Serge Osmena III files his candidacy as Senator in 2010 elections

Serge Osmena III has finally filed his candidacy in the upcoming Philippines 2010 Elections as an independent senatorial candidate today (November 26, 2009). He decided to turn down chance to run in the senatorial slate of different political party's namely PDP-Laban, Nacionalista Party, Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino and Liberal Party.

He said that even though he refused to take part in the senatorial line up of the Liberal Party, he will still continue to support Senator Noynoy Aquino's bid for presidency. He reasoned out that the cause of his refusal was "a difference in ideology".

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Hacienda Luisita Massacre

I saw an article written by Patricia Evangelista in the Inquirer's Opinion Column last November 7, 2009. The article talked of her feelings towards Presidential Candidate Noynoy Aquino's advertisement as well as the Hacienda Luisita Massacre.

As I was reading this article I remembered the paper I had to write for one of my Communications class when I was still in college. I remembered the video of the shooting. I remembered the pleas of the farm workers. I remembered the frustration... the anger I felt as I was browsing through the articles I read for my research paper.

Years after that blood-stained day in the Tarlac area where farm workers were injured and killed, I wonder, what happened to them? Have the Cojuangcos done anything to better their condition? Have the people forgotten about this incident? Noynoy Aquino is running for president in the Philippines' 2010 elections. What has he done to help those people working in Hacienda Luisita?

The following is an excerpt from the article I read. What do you think?

THE GRASS IS YELLOW OUTSIDE THE GATES OF HACIENDA Luisita. Jesus walked here once.
His father watched him die, almost five years to this day. Nov. 16 was when close to 15,000 tenants gathered to protest their treatment under the Cojuanco-owned Hacienda Luisita. Dispersal units charged with a thousand soldiers in full battle gear. The Northern Command numbered over five hundred. Stones and shouts, water cannons, tanks that barreled into gates. It was three in the afternoon. The sun burned yellow. The father heard it first: rifle cracks, a barrage of bullets punching through bodies. Jesus died that day, one of seven reported union deaths. They tell me there are more whose names were never reported (read more...)

Manny Villar Political Ad (Dito sa Tondo)

Manny Villar features his old house located at Tondo in this political advertisement to show the masses that he knows what it feels like to live in an unfavorable condition. It promises housing plans for the poor. It's really a captivating ad since it makes you feel that he understands your sentiments.

You can watch the video below.