2007 December | Mindanao Writers' Blogs
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In RP, Mindanawons least hopeful in greeting 2008

Is this survey valid and reflective of reality?  From the MindaNews dispatch >>>> Hope for the New Year is high nationwide at 91%  but in Mindanao, residents were more hopeful for 2007 than they are for 2008, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed. The survey, conducted nationwide from November 30 to December 3 ...

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PROUT and World Poverty

Dr. Ravi Batra, known economics professor and author of several books has recorded a short video illustrating the need of a PROUT revolution to end corruption all over the world. He pointed out how corruption is the key factor ...

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Life in the Plateau

Thanks to all who sent messages to my Kamuyot bag. Ma’am Prix (and to all who are unfamiliar with it), Kamuyot is Bukidnon’s version of the tinalak. It’s made of sinamay from abaca fiber, from plantations scattered in Bukidnon’s rugged terrain. Of course, its woven mostly by indigenous women who sell it to ...

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entitlement

Anyone travelling from abroad starts worrying as soon as the airplane lands at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila. The din of applause from Filipinos who are eager to reunite with family and motherland dissipates when the putrid air of the city starts to fill your lungs. And then the anticipation ...

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Ang KaSaMa 7th Anniversary

Congratulations to AKSM 7th AnniversaryVictory to the benevolent “horn blower” of the new dawn in Maharlika. Today (12/15/2007), we are celebrating Ang KaSaMa’s 7th years of existence and its contribution for the social advancement in the name of development and progress with all its services, sacrifices and dedication ...

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After Capitalism

After Capitalism: Prout’s Vision for a New World sheds light on the Progressive Utilization Theory, or Prout, a socio-economic model based on decentralized economic democracy, cooperative enterprise and the ethics of inclusion. Noam Chomsky, Frei Betto, Johan Galtung, Leonardo Boff, Sohail Inayatullah, Ravi Batra, Mark Friedman and Marcos Arruda – have ...

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kabuki

Outisde the Kabuki-za Theater in Ginza, Tokyo.I thought that sitting through a three-hour movie like Lord of the Rings was exhausting considering all those epic battles such as the one at Helm's Deep. But ...