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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

DRTS Agrarian Reform workshop, Focus conference room. 
Contact Mary Ann Manahan at mbmanahan@focusweb.org for details.


Friday, September 5, 2008
DRTS Foreign Policy consultation, 12n.n. to 2 p.m., UP Balay Kalinaw.  Contact Herbert Docena at herbert@focusweb.org for details.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
From Weapons to Ploughshares?: The Conversion of the U.S. Military Bases and Facilities in the Philippines, 4p.m. to 7 p.m., UP Manila. Organized by the Department of Social Sciences-UP Manila, Stop the War Philippines, and the DRTS Thematic Working Group on Foreign Policy. Please contact Cora Fabros at corafabros@gmail.com/ 09178871153 for details.

Wednesday, September 17-18, 2008
DRTS Writeshop/Workshop for the Integrative Paper.  Contact Julie de los Reyes at julie@focusweb.org for details.

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The Development Rountable Series (DRTS) Thematic Working Groups on Trade and Industrial Policy and Agrarian Reform and Rural Development invite you to:

Trabaho, Saka, Pangisdaan, Negosyo: Ramdam mo ba ang asenso?
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Internship Announcement

The Development Roundtable Series (DRTS), a project that aims to provide space for building alternative policy options and instruments on various developmental issues, opens its 2008 Summer Volunteer/Internship Program. The internship is designed to provide exciting opportunities and exposure to highly-motivated college students, graduate students and fresh university graduates.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Citizens' Peace Watch Fact-Finding Mission to Zamboanga City and Sulu Report Available
The final report of the Citizens' Peace Watch Fact-Finding Mission to Zamboanga City and Sulu last February 18-21, 2008 is now out and can be downloaded in PDF form from: http://www.focusweb.org/philippines/docs/CPWReport.pdf

The Citizens' Peace Watch is an independent initiative of concerned citizens brought together to continuously report on US military presence and intervention in the country.

This report hopes to be a resource for policy-makers, journalists, academics, social movements and civil society organizations.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Citizens’ Peace Watch fact-finding mission to Zamboanga City and Sulu from February 18-21 found proof reinforcing concerns that

  • the US has established military basing in the Philippines
  • the US is involved in actual combat operations in the country
  • the US military has, in complicity with the Philippine military, committed human rights violations in the Philippines
  • the US is conducting operations outside the control of the Philippine government and military
  • the US military’s so-called humanitarian projects are mere cover for military operations that do not benefit the local population
  • US basing and intervention in the country is contributing to insecurity and leading to an escalation in conflict
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Update on the Burma-Cyclone Nargis Disaster

SAPA STATEMENT: May 21, 2008

SOLIDARITY FOR ASIAN PEOPLES ADVOCACIES (SAPA)
WORKING GROUP ON THE ASEAN

ASEAN MECHANISM MUST HELP JUNTA OVERCOME FEAROF BEING INVADED BY FOOD AND MEDICINE

On Monday, May 19, the ASEAN Foreign Ministers met in Singapore to discuss how best to assist Burma after the cyclone Nargis disaster. ASEAN established a coordinating mechanism to help facilitate the distribution and utilization of humanitarian aid into Burma, on the basis of which Burmese generals agreed to receive international assistance.

While SAPA welcomes the development, it wants the mechanism to involve the participation of aid agencies and civil society groups from ASEAN and its dialogue partners in aid efforts, particularly in rehabilitation programs.

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Call for Immediate Action to Ensure Cyclone Nargis Survivors Get Aid
SAPA STATEMENT : May 18, 2008

SOLIDARITY FOR ASIAN PEOPLE'S ADVOCACIES (SAPA)
WORKING GROUP ON THE ASEAN

ASEAN ACTIONS MUST REFLECT URGENCY OF SITUATION IN BURMA
CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION TO ENSURE CYCLONE NARGIS SURVIVORS GET AID

The members of SAPA demand that ASEAN immediately take a pro-active stand to ensure that the Burmese authorities stop blocking delivery of urgently needed international aid - both supplies and expertise – to the 2.5 million survivors of Cyclone Nargis who are hanging onto life by a thread. Otherwise, ASEAN risks being seen as callous, irrelevant and hypocritical.

It is time that our regional grouping proves that it is indeed "One ASEAN at the Heart of Dynamic Asia" in addressing the biggest humanitarian disaster to hit the region since the Aceh tsunami. Failure to do so will undermine the credibility ASEAN worked so hard to build at its 40th anniversary.


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