Video ombagan at fasinasyon sa has-beens gone wild http://bulatlat.com/main/?p=59553
Cuba is recognized globally for its advancement in health system and medical research. We are inviting everyone to a forum about the pharmaceutical industry of Cuba w/ Mr. Jorge Luis Martinez Lopez (Asia Representative of LABIOFAM) as guest speaker. It will be on May 19, 10-12noon at the College of Mass Communication Auditorium at UP Diliman. This is a good opportunity for us to be more familiar about their medical breakthrough and likewise know more about the products of LABIOFAM which includes homeophatic medicine for anti-cancer treatment. They also have veterinary products, natural products, bio rodenticides to combat rats that affects the health of people as well as agricultural products. Forum is co-sponsored by Council for Health and Development and the Philippines-Cuba Friendship Association or AMISTAD. http://www.labiofam.cu/en/welcome
Amendments to Anti-Rape Law filed by Gabriela Women’s Party http://bulatlat.com/main/?p=59726
From: http://www.nationofchange.org/radical-history-mother-s-day-1336835841
There’s a good number of us who question holidays like Mother’s Day in which you spend more time feeding money into a system that exploits our love for our mothers than actually celebrating them. It’s not unlike any other holiday in America in that its complete commercialization has stripped away so much of its genuine meaning, as well its history. Mother’s Day is unique in its completely radical and totally feminist history, as much as it has been forgotten.
Mother’s Day began in America in 1870 when Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother’s Day Proclamation. Written in response to the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, her proclamation called on women to use their position as mothers to influence society in fighting for an end to all wars. She called for women to stand up against the unjust violence of war through their roles as wife and mother, to protest the futility of their sons killing other mothers’ sons.
Howe wrote:
Arise, then, women of this day!
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Arise, all women who have hearts, Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!
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Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”
[Read the remainder of Howe’s quote here]
The holiday caught on years later when a West Virginia women’s group led by Anna Reeves Jarvis began promoting it as a way to reunite families after the Civil War. After Jarvis’ death, her daughter began a campaign for the creation of an official Mother’s Day in honor of peace. Devoting much of her life to the cause, it wasn’t until 1914 when Woodrow Wilson signed it into national observance in 1914.
The holiday flourished, along with the flower industry. The business journal, the Florists Review, actually admitted to its desire to exploit the holiday. Jarvis was strongly opposed to every aspect of the holiday’s commercialization, arrested for protesting the sale of flowers, and petitioning to stop the creation of a Mother’s Day postage stamp.
Today we are in multiple wars that continue to claim the lives of thousands of sons and daughters. We are also experiencing a still-rising commercialization of nearly every aspect of life; the exploitation of every possible human event and emotion at the benefit of corporations.
Let’s take this Mother’s Day to excuse ourselves from the pressure to consume and remember its radical roots – that mothers, or rather all women, in fact, all people, have a stake in war and a responsibility as American citizens to protest the incredible violence that so many fellow citizens, here and abroad, must suffer through.
The thousands of civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the devastating impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on our veterans are just the beginning of the terrible repercussion of war. As we saw last week an announcement of an extension of the military occupation of Afghanistan, let this mother’s day be a day after Julia Ward Howe’s own heart as we stand up and say no to 12 more years of war.
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ABOUT Laura Kacere
Laura Kacere is a political activist and radical feminist who seeks to dismantle imperialist heterosexist cisgendered patriarchy and make repro rights available to all. She is currently living in DC.
Graphic Designer & Illustrator | Neil Brian - Splash!
A simple project study on the creation of tonal values on a black & white medium. Pencils and ink used.
Pakamahalin Ninyo Ang Mga Aktibista (EVER LOVE THE ACTIVISTS): Reaksyon sa Pelikulang “SIGWA” ni Joel Lamangan
by David Michael San Juan on Monday, July 12, 2010 at 10:35pm ·
Sila ang mga taong marami nang naiambag/nai-contribute sa lipunan pero di natin gaanong pinapansin/napapansin.
May mga panahon ngang itinuturing natin silang basahan, as in, disposable.
Pag pinatay sila, wala tayong pakialam. Ang iba sa atin, minsan, sila pa ang sisihin pag dinukot sila ng militar o kaya’y pinaulanan ng bala ang kanilang mga bahay.
Wala tayong reaksyon kung sunugin man ang bahay nila o pilitin silang pumirma sa mga pekeng dokumento na nagsasabing sila ay rebeldeng sumuko na sa gobyerno.
Sila ang mga tinatawag nating AKTIBISTA.
Mahal na mahal nila tayo at lalo na ang ating bayan kaya naman kahit buhay ay handa nilang ialay sa ating kapakanan.
Nakalulungkot na hindi natin sila matutuhang mahalin nang lubusan.
Sila ang dahilan kung bakit may overtime pay na ngayon.
Sila ang dahilan kung bakit wala nang curfew ngayon.
Sila ang dahilan kung bakit may Christmas bonus, 13th month pay, paid vacation atbp. benepisyo.
Sila ang dahilan kung bakit may “demokrasya” na ngayon, at least, para sa mga maka-gobyerno.
Sila ang dahilan kung bakit 8 hours lang ang maximum na oras ng required na trabaho (dati ay 12 hours ang minimum).
Sila ang unang tumututol pag tataas ang buwis.
Sila ang unang tumututol pag binabawasan ang pondo para sa edukasyon o kalusugan.
Sila ang unang nagtatanggol sa mga magsasakang inagawan ng lupa.
Sila ang mga makabayan na minsan, pinagtatawanan natin dahil parang napaka-OA na.
Oo, nirerespeto natin sila, pero di pa dumarating sa punto na natutuhan natin silang samahan sa kanilang ginagawa na para rin naman sa atin.
Natatakot tayong gawin ang kanilang ginagawa.
May mga sandali pa ngang pinababayaan natin silang mag-isa.
Pero sila lang naman ang karamay natin sa lahat ng sitwasyon.
Mahirap ipaliwanag sa isang note kung bakit may aktibista.
Mahirap ipaliwanag kung bakit ako aktibista.
Mahirap magpaliwanag dahil kapos naman lagi ang mga salita.
Minsan, mas mahusay magturo ang mga pelikula.
Pakipanood ang pelikulang SIGWA at pagkatapos nito, sana, pakamahalin na ninyo ang mga AKTIBISTA, ang mga TUNAY NA AKTIBISTA na laging naririyan sa ating tabi, nagmamahal, nabubuhay, nakikibaka…
