The following video is a 20-minute special presentation by Mike Enriquez, entitled "Walang Pera?" starring Marianne Rivera as an electronics worker who lost her job because of the global crisis. I learned about it through an email message yesterday afternoon from "Juan Maralita" of Kamalaysayan.
Juan Maralita's email message itself, in its entirety, is as follows:
Poverty is the mother of crime. ~Marcus Aurelius
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied....but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~John Berger
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. ~Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti
I believe this video special is bound to be a classic guidepost, something which 5 or 10 years from now we'll all look back to and say -- hopefully -- "may natutunan ako sa video special ni Marianne, mahirap ang buhay lalo na kung hindi ka handa. kailangang magtipid at magsikap . kailangang mag-aral nang mabuti at makatapos. Kailangang gumising na at suriin kung mabisa nga ba talaga ang 'foreign investments' sa pag-unlad ng bansa, mga 'foreign investments' na sa isang iglap ay pwedeng maglahong parang bula habang ang mga umaasang manggagawa ay biglang naging kawawa ..."
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