Support the Sumilao farmers!

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"To make democracy successful, economic power must be vested in the hands of the local people and the minimum requirements of life must be guaranteed to all. This is the only way to ensure the economic liberation of the people."

-- Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar

Photo Credit by Jimmy Domingo
Sumilao
54 farmers from Sumilao, walking for 60 days, from Bukidnon to Manila, covering 1,700 kilometers, to ask President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to distribute their ancestral lands to them under the agrarian reform program...

The Sumilao farmers have endured being away from home, being in uncertain places, with uncertain outcomes. They have nothing but the solidarity and goodness of people, and the hope that, in the end, truth and social justice will prevail.

Sign the online petition here:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/sumilaofarmers/

Read more updates here:
A Position Paper on the Sumilao Farmers’ Struggle for Access to their Land

Latest book of Dr Ravi Batra

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Dr. Ravi Batra - is author of six international bestsellers, two of which appeared on the New York Times list. He has appeared on CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC, and CNBC and has been profiled in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and many more. He is a professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

THIS BOOK is a must read for anyone interested in bringing sanity to the global economy, which is currently afflicted with numerous debts, deficits and special interests. It is also a must read for those seeking an objective evaluation of the Bush administration’s policies making headlines today. The simplicity with which Batra presents his arguments and counters the orthodoxy will astound you.

The book also includes Batra’s forecast made in 1980 that Islam would convulse the western world around the year 2000. The 9/11 massacre was clearly foreseen by the author.







Contents:
- The Two Faces of Alan Greenspan
- The Social Security Fraud
- Greenonomics: Free Profits Define Free Markets
- Greenspan’s Intellectual Fraud
- Greenspan and the Globe
- What Causes a Stock Market Bubble and Its Crash?
- The Income Tax Rate and Our Living Standard
- Does the Minimum Wage Create Unemployment?
- Greenspan and the Galloping Trade Deficit
- The Legacy of Greenomics
- Economic Reform

Hunghong sa Yuta: 32nd Gawad Urian 2009 nominee

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Hunghong sa Yuta ( "Earth's Whisper" )
A film by Arnel Mardoquio

MTV Credits:
Music: "Pambihirang Nilikha" by Popong Landero
Cinematographer: Egay Navarro
Editor: Arthur Ian L. Garcia

32nd Gawad Urian 2009 nominee for:


Best Picture
Borthers of Sacred Heart Youth Mininstry

Best Director
Arnel Mardoquio

Best Screenplay
Arnel Mardoquio

Best Production Design

Best Cinematography
Egay Navarro

Best Music
awarded to Popong Landero

Best Sound
Emmanuel Nolet Clemente

The 4th Sunrise Festival

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The sunrise festival is a celebration of arts held annually in the different regions of Maharlika (Philippines).

This socio-cultural festivity is a collaborative effort among professional and upcoming artists in the country, it is now the 4th national event organized by the Maharlika Artists and Writers Federation (MAWF).

The festival is a continuing national cultural movement to develop a high value and a total integration of all aspects of arts: music, theatre, literary, dance, senses, emotions and intuition and spirit.

Sunrise Festival

Kindly visit the web site: http://maharlikasunrisefest.com

Meme Na Mindanaw

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A lullaby for peace
concept & lyrics by Albert E. Alejo, S.J.



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