“BALIK-BAYANIHAN” ADVOCACY AND COMMITMENT

(This is the English translation of “Pahayag ng Kapasyahan at Panawagan ng mga Tagapagsulong ng BALIK-BAYANIHAN,” prepared for signing by individuals and organizations on November 20, 2009 or afterwards.)

The undersigned citizens and organizations – all invoking our honor, goodwill and self-trust to do everything that we carefully decide to do, and also our honor to fulfill everything that we promise – now freely, clearly and firmly commit to diligently and deeply study for skillfull and consistent practice the Bayanihan Principle which is a valuable endowment from our heroic ancestors.

We shall seek out and test all fields of endeavor where we can appropriately apply the Bayanihan Principle, not only during periods of emergency and calamity but also in our contemporary daily lives of developing and actualizing ourselves as individual humans and as harmoniously interacting humans.

We shall bring back the Bayanihan Principle of trust-based synergetics to our social mainstream in order to ensure for our Mother Nation her continuing safety, all the needed capabilities, her full enjoyment of sovereignty and freedom, and her attainment of sustainable well-being.

We shall also contribute the Bayanihan Principle to the collective wisdom of the broader Humanity, so that the international community could consciously apply it in effectively addressing the crisis of planetary climate and ecology, the global crisis of economic mismanagement and on the challenge of building real and lasting world peace.

May we be guided and aided by Bathalang Maykapal and joined by many of our compatriots, so we can fully succeed in all our efforts to bring back the Bayanihan Principle to our social mainstream. We therefore commit, individually and together, to study diligently, deeply, and comprehensively, and to popularize the Bayanihan Principle, in order that this historic task be completely accomplished within our lifetime.

Separate strengths and efforts of individual Filipinos can never suffice; the gigantic pile-up of problems can be defeated only by the synergy of efforts of numerous heroic servants of our national community. Let us synergize our capabilities and bring back the Bayanihan Principle to the mainstream of our life as a nation! MagsanibLakas, Pilipinas!

Prepared and posted by Ding Reyes, Nov. 16, 2009