WORK EXPERIENCE:
• Active in the reform movement since the 1960s, he was secretary-general of the
Christian Social Movement until Martial Law
• He made his mark as a political organizer and campaign operative during the
heydays of the late
• Vice President Emannuel N. Pelaez and Senators Raul Manglapus and Manuel
Manahan
• also a book publisher
• taught history and social science at the Ateneo,
• active in NAMFREL and the Bishops-Businessmen’s Conference.
* His interest in politics led him to observe at close range the American presidential
system as well as the European parliamentary models, including Israel’s, and
traveled widely in the course of work in Unesco and the United Nations. He returned
in 1998 to revive his childhood interest in ranching (in his farm in Bukidnon) while
writing for newspapers.
* In 2004 he received the UNICEF-PPI Award for Most Outstanding Column on Children
(community category) and went on to write a book on the critical factors that
shape our politics entitled, Trapo Governance and the Cha Cha Conspiracy: More
Power to Those in Power, None for the People, published by Cacho Publishing House
(National Book Store) in 2005.
* His next book is due out from the Capitol University Press next month, entitled, A
NATION OF ZOMBIES: Powerless Grassroots, Clueless Elites and the Cycle of
Corruption in the Philippines.
* Today he is president and national convenor of Gising Barangay Movement Inc.
(formerly, Task Force Good Governance), an advocacy for empowering the
grassroots.
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