Rome, Italy September 18, 2014
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| Subject: | On NUPL's 7th anniversary: Keeping the faith and the fires in our bellies |
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| Date: | Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:46:55 +0800 |
| From: | National Union of Peoples' Lawyers <nupl2007@gmail.com> |
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Keeping the faith and the fires in our bellies --
All in a day’s work
Amidst the intensity of work, whirlwind of deadlines, and fierce slaying of the evil dragons on every front, the 7th Founding Anniversary of the NUPL passed us by.
Yet without fuss and fanfare, each of us were actually commemorating without the floodlights out there in the trenches of the fight for justice for the people.
We've been together seven years in struggle with the people, on the frontlines, on the ground - with hope, in solidarity, with a vision.
To all the best lawyers and law students that money can not buy, carry on despite the challenges, frustrations and our trials. We can not put the expectations and needs of so many who depend on us, for a sliver of promise, down. Indeed, the harder the struggle, the sweeter the victory.
17 September 2014
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National Union of Peoples' Lawyers (NUPL)
3F Erythrina Bldg., Maaralin corner Matatag Sts. Central District,Quezon City, Philippines
Telefax no.920-6660
Email addresses: nupl2007@gmail.com and nuplphilippines@yahoo.com
Follow us on twitter @nuplphilippines and facebook @https://www.facebook.com/
Visit the NUPL website at http://www.nupl.net/
"By calling yourselves the ‘people’s lawyer,’ you have made a remarkable choice. You decided not to remain in the sidelines. Where human rights are assaulted, you have chosen to sacrifice the comfort of the fence for the dangers of the battlefield. But only those who choose to fight on the battlefield live beyond irrelevance.”
"After long years of experience as a people’s lawyer, I can honestly say it has been a treasured journey of self-fulfillment and rewarding achievement. I know it will be the same for all others who choose to tread this path."
Visit the NUPL website at http://www.nupl.net/
"By calling yourselves the ‘people’s lawyer,’ you have made a remarkable choice. You decided not to remain in the sidelines. Where human rights are assaulted, you have chosen to sacrifice the comfort of the fence for the dangers of the battlefield. But only those who choose to fight on the battlefield live beyond irrelevance.”
- Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno, in his message at the NUPL Founding Congress, September 15, 2007
"After long years of experience as a people’s lawyer, I can honestly say it has been a treasured journey of self-fulfillment and rewarding achievement. I know it will be the same for all others who choose to tread this path."
- Atty. Romeo T. Capulong, NUPL founding chairperson, in his keynote address at the Fifth Conference of Lawyers in Asia Pacific ( COLAP V), September 18, 2010
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