From the Philippine Information Agency (Jan 7, 2021): Former rebels launch SAMBAYANAN (By Jeanevive Abangan)
DAVAO DEL NORTE, Jan. 6 (PIA) - Former key members of the New People’s Army strengthened their ranks and launched the Sentrong Alyansa ng mga Mamayan Para sa Bayan (SAMBAYANAN) on Monday (Jan. 5) morning together with a number of support peoples organizations from peasants, youth, private media and other sectors.
SAMBAYANAN national spokesperson Noel Legaspi said the SAMBAYANAN Southern Mindanao Region (SMR) launch held at the Eco Park in Tagum City was the fourth of the series that took off last year in Panay Island.
Led by former NPA cadres who have abandoned their allegiance to the underground communist movement, SAMBAYANAN chapters have also been organized in Central and Southern Luzon areas bringing together former rebels.
Legaspi revealed in an interview that the team of cadre SAMBAYANAN organizers have touched based with more than 4,000 former rebels who either were combatants or those who belonged to the so-called “white area operations of NPA legal fronts”.
Within first quarter of 2021, the SAMBAYAN national organizing committee are aiming to wage series of 10 launches in all regional areas nationwide, Legaspi said.
In his talk during the SMR Launch in Tagum City, he said the SAMBAYANAN is aimed at promoting nationalism and obedience to national and legal laws under the rule of responsible democracy.
As a multi-sectoral civil society organization (CSO), SAMBAYANAN also serves as a legitimate body to receive complaints of former rebels and those who intend to go come to the folds of the law, while also serving as the voice revealing the deception that the triad “communist party of the Philippines-New Peoples Army-National Democratic Front” has been espousing.
Through the movement, the SAMBAYANAN cadre team seeks to establish what they call as Livelihood Defense mechanism through which a Labor Education and Advocacy for Development and Peace will be set up serving as labor resource and service arm.
This is also expected to serve as a preventive measure for the communist terrorist group to infiltrate the labor sector, Legaspi said.
A so-called “Depensa Paaralan” shall also be organized to promote alternative school-based organizations of students and teachers to thwart the NPA and its legal fronts from organizing in schools.
Sentrong Alyansa ng mga Mamayan Para sa Bayan (SAMBAYANAN) on Monday (Jan. 5) at the Tagum Eco Park
Part of SAMBAYANAN’s intention is to protect communities from intrusion of communist terrorist groups especially in far-flung geographically isolate depressed areas (GIDAs). Its so-called “Depensa Komunidad” is aimed at organizing the women, the youth, the vulnerable and disadvantaged sector and eventually spare them from recruitment into the folds of rebellion.
Legaspi is optimistic that the SAMBAYANAN movement would be sustained through the alliance that the organizing cadre team has done with primary agencies of the national government particularly the Department of Interior and Local Government, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Philippine National Police, among other agencies of the government primarily involved in the roll-out of Execrtuvei order no. 70 to Ending the Local Communist Armed Conflict (ELCAC).
Bearing the theme, “Katawhang Gobyerno Maghiusa, Kab-uton and Kalinaw, Kalambuan ug Panaghiusa”, the SAMBAYANAN SMR launch generated the support of Tropang Mindanao media organization, the Mindanao Indigenous Peoples Youth Organization (MIPYOI), the Brotherhood AGri-venture Incorporated (BRAVE), the Bagong Kabataang Katutubong Guro (BKKG), the Katipunan ng Pamilya at Kadre ng Nagliglingkod sa Bayan (KAPAKANAN).
Other support organizations were the Davao Center for Shelter Inc. (DCSI), the Mindanao Indigenous Peoples’ Council of Elders and Leaders (MIPCEL), the Damgo Alang sa Malipayong Pagpuyo (DAMPA). (PIA XI/ Jeanevive Duron Abangan)
Part of SAMBAYANAN’s intention is to protect communities from intrusion of communist terrorist groups especially in far-flung geographically isolate depressed areas (GIDAs). Its so-called “Depensa Komunidad” is aimed at organizing the women, the youth, the vulnerable and disadvantaged sector and eventually spare them from recruitment into the folds of rebellion.
Legaspi is optimistic that the SAMBAYANAN movement would be sustained through the alliance that the organizing cadre team has done with primary agencies of the national government particularly the Department of Interior and Local Government, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Philippine National Police, among other agencies of the government primarily involved in the roll-out of Execrtuvei order no. 70 to Ending the Local Communist Armed Conflict (ELCAC).
Bearing the theme, “Katawhang Gobyerno Maghiusa, Kab-uton and Kalinaw, Kalambuan ug Panaghiusa”, the SAMBAYANAN SMR launch generated the support of Tropang Mindanao media organization, the Mindanao Indigenous Peoples Youth Organization (MIPYOI), the Brotherhood AGri-venture Incorporated (BRAVE), the Bagong Kabataang Katutubong Guro (BKKG), the Katipunan ng Pamilya at Kadre ng Nagliglingkod sa Bayan (KAPAKANAN).
Other support organizations were the Davao Center for Shelter Inc. (DCSI), the Mindanao Indigenous Peoples’ Council of Elders and Leaders (MIPCEL), the Damgo Alang sa Malipayong Pagpuyo (DAMPA). (PIA XI/ Jeanevive Duron Abangan)
https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1063233
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