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Advocacy: DARe (Disclose All Records) Movement
Executive
Summary Public office is a public trust. Each official is mandated to be
true to their service by assuring their constituents that they
deserve their positions by maintaining the publics trust. The
simple error of not including pertinent figures of ones wealth
carved Mr. Corona in history as the first ever chief magistrate to
be impeached, and this simple error immediately tainted the
trust of the people to him.
The challenge now to all citizens is to be consistent with our firm
proactive vigilance. It shall not end with our efforts with the
Corona trial. It shall only be the start of our solidarity that we aredemanding for a government that genuinely practices good
governance.
True to our call for transparency and accountability, we want to
take the lead in making our public officials responsible enough
by disclosing pertinent records that has public interest. It is in this
light that the University Student Council, through the Education
and Research Committee, will be launching the DARe (Disclose
All Records) Movement.
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COMPREHENSIVE DISCUSSION OF THE CAMPAIGN
CONCEPTUAL
BACKGROUND
1. The impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona is onlyheightening the PNoy-GMA factional conflict which
principally involves the main camps of the Philippine ruling
elite. As the trial process unfolds, it merely exposes the
institutional contradictions inherent to the Philippine state for
all to see. Expectedly or not, this developing situation has the
potential to greatly undermine the main pillars of our
countrys national political structure. Yet on the other hand,
and perhaps far more importantly, the present political
conditions can also offer us with an alternative path toward
real and genuine structural reforms for our society in the
future.
2. At the moment, however, these two elite factions are in themidst of an all-out political battle to defend each others
entrenched economic interests by using certain state
instruments as their weapons against the other. As such, their
clashes have already spilled over into the executive,
legislative and judicial branches of the national government.
While these arenas are the key tension zones of the present
conflict, the Philippine Senate (acting as the Corona
impeachment court) currently remains the ruling elites main
constitutional battlefront for now.
3. As such, the presently fluid political situation can yet lead toanother national crisis scenario in the near future. This could
be the case regardless of the outcome of the impeachment
trial since both sides can already be expected to challenge
any final court decision as a means to extend their
confrontation beyond the Senate halls to assert their
dominance. But should this ever happen, neither faction
may yet be able to fully control and manage such a
potentially destabilizing fallout in their favor at such a point in
time. This is especially so given the very limited parameters
and framework of the 1987 Constitution since it obviously did
not provide for any extra-constitutional options as a way out
of a state-paralysis scenario induced by power struggles of
the ruling elite.
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4. And yet as the political situation unravels, the masses canalready clearly see for themselves (by just watching on
television the now-weekly proceedings of the impeachment
court) the true rottenness, bankruptcy and a near-permanent
corruption of our countrys governing elite. Even without
Coronas impeachment, and still in a more fundamental
manner, the masses are becoming even angrier and
outraged at their constantly deteriorating and worsening
economic conditions as reflected by the incessantly harsh
social reality now prevailing under the PNoy Regime. And
indeed, the middle class is also fast becoming fed up with the
failing national situation because their own social-economic
way of life is now quickly becoming a victim of the
consequential dynamics of the Philippine structuralconditions.
5. And so today, two years after PNoys mostly empty 2010electoral promises, and over twenty-six years after the
shattered hopes and dreams of EDSA-1, our masses can
already discern for themselves the real state of the nationtoday. And for them that is: the failure of any effective
governance by the ruling few to bring about any relevant
progress and development for the welfare of the social
majority, regardless of whichever elite faction and/orpersonality controls the so-called three co-equal branches
of the Philippine government at any time.
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COMPREHENSIVE DISCUSSION OF THE CAMPAIGN
CONCEPT
RATIONALE
1. A national response. Given our national situation, it is nowdefinitely clear that an urgent and nationally independent
response has to be made as a fundamental way out from
any emerging national crisis. In the face of such potential
dangers to Philippine society, the general and collective
welfare and interests of the social majority (i.e. the basic
masses and the middle class) must always be protected,
upheld and even advanced to the advantage of the many
(not just a few). Hence, the stress for such a nationally
organized response has to always be focused on a
progressively-oriented democratic agenda, which means
that it must be: people-centered, pro-poor, social reforms-based, and with a structurally-transformative perspective to
ensure genuine social justice in a more systemic manner in
the long run ahead.
2. A broad-based peoples initiative. Essentially, this initiativeshould ideally be spearheaded by a broad range of like-
minded concerned citizens, peoples organizations and other
interested individuals. It has to be a broad-based peoples
initiative that is able to help provide a national-level
alternative (with a progressive) leadership on the basis of aset of immediate and urgent political (and even basic
economic) reforms and demands. Such a reforms-driven
agenda should also become the basis for a necessary
national process needed to push for a real systemic change
of the Philippine societal framework in the future.
3. Forces for change. This project should also aim to reach outto, and gain the fundamental support of, a significant layer of
the middle class, especially its reforms-oriented tendencies.
Specifically, these middle class-identified forces would also
have to include church/faith-based formations, school-based
organizations, business-oriented groups, professional
associations, and other individuals and personalities. Most of
them are the sincere and honest people who have always
wanted genuine change in Philippine society, but were
always institutionally-constrained by the narrow confines of
our countrys economic-social-political system.
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4. VISION OF AN ALLIANCE-BUILDING MOVEMENT5. DARe Movement. Thus now, the primary aim of this concept
paper is to propose for the immediate and urgent
establishment of a Disclose All Records(DARe) Movement.
The main objective of this mass campaigns alliance-building
project is to help contribute to the broader social/political-
reforms-oriented democratic mass movement by providing it
with a more direct and tangible organizational expression to
which many organizations and individuals can readily identify
with and support. But more importantly, however, the DARe
Movement project should be able to effectively act as a
national mass campaigns center in order to ensure that thegeneral welfare and interests of the social majority are
seriously taken into constant consideration by the Philippine
stateregardless of any controlling factions of the eliteby
becoming an active political player on the national political
scene that cannot just be ignored by the ruling powers that
be.
6. Independent line. Furthermore, by adopting the Disclose Allname tag for the project we can readily and clearly attain
two things at the same time:a) To set a national agenda by directly posing an open
challenge to all government officials (elected and
appointed, national and local, etc.) to disclose all of their
individual records (SALNs, bank accounts, court cases, etc.)
in the spirit of public transparency as public servants; and
b) To clearly manifest and assert a distinctly progressive,
democratic and independent political-line (and thus, not
supportive of any elite faction, PNoy or GMA, etc.) with a
systemic change-oriented directional agenda on the basis of
vitally needed basic social-economic reforms.
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TWO MODES OF DARE MOVEMENT
1. We DARe
UP SYSTEM!
DARe UP System shall involve maximum efforts for transparency
among the following:
UP Administrators UP Faculty UP student leaders
This campaign shall urge the following to disclose particular
records:
# Official/Office Records
1 Board of Regents 1.SALNs of each Regent (Eachregent is a public official)
2.Contracts of UP with variouspartners (particularly the UP-Ayala
Technohub contract, UP Town
Center contract & the GT Toyota
contract)
3.Income generated by the UP-Ayala Technohub
2 Faculty 1.Students right to access their classstanding.
3 Office of
Scholarships andStudent Services
(OSSS)
1.Accomplishment Report of STFAP(Socialized Tuition and FinancialAssistance Program)
4 University Student
Council and all
Local College
Councils
1.Minutes of the General Assemblies(GAs)
2.Financial Statement3.Memorandum of Agreement/s
(MOA/s) entered.
*Additional official/s and office/s shall be included upon the
need of each situation.
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TWO MODES OF DARE MOVEMENT
2. We DARe
PHILIPPINE
GOVERNMENT!
DARe Philippine Government shall urge all elected and
appointed officials to:
Disclose their Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and NetWorth (SALN);
Allow the Ombudsman to check their bank account/swhenever it is necessary by signing a waiver that will be
made available by the movement; and
Court records to validate their character as publicservants.
The following are strongly called upon to respond to our call:
1. President Benigno Aquino III2. Vice President Jejomar Binay3. Newly selected Chief Justice4. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile5. Speaker of the House Feliciano Belmonte6. Incumbent Senators7. Incumbent Congressmen/women8. Commissioners9. Department Secretaries10.Local Officials*Additional official/s and office/s shall be included
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LAUNCHING / OPERATIONS OF DARE MOVEMENT
A. IntensiveCollaborations
Statements of firm support will be gathered. Local college councils and organizations of UP Diliman (and
other campuses of the UP system) will be invited to join this
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B. Gather supportfrom students
Signature campaigns shall be conducted to manifest thatthis endeavour is a call of the whole studentry.
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C. Constantcommunication
with the officialsand offices
Officials and offices will be given requests for the disclosureof particular records and the conduct of particular actions
(allowing the Ombudsman to have access to bankaccount/s by signing a waiver).
Dialogues with officials may also be requested. A specified and planned timeline and schedule will be
finalized by the DARe Movement tea. If the official/s and/or
offices fail to respond to the request of the movement, even
given ample time, those who refuse to release particular
records, without valid reason/s, shall be tagged under the
HOW DARE YOU! list by the movement., through the DARe
Movement Website.
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lobbying
Reminders to take action to our request will be conductedby consistently communicating and/or visiting particular
officials/officers to grant our request.
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E. Release recordsthrough social
media
A Facebook page and Twitter account shall be created topromote this cause. It shall be named as DARE
Movement.
A website shall also be created where records will beposted.
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F. Update thepublic through
FORUMS and
mainstream
media
DARe Movement shall conduct various interactive forumsthat will update the public with regard to the progress of
the coalition.
Constant communication with the media with regard to thestatus and developments of the movement.
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GOALS
GOOD
GOVERNANCE
Goals
i. SHORT TERM Promote CITIZEN PARTICIPATION Encourage youth groups to join the movement for a
transparent and accountable government.
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ii. MIDTERM Promote TRANSPARENCY Disclosure of public officials SALNs, particular public
contracts, permission to allow the Ombudsman to
look into bank accounts, and court records.
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iii. LONG TERM Promote ACCOUNTABILITY By raising the bar of public service, the movement
will also lobby for the PASSAGE OF THE FREEDOM OF
INFORMATION BILL. This bill shall provide liberty and
awareness to citizens to scrutinize their public
officials.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
Objectives DARe Movement aims to:
Promote and practice the genuine essence of GOODGOVERNANCE (TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY,PARTICIPATION)
Transparencyrequest to disclose records Accountabilityrequest for officials to respond to call
for transparency and succeeding actions pertaining to
the analyses of certain document
Participationthe citizens solidarity in forwarding thiscall
Provide an accessible avenue where constituents mayscrutinize each public official.
Offer pertinent criteria for each citizens decision (vote) inthe upcoming 2013 Midterm Election.
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TARGET AREA
Organizations
Involved and
Target Area
# 1
With the participation of: UP Diliman Local College Councils UP Diliman organizations, fraternities, and sororities ALL UP DILIMAN STUDENTS
For the cooperation of: UP Administration Government officials USC and LCC
Target Area
# 2
Our quest for good governance is not an exclusive struggle of
UP Diliman student-leaders. In line with this, DARe Movement isopen to expand its campaign with the participation of various
youth groups.
State Colleges and University Private Universities
CAMPAIGN RESOURCES
A. HumanResources
DARe Movement Team League of EDRES Officers EDRES Think Tank Team Partner Local College Council/s Partner UP organization/s Partner non-UP organization/s
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B. PhysicalResources
USC Allocated fund EDRES sponsorship and solicitations
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C. Logistics DARe Movement Primer DARe Movement Website Posters Fliers
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SUSTAINABLE DIRECTION OF DARE MOVEMENT
Project Schedule
STRUCTURE OF DARE MOVEMENT
1. DARe Movement ConvenorShall organize, assemble, and preside over the operations of the movement.Shall package the direction of the movement to be relevant in every issue that
pertains to transparency and accountability of public officials and offices.
Shall represent the movement in any event or situation needed.2. Secretariat
Shall take charge in the communications (letters, memos, etc.)Shall be in-charge in inviting individuals and groups to join the movement.Shall organize all records collected by the Lobbying Teams.Shall be in-charge in the documentation of all activities of the movement.
DARe
Movement
Convenor
Secretariat Publicity Logistics and
Finance
Lobbying 2
(Nat. Govt)
Lobbying 1
(UP Admin)
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3. Lobbying 1 (UP Administration)Shall constantly negotiate with particular individuals and offices in the University
of the Philippines System to disclose needed records through the DARe
Movement.
4. Lobbying 2 (National Government)Shall constantly negotiate with particular public officials and public institutions
to disclose needed records through the DARe Movement.
5. PublicityShall be responsible in propagating the campaign to the vast public, most
especially in UP Diliman.
Shall encompass all means to publicize the campaign and make thegovernment aware of the objective of the movement.
Shall take charge in administering online media of the media (throughFacebook, Twitter, and specific website where collated records will be posted
for public viewing).
6. Logistics and FinanceShall prepare all materials needed and provide means to solicit funds for the
operation of the movement.
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For the people. For good governance.
Prepared by:
JULLIANO FERNANDO A. GUIANG
Convenor, DARe Movement
Head, USC Education & Research Committee
University Councilor, USC - UP Diliman
BE PART OF THE DARE MOVEMENT!BENEFITS REQUIREMENTS
Student council/organizations nameand logo will be included in allendeavors of the movement.
Each partner-group shall be labeledas a DARe Movement Signatory.
Could localize the movement torespective colleges.
Could create various events relatingto the matter with the movements
full support.
Sign the DARe Manifesto for GoodGovernance to signify commitmentfor the movement.
Assign official DARe Movementrepresentative from student
council/organization for future
plannings.
LIKE and SHARE DARe MovementFacebook page.
Follow DARe Movement on Twitter.