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| Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | |
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DRTS Agrarian Reform workshop, Focus conference room. |
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| Friday, September 5, 2008 | |
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DRTS Foreign Policy consultation, 12n.n. to 2 p.m., UP Balay Kalinaw. Contact Herbert Docena at herbert@focusweb.org for details.
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| Tuesday, September 16, 2008 | |
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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. |
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| Wednesday, September 17-18, 2008 | |
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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?
on Thursday, July 10, 9 am - 5 pm UP SOLAIR Auditorium
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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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| Jobs, Prices, Incomes, Poverty: Uncovering the State of the Nation |
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by Aya Fabros Two weeks from now, Gloria Arroyo will be delivering her State of the Nation
Address (SONA), marking another year of tenacity and triumph over a
recurring and still-unfolding crisis confronting her delegitimized
regime. This upcoming SONA is her key address since the wildfire of
political scandals that revived calls for her resignation, including
the NBN-ZTE deal, the Malacanang cash gift fiasco and the impeachment
farce. The economy, which had been registering steady growth, low
inflation and some incremental improvements in employment, has
essentially served as her administration’s refuge from the political
verwirrung that followed. With her legitimacy in question, Arroyo and
her spin doctors have craftily appropriated the dictum ‘it’s the
economy, stupid,’ as a central strategy to deflect criticism and
opposition to her regime. Indications of a healthy economy have in
effect served as political tools for undermining and discrediting
demands for her to step down and cut her term short. Her spin doctors
have worked doubly hard to capitalize on this picture of a soaring
economy, presenting an image of Arroyo as a manager and leader bent on
getting down to work, with her goal set on ensuring and sustaining
economic progress, even in the face of escalating adversity and
‘destabilization’.Read more Click here to download the paper |
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