Advocates of the Yes for Peace–Bayanihan para sa Kapayapaan,
Kaunlaran at Kasaganahan, a nationwide campaign to get the Filipino people
involved and to actively participate in the comprehensive peace process, hailed
incoming Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza for vowing
transparency in the peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front (NDF)
and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Ernesto Angeles Alcanzare, lead organizer of the peace
movement, said Dureza earlier said that, "usually, when you talk behind
closed doors, you don’t announce what happened. Now, it has to be very
transparent. We will keep the public abreast, always.”
Alcanzare said they are grateful because “Secretary Dureza’s
vow is a complete turn-around from the unmovable stand of his predecessor of
keeping the peace negotiations secret and exclusive despite President Aquino's
commitment to make it transparent and participative. We now have very fertile
ground for the serious consideration of peace negotiators to the calls of
the 12,290,847 Filipinos.”
A report submitted by Alcanzare and Lawyer Domingo B.
Alidon, president of the Department of Education National Employees’ Union
(DepEd NEU) to Education Secretary Armin A. Luistro and top DepEd
officials last week shows that based on summaries forwarded thru email earlier
this year, 98.62 percent of Yes for Peace KaBayanihans agree that armed
conflicts between the government and armed groups must stop; 98.22 percent
agree that peace talks should be held anywhere here in the Philippines instead
of abroad; and 99.34 percent agree that all Filipinos must get involved and
participate in working for peace, progress and prosperity.
To follow through Dureza’s commitment to ensure transparency
in the peace negotiations, Alcanzare suggested in a recent online open letter
to Professor Jose Maria Sison, founding chairman of the CPP and adviser of the
NDF, “you may want to live-stream and post in real-time the formal proceedings
of the peace talks and/or joint statements to openly show the Filipino people
that, indeed, you represent our interests and not only your own.”
It can be recalled that during the exhaustive deliberations
on the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) submitted by Malacanang for
congressional review and approval, Yes for Peace adviser and 1-BAP party list
Representative Silvestre H. Bello III, incoming Labor Secretary and chief
negotiator, took a firm principled stand: “It must pass through the tests of
constitutionality and acceptability. Ideally, the Filipino people should get
involved and participate in the process."
The 19,000-strong DepEd NEU actively supports Yes for Peace
and provides secretariat support and facilities for its education and advocacy
phase which was primarily implemented as an unfunded project through the
Bayanihan or collective involvement and participation of postal workers,
private and public school teachers, the scouting movement and other government
and non-government organizations.
Aside from PHLPOst and DepEd, the government agencies behind
Yes for Peace are the Philippine Information Agency (PIA), the Philippine News
Agency (PNA), the National Printing Office (NPO), Philippine Broadcast System
(PBS) and Radio Television Malacanang (RTVM) that provided media support to
chronicle campaign highlights as far back as the administration of President
Fidel V. Ramos.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=895276
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