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June 7, 2009
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009
 

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Outrage rises vs. Con-Ass

BAGUIO CITY — Militant multi-sectoral groups here joined the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and various militant and opposition groups in the national indignation rally against the midnight approval of House Resolution 1109.

Cordi tribes heighten struggle vs. large mines

1ST OF 3 PARTS

BONTOC, Mountain Province – Like the anti-Chico dam struggle in the ‘80’s, tribal elders in this province and nearby Kalinga are renewing their cooperation, including their peace pact (bodong or pechen), in their new struggle to defend their domain from the threat brought about by pending large-scale mine applications.

Brace vs. flu — DOH

 

BAGUIO CITY — The health department advises the public to brace against the common flu and other contagious diseases with the onset of the rainy season, as it issued updates on the ancient influenza, plaguing the world.

Meet vendors’ demand before voluntary transfer

BAGUIO CITY — The Zigzag Lion’s Head Vendors Association volunteered to transfer their stalls on the condition their demands are equally met by the city government that has ordered the removal from their present location by the end of this month.

BLISTT blueprint out soon

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Only three months before the Baguio Centennary on September 1, the blueprint for a greater metropolitan area is yet to be realized with the signing of an agreement Friday snubbed by half of its proposed signatories.

Solon calls for more accessible registration

QUEZON CITY — Assistant Minority Leader and Gabriela Women’s Party Rep.Liza Maza today called on the current administration and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to make the registration process and its requirements more accessible and affordable especially to those who are economically marginalized.

DENR probes landslides in Ifugao

BAGUIO CITY — An ancient landslide in Mt. Mangigihi, Ifugao is now the subject of a probe by a team of geologists from the Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau of the Cordillera Department of Environment and Natural Resources (MGB-DENR-CAR).

Baguio and suburbs, denser than Cordi & RP

BAGUIO CITY – The 2007 Census of Population listed that Baguio City and five more Benguet towns, combined have more population per square kilometer than the region or even the whole country.

Abra journalist case still unsolved

BAGUIO CITY – The Abra-based journalist whose house was fired at almost a month ago by unidentified gunmen appeals to police to immediately resolve the case as she feels threatened with the perpetrators still roaming scott-free.

SP backs Bokod FPIC process complaint

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Indigenous peoples in the ancestral domain of Bokod found allies in the provincial board, which supported their petition that criticized the conduct of the free, prior, informed consent (FPIC) processes in relation to the application for a geothermal plant.

Con-Ass allows GMA in power beyond 2010 — BM

BAGUIO CITY – Bayan Muna Representative Neri Javier Colmenares said that Tuesday’s railroading of House Resolution 1109 upon Palace orders after the Lakas-Kampi merger, is added evidence that Mrs. Arroyo seeks to extend her stay in office beyond her constitutional term.

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Editorial

EDITORIAL: A Machiavellian plot

And so it has come to pass.

Despite widespread public opposition against any attempt to amend the Constitution before the 2010 elections, administration congressmen have opted to throw a monkey wrench in the preparations for the 2010 elections by adopting House Resolution 1109 calling for a Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) to amend the Constitution.


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Columns

BRUTALLY FRANK: Principles of empathic communication: Seek first to understand, then to be understood

Seek first to understand, then to be understood, is habit 5. Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You have spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak, but what about listening? What training or education have you had that enables you to listen so that you really, deeply understand another person from that individual’s own frame of reference?

ADVOCATE’S OVERVIEW: The mess caused by the road widening project at Kennon

All I heard from the commuters like me were but negative comments, even up to the extent of cursing the government and the contractor of the road-widening projects at Camp 8 – Poliwes part of the Kennon Road. I understand how the residents and commuters feel passing that said area. The all-weather road had been transformed into a disastrous and incredible cause of traffic.

ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY 101: Is there only a recession in the United States?

Today’s papers are reporting good news on the United States economy. For instance, a news report on 29 March 2009 says that more than 90% of US economists predict that the US recession will end this year. The survey was conducted by the United States’ National Association for Business Economics among leading economic forecasters. Further, the result of the survey is described to be consistent with the outlook of US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

WEEKLY REFLECTIONS: The Church

We believe the Church is holy: Its holiness is derived from the holiness of Christ. We believe the Church is one: Its oneness is ever directed to a single goal of liberation and reconciliation.

