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Con-Ass My Ass!
Posted by ayel in Blogging, Current Events, Leadership on June 8th, 2009
SCRAP HR 1109. Let Arroyo finish her term in 2010.
I’m not a lawyer. I have not studied the Philippine Constitution in depth, either. I cannot talk about the constitutionality of the constituent assembly but I believe that the House Resolution that paves the way for the Constituent Assembly is nothing but the administration’s show of strength as it holds the loyalty of the majority of the members of the House of Representatives. How else could they take advantage of the number of congressmen on their side than to use it to spur Charter Change that may extend Arroyo’s term?
I have talked to someone who fought against Marcos and she told me that she is seeing today the same game that the late President played more than two decades ago. She also told me that the people behind the Arroyo administration today are old-timers in the game called manipulation.
I can see greed.
What actually prompted me to write this post was an article on Philippine Daily Inquirer that quoted Executive Eduardo Ermita saying that we should keep mum about the Con-Ass and observe if it really has something to do with the upcoming elections.
What the hell is he talking about? He wants the people to keep quite in the corner and wait for doom to come! Come on, we’ve been through this before. The Filipino people will never again let the ghosts of the Marcos dictatorship haunt us again.
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Sarangans Collaborate to Help School Children to Read
Posted by ayel in Blogging, Current Events, Features, Leadership, Mindanao, Sarangani on April 13th, 2009
NOT ALL school children can read. That is a sad fact about the current education situation in many parts of the country. They are called frustrations readers. This problem hinders kids from getting the most out of their daily lessons, which is deemed to have a great impact to them as they progress on their journey of education.
Grade one pupils from Alabel Central Elementary School and SPED Center receive books from the Alcantara Foundation last year. *Image from QUEST
To help solve this problem, the Conrado and Ladislawa Alcantara Foundation Inc., the Office of the Provincial Governor of Sarangani, the Provincial SK Federation (PPSK), the Local Government Units of each municipality, the Department of Education, and the Ayala Foundation, Inc. joined hands in the Sarangani Big Brother Season 2: Reading is Fun, a reading program.
Sarangani Big Brother, which started last year, is a volunteer-based reading program that runs for 15 days during the summer. Volunteer school teachers will extend their services to the identified frustration readers. Youth volunteers, the Ate’s and Kuya’s of the paraticipants, are also mobilized as teacher aids that will help ensure that the participants obtain optimum learning in the program.
Tomorrow, April 14-16 is the first round of the training of the teachers and the youth volunteers in Maasim, Sarangani Province. That will be followed by the other six municipalities of Sarangani.
Ayala Young Leaders Congress alumni, together with other volunteers from PPSK and the units under the Office of the Governor, will facilitate the training.
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Being the senior AYLC alumnus in the group, I was tasked to talk on Servant Leadership. I am both honored and pressured because this is the topic that I think our Mentor, Sir Monch Mossessgeld, has the credibility to deliver. Haha. I think I will just borrow his words.
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Death of Another Comrade
Posted by ayel in Blogging, Features, Leadership, People on March 10th, 2009
He lived to uphold the rights, especially of the weak, corrupted by the abusive rule
He lived to opposed oppression as caused by development aggression
He lived as an intelligent critic to all wicked
He lived to protect the environment
He lived to stand for what is right
He lived to value life
He lived
He was killed
— Lui –
WHEN I came home this afternoon the news on TVPatrol SocSKSarGen mentioned the name, Eliezer “Boy” Billanes and I my attention was glued on the report.
No, not again, I thought. He’s the nth activitist that has been killed in this country, another name in the long list of good men and women who had been killed because of their convictions.
I met Sir Boy at a multisectoral conference on various social issues back in college and in the mobilizations that followed. The people of South Cotabato is fortunate to have people like him who stands up for them.
He’s been active in the protests against large-scale copper and gold mining in Tampakan, South Cotabato.
He was shot dead at about 4:30PM yesterday, March 9, 2009 in Koronadal City, South Cotabato.
His death is a loss for the progressive community. But definitely, the fight will go on. This has just given his comrades all the more reason to stand up for justice.
*The photo above is from Kuya Lui’s blog
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First WordPress 2.7 QuickPress Post
Posted by ayel in Blogging, Leadership on December 25th, 2008
YAY,I’VE upgraded to WordPress 2.7! This is the Christmas gift I’ve just given this blog, Homeward Bound.
And note, I did it so painlessly, thanks to WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin. Although this plugin has given me some troubles about a month ago with my other WP installs, it work perfectly well (so far) with this one. So, hooray to WPAU and WP 2.7!
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The Gumasa Report
Posted by ayel in Current Events, Leadership, Teaching on December 16th, 2008
WAS IT fun?
Sure, sure. Haha. As I’ve anticipated, it was quite stressful because of some eventual glitches. But a dip in the crystal clear water, a sumptuous meal of grilled talakitok and malasugue, kinilaw na maya-maya, among others, and some hearty laughter with co-teachers were are worth it.
It’s been over a year since I last went to Gumasa. There were some developments — the road from the Poblacion of Glan was being concretized and new resorts have opened. In fact the venue of the event was a new resort called Coco White Beach.
So why were we there today?
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