Crossing Over Man-Made Blocked Bridges and Roads: Fervor of Living Hearts and Radical Love
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Posted on Saturday, March 5, 2022
I struggled to find my temporarily lost vibrant spirit, lost to heartaches seeing children, mothers, grandmothers, and Ukrainians fighting to defend their motherland in this 21st century. Putin has yet to evolve as fully human and humane.
It reminded me of how a million women organized to defend the Philippines against US occupation of the Philippines after the defeated Spaniards cheated the Filipinos of their triumphs and sold them to the US for $20 million in the 19th century.
It reminded me of weak hearted and faint in principles local Cavite officials who blocked roads and bridges to obstruct Cavitenos from showing their fervent support for #LeniKiko2022 this 21st century, first few days in March 2022.
Still with these obstructions, over 47,000 gathered to show their love for the 17th President to be Leni Robredo.
A fervor that fuels the first endorsement from 400 former UST educators, from 500 former NEDA officials and an unprecedented endorsement of 13 former presidents of the Investment House Association of the Philippines, affirming “No other presidential candidate has the Scope, Competence, Moral Bearing and Unblemished Integrity can handle the job. The growth and development of capital markets is dependent upon investor confidence.”
Not only that, can you imagine Filipino voters volunteering their time, talent and treasures to figure out ways of campaigning for #LeniKiko2022 without anyone pushing them to do it? That’s volunteerism from living, loving hearts and courageous Filipino spirits!
Ending with Jose Ma. Montelibano ‘s quotes:
“A frenzy of volunteers the likes we have not since Edsa, in every place where Leni Robredo visits, where everyone pitches in to help one another to join for hours on end. Beyond the numbers, the frenzy is from the passion. The surveys have become almost irrelevant because the volunteers explode as surveys put Leni down. Everywhere, campaign materials are short because the volunteers keep asking for more. They want to show they are for Leni, they are not ashamed to be pink, they are convinced that lying and stealing are wrong – their moral outrage is palpable, their conviction for Leni stronger by the day. The hand of fate favors the passionate and prayerful ”
Vicente L. Rafael’s The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte by Duke University Press.
Joel Pablo Salud’s In The Line of Fire by San Anselmo Publications