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Aiming for People’s Governance
The Center for People
Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) launches its first book, Subverting
the People’s Will, which deals on the May 2004 elections.
By BULATLAT
 There are many ways
that the people’s will is subverted. The electoral process proves to be
one of them.
Coinciding with
International Human Rights Day last December 10, the Center for People
Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) launched the book titled Subverting
the People’s Will: The May 10, 2004 Elections at the Popular Book
Store in Quezon City.
Subverting the
People's Will (137 pages) is edited by
Luis V. Teodoro, a professor of Journalism and former dean of the
University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC). Dr.
Bienvenido Lumbera, a multi-awarded writer and professor emeritus at UP,
wrote the foreword.
In his foreword, Lumbera
said the book is “the first project that brings to the consciousness of the
public the concerns and long-term goals of CenPEG as an institution.”
The book contains the
following articles: The May 10 Elections: Unique – But the Same (Luis V.
Teodoro); The Power of Three: Power in the Hands of the Board of
Canvassers (Cleto Villacorta); The U.S. Hand in Philippine Elections
(Alexander Martin Remollino); The Military, Police, and May 10 Elections:
Implications on the Executive and on People’s Constitutional Rights
(Benito O. Lim);
The Mass Media in the
2004 Elections (Danilo Araña Arao); Unholy Strategy: How Philippine
Churches Play with Electoral Politics (Jose Torres, Jr.); No Parliamentary
Road for the Moro People (Amirah Lidasan and Lualhati Abreu); Celebrities,
Showbiz and the 2004 Elections (Joel P. Garduce and Ana Maria Pia B.
Corpuz); Impediments to an Effective Party List System (Neri Javier
Colmenares); and The Internet in the May Elections: Flat Tire on the
Digital Highway (Rowena Carranza-Paraan).
Currently priced at
P190, the book is available at Popular Book Store and other outlets.
Subverting
is published by Ken, Incorporated for
CenPEG.
Formed in March 2004
at the height of the electoral campaign, CenPEG is engaged in policy
studies and research, education and training. It seeks to institute
political and electoral reforms in furtherance of the people’s democratic
interests. Bulatlat
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