Be not afraid

I’m getting weirder emails by the minute.  Just received
this message from “Be Not Afraid” movement on a symposium on “HOW
THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES
WERE CHEATED IN THE  2004 ELECTIONS,” to be held
this Friday, August 5.  Details as follows:

• Time: August
  5, 2005; 9:00-11:00am
• Venue: BULWAGANG TANDANG SORA
  Institute of Social
  Work and Community Development (ISWCD)
  University of the Philippines
  Diliman, Quezon City

Check out http://www.888.ph for the movement’s website.  Judging from
the sidebar, I’m getting a sense of who’s sponsoring this stuff. 
But I reckon it’s an interesting discussion, so I’m posting it here.

Sponsor:

• BE NOT AFRAID Movement

Co-Sponsors:

• Public Administration
  291 Class (under Prof. Edna Co),
• Public Administration
  231 Class and 239 Class (under Prof. Leonor Briones), and
• College of Public Administration and Governance (CPAG),
• University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City

The National Symposium is intended to provide information
on how the people of the Philippines were cheated in the 2004 Elections and
take a consensus-for-action from an assembly of the leaders and representatives
of institutions, organizations and movements, NGO’s,  civil society,
academe, business, labor groups,  religous, studentry, diplomats and other
stake holders for the Filipino people.

At
the end of the Symposium, the audience will

• Know and learn how the people of the Philippines
  were cheated in the 2004 elections;  how was it prepared, performed and
  detected; and
• Express their thoughts on how to develop the appropriate
  courses of action.

The
Symposium will feature three main topics:
 

1. A Power Point presentation to help the
   audience understand and appreciate the:

• Process of election from the ballots to the
  provincial/city certificates of canvass.
• The Election Returns, its authenticity features, sections
  and mandated due execution
• How more than 20,000 Election Returns were
  pre-manufactured and introduced into the main process of the electoral
  canvassing
• Indicators and evidences how the pre-manufacturing was
  detected and exposed
• Impact of this fraudulent activity to the results of the
  elections.

2. The exhibition of representative sets of
   the pre-manufactured Election Returns

3. The facilitation of inputs and
   recommended courses of action from the cross-section of the audience.