LABOR WATCH: The honest poor and the useless officials

Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human community. We all can treat one another with dignity and respect, provide opportunities to grow toward our fullest lives and help one another discover and develop our unique gifts. We each deserve this and we all can extend it to others.
— Anonymous

WOMEN’S FRONT: Rural and Indigenous Women’s Environment Day: Defend our land and natural resources

FIRST OF TWO PARTS

For rural and indigenous women, land and the environment are inseparable entities. We derive our life, livelihood and survival from the land and the resources within. As farmers, fisherfolk, herders and farm workers, we produce more than half of all the food that is grown all over the world. Women have a critical role in the development of sustainable and ecologically sound management system for environment and natural resources.

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Makan ala Pinoy

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Tukak, ensalada a pipino ken lengnga

Matutudon, adu manen ti agruar a tukak. Maysa a gayyem, ni Jenny i ti Connie’s Salon iti Maharlika, ti nagkiddaw iti exotic a makan a kas ti tukak. Ngem kinunak a nai-feature kon daytoy, kasta met ti adobo nga abal-abal (salagubang), tinuno a dudon ken sinabawan a bato.

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Poems


When the prey strikes


By OLMAYA NGABIT


The Beasts

Blood thirsty beasts stalk them,

Watching them

From a distance at first,

Then slowly inching nearer,

And in a blink of an eye

Pounces on their prey

These beasts they know no mercy

They find satisfaction

In the agony of their prey

They live to kill


The Prey

They know they are being hunted,

That beasts are around somewhere drooling

Well aware that anytime

One of them could be devoured

But they do not scamper

They refuse to be paralyzed by fear

They draw strength in their number

Patiently,

Resiliently,

They wait for the perfect time

To strike down the beasts


The Blow

The rampaging beasts know

Their reign of terror is bound to end

Their pangs and paws bleeding

From trying hard to cling to the throne

But the fall of the beasts is inevitable

When the prey delivers the final blow! #

 
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 30 June 2009 )
 
May 31, 2009 Stories
Written by Northern Dispatch   
Tuesday, 30 June 2009

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May 31, 2009 Stories TOC

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News Articles

Workers picket Lepanto mines

MANKAYAN, Benguet — The mine workers of the Lepanto Mine Division of the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMCo) staged a picket at the general office of the company management to demand a stop to the extended work-rotation scheme and other unfair labor practices.

Teachers seek 9,000 salary increase       

BAGUIO CITY — Representing 500,000 public school teachers nationwide, Professor Antonio Tinio, Alliance of Concerned Teachers president, reiterated the call for a 9,000-peso salary increase over a period of three years during the National Leadership Training and Seminar here on May 29-31.

Vendors, dads meet on city market plan

BAGUIO CITY — Vendors here appeared satisfied as they reached a compromise with the city council on the design of the proposed market temporary building that would replace the makeshift sheds they built after the fire in March.

Ex-employee files libel against JHMC

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — An employee allegedly dismissed illegally by the John Hay Management Corporation (JHMC) Monday filed a libel case against five of his former employers for an advertisement that reportedly maligned him.

Urban poor celebrates 25 years

BAGUIO CITY — The Metro-Baguio wide alliance, Organisasyon dagiti Nakukurapay nga Umili ti Syudad-Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Ornus-Kadamay) celebrated its 25 years of organizing the urban poor in the city Sunday.

2 positive for H1N1 in Cordi

BAGUIO CITY — The Cordillera surveillance on possible cases of people afflicted with the influenza A (H1N1) virus yielded 14 cases as of the last press briefing at the Department of Health (DOH) regional office here Friday afternoon. Two tested positive of the virus.

The revolution goes on despite Balweg’s capture — NPA

BAGUIO CITY — The Chadli Molintas Command (CMC) of the New People’s Army (NPA) of the Ilocos and Cordillera Region said the more than four-decade armed struggle would continue to live on despite the recent arrest of one of the NPA’s top cadres.

