CREATIVE REPORTING SCRIPT

On screen...
(Slide 1)
Article II. Declaration of Principles and State Policies
Ann: Good evening everyone!
(Slide 2)
Section 22. The State recognizes and promotes the rights of indigenous cultural
communities within the framework of national unity and development.
Ann: Indigenous peoples are united by a circle of life. It is a circle of life that circles
the earth, the waters, the air -- what we call...the environment. They are often
thought of as the primary stewards of the planets biological resources. Their ways of
life and cosmovisions have contributed to the protection of the natural environment
on which they depend on.
This section recognizes constitutionally the existence and the rights of the
indigenous cultural communities. It directs the State to promote their rights within
the framework of national unity and development. Thus, the State is bound and may
even enact laws that will consider their customs, traditions, beliefs, and interests,
while retaining their rights to participate fully, if they so choose, in the political,
economic, social and cultural life of the State.
Indigenous people in the Philippines generally live in geographically isolated areas
with a lack of access to basic social services and few opportunities for mainstream
economic activities or political participation.
They are the people with the least education and the least meaningful political
representation. In contrast, commercially valuable natural resources such as
minerals, timber and water are concentrated in their areas, making them
continuously vulnerable to development aggression from both private and public
extractive industries. Cite case of Cruz vs DENR
The indigenous territories are the highest and most threatened biodiversity.
Indigenous communities and the environments they maintain are increasingly under
assault from mining, oil, dam building, logging, and agro-industrial projects.
Indigenous communities resist this invasion with tremendous courage and skill, but
their protests are too often ignored by governments and corporations.
(While the music is playing, various acts will be performed.)
1. Indigenous people happily working on their lands.
2. A person tagged as PRIVATE LAND OWNER will take away a parcel of land
and act to build a MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION which continue to

destroy the forests where they live and their sacred environments.

On screen....
Narr:
(Slide 3)
REGALIAN DOCTRINE: Under the Regalian doctrine which is embodied in Section
2, Article XII of the 1987 Constitution, all lands of the public domain belong to the
State, which is the source of any asserted right to ownership of land. All lands not
appearing to be clearly within private ownership are presumed to belong to the State.
3. A person tagged as REGALIAN DOCTRINE will take the other lands.
4. The indigenous people will act to be literally sad.
On screen...
(Slide 4)
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8371 The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997 Read RA
provision. In the case of Cruz vs. DENR, the SC dismissed the case because of a
tie in the voting. But who do you think deserves it more?
5. A person tagged as REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8371 will approached the
indigenous people and hug them.
6. Then a person tagges as STATE (parens patrea) will approach the people and
give back their lands and shake the hand of the person tagged as REPUBLIC
ACT NO. 8371.
(All the people will leave the stage)
On screen....
(Slide 5)
On screen:
Section 23. The State shall encourage non-governmental, community-based, or
sectoral organizations that promote the welfare of the nation.
Interviewer: According to the Securites and Exchange Commission, number of
houses owned 28. Totoo ba iyon?
Janet Napoles: Hindi po.
Interviewer: Oh! Ilan ang bahay mo?
Tatlo?
Ay konti naman masyado! Nasaan ang others?
Janet Napoles: Doon lang po sa amin sa BIR sasagutin
Interviewer: Number of bank accounts, 416 in 17 different banks, ilan lahat?

Janet Napoles: Hindi po ganyan kadami. I invoke my right to self incrimination.

Interviewer: Is it true that you have more than 20 existing NGOs?
Janel Napoles: I invoke my right against self-incrimination.
Interviewer: Differentiate
organizations?
Janel Napoles:

non-government,

community-based

and

sectoral

Flash in the screen:

Interviewer: What was your purpose in building these NGOs?

Janel Napoles: I invoke my right against self-incrimnation
On-screen:
Ms Ann: NGOs are generally not membership-based, relying instead on paid staff,
and are typically not-for-profit organizations with smal organization structures formed
to provide specialist knowledge or services to, or on behalf of, particular sections of
the population.
http://www.gdrc.org/ngo/lecture15.html
(Slide 6)
Section 25. The State shall ensure the autonomy of local governments.
Interviewees: Magtajas and Municipalities in Laguna Lake Authority Pmagtajas vs.
Pryce.welcome Mayor Magtajas, fromlease
Interviewer: What is the significance to local autonomy?
Magtajas: It is meant to free local governments from the well-nigh absolute control by
the legislature which characterized local government under the 1935 Constitution.
So what is the significance of autonomy in your case?
Interviewer: Are autonomy and decentralization the same?
Laguna Lake person: Autonomy is either decentralization of administration or
decentrilazation of power. There is decentralization of administration when the
central government delegates administrative powers to political subdivisions in order
to broaden the base of government power and in the process to make local
governments more responsive and accountable, and ensure their fullest
development as self-reliant communities and make them more effective partners in
the pursuit of national development and social progress.
Decentralization of power, on the other hand, involves an abdication of political
power in favcor of local government units declared to be autonomous. In the case
the autonomous government is free to chart its own destiny and shape in its future
with minimum intervention from central government authorities.