Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan - Manalangin, Manindigan, Makialam

SLB invites you to this year's KWENTONG BAYAN with a panel consisting of:

(1) ATTY. CARLOS MEDINA JR. is legal counsel of One Voice, Executive Director of the Ateneo Human Rights Center and co-convenor of the Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE). As an election law expert, he will unveil to us scenarios of this country's first national automated elections.

He graduated from the Ateneo de Manila School of Law, where he currently teaches. He has an LLM from the University of London and an MPA from Harvard University. He is also the Secretary-General of the Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism, and the Chairperson of the GRP Joint Monitoring Committee on the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law between the GRP and NDF.

(2) DR. PABLO MANALASTAS is an IT expert who studied the vulnerabilities of the machines that will be used on May 10, 2010. As a faculty of the Ateneo and UP computer science departments, he co-signed the letter addressed to COMELEC Chair Jose Melo, asking the poll body for a copy of the source code of the PCOS (Precinct Count Optical Scan) programs in order to check for vulnerabilities.

(3) PPCRV (Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting) representative who will talk about their commitment towards honest, clean, credible and peaceful elections and how concerned citizens could safeguard the electoral process. PPCRV, a Church-based organization, is COMELEC's accredited citizen's arm for the May 10, 2010 computerized national elections.

(4) Commissioner GREGORIO LARRAZABAL of the Commission on Elections 

This forum will be held

                        on                    9 January 2010, Saturday

                        at                     1:45 p.m. (Registration to start at 1:00 p.m.)

                        at the               Cardinal Sin Center, Loyola  School of Theology,

    Ateneo de Manila University Campus, Loyola Heights      

    Quezon City