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ang pasko ni mina - sa israel, na walang pasko
“Pang-apat na Pasko na ito na hiwalay ako sa pamilya ko,” says Mina, and the note of wistfulness in her tone echoes the sadness and frustration of all the millions of other Filipino migrant workers who must spend this family-oriented season away from their loved ones.
Mina, 49, is only of the roughly 40,000 Filipinos working in Israel, around 80 ( Read more... ) -
what a crazy several months
after so many months, i am blowing the dust off my livejournal and writing an entry again. i guess real life took precedence over my LJ life ( Read more... ) -
goodbye michael
thank you for the years of music, michael.
i hope you will now find the peace that has so eluded you in life.
Credits:
Music and Me, sung by Michael Jackson. Composed by Canno, Fenceton, Larson and Marcellino. From the album "Music and Me," released by Motown, 1973.
Music and Me video courtesy of youtube.com, uploaded by psygno83 and created by ( Read more... ) -
revenge of the fallen: using the muted group theory to analyze the movie transformers 2
Edwin Ardener, Cheris Kramerae and their colleagues developed the muted group theory as a communication and feminist approach, because it deals with the exclusion of women in the mainstream and public avenues of expression. Kramerae posits that, since men are the dominant group in society, then their views and perceptions are also dominant (in ( Read more... ) -
independence day thoughts
as we celebrate our country's independence day today, let me post something written by advertising expert and teacher par-excellence, mr. vince pozon. it's a grave reminder of freedoms lost and gained, and how the youth should not take these freedoms for granted.
read, and reflect.
Remember the Day
Vince Pozon
To my students and young friends:
There ( Read more... ) -
Don't be conned
Let's do the math on the Charter Change (Cha Cha) and Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) issues:
1) House Resolution 1109 - calls on members of Congress to convene as a Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) to propose amendments to the 1987 Constitution. It was drafted by Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Villafuerte and authored by Speaker Prospero Nograles, backed by ( Read more... ) -
online jounalists assess the state of the digital media
The Project for Excellence in Journalism by the Pew Research Center conducted a survey of almost 300 members of the Online News Association (ONA), a 10-year old organization of nearly 1,800 members, and the largest organized association of digital journalists. This is the first-ever survey conducted among journalist-members of ONA, most of whom are ( Read more... ) -
overcivilized, technohyped
this blog entry from George Packer's Interesting Times blog on The New Yorker is actually about how a "common person," in this case a roofer, is experiencing the economic travails of the current recession. A rooofer is, obviously, a person who fixes roofs. i personally never knew a roofer. when i was young, it was always my father who climbed up a ( Read more... ) -
the age-old question
here's a very interesting article from David Owen of The New Yorker, which provides very interesting insights into the age-old problem of environment-versus-economy. in this piece, Owen opines that the recession (and the increases in gas prices) was actually good for the environment, because it motivated people (and even governments) to live and ( Read more... ) -
a picture paints a thousand words... and emotions
Kevin Carter was a photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize (arguably the world's most famous and prestigious award for journalists) in 1994. Published in the New York Times, Carter's photograph was of a young child in the Sudan, who was trying to get to a feeding center. But before she could get there, she collapsed in hunger. A vulture is in the ( Read more... )
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