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Star-Struck. Grade 6 pupils of the Broce Central Elementary School of Peace in Datu Odin Sinsuat dramatizes the children's story entitled "Ang Bagong Golis" read by action star and Robin Padilla and written by Bea Sapal, an IDP from Pikit, North Cotabato on Tuesday, December 2, 2008. Broce became a School of Peace in 2006, the first in the ARMM. The School of Peace is one of ACT for Peace Programme's strategies in promoting the "petals of peace" which are dismantling the culture of war; living with compassion and justice; building cultural respect, reconciliation and solidarity; promoting human rights and responsibilities; living in harmony with the Earth; and nurturing inner peace. Padilla is in Mindanao to promote peacebuilding and peace advocacy efforts in partnership with the ACT for Peace Programