The following basic problems are the

key links in this complex web

1. MALGOVERNMENT
2. CONCENTRATION OF
WEALTH
3. NATURE ABUSE
4. TOXIC CAPITALISM
5. CHRONIC VIOLENCE
6. CULTURE-AGGRESSION
Three aspects of mal-government:

 Concentration of power
 Oligarchic leadership
 Corrupt bureaucracy

MALGOVERNMEN
T
 CONCENTRATION OF
WEALTH

 The concentration of land, capital and information

in the hands of a small elite is growing more
intense.
  It
advances without let-up today,
as logging, mining, and quarrying
keep on ravaging the land and
destroying the very basis for our
existence and livelihood.

NATURE ABUSE
 Weoften hear the good side of
technologies
 from the profit-seeking
corporations which are marketing
them.

TOXIC CAPITALISM
 The
problem of toxic-
capitalism
 worsened by the
government’s open-
door policy on
foreign investments.
 its most common victim being women, and children.
 Rich individuals use their wealth as power to escape wrongdoings.
 During elections, political rivalries kill each other to eliminate their
chances of not winning.
 Among the police and the military, violent methods become
standard procedures against the powerless or unprivileged.
 farmers, fisher-folk, and workers who assert their rights are frequent
targets of class violence.

CHRONIC VIOLENCE
 Chronic violence reflects an ideology of domination
that targets women, the poor, and nature.
 CULTURE-AGGRESSION

 We are assailed daily by foreign icons that are supposed

to represent the ideal lifestyle, but which are mostly
cultural junk.
 The resulting miseducation and foreign-worship blinker is
vulnerable to
 the evils of foreign exploitation
 suppress the positive local culture.
 IF WE STUDY OUR BASIC
PROBLEM CAREFULLY, WE
CAN SEE THAT THE
IDEOLOGICAL ROOT OF
MANY OF THEM IS GREED...
 Greed, however, has undergone its own
transformation.
 It has freed itself from its human form.
 It has taken on a new personality, one
pure and unencumbered by other
distracting human feelings.
 Behind this new personality, greed is
free to pursue single mindedly the one
and only thing that motivates it:
PROFIT
 This new personality is the for-profit
corporation
 The corporation has learned how to nourish itself and to
grow by feeding on:
 nature
 People
 and information.
 It has become increasingly successful in asserting its
freedoms (“liberalization”), overcoming government
controls (“deregulation”) and in taking over government
activities (“privatization”)
 Now, global corporations even want to rule the world
(“globalization”).
 By looking at how greed – particularly its legal
personification – manifests itself:
 In Politics
 In the Economy
 In Culture
 In Technology
 In the Environment

Results precisely in those problems which we have

earlier identified as the basic problems of Philippine
society.
Be a modern Moses by writing
down ten commandments that
must be followed by government
officials
 How do you describe a pro-poor
community? Is your community pro-
poor? Why? What about your school?
Why? What about your family? Why?
What about you? Why?