By U.S. News Agency / Asian

The quest for long lasting peace in the country was revved up with the delivery of half a million responses to the “Yes for Peace Bayanihan para sa Kapayapaan 2010″ to Malacañang that were generated from October 1 to December 16, 2010 from various parts of Luzon .

Lead organizer Ernesto Alcanzare said “Yes for Peace” is trying to build a democratic base for the permanent cessation of hostilities and the conduct of open and multi-lateral peace talks.

He said close to a hundred members of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) and the Philippine Postal Corporation (PhilPost) delivered the half million responses representing the “voice and will” of Filipinos on the quest for long lasting peace in the country.

Alcanzare said in a letter to President Benigno S. Aquino III, Assistant Postmaster General Mama S. Lalanto certified that the PhilPost has thus far received 500,000 responses to the campaign and that responses continue to be received daily.

Lalanto assured President Aquino that the PhilPost will remain committed to Yes for Peace and is looking forward to the permanent cessation of hostilities by 2011.

The 500,000 responses were loaded on the fire truck of APO Malabon to manifest the participants’ resolve to extinguish the fire of hostilities that have wasted billions of pesos of people’s money in wars supposedly fought for and in behalf of the people who suffer the brunt of being displaced from their homes and sources of livelihood.

Rene Gino, President of APO Malabon, said “It is high time that we, the Filipino people, get our acts together to win this revolution of ink and paper against guns and bullets!”

As expected, the Yes for Peace march proceed peacefully through the University belt and no untoward incident happened between the representatives of APO, the Presidential Security Guard and Malacañang even if only the transmittal letter of Lalanto was received supposedly because of lack of space at the Malacañang records office.