Cordi veggies to land in major food-chains

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Major food chains in the country are in the cross-hairs for a Department of Agriculture (DA) organized dry-run order system for temperate vegetables produced in the Cordillera, DA regional officials disclosed here Friday.

Benguet joins anti- plastic bandwagon

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The provincial board adopted Monday a resolution that supported the passing of a law imposing fines on the use of plastic bags in retail outlets.

Youth jam against the VFA

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BAGUIO CITY — Members of the militant youth organization Anakbayan gathered at the Peoples’ Park and held a cultural jam on May 2, 2009 to echo the 10-year call against the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).

BSU launches organic market

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Addressing the popular clamor for more outlets to get organic fruits and vegetables, 17 farmer-cooperators of the Benguet State University (BSU) will set up the organic market across the town hall Wednesdays and Fridays.

City council asks BWD to explain water contamination

BAGUIO CITY — The city council asked the Baguio Water District (BWD) to submit a complete report on the alleged contamination of a water source that has made at least 342 individuals in five barangays sick.

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Editorials

The sad state of Philippine education and economy

With the opening of classes on June 1, the school-year begins bringing with it all that is good and bad about formal education in our country.

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Columns

BRUTALLY FRANK: Principles of interpersonal leadership: think win/win

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. — Edwin Markham

WOMEN’S FRONT: Cariño Doctrine

This is an Intervention entitled “On the Marginalization of Indigenous Peoples in Urban Areas and the Cariño Doctrine of Native Title” submitted by Jacqueline K. Carino, vice-chairperson of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) to the United Nations Permanet Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII).

WEEKLY REFLECTIONS: The Holy Trinity

SECOND OF THREE PARTS
We believe in God, who has revealed Himself to men and women most clearly, and walked with them to draw them tenderly back to Himself.

LABOR WATCH: The workers’ hero

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. — Benjamin Disraeli

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Statements

On the Cordillera water crisis

With its deteriorating water quality and the decreasing water yield, the Cordillera as the “Watershed Cradle of the North” is in a grave danger.

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Features

arts

The working class through the artists’ looking glass

(At a recent Art Criticism Workshop sponsored by the Baguio Writers Group and the Bencab Art Foundation, fellows were tasked by art critics and lecturers Lito Zulueta and Yason Banal to pick out any artwork to review at the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Bencab Museum. The latter is home to a treasure trove of paintings by the Masters and other contemporary artists. It showcases other art pieces and artifacts that renowned artist Bencab has collected through the years.)

Fundamentally fetish: Staring at Ronald Ventura’s Basic I

Every spectator who happens to pass by and appparently stare at Ronald Ventura’s usual 9”x12” oil, acrylic, and graphite on canvas paper is ultimately engulfed into a state of voyeurism. However, such enticement of gratification could only be partially sensual and initially sexual.

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Food

MAKAN A LA PINOY: Sarsa ken pangtimpla ti barbecue

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(Adu dagiti dawat kaniak no ania ti naimas a timpla ti barbecue. Dagiti dadduma ket saan da a matumpungan ti mayat a timpla. Naimaldit manen daytoy nga artikulo gapu kadagiti kiddaw.)



Last Updated ( Tuesday, 30 June 2009 )
 
May 24, 2009 TOC
Written by Northern Dispatch   
Monday, 29 June 2009
  

May 24 stories TOC

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News Articles

Folk demand 50th IB pullout

MANKAYAN, Benguet — The second community dialog to resolve issues of militarization in Barangay Bulalacao, here, ended up with the people of Barangay Bulalacao reiterating their call for the immediate pullout of the army battalion reportedly overstaying in the barangay.

Inter-regional efforts push to protect water resources

BAGUIO CITY- In a bid to rescue the country’s water resources different line agencies, organizations and local government units from regions 1, 2 and Cordillera Administrative Region met during the North Luzon Inter-regional Summit on Water Resources and Environment here Wednesday.

