sa Montalban
At malaking lawang Laguna
Nagiiba-iba ang pangalan
Ngunit ang daloy Manila Bay
Ang kagampanan
Wala na ang bakas
Ng digmaang sibil
Na umagos, tumagas
Sa mga batuhang landas
At pampang naganap
Saksi ng madudugong
Labanan ng lumipas
Ang naiwan ay galit,
Pighati hanggang
ngayon
Bakas na bakas
Ang galit sa pagkawal
Diumano ng pang-aalipin
Nanatali laban sa imigranteng
Dumating
Bagamat ang bandila ng union
Ay nakataas at magiting
Ang konpederasyon
Ay buhay sa mangaalipin
Kailan kaya matatangay
Ng agos ng Potomac
Ang galit ng lumipas,
Mabubuo ang pagkakapatid
Sa kontinente ng maraming bayan
At nasyunalidad?
Kung tuyo na ang Potomac
O nagyelo na ang lahat?
Kung natuyo na ang disyerto
At kalansay nang lahat?
Kung abo na ang Kapitolyo
At tunaw na ang nakalipas.
Oktubre 17, 2010
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