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An Essay Of The Threat Level To Society |
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 JJ writes "Never has it been mans interest to prohibit or restrict any type of expression - as they say to anyone. And yet in the world we live in, any institution or organization believing that they are being threaten or potential threat on political, social or moral order are applying preventive censorship on those who express strong disapproval or criticism. "
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Posted by don on Monday, October 09 @ 16:37:38 CDT (397 reads)
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Battlecry |
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| leviuqse writes "In one of those rare family gatherings a number of relatives asked me why am I painstakingly staying here, why don’t I go abroad ‘cause according to them “wala na raw pag-asa ang Pilipinas”, I told them that “as much as possible ayaw kong umalis dito at hindi ako naniniwalang walang pag-asa dito sa Pinas."
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Posted by don on Tuesday, December 13 @ 00:39:30 CST (902 reads)
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PadalaUpdates No. 7 -- World Without Filipinos |
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4given1126 writes "
OFW-Connect
Recieved by Email From: “Rachelle C. Garcia, M.D."
Everybody is special,
regardless of whatever nationality we are. All that we have and our status at
this moment are all just “borrowed” and gifts given to us at no cost. What is
unimaginable is a “world without HIM” which is indescribably chaotic and dim….
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Posted by don on Thursday, November 10 @ 12:39:08 CST (899 reads)
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GEN. HOTCHKISS DISCUSSES CONSERVATION EFFORTS OF THE PHILIPPINE EAGLE FOUNDATION |
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| The Philippine Eagle Foundation is a private, non-stock, non-profit organization
dedicated to the conservation and protection of the endangered Philippine Eagle.
By using the eagle as its flagship for conservation, it has been able to
undertake direct actions that benefit the species, other wildlife and the people
who share its rainforest habitat. The Foundation prides itself with taking
direct actions and achieving results which has earned it an enviable reputation
among the non-government organizations’ community in the Philippines. The
dedication and transparency with which the Foundation undertakes in its
conservation actions have created broad support among grassroots communities,
schools, local government units, the business community, and the general public.
Its website is www.philippineeagle.org.
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Posted by don on Sunday, October 16 @ 18:48:31 CDT (536 reads)
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AF-USA Joins SF Bay Area Combined Federal Campaign |
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| The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) recently accredited Ayala Foundation USA (AF-USA) as one of the charitable institutions to accept donations from federal employees from the San Francisco Bay Area. This year's campaign kicked-off last September 1 at the Federal Building in Oakland, with representatives from the various eligible non-profits agencies. AF-USA manager Anajay Jayme and former executive director Christina Leaño actively participated in the event to encourage support for worthy projects of the AF-USA.
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Posted by don on Saturday, October 15 @ 23:41:37 CDT (566 reads)
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FR. CULLEN CITES “VERY GOOD WORKING RELATIONS” |
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WITH RP GOV’T ON THE ISSUE OF CHILDREN IN JAILS
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Fr. Shay Cullen cited his “very good working relations with
the Philippine government” in addressing the issue of children locked up in
Philippine jails together with adult convicts in today’s press conference at the
National Press Club (NPC) in Washington, D.C.
The Columban missionary, who heads PREDA (People’s Recovery Empowerment
Development Assistance Foundation, Inc.), also said that he has had “very good
cooperation with the Philippine Supreme Court,” which amended procedures in
order to allow the release without bail of 150 to 200 children to PREDA’S
custody legally in the last nine months.
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Posted by don on Wednesday, September 28 @ 17:29:38 CDT (483 reads)
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Open Letter to Community Regarding WestBay |
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OPEN LETTER TO COMMUNITY REGARDING MEDICARE INVESTIGATION & WEST BAY PILIPINO
MULTI-SERVICES
As long-time residents, service providers, clients, former West Bay staff, and
leaders in the Filipino community, we are concerned about the ongoing
investigation that is being conducted by the FBI on medicare fraud, West Bay’s
apparent involvement in the scandal, and how such could impact the continuing
provision of services to West Bay beneficiaries and other recipients of public
assistance.
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Posted by don on Wednesday, September 28 @ 14:00:28 CDT (551 reads)
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The Facts About West Bay & Why The Community Is Demanding Accountability |
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| On July 7, 2005, members of the Filipino community attended the City’s Finance Committee hearing to express concerns over the management of West Bay Pilipino Multi-Services and the organization’s inability to provide quality services to the Filipino community. This letter is to provide the facts behind why the community has taken a stand to hold the organization accountable and who is responsible for the reservation of West Bay’s funds.
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Posted by don on Wednesday, September 28 @ 13:52:06 CDT (536 reads)
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Law enforcers who lock up kids with adults liable for 12-year jail term |
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| The ghastly state norm and practice of throwing 13,300 to 20,000 children in
police jails packed with adults—including those facing capital offenses like
murder and rape—is brazenly illegal, nay, a criminal act, for which law
enforcers, and their superiors who walk in the corridors of power, are liable
for up to 12 years imprisonment.
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Posted by don on Wednesday, August 31 @ 18:10:54 CDT (286 reads)
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Adoptees Return To Philippines To Advocate For Post-Adoption Services |
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| New York, NEW YORK, July 26, 2005 - The Filipino Adoptees Network (F.A.N.) is pleased to announce that two representatives will return to the Philippines in August to advocate for increased post-adoption services for adoptees. Lorial Crowder, 28, and Mark Kunkel, 29, will attend the 8th Global Consultation on Child Welfare Services and the 3rd International Conference of Adoptive Families of Filipino Children, hosted by the Philippines Inter-Country Adoption Board. Ms. Crowder, MSW, and Mr. Kunkel, BA, will give a presentation on "The Psychological Impact of Growing Up Adopted in Mixed Race Communities." Using examples from their personal histories, Ms. Crowder and Mr. Kunkel will discuss the neurobiology of adoption and the need for self-determined post-adoption services for Filipino adoptees.