Corporate, large-scale mining worsens climate change

BAGUIO CITY – An indigenous federation in the Cordillera reported at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) that corporate and large-scale mining worsens climate change and calls for the moratorium on large scale mining and extractive industries in indigenous territories.

Facilities turned over to Ambuclao-Binga folk in MOA

 indigenous peoples

BAGUIO CITY – Various host communities of the Ambuklao–Binga hydro electric power plant entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the developers of the said plant for their (communities) use and management of facilities located in Marian Village and Sombrero in the barangays of Tinongdan, Itogon, and Ambuklao, Bokod.

Ka Bel honored as “man of the century”

Manila – Militant groups paid tribute to the “Man of the Century” in fitting ceremonies dubbed Gawad Kanayunan Wednesday.

Ibalois stop FPIC for geothermal bid

BOKOD, Benguet – Local residents here petitioned the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to suspend the consensus-building activities its local office is conducting here.

ACT supports call for P25t teachers’ salary

QUEZON CITY — In a press statement, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) supports the call of Nueva Vizcaya Rep. Carlos Padilla, for a P25,000 monthly salary for teachers and nurses.

Pinay most defamed under PGMA

MANILA — Migrante International said unless the Arroyo administration stops exporting Filipino women for the most dirty, dangerous and degrading jobs abroad, the humiliating reference to Filipinas as slaves, flirtatious maids, incompetent nurses and mail-order brides would continue.

NUJP, journalists included in AFP OB

BAGUIO CITY — The inclusion of the media group National Union of Journalist of the Philippines (NUJP) and known journalist Carlos Conde in the order of battle (OB) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) caused alarm among media circles.

Artists push anti-piracy

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – A group of local artists and producers of multi-media crafts here asked the local provincial officials of Benguet to pass an anti-piracy ordinance to protect them from illegal reproduction and sale of their creation.

DOST brews rice wine competition

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — To promote rice wine production in Cordillera, the Department of Science and Technology-Cordillera (DOST-CAR) is leading the conceptualization of a Rice Wine Competition set for November 30, 2009, as part of the Baguio Centennial Celebration.

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Opinion

The VFA-Balikatan mess

Vanessa and Gadian provide two more reasons why the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) should be abrogated and the Balikatan joint US-Philippine military exercises be stopped.

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Columns

ADVOCATE’S OVERVIEW: Alston and UN Committee Against Torture reports

By Arthur L. Allad-iw

Two damning international human rights reports on the Philippines were recently exposed in the United Nations – that of Prof. Philip Alston and that of the UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT).

WEEKLY REFLECTIONS: The Holy Trinity

By Rev. Luna L. Dingayan

We believe in God: who created all things, upholds and governs them by His love and justice; who revealed Himself to men and women most clearly, and walked with them to draw them tenderly back to Himself; who is alive and active in the world about us, and in our hearts within us. We believe in God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

LABOR WATCH: The workers’ hero (1/2)

By Aldwin G. Quitasol

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. — Plato quotes

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Statement

NUJP condemns attack on Abra journalist

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the attack early in the morning of May 14 on journalist Marjorie Bandayrel-Trinidad, staff reporter of ABRA TODAY, by unidentified gunmen who fired at her house in Bangued, Abra, apparently in retaliation for an editorial she wrote criticizing the purchase of vehicles for officers of the Abra Electric Cooperative (ABRECO).

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Features

More to climate change than the erratic weather

There is more to climate change and global warming than just the erratic weather conditions, according to Center of Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) Executive Director Ben Solang.

Organic soap and faith keep this family together

An enterprising family in La Trinidad, Benguet engaged in home-made detergents claim the title of the only soap-maker in the Cordillera who has passed government standards set for the laundry soap and detergent-making industry.

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Food

MAKAN A LA PINOY: Pinirito a manok, caramelized shallots, atsara a kangkong-papaya

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Ni Brenda S. Dacpano


Paboritok a lutlutuen ti manok ta malaksid iti kinabiit na a lutuen, adu ti mabalin nga aramiden ken timpla ditoy. No maikumpara daytoy iti painting, daytoy ket kasla kanbas a mabalin mo a pulagidan ti aniaman a medium pangpintura.

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