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by Manuel E. Valdehuesa, Jr.
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:03 |
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(Delivered at the launching of the book bearing the same title, in Cagayan de Oro City on 12 November 2009).
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 November) -- Thank you all for making it possible to launch this modest discourse on the sorry condition of our political culture and the powerless state of our constituency. I just had to write it. Our value system is everywhere under attack by the forces of traditional politics, traditional parties, and traditional politicians – collectively known as trapos. |
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by Romy B. Elusfa/MindaNews Peace Correspondent
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 21:31 |
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MARAWI CITY (05 November) --The government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) may not be able to strike a final peace agreement during the remaining days of the Arroyo administration but the parties can restore the ceasefire mechanisms they had set up. This was the belief of Ret. Lt. Gen. Rodolfo Garcia, former government chief negotiator in the talks with the MILF. |
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by Romy B. Elusfa/MindaNews Peace Correspondent
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 21:28 |
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MARAWI CITY—“Beyond ceasefie monitoring, you are expanding to a new area of work—a shift or expansion of the current paradigm. It is a right decision. It is time to adopt concrete measures to protect the victims of war.” These were the words of Ret. Gen. Rodolfo Garcia, former chair of the government panel in the negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for over 150 Bantay Ceasefire volunteers gathered here for a three-day Assembly that started today. “So this assembly, to chart that direction, is very timely,” Garcia, who was keynote speaker of the Assembly said as he enumerated the many successful engagements he had with the Bantay Ceasefire. |
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by MindaNews
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 10:17 |
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ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/27 Oct) -- A grassroots-based peace monitoring volunteer group will hold its assembly at the Mindanao State University in neighboring Marawi City on Nov. 4-6.
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by Romy B. Elusfa/MindaNews contributor
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Saturday, 17 October 2009 09:39 |
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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 October) -- Evacuees who filed “destructive arson” cases against those they suspected to have burned their houses have appealed to government and private organizations advocating human rights to help them, claiming that their security has been threatened by “people who did not want us to file complaints. |
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by Carolyn O. Arguillas / MindaNews
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Saturday, 10 October 2009 22:42 |
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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 October) – The Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) has urged the public in its latest reported dated October 2009, not to forget the people displaced by war down south in Mindanao even as attention is being focused on thousands of Filipinos up north who have been forced to evacuate because of typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng. |
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