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Red AVP Community Theater team report released

Fri, 07/02/2010 - 01:52 — admin

The Red AVP Community Theater team---consisting of workshop director Gabriel Lardizabal, trainor-in-residence Jasper Almirante, coordinator Alyson Gimenez, and WeDpro project assistant Alpha Allanigui---has released its first report! You can read or download the report below.

A letter of appeal to support initiatives for youth of Filipino and American descent living in urban poor areas of former US military bases in the Philippines

Tue, 06/22/2010 - 19:37 — admin

In June of 2010, Jasmine Trice, a visiting Filipino-American academic from the USA and a wonderful supporter of WeDpro, sent out the following letter to her contacts. She graciously allowed us to reprint her letter.

Needed: Art supplies; funds for a therapist; film editor/intern who can edit video footage and photos together.

For: Youth of Filipino and American descent, living in urban poor
areas around Subic and Clark, former US military bases in the
Philippines

Dear U.S. friends and family,

I’ve never written a letter soliciting help before, but it’s not every day that I meet over two dozen smart, enthusiastic, and tragically impoverished young people with whom I share certain historical and ethnic bonds...

Resistance, Resilience, and Respect for Human Rights - A PWNPS Report

Mon, 05/03/2010 - 22:45 — admin

The following is an excerpt from "Resistance, Resilience, and Respect for Human Rights", a document presented to the 7th International Meeting of the International Women’s Network for Genuine Security by the PWNPS.

As a background to the discussion points to follow, allow us to quote parts of the AFFIDAVIT of MARY NANCY P. GADIAN, a commissioned officer in the reserve force (Women Auxiliary Corps) of the Philippine Navy in 1991. The affidavit was completed in support of her claims regarding corruption in the use of the VFA funds, and evoked in the process some details about the history and presence of the US military in the Philippines. As Gadian pointed out:

The continuous presence of the US troops in the country has been justified to us as part of the counter-terrorism measures of the United States and is framed outside of the Balikatan Exercises but within the Visiting Forces Agreement. But many officers of the AFP know that the interest of the United States is in the oil and natural gas exploration going on in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi and Palawan and because Mindanao is a strategic area in relation to Southeast Asia….

Read or download the full report below.

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