The second in the series of lectures being organized by concerned women of means led by former Transportation Secretary Josie Lichauco will be on Feb. 7, starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Manila Polo Club.
Speakers will be UP Professor Randy David and former Sen. Gregorio Honasan.
In the first lecture last December, the speaker was former Economic Planning Secretary Cielio Habito, who explained the real economic situation of the country beneath Malacañang’s propaganda of an economy taking off because of Gloria Arroyo’s expert management. 
Habito said it is not yet time to party and there is not really much to be happy about in our current situation.
31 January 2006
This I got to hear, the words of two famous personalities in the country today, a political analyst and a former solder and senator. What are they going to talk about???
Jinx
thanks for the info, ellen. i’ll pass the word around.
feb 7 is saturday, yes? excellent. free entrance ba ito?
Feb. 7 is a Tuesday. I’ll ask if free entrance for non-media.
Dadagsain kaya ng mga estudyante ito kung sa UP,PUP at ibapang State U gaganapin ang lecture?
This should be interesting. What I’d really like to see though is Trillanes and Gringo. Maybe Honasan will take live, call-in question from the Magdalo? Be interesting to hear what they think of him now…
Rizalist,
Re: A potential Trillanes-Honasan public encounter.
Problem is PMA’s seniority culture is difficult to break even by “Alright, Sir?”
The plebe, ooops, the lowerclass PMAer – in this case, Trillanes – would be hard put to fire hostile, accusing questions face to face against his upperclass man even retired – Gringo – in public because he will have to consider how that would be taken by his (Trillanes’ own lowerclass men).
To break away from that, Trillanes should possess, unqualified moral guts to bury the PMA’s plebe-first class culture of submission particularly towards an erring ‘superior’ who’s already retired from service! Sadly, his Oakwood mutiny – not because it failed – is not really a proof that he has broken away from this miserable PMA culture.
In a strictly professional military corps, a retired senior officer should be entitled to an active junior officer’s respect (and every other military man’s respect) because he deserves it and not because he happens to have graduated from the same academy a few years early.
The Philippine military is far from being a professional military in the strictest professional military dogma.
Two years ago, at a dinner gathering where more than 20 retired and active officers of the AFP were invited that included Defensor, Adan, Bagasin, de Los Reyes, Angie Reyes, etc., I had the insolence to ask each and every officer to remind me what the 2nd or 3rd code in their AFP Code of Ethics was. I was dumbfounded because only 2 (vaguely) remembered (I had the Code with me).
Be informed.