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Contents:
- PERSPECTIVE: How to Manufacture a Global Food Crisis by Walden Bello
- PHOTO OF THE MONTH: China
- SOCIO-ECONOMIC MONITOR: Wage Increase by Julie de los Reyes
- DEVELOPMENT BRIEF: Status Symbol: The Status of Visiting Forces
Agreement with Australia Up for Ratification at the Senate by Herbert
Docena
- POLITICAL ROUND UP:The Buzz in Congress by Joseph Purugganan
- UPCOMING EVENTS
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Status Symbol: The Status of Visiting Forces Agreement with Australia |
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Even as the petition challenging the
constitutionality of the Philippines' Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA)
with the United States awaits judgment at the Supreme Court, a similar
agreement, the Status of Visiting Forces Agreement (SOVFA) with
Australia, is inching towards ratification at the Philippine Senate.
Signed in Canberra in May 2007, the agreement still needs the approval
of 2/3 of the Senate's members for the agreement to take effect. The
executive department transmitted the agreement in November last year
and the Senate's committee on foreign relations held its first public
hearing last February. Committee Chair Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago
has indicated that no further committee hearings may be necessary and
that the agreement may soon be submitted to the plenary for
deliberations.
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Deconstructing Discourse and Activist Retooling Programme |
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The Deconstructing Discourse and
Activist Retooling Programme (DDARP) is a project that aims to revisit
debates on contemporary development issues, ideologies and paradigms
and introduce new frontiers in analyses and perspectives to contribute
to knowledge production, critical discourse and political action.
The DDARP features programmatic short-term courses (lecture series)
and one-time public lectures/roundtable discussions by nationally and
internationally acclaimed scholars that are leading experts in their
respective fields.
The DDARP courses/lectures are designed
to be broad based, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary.
Visiting lecturers come from a wide range of disciplines and traditions
in the social sciences, and with varying experience and background as
public scholars. The main audiences are students and the youth;
the lectures are also intended to appeal to the academe, media, government
officials and activists who are at the forefront of today’s political
debates.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Citizens' Peace Watch Fact-Finding Mission to Zamboanga City and Sulu Report Available |
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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
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the US has established military basing in the Philippines
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the US is involved in actual combat operations in the country
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the US military has, in complicity with the Philippine military, committed human rights violations in the Philippines
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the US is conducting operations outside the control of the Philippine government and military
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the US military’s so-called humanitarian projects are mere cover for
military operations that do not benefit the local population
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US basing and intervention in the country is contributing to insecurity and leading to an escalation in conflict
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