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Community Organizing Never Looked So Good! |
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Written by CO Multiversity
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Saturday, 13 June 2009 10:28 |
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Community Organizing is a process that communities take to make things happen in the context of bureaucracies that usually do not take the poor's agenda as a priority. If the values of community organizing is not understood very well by the mainstream mindset, the notion of community organizing is all at once associated with negative perceptions or judgments. Society needs to find an alternative to a trajectory that forgets the higher-ordered values of peoples. People get into the process of getting on track towards this trajectory via a community process. Community Organizing offers this process. Community Organizing, even as a term, is something not known to many people. When President Obama mentioned Community Organizing as part of his experience, and the best of his experiences so far, people asked: Community Organizing? What is that? |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 14 June 2009 00:21 )
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No to a Constituent Assembly as a way to amend the Philippine Constitution |
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Written by CO Multiversity
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 12:42 |
Yesterday, June 10, 2009 CO Multiversity's staff and partner communities joined the protest rally at the Ayala Avenue in Makati. As usual, the stage for the speakers was facing the statue of Ninoy Aquino in Ayala Avenue. The rally was just a kick off of more protests to come until House Resolution 1109 "Constituent Assembly to amend the Philippine Constitution" is finally in the dustbin. HR 1109 is the final treachery to the Filipino people by the legislators who voted for such a piece of legislation. In their hurry to pass the House Resolution so that the provision on the form of government could be amended from presidential to parliamentary, the legislators didn't at all realize the tremendous irresponsibility they have been through. Congress is a sacred institution of democracy in that the dreams of how free and dignified a country the Philippines should be are supposed to be deliberated in Congress. The legislators who spread dung and filth and shame in the house should be accountable to the people! |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 13 June 2009 11:24 )
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The Week from June 1, 2009 |
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Written by CO Multiversity
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 19:28 |
The weeks from June 1, 2009 up to this writing (June 9, 2009) have been truly significant historically. Imagine our country's legislature passing HR 1109! What does that political process tell us about our legislature? Another significant even was the passing of CARPER on third reading. As if the farmers' sacrifices to push for the extension of CARP was not enough, advocates of CARPER got shocked by the news that Ka Rene Peñas, a Sumilao farmer who was a staunch advocate of the farmers' agenda, was murdered at 11:00 pm on June 5 while he was seeing off two farmers to their farm house. Political events in our country are getting very ugly. We cannot but stay vigilant for Democracy and Social Justice! Tomorrow, June 10, 2009, there will be an anti-Con Ass rally in Makati.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 June 2009 11:20 )
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CO Multiversity's Sekinah Project in Mindanao |
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