ACTION CALL: Nick Perlas, world's most promising green candidate, blocked!

[Seth Jordan]

Election Commission seeks to prevent green candidate Nicanor Perlas from Presidential election

17 December 2009

Nicanor Perlas’ right to enter the election contest for president of the Philippines has been canceled by COMELEC, the commission on elections, an administrative body of the Philippines government, under a “nuisance candidate” provision.

THIS IS A REAL BLOW TO ONE OF THE MOST HOPEFUL POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS ON THE PLANET TODAY. A world-class social visionary who has devoted his life to understanding and furthering the path of healthy social development in his country, often at risk to his own life, is being removed from consideration because he is supposedly not serious. In fact, he is too serious. PLEASE READ FURTHER AND THEN TAKE ACTION TO LET PHILIPPINE OFFICIALS KNOW THAT THE WORLD IS WATCHING!!

Since nearly one hundred people have put themselves forward as candidates, there is obviously some need to reduce confusion and ensure that candidates of serious purpose are not lost in a sea of unknown names. This is also the first election for the Philippine presidency in which voting will be automated.

The applicable Philippine law defines nuisance candidates as follows:

“Nuisance candidates - The Commission may, motu proprio [on its own motion] or upon a verified petition of an interested party, refuse to give due course to or cancel a certificate of candidacy if it shown that said certificate has been filed to put the election process in mockery or disrepute or to cause confusion among the voters by the similarity of the names of the registered candidates or by other circumstances or acts which clearly demonstrate that the candidate has no bona fide [good faith] intention to run for the office for which the certificate of candidacy has been filed and thus prevent a faithful determination of the true will of the electorate.”

Perlas is an insurgent candidate who is creating his own political party and running against the whole system of “trapos,” traditional politicians, under which wealth and family are the primary determinants of electoral success.

Does Perlas qualify as a “nuisance” under the Philippine law?

Is he aiming “to put the election process in mockery or disrepute”? NO, just the opposite.

Is he trying to “cause confusion” by some means? NO, there is no name similarity, and his bona fide intention is clearly stronger not weaker than other candidates.

Is he incapable of winning because he has no established party behind him? NO, he has been successfully building a grass-roots party and campaign that promises to make his candidacy well known in time for the election.

Does Perlas perhaps qualify as a “threat” to the Philippine establishment, to which any government commission will be privately if not publicly accountable? YES, Nicanor Perlas is an internationally recognized authority on sustainable development of national economies—and this is a threat to all those who are merely going through the motions of public service while diverting government resources to themselves, their families and cronies, and to corrupt business organizations.

HOW YOU CAN HELP NOW FROM OUTSIDE THE PHILIPPINES

There are only four days left until COMELEC makes a final decision. We must make our voices heard now!

EMAIL -- Add your personal knowledge, if relevant, and send this message to all globally and socially engaged persons you know.

PETITION -- Click on this link (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/let-nick-run) and send a message directly to the Chairman of COMELEC.

PHONE -- Contact the consulate or embassy of the Philippines nearest you. Inform them that you are calling to protest the action of the Commission on Elections to prevent Nicanor Perlas from running for the presidency. Call your national representative (e.g., US Senator) and ask her or him to protest to the Philippine government. Call your foreign office (US, State Department) to protest.

MEDIA -- Contact the internet, cable, print, radio and tv news sources you know and ask them if they are covering the Perlas story. What’s the story? Perlas is the winner of the Right Livelihood Award, often called the “alternative Nobel Prize,” and is one of the best qualified candidates to lead a nation since Nelson Mandela or Vaclav Havel. An environmentalist and sustainability leader in politics, he is certainly the equal of Al Gore.

STAY IN TOUCH -- Follow the events by checking often with a news aggregator like Google News, by checking with Nicanor Perlas' official website, and by connecting to other concerned global citizens on the social site A People for Perlas.

Thank you for responding to this urgent situation,

John Beck (New York, USA)
Seth Jordan (Great Barrington, MA, USA)
Jannis Keuerleber (Herdecke, Germany)
Ulrich Morgenthaler (Stuttgart, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Christoph Strawe (Stuttgart, Germany)
Adrian Wagner (Freiburg, Germany)

contact: Seth Jordan, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, [e-mail]

[Angel( Lito) Lingan Mallonga]

Hi Mr. Seth Jordan,

I have send my views to the Comelec before i send this e-mail to you. But i am not quite sure if they will even bother to read it. Maybe you be the one to send it to them. anyway, regardless if they will
re instate Nicky to be a candidate for President of the Philippines, I will see to it that the entire people of the Philippines there as well here abroad will be heard. i have a plan to make it work and Nick Perlas will not be ignored. I have already instructed Paula Aberasturi and Cecille Ferrer what to do. He will be the talk of all the people in the world once those seeds starts to grow. Nicky strength is in Agriculture and Environment and I will personally lead and help him towards FOOD PRODUCTION and INFRASTRUCTURES that are in line with the programs of Pres. Obama and our PM Stephen Harper of CANADA. No one can stop me in bringing this Development Undertaking to the Philippines for its been so long that our people has suffered a lot throughout the years. to much abused on our OFW and everybody knows it so I do not have to explain further. Time for us Filipinos to be given respect by other nations and Mr. Nicanor Perlas will lead us the way.

Archt. Angel ( Lito) L. Mallonga

[Seth Jordan]

Thanks for this. Have you sent it to COMELEC? It would b great if you did... their email addresses are in the forum under "Taking action..." Hope this all works out for the best.

[Angel( Lito) Lingan Mallonga]

We Filipinos from abroad has been helping the Philippines for a long long time even during the time of Pres. Ferdinand Marcos with the Remittances that we sent to the Philippines including helping the Philippine Government in time of Calamities which they always ask our help. Everybody knows it and can not be denied by them. Without us and the OFW the economy of the Philippines would have been down the drain and yet we are being denied to vote for the leaders that we want to vote for this coming Presidential Election come 2010.
Most of us Filipinos who has been here for so long has applied for DUAL CITIZENSHIP in order to Vote but is this the real purposed of the Government. Is it just for us to be able to stay there longer and for our Filipinos abroad just to invest in the Philippines. Are we just here as a CASH COW so we can pay for the Dual Citizenship FEE and to apply for Philippine Passport and have it renew every 5 years or so.

You can not even run for the highest position as well you have to relinquish your other citizenship in order to run. Than why do they call DUAL CITIZEN if we are denied to serve and help the Philippines. To me its purely to protect the interest of those who passed these BILL.
As long as you are born in the Philippines and both your Mother and Father are both Filipinos. That will be the bottom line. We need to bring those leaders who has been here who has learned on there own fields so we can bring this technology and bring prosperity to all our people in the Philippines. And i know that who ever read my e-mail from abroad will give me that full support for i am one of them.

I hope that this will also reach the COMELEC for there are leaders within the Department who are reasonable enough to reconsider Mr. Nicanor Perlas to be included to run for the President of the Philippines. He was done a lot to the Philippines specially the FARMERS and the WORKING CLASS throughout the years which everybody knows it anyway.

Time to make the Change and it is now the time to make that change for better Philippines. We are one of the most educated people in this planet. If we can just pull ourselves together , we will be the strongest force that other countries around the world so they will give us more respect. We are now lugging behind from our other brother ASEAN Nation economically , but I am 100% sure we will be able to catch up with them right away. It's time to make the move to INDUSTRIALIZED THE PHILIPPINES but we make sure that the ENVIRONMENT will never be compromised .

Mr. Nick Perlas is the only person who is highly qualified to deliver the job. And I am giving him my Full Support in this undertaking all the way.

Architect Angel ( Lito) Lingan Mallonga