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Posted by don on Wednesday, August 03 @ 18:17:14 CDT (399 reads)
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FAHSI Awarded $123K in New York City DYCD-OST Funds |
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City supports innovative youth programs for Filipino immigrant youth
(Jamaica, NY) - The Filipino American Human Services, Inc. (FAHSI) announced,
today, that
New York City's Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) has
approved a $123,000 multi-year contract to provide continued after-school and
summer programs targeting Filipino at-risk youth.
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Posted by don on Wednesday, August 03 @ 12:12:31 CDT (297 reads)
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Child pornography deadly cause of child abuse |
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Fr. Shay Cullen
www.preda.org
In most countries there is another damaging impact of the computer revolution-
the cyber sex over the Internet. Today young people can connect to the internet
in a cyber cafe for a few pesos and with a simple click of a button, they can
connect to web sites that show the most perverse images of child sexual abuse.
This has a powerful impact on the mind of a young boy. The influence can fill
his feelings with sexual arousal intense curiosity and temptation to make sexual
experimentation with children younger than him.
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Posted by don on Tuesday, June 21 @ 12:16:09 CDT (158 reads)
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Telltale Signs: TRAILBLAZERS |
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Rodel Rodis
While passing through the Western Addition section of San Francisco recently, I
came across an African American community center whose front wall was adorned
with the painted portraits of its past leaders. "These were our trailblazers",
the painting seemed to say, "honor them, and be guided by them."
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Posted by don on Monday, June 20 @ 19:09:19 CDT (180 reads)
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Atikha Campaigns for Overseas Filipinos Support |
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to San Pablo City Community Development
Atikha started in March a two-year campaign that will mobilize overseas Filipino
resources in the US and Canada for the economic development of communities of
San Pablo City. The campaign according to Ms. Mai Añonuevo, Executive Director
of Atikha is aptly titled Sharing Expertise and Resources, Changing Lives and
Developing Sustainable Communities: Mobilizing Overseas Filipino Resources for
the Development of Communities of San Pablo City.
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Posted by don on Monday, June 20 @ 18:42:00 CDT (181 reads)
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Sharing Expertise and Resources, Changing Lives and Developing Sustainable |
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Sharing Expertise and Resources, Changing Lives and Developing Sustainable
Communities:
Mobilizing Overseas Filipino Resources for the Development of Communities of San
Pablo City
Background Information:
An Asian Development Bank study in 2004 stated in its findings what has been
obvious to most of us in the field of migration and development---that overseas
migration of Filipinos has not substantially contributed to the country's
economic development. In the book, Coming Home: Women, Migration and
Reintegration that was published in 2002, Atikha has already stated that
"although work overseas has raised the standard of living of families, it has
not contributed substantially to the economic development…"
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Posted by don on Monday, June 20 @ 18:38:38 CDT (160 reads)
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BUILDING SAFETY NETS FOR FILIPINO EXPATRIATES: |
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Networking for Empowerment
The Philippine Consulate HK ---- Filipino Expatriates in Hong Kong met last May
15, 2005 to discuss vulnerabilities among Filipinos abroad, identify areas of
hope and promote a unified response to interrelated concerns regarding migrant
welfare and security. There were 72 participants: mostly leaders/representatives
of migrant organizations and migrant care providers in both the government and
the public sector. The forum was sponsored by Global Filipinos, a non-partisan
coalition of overseas Filipino organizations, in cooperation with the the
Philippine Consulate-HK, Hong Kong News, UGAT Foundation and Bank of the
Philippine Islands.
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Posted by don on Monday, June 20 @ 18:29:52 CDT (168 reads)
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Stop Killing Our Prophets! |
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| Another martyr is felled by an assassin's bullet. The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) condemns in the strongest terms, the brutal slaying of REV. EDISON LAPUZ, Conference Minister of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP), leader of the Ecumenical Movement in Eastern Visayas, and officer of the Promotion of Church People's Response (PCPR) on May 12, 2005, in San Isidro Leyte.
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Posted by don on Friday, June 17 @ 19:34:13 CDT (189 reads)
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Telltale Signs: THE WORDING OF THE PLAQUE |
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Rodel Rodis
The proposal to install a corrective plaque by the Dewey Monument in Union
Square that would serve the same educational purpose as the plaque by the
Pioneers Monument in the San Francisco Civic Center has drawn the support of the
city arts official who worked on the wording of the Pioneers Monument plaque.
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Posted by don on Monday, June 13 @ 13:43:07 CDT (239 reads)
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Deporting citizens shows an immigration policy gone mad |
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by: Fr. Shay Cullen
"She is the beautiful lady that speaks good English", that is how Angelie, a 13
year old child from Preda's center for children in Olongapo described her friend
Vivian Alverez, 46, the long lost mother of two who was improperly deported from
Australia four years ago. Almost a year later she was transferred to the Sisters
Hospice in Olongapo City where the Preda staff and children visited her every
week.
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Posted by don on Monday, June 13 @ 13:03:42 CDT (194 reads)
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