DITCHAY ROXAS: I just heard that Gina Lopez was not confirmed this morning. That very slight glimmer of light at the end of this fucking dark tunnel has just been diminished even further. Yes she is not perfect. Yes she is an oligarch and bourgeois as hell. Yes she isn’t technical nor legalistic. Yes she is an imperfect human being like all the rest of us but goddamn it she carries a torch for the country and our people, a torch of hope and light that glows from a distance and brightens the horizon. We live in a world that is crumbling, an environment that is dying, and one of the very few in government who has the guts, the heart and the vision to do something about it gets tossed out like rotten fruit by maggots eating at the flesh of our gangrenous society. May they wallow in their stinking rottenness!!!
c’mon, mr. president! you promised. a war on drugs. and. on. mining. pinaasa mo kami, sir!
“Gina was not the loser. The nation is.”–Tony Lopez
“Mining, after Gina Lopez” http://manilastandard.net/opinion/columns/virtual-reality-by-tony-lopez/235829/mining-after-gina-lopez.html
“He should take over the DENR, which is what he had intended to do before Gina, and then appoint her as his senior undersecretary.” http://opinion.inquirer.net/103773/prez-re-denr-portfolio
Interest groups, not political parties, blocked Gina Lopez as environment secretary
http://www.manilatimes.net/interest-groups-not-political-parties-blocked-gina-lopez-environment-secretary/325745/