Dear Floriano, As always, my best wishes , support for PPS continues. Yes noted on Remos public statement. Noted that south Goans do take up causes in unity. Regards Mario > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:36:58 +0530 > From: "floriano" <[email protected]> > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > <[email protected]> > Subject: [Goanet] PPS goes public in South Goa - Attached: PPS > sitcker, FAQ w.r.t. PPS, Herald Report of 26 April 2010 > Message-ID: <585cd8e130e44f95a71db4b9c5c97...@home> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > PPS > PEOPLE for POLITICAL SANITY > PEOPLE'S POWER SYSTEM > > Date: 25 April, 2010 > Place: Grace Church Hall - Margao-Goa. > > Preamble: > > South Goa has the distinction of coming to Goa's rescue on two counts. > > GOA was thus saved once through the ferociously fought Opinion Poll of 16 > January, 1967, Goa remaining Goa that was for 450 odd years, thus saving > Goa's > culture, ethnicity, unique identity and above all the Goanness of Goans, > irrespective of their religious beliefs and other definitions. All this > would have been lost if South Goa did not fight tooth and nail against the > Merger of Goa into Maharashtra. > > GOA was saved the second time when Goa's mother tongue was threatened, not > being able to occupy the status of Goa's Official Language and when Goans, > especially the Shastikar Goans again fought tooth and nail for KONKANI in > 1986. It is altogether a different matter that Devnagiri script was elevated > to ignore the much widely used Konkani's Roman script. The tussle that we > see today between these two scripts only helps in keeping Goa's mother > tongue less developed and less effective. > > Since 1986, Goa has been torn to pieces, Goans never seeming to unite as one > to keep Goa's mainstays which are its hills, its vales, its rivers, its > forests and green cover, its wild-life, its water-falls, its endless > stretches of golden beaches, its agricultural fields, in short Goa's basic > and world admired ecological balance and environmental marvel. But more than > that the Goan Identity seems to be on the diluting trend. And as expected, > when Goans themselves have been divided in the understanding as to what > exactly they want, outsiders have edged in and taken advantage to the extent > that most Goans that matter believe that their beloved GOA has reached a > stage where it is beyond saving. The most blamed entity is Goa's Political > class, warranting Goa's much loved artist and singer-musician- REMO > Fernandes to publicly declare with frustration that Goa's politicians of > all colour and creed must be drowned into the Arabian Sea. > > The Question is : 'Is there a hope for GOA, then?' > > The deafening answer is 'YES', through the newly born 'PPS' - the superior > movement of the conscious people of Goa which will work towards uniting all > other people's movements in Goa for just one cause, on one agenda... the > agenda to provide Goa the much needed 'POLITICAL SANITY' where 'political > madness has been reigning steadfast since 1961. > > The 'PPS' movement is designed to be totally and completely 'political', non > competitive and 'non-partisan' in nature. Goans are fed-up and frustrated of > being taken for jolly good rides by cunning and self-seeking politicians for > far too long. They have now chosen to come together to demand political > sanity in the way Goa is governed. And to demand this of Goa's political > dispensation, who else is better positioned than the Shastikars who have > been the guardians of Goa? In the maiden meet of the PPS, the following > RESOLUTION is unanimously passed on 25th. April, 2010 at the Grace Church > Hall, Margao [South Goa] in order to rise to the occasion of saving Goa for > yet the third and hopefully the last time, which resolution reads as > follows: > > > > > THE RESOLUTION > > WE THE PEOPLE OF GOA DO HEREBY COME TOGETHER TO STAY TOGETHER IN OUR FIGHT > TO BRING POLITICAL SANITY IN GOA'S GOVERNANCE FOR ONCE, HAVING BEEN CHEATED > AND FRUSTRATED BY OUR POLITICIANS AND OUR POLITICAL PARTIES WHOM WE HAVE > BEEN ELECTING AT EVERY ELECTION BELIEVING THAT THEY WILL WORK FOR THE > BETTERMENT OF GOA AND GOANS. WE HAVE REALISED THAT EVEN IF WE ELECTED > 'SAINTS' TO GOVERN US, WE SHALL BE DISAPPOINTED IN THEM IF THEY CHOSE TO > WORK RANDOMLY AND UNCO-ORDINATEDLY IN THE ABSENCE OF A SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE > TO GO BY AND TO FOLLOW. HENCEFORTH, WE WANT OUR POLITICIANS AND OUR > POLITICAL PARTIES TO WORK TOWARDS PUTTING TOGETHER THE PROCEDURES FOR SUCH > A CO-ORDINATED SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE IN PLACE, FIRST, BEFORE THEY COME > VOOING US FOR OUR VOTES. WE, IN OUR OWN TURN AND STYLE, WILL CHOOSE THAT > POLITICAL PARTY OR A COLLECTIVE OF SINCERE PEOPLE WHICH NOT ONLY BRINGS OUT > A WRITEN DOWN CO-ORDINATED SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE FOR GOA UNDER WHICH IT WILL > WORK BUT ALSO SELL IT TO US, CONVINCING US THAT SUCH A SYSTEM WILL, IN FACT, > WORK, AND GO ON TO DEMONSTRATE TO US HOW IT WILL WORK AND WHY, BEFORE WE > CHOOSE TO ADOBT THE SAME ALONG WITH THE CORRESPONDING POLITICAL PARTY FOR > THE NEXT FIVE-YEAR TERM OF GOVERNANCE. > > THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE THAT WE SHALL BE LOOKING FOR MUST HAVE, AS ITS MAIN > STAY, AN INGREDIENT OF SELF-SACRIFICE AND THE WILL TO WORK FOR THE > BETTERMENT OF GOA AND GOANS. AS MENTIONED EARLIER, WE SHALL WANT TO REMAIN > SELFISHLY POLITICAL, GUARDING OUR POLITICAL RIGHTS SINCE WE HAVE REALISED > THAT POLITICS OF THE DAY RUNS OUR ENTIRE LIVES AND THOSE OF OUR DEPENDENTS > WHO WILL INHERIT GOA IN THE LONG RUN. > > WE HEREBY DECLARE THAT WE SHALL WANT TO CHOOSE A SELFLESS SYSTEM OF > GOVERNANCE WHICH ALSO REMAINS A COMMITTED AND DISCIPLINED SYSTEM AT ALL > TIMES, WORKING IN THE INTEREST OF GOA, GOANS AND THE POSTERITY ON A > SUSTAINABLE LONG-TERM PROGRAM BASIS. > > IF THE POLITICAL CLASS DOES NOT COME UP WITH A PROGRAMME OF GOVERNACE WHICH > WE SO DESIRE, WE SHALL ENDEAVOUR TO PUT IN PLACE SUCH AN ALTERNATE > PROGRAMME AND WORK UNITEDLY TO MAKE IT A SUCCESS FOR GOA AND GOANS. > > THIS COMMUNIQUE MUST SERVE AS A VERY SERIOUS WARNING FOR ALL POLITICALLY > CONCERNED. > > SD/ > > PPS = PEOPLE for POLITICAL SANITY > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
