Bangon Pilipinas Party believes that the fruit of righteousness is freedom or emancipation from unjust social structures and systemic greed and exploitation. Neither lawlessness nor licentiousness, but true and genuine liberty to do what is good and right, is the fruit of righteousness.
Bangon will pursue the emancipation of the Filipino people, along with the other programs of the Bangon platform:
A. Immediately
1. By increasing the budget for poverty alleviation in existing programs
2. By withdrawing AO 187, which unduly and unjustly controls membership in the National Anti-Poverty Commission
3. By bringing back the DENR’s Department Administrative Order (DAO) 2001-17, a landmark regulation in the use of the Archipelagic Principle in delineating municipal waters, thereby protecting our waters as well as our small and middle fishermen
4. By calling and leading consultations between all stakeholders on the issuance of Certificates of Ancestral Domain Titles (CADT) as regards Ancestral Domain, to settle questions of jurisdiction once and for all
B. In the medium term
1. By launching the Green, Biodiverse and Sustainable Agricultural and Agroforestry Security and Productivity Program
2. By establishing the Philippine Self-Help and Self-Determination Program, which prioritizes self-help before foreign aid especially in the matter of research and development in converting raw materials and natural resources into finished products
C. In the long term
Subject to the collective wisdom of the Filipino people through their duly elected representatives in a Constitutional convention to be called for the purpose, by submitting the question of shifting to the federal form of government under a presidential model whereby proceeds of taxation, tariffs and customs will stay in the province or region where it is paid, subject to mandatory contribution to the national government for running its national offices, and subject further to mandatory contribution to poorer regions and/or provinces as may be identified by NEDA, or by clustering poorer provinces with richer ones to ensure that resources are evenly spread out in the federal region, thereby diminishing red tape and corruption and subjecting funds to much greater transparency and accountability at the local level, and emancipating localities from the burden of subsidizing a top-heavy national government.