Himig – Pasko na Naman

I

Pasko na naman, iilan na lang araw

Paano kami, wala kaming tahanan

Nakikituloy, lamang po san-saan

Mga kapulisan, kami ginagalitan

Ii

Kami ay umalis,doon sa aming bayan

Dahilan sa takot, mga kasundaluhan

Kami ay sinasaktan at pinagbibingtangan

Kahit na bata, di nila igagalang

Koro i

Ano! Ano !, ano ang gagawin

Kami po’y, napilitang umalis sa amin

Bahay namin, aming iniwanan

Mga hayop po ganon din

Iii

Bago dumating, araw ng kapaskuhan

Ang inyong tulong, gawin sa aming bayan

Mga sundalo, inyo pong mapuntahan

Paalisin na, hindi namin kailangan

Koro 11

Pasko, pasko, pasko ay darating

Ang hiling namin, sana ay inyo pong dinggin

Kami, kami, kami’y maligaya

Kung sa pasko’y, bumalik na ulit

Ulit

Ulit sa koro ii

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Himig: Kay Ganda ng Tala sa Langit

I.

Magandang araw po sa inyo

Pagbati ng maligayang pasko

Sana po, pagpalain kayo

Masaya, sa pagsapit , ng pasko

II

Kami po, ay lumalapit sa inyo

Inaawit ang himig ng pasko

Narito, ang aming samahan

Biktima ng mga karahasan

Iii

Kami po’y madaming lumikas sa amin

Probinsya ng quezon, kong ito’y tawagin

Saan-saang bayan, magulo sa amin

Aming mga bahay iniwanan namin

Iv

Marami po doon na mga may baril

Ang suot ay tigre, army kong tawagin

Sila’y pumunta, sa bahay po namin

Hanap ay NPA, kami ang bubugbugin

Koro

Tulong po, ang kailangan namin

Sundalo, ay inyong palayasin

Kahilingan namin po ay dinggin

Papasko na moral ninyo sa amin

V

Ang palaging sabi ng mga sundalo

Sumosuporta daw, kami sa NPA

Si Tatay at Nanay,agad dadalhin

Doon po sa kampo, gapos na bubugbugin

Vi

Paulit-ulit po, sa kampo ay dadalhin

Paulit-uliy din, na laging sasaktananin

Mga magulang ko, kami daw ay ganundin

Kaya napilitan, likas sabahay namin,

Ulit sa koro / ulit sa koro

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Himig – Parol sa Bintana

I

Doon sa amin, maraming sundalo

May pa pogi, mga nanloloko

Taong bayan, kanilang ginugulo

Dinudukot, dala sa kampo

II

Kahit sino, dinadampot nila

Ang pahirap, ginagawa agad

Doon sa kampo, kahit sumisigaw ka

Nakagapos na, koryente pa

III

Wala kang muwang, at walang kang alam

Dadamputin, basta magustuhan

Pipilitin na may kasalanan

Ikaw ang pumatay kay jose rizal

IV

Dahil sa hirap mo ng dinaranas

Kahiy ano, opong opo ka na

Ako nga po, ako ang pumatay

Kay Jose Rizal, noong araw

Koro

Ang sundalo po, ganyan sa amin

Wala pong galang sila, kahit kanino

O bayan-bayan, o bayan ko

Sana po, kami ay tulungan

Ulit

Ulit sa huling saknong

- tapos na-

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Himig – Heto na Heto na

I

Kahit may problema, tayo ay magsaya

Ang araw ng pasko, naku malapit na

Kami ay biktima, mula sa amin probinsya

Probinsya ng quezon, ang amin pong pinagmulan

Koro

Sundalo-sundalo, kamiy walang laban

Igalang po ninyo, aming karapatan (2x)

II

Ang mga sundalo, kami’y sinasaktan

Si Tatay at Nanay, pinagbibintangan

Mga NPA daw, tatay ko at nanay

Samantalang kami, tahimik lang namumuhay

Koro

Sundalo-sundalo, kamiy walang laban

Igalang po ninyo, aming karapatan (2x)

III

Sa amin pong bayan, ay parang mindanao

Kahit mga bata, hindi ginagalang

Mayot at kapitan, hindi rin pakinggan

Ilan sa kanila, kumakampi sa sundalo

Koro

Sundalo-sundalo, kamiy walang laban

Igalang po ninyo, aming karapatan (2x)

Ulit uli

Tapos na

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NEWS RELEASE
22 December 2007

Reference: ALPHONSE RIVERA, Spokesperson (0921 3581239)

KIDS' CHRISTMAS CARD TO PRESIDENT ARROYO WISH FOR CONCRETE SOLUTIONS TO HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AS THE BEST GIFT THEY CAN RECEIVE FOR CHRISTMAS

In the spirit of the holiday season, children sent a giant card with the kids' Christmas wishes to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The giant card was placed in a giant envelope and was hauled off to the nearby courier service office. The card was expected to reach Pres. Arroyo in time for Christmas day.

This card was the output of a workshop with kids from different areas in the Philippines who came to the Children'ss Rehabilitation Center, a non-government organization providing direct psycho-social services for children-victims of State violence. CRC is a member of the Salinlahi Alliance for Children'ss Concerns which spearheaded the week-long campaign that brought the children to the different government, quasi-government and media agencies to give their Christmas wishes.

The card expressed the children'ss wishes... justice for victims of extra-judicial killings... withdrawal of military personnel deployed in their areas.... land, jobs and livelihood for their families... and reunification of families of victims of enforced disappearances and of political detainees. In other words, the children wished for a life where their rights are fully respected and realized.

Children internal refugees from Surigao del Sur and Quezon, children of victims of enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings, children of Moro detainees in Bicutan and children-victims of urban militarization all worked together to make the giant card.

"Their experiences during the visits and dialogues with the Commission on Human Rights, Congress and supposedly to the Senate and the GRP section of the Joint Monitoring Committee were very frustrating for the kids," said Alphonse Rivera, Spokesperson of the Salinlahi. "Despite this disappointment, however, they have still a tinge of hope that their wishes will be fulfilled".

"At the CHR, Commissioner Dominador Calamba told the children that he will have their cases investigated only after what seemed like interrogation to the children. They did not even have the chance to narrate their whole story because Calamba dominated the supposed dialogue," Rivera added.

At the House of Representatives, the kids were greeted with the sight of gifts of various shapes and sizes coming and going to and from the rooms of the solons. They were treated for lunch facilitated by Gabriela Women'ss Party Rep. Luz Ilagan, courtesy of the Mindanao Affairs Committee meeting. They were even toured around Congress by Rep. Liza Maza. "They also had a dialogue with the representatives of Rep Nikki Prieto-Teodoro from the Committee of Children and Special Persons. But unfortunately, the Committee cannot do anything for them because their issue does not fall under its mandate," Rivera added.

"The children did not get a chance to visit the Senate because the senators they contacted are too busy to talk with the kids. And at the GRP Monitoring Committee, where some of the children intend to file complaints, no one was even at the office to meet them," said Rivera. ►►

 

"The whole experience has taught us that even during the Christmas season, the only time that kids become 'bida', very few are still willing to listen to their wishes that go beyond material things," Rivera averred. "We will not be surprised if in the future these kids would rather shout their demands in the streets or look for other venues to seek justice and redress. They have seen and experienced how the other supposedly 'more acceptable' avenues have been closed for their plight."

"This Christmas card is the last of the avenues that the children wanted to explore to make their wishes come true.. It may or may not reach President Arroyo. But we hope that it will, and, for the children'ss sake, we definitely hope that President Arroyo goes around to really doing something concrete to address their plight and not leave them with balloons filled with hot-air rhetoric as gifts for Christmas," Rivera ended. ###

Related links:

Children-victims of human rights violations present their plight to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), Dec. 17, 2007

BONUS TRACKS

at a time of Christmas-friendly weather

and with Christmas-friendly nice people all around

From: Political prisoners at Muntilupa Pen

Wedding of political prisoner Jose Navarro and Nemesia Sarsuela on Dec. 22

with Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran and Karapatan's Marie Hilao-Enriquez  as principal sponsors

Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines

Press Release
December 23, 2007

NPA remains on alert as guns fall silent on Christmas and New Year--CPP

As a matter of policy and tradition, the guns of the New People's Army (NPA) will be silent on December 24-25 and on December 31-January 1, 2008, in deference to the people's holiday celebrations. However, NPA units have been instructed to remain alert against enemy operations, and—if provoked—fend off or repulse its fascist offensives.

Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) spokesperson Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal said the NPA practices unilateral military restraint on the eve and days of Christmas and New Year, even if there is no formal declaration of a ceasefire. "As practiced for many years, the Filipino people, their people's army and revolutionary forces unite in humble traditional holiday celebrations and in the commemoration of the anniversary of the Communist Party which falls on December 26."

"At the same time," Rosal said, "even as a four-day Christmas and New Year ceasefire is observed, the order to intensify tactical offensives against fascist government forces remain in force. All units of the NPA are instructed to closely monitor the movements of the AFP, maintain vigilance, be on active defense and decisively counter all forms of treachery by the fascist armed forces. The need to intensify the people's war remains as the Arroyo regime relentlessly pursues its brutal war of terror."

"The practice of observing a four-day ceasefire during the traditional holiday celebrations has nothing to do with the totally sham and outrightly hypocritical 22-day 'suspension of military operations' (SOMO) declared by Malacanang which it is only using to camouflage its continuing military operations including patrol, surveillance and offensive operations against the NPA and the revolutionary mass base."

The CPP spokesperson said "In actual fact, the AFP has been completely ignoring its self-declared ceasefire since Day One. Its units continue to be on offensive mode against the NPA despite their unilateral SOMO declaration. They have been scouring peasant and minority communities, committing military abuses, forcibly displacing thousands of residents and wreaking havoc on peasant and tribal communities."

"Malacanang and the AFP's three-week SOMO has no value at all for the people and their revolutionary forces, especially in the face of the continuing brutal fascist rampage of the government's armed forces in their frenzy to suppress the people's resistance to Arroyo's rotten rule," said Rosal.

 

"Their sham SOMO is an obvious bait to paralyze the NPA for three weeks and allow the government's fascist forces free rein to continue attacking the revolutionary forces, its mass base and the legal democratic forces with impunity. It merely serves as a cheap psywar gimmick to make it appear that they want peace even as they continue with their extrajudicial killings, forcible abductions, illegal arrests, torture, arson, looting and forced evacuations of entire communities, and other gross human rights violations."

Rosal noted reports of continuing AFP military operations even after the AFP's supposed SOMO starting December 16. He cited the case of the tribal folk of General Nakar, Quezon who have been forced to go on an exodus to Infanta in order to escape continuing AFP operations against the NPA. In Surigao del Sur, Manobo national minorities were forced to evacuate again to Tandag City after AFP troops refuse to heed the pleadings of the tribespeople for the government armed forces to leave their villages. In MacArthur town, a Philippine Army armored personnel carrier forcibly entered Barangay Hibodhibod to conduct "pursuit operations against the NPA."

The CPP spokesperson said "an extended ceasefire in the future is still possible if, among others, the Philippine government agrees to work with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in a common effort at striving to attain immediate peace and addressing the roots of the armed conflict," Rosal said.

Rosal said the CPP supports the view of NDFP Senior Political Consultant Jose Ma. Sison that a ceasefire is possible on a larger perspective if whoever heads the reactionary government would agree to and abide with certain conditions that would enhance the peace process, namely: respect of the political authority and territory of the people's democratic government; withdrawal of AFP troops to divisional headquarters and the PNP mobile brigades to brigade headquarters; dissolution of the fascist paramilitary forces; removal of the 12 impediments that prevent the resumption of formal talks; and agreement with the NDFP to resume and accelerate the peace negotiations in accordance with The Hague Joint Declaration, the Oslo Accords and other previous agreements with the NDFP.

"If the Arroyo government remains as extremely pro-imperialist and ultra-reactionary as it is now and refuses to heed such reasonable proposals of the NDFP for the resumption of the peace process, the revolutionary forces and the Filipino people will merely continue with their revolutionary armed struggle and wait for a regime that will be more receptive and genuinely interested in the peace process."

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