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Yeb Saño, The Rise of a Celebrity Climate Negotiator from the Philippines

Submitted by theverb on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 4:39pm

By Jeppe Fischer, Photo by 350.org

The Philippines has been devastated by Typhoon Haiyan with at least four million people displaced. Haiyan has also had impact beyond the Philippines though, and in a different way, at the UN climate change summit in Warsaw, Poland. Media coverage of the negotiations has been overshadowed by the typhoon, and The Verb explores the impact.

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Increased rotational presence of US troops, decreased Philippine sovereignty

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 20/08/2013 - 7:19pm

Akbayan (Citizens Action Party)

"Decreased sovereignty." This is how Akbayan Representative Walden Bello summed up the ongoing negotiations between the Philippine government and the United States to craft a framework for the increased rotational presence of American troops in the country.

According to the Akbayan stalwart, the Aquino government's decision to enter into negotiations for an increased rotational presence of U.S. forces in the country, by deploying aircraft, ships, supplies, and troops, is "injudicious."

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Philippines: Akbayan slams Chinese incursion into Tubbataha Reef

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 27/04/2013 - 12:48pm

Akbayan Party-list today slammed the incursion of a Chinese fishing vessel into the Tubbataha reef, which the group said is engaged in "state-led" poaching activities at the marine protected area in Palawan.

It was reported that the vessel ran aground some 1.1 nautical miles east of the Tubbataha Reef ranger station. It was reported that the fishing vessel had 12 crew members, allegedly Chinese poachers.

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PHILIPPINES: The Emotional Calculus of Armed Conflict

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 07/12/2012 - 3:02pm

HOW DO I TREAT THEE? Let me count the ways. Statistics from the AFP-PNP over a 33-year period (1978-2010) report an aggregate of 29,553 fatalities in the ongoing conflict between GPH and the CPP-NPA categorized thus: 13,412 Communists (45%), 8,264 military and police (28%) and 7,877 civilians (21%). This further translates into 80 deaths daily for the period: 36 Communists, 23 soldiers and police, and 21 civilians.

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Call to Asia Social Movements Assembly in Manila

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 18/11/2012 - 1:35pm

Building solidarity and strengthening our struggles to address the economic and climate crisis in the fight to change the system

Last September 17, 2012, in an inspiring expression of solidarity from the South to the North, more than 35 social movements and civil society organizations from Asia together with regional networks, international organizations and social movements, sent a letter to our brothers and sisters in Occupy Wall Street on the occasion of the first anniversary of their struggle.

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PHILIPPINES: On the Bangsamoro Framework Agreement

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 26/10/2012 - 11:59am

The Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) joins the Filipino people, especially the Bangsamoros in Mindanao, in welcoming, although guardedly, the historic signing today of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro between the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

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Protests slam Philippines-Australia military pact

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 16/06/2012 - 12:35am

Anti-war and progressive groups in the Philippines have requested Australian solidarity against a Status of Visiting Forces Agreement between Australia and the Philippines currently before the Philippines Senate for ratification. On June 6 there were two anti-war demos against this Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) which is seen as part of a US-led military build up in the Asian region aimed at China.

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On the Status of Visiting Forces Agreement with Australia

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 13/06/2012 - 11:34pm

The Philippine-Australia military agreement, known as the Status of the Visiting Forces Agreement (SOVFA), which was poised to be ratified by the Philippine senate on June 6, has now been postponed until late July for final ratification. The SOVFA will enable Australian troops to conduct military exercises and other related activities in the Philippines. The SOVFA, as with the US Visiting Forces Agreement, sets the guidelines for the treatment of visiting Australian troops. The SoVFA was signed in Canberra in May 2007.

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Spratly Islands dispute: Unity statement

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 27/05/2012 - 9:00pm

UNITED VOICES OF CONCERN (Amidst the sounds of fury over the Southeast Asian Sea)

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Media disinformation: Understand South China Sea standoff through the Filipino media

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Wed, 23/05/2012 - 9:16pm

China is now Australia’s largest trading partner. Western Australia’s Premier is right to point out that: “… of the 60,000 new jobs created in Australia over the past 12 months, 50,000 were in WA, which now accounted for 70 per cent of the nation's exports to China … To some extent, the strength of the WA economy is concealing the true weakness of the national economy.” Therefore, it is in Australia national interest that our policy makers are able to understand China in an objective manner. I hope that the following article will contribute to such an objective.

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