ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song?
THE CARLO J. CAPARAS OEUVRE: The Myrna Diones Story (Lord, Have Mercy!) The Cecilia Masagca Story: Antipolo Massacre (Jesus Save Us!) The Vizconde Massacre Story (God Help Us!) The Untold Story: Vizconde Massacre 2 - God Have Mercy on Us Lipa Arandia Massacre (Lord Deliver Us from Evil) The Maggie dela Riva Story (God... Why Me?) The Marita Gonzaga Rape-Slay: In God We Trust! The Lilian Velez Story: Till Death Do Us Part The Philippines' Premiere Hack Director (literally and figuratively) has been declared a NATIONAL ARTIST for VISUAL ARTS and FILM. In GMA We Trust.... On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Buddy Love <[email protected]> wrote: > > > How a person, who is not even an illustrator (someone else draws his > comics) can win the National Artist for Visual Arts title is truly the stuff > of.... > > ONLY IN THE PHILIPPINES! > > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Anthony JR Balisi <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> *Yes, we have Carlo J. Caparas as National Artist for visual arts and >> film...* >> ** >> >> CAP INDIGNANT OVER MORIBUND, DECADENT POLITICS BEHIND THIS YEAR'S >> SELECTION OF NATIONAL ARTISTS >> >> The Concerned Artists of the Philippines joins much of the Filipino arts >> and cultural community in expressing indignation over the unprecedented >> brazen use by the Arroyo regime of the National Artists awards for its >> moribund, decadent politics. >> >> We are outraged that Arroyo has transformed the National Artists awards as >> her own largesse for doling out political favors. More than half of the >> seven new National Artists awardees were Arroyo's direct recommendees that >> were not on the list given by the both the National Commission on Culture >> and the Arts (NCCA) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), the >> sole agencies tasked by law to recommend National Artists awardees. >> >> We particularly detest the designation of Presidential Adviser on Culture >> Cecille Guidote-Alvarez as National Artist as reeking of the worst kind of >> patronage politics the Filipino people would have long been far better off >> without. Alvarez's designation speaks of the worst conflict of interest >> possible in this situation, given that she is currently NCCA chair and heads >> the secretariat for the National Artists awards! How is it possible that >> such an award can be seen in any good light, and that the awardee would >> accept it in all good faith and honesty? >> >> We cannot but see Alvarez's being named National Artist as Arroyo's way of >> returning political favors after Alvarez's consistent whitewashing of her >> regime's corruption and repression. As well, we see this as a spectacular >> condonation of various reported anomalies at the NCCA committed by Alvarez >> all these past years. >> >> It gets worse. Malacanang is vainly covering up for its wanton >> presidential abuse by contending that it just dispatched its "merely >> ministerial duties" in naming this year's National Artist awardees. This is >> a brazen lie that is easily disproved by a simple inquiry into the entire >> process, and by those from both the NCCA and CCP who were affronted by the >> grave presidential indiscretion after they went through a rigorous selection >> process! >> >> We find this action by Arroyo as being consistent with her longstanding >> deceit of the Filipino people, capped recently by her last State of the >> Nation Address, the worst farewell SONA in our country's postwar history. It >> is consistent with her overall disdain for all public accountability >> throughout her rule, as she engaged in massive cheating, corruption, brutal >> and bloody suppression of consistent critics to her criminal reign, puppetry >> to corrupt foreign interests, wholesale subversion of the constitution she >> vowed to uphold and protect, and sabotage of fully urgent and legitimate >> impeachment moves against her all these years. >> >> Arroyo's virtual subversion of the National Artists awards process >> highlights as well her regime's deliberate exacerbation of the longstanding >> severe crisis in Philippine cultiure and the arts. Her regime will long be >> infamous for worsening colonial, feudal, fascist and commercial culture, >> shown by (1) its unabashed promotion of English as official language of >> instruction, commerce and government; (2) unprecedented opening up of the >> economy to cultural goods and services, leading to the virtual decimation of >> the local cultural economy; (3) annihilation of native and minority cultures >> brought by unrivalled disruption of the agriculture- based livelihoods of >> Filipino cultural minorities and native communities; (4) the brazen >> bastardization and commercialization of Filipino native cultures and customs >> through promotion of tourism attuned to neoliberal globalization; and (5) >> its brazen suppression of the constitutionally- guaranteed freedom of >> expression by censoring numerous films with social commentary that have in >> fact been recipients of many international and local awards, and its >> world-class annihilation of journalism and journalists. >> >> CAP, alongside, Filipino cultural workers, professionals and advocates in >> taking immediate direct action to justly detest this latest outrageous act >> of the Arroyo regime. We enjoin all other freedom-loving Filipinos to do >> likewise. Philippine arts and culture deserve no less. >> >> Sobra Na! Tama Na! 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