“Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently.” — Rosa Luxemburg. (more…)
Project Stitch puts the Filipino woman worker at the forefront of changing her own impoverished life and gives an entrepreneurial bent to the task of struggle. it will allow for women in poor communities in Manila to engage in sewing cooperatives, that will work toward a sustainable and just livelihood for women.
most important? i trust the women who are behind this project. i would trust them with my life, in fact.
Project Stitch is the only Filipina project in the top 9 finalists of Project Inspire 2012. click and vote so that Project Stitch can actually happen! (more…)
The only image and slogan that has brought me close to tears, that has hit me in the past week of rains and floods are those by Mark Gosingtian, who did “in my country, everyone’s a hero” in 2009. I didn’t care much for that, but that was really more a measure of me, than of Gosingtian’s creativity, and heart. Which is, by the way, in the right place.
“Puso, Pilipinas” is the slogan he came up with for the tragedy that has been these rains and floods.
It is perfect. (more…)
August 9 2012, 6:00AM
The dams are all at limit, so says Mareng Winnie on GMANews.
The Marikina River is beyond BEYOND its highest alert.
Navotas, Malabon, Muntinlupa, Marikina, Valenzuela, San Juan, Manila, Pasay, Pasig, Pateros are all under a State of Calamity. (more…)
