[PeDAGoG] Fwd: URGENT: Support needed to Junk Philippine Terror Bill

Thu Jun 11 20:58:35 CEST 2020

Dear Angging,I signed too - hope it is not too late.bestRajeswari
Recent Publications:  Rajeswari S. Raina and Debanjana Dey 2020. “How weknow Biodiversity: Institutions and Knowledge-Policy Relationships,”Sustainability Science, (online 10.1007/s11625-019-00774-w)  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-019-00774-w   pp. 1-10.

Julien-Francois Gerber and Rajeswari S. Raina (Eds) 2018. Post-growth thinking in India: Towards Sustainable Egalitarian Alternatives, Orient BlackSwan: Hyderabad/Delhi.
Julien-Francois Gerber and Rajeswari Raina 2018. “Post-Growth in the global South?Some Reflections from India and Bhutan” Ecological Economics, (online version: Gerber, J.-F., Ecological Economics (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.02.020 )
Rajeswari S. Raina 2017. "Knowledge Futures:Democratic values and learning capacities for sustainability,” in AshishKothari and K J Joy (Eds.) Alternative Futures: India Unshackled, AuthorsUpfront: New Delhi pp. 480-496.

Rajeswari Sarala Raina   Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,Shiv Nadar University,Uttar Pradesh, 201314India 

    On Wednesday, 10 June, 2020, 12:25:38 pm IST, Massimo De Marchi <maximo.demarchi at gmail.com> wrote:  

 Dear Angging , 
I signed on google docs, a big hug 
Massimo
Il giorno mar 9 giu 2020 alle ore 18:29 Angging Aban <azenana at gmail.com> ha scritto:

Dear partners, networks, friends, 

We still welcome support from organizations and individuals until tomorrow, 10June at 10AM (GMT +8). 
Here is the link of the document. Please input your name/organization by the end of the statement (click the link): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lh1xCBOGtRKHj-LU9igBNmxArYMrXrdmWTWsNk4Qj-A/edit

In solidarity, 
AnggingAnaneza Aban, MCD
Senior Research AssociateProgram on Alternative Development (AltDev)University of the Philippines | Center for Integrative and Development StudiesAng Bahay ng Alumni, Lower Ground Floor  
Magsaysay Ave., UP Diliman, Q.C. 1101  PhilippinesTel. nos.:  981-8500 loc. 4266-4267 & 435-9283Tel. fax:  981-8500 loc. 4268 & 426-0955Website: cids.up.edu.ph
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/upcids

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 10:33 AM Angging Aban <azenana at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear colleagues, partners, friends, 
We urgently need your support on this statement we are circulating in solidarity with the Filipino people: 

The University of thePhilippines Program on Alternative Development (AltDev) condemns the passage ofthe Anti-Terrorism Bill of 2020. Nothing but a weapon to silence criticism anddissent toward the government, the proposed Bill is a threat to the fundamentalconstitutional rights of the Filipino people. 

The Bill grantsabsolute power to the state and its repressive apparatuses such as the ArmedForces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police to violate thePhilippine Constitution and human rights. It harbors a vague definition ofterrorism which permits the malicious tagging of activists, critics, andorganizations as affiliates of so-called terrorist groups.  Furthermore,the Bill undermines whatever “safeguard” it has by giving free rein to theAnti-Terror Council (ATC) to determine what constitutes “a serious risk topublic safety” and the act to “incite others” to commit terrorism. This pavesthe way for the warrantless arrest of members of civil society designated as“terrorist.” This may paralyze the broad grassroots movements and alternativepractices engaged by communities and civil society organizations that counterthe state’s aggressive, profit-oriented vision of development. No one is safe.

We believe that it isimperative that we put an end to terrorist activities. Our hearts andsympathies go out to all of those who have been victimized by acts of lawlessviolence. However, arming the government with punitive instruments and grantingthem  a wide latitude of discretion, which the proposed bill provides, is notthe answer. History will tell how current and past regimes have exhausted meansto amass political power through anti-people policies, as exemplified by thelate dictator Ferdinand Marcos who wore the same “anti-terrorism” veneer toquell critics and dissenters. Suffice to say, the “Terror Bill” does not andwill not address the root causes of terrorism which is poverty and thecorruption of power.

As scholars andactivists, we cannot stand by as we lay witness to the passage of this bill,especially under the current regime which has not been shy to use violenceagainst the weak, powerless and the poor. We believe that addressing terrorismmust not be addressed through  punitive and draconian measures. Quellingterroristic activities is built through a comprehensive approach towardsattaining peace, social justice, equity with the genuine participation of itspeople. We do not need to further arm the coercive apparatuses of the statewhich has operated with impunity and has grotesquely performed its duties withabuses. In order to end terrorism, what our society needs are realopportunities for its people, schools for its children, protection for peoplesacross races, sexes, and genders, an end to discrimination and violence, andgenuine, open and transformative conversations in our pursuit of development.

To be free fromterrorism, the entire Philippine nation, and the rest of the world, must getrid of poverty, marginalization and vulnerabilities. We need and demand forsocio-politico-economic transformation attuned to people’s aspirations andvoices, not another gauntlet to further strangle the Filipino peoples.

#JunkTerrorBillNow

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Ananeza Aban, MCDSenior Research AssociateProgram on Alternative Development (AltDev)University of the Philippines | Center for Integrative and Development StudiesAng Bahay ng Alumni, Lower Ground Floor  
Magsaysay Ave., UP Diliman, Q.C. 1101  PhilippinesTel. nos.:  981-8500 loc. 4266-4267 & 435-9283Tel. fax:  981-8500 loc. 4268 & 426-0955Website: cids.up.edu.ph
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/upcids

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