Sunday, December 20, 2009

Nicanor Perlas

Nicanor Jesus “Nicky” Pineda Perlas III, born January 10, 1950 in Manila, Philippines, is a Filipino activist and a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”) in 2003. Currently, he is also a Philippine presidential aspirant for the 2010 presidential elections.

Perlas was the son of Jesus C. Perlas, Sr. and Anunciacion M. Pinda. He finished his elementary education at the Ateneo de Manila University in 1964 and finished his secondary education in the same school in 1968. While spending his high school years at the Ateneo, he was the Athlete of the Year and the recipient of the Silver Medal of the school’s Math and Science Club in 1968.


Perlas pursued his undergraduate studies at the College of Agriculture in Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental. With the highest honors, he graduated Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, major in Agronomy and minor in Agricultural Economics in the said educational institution in 1972. He would then seek to pursue his masteral studies at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños, Laguna, but would soon be forced to abandon his studies after being involved in the opposition of the Bataan nuclear power plant under the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos.

n June 17, 2009, Nicanor Perlas announced his intentions to become one of the candidates for the Philippine Presidential Elections in May 2010. He announced this during a press conference at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani in Quezon City. [9]

“Perlas is the latest in the list of personalities offering themselves as alternatives to traditional presidential aspirants.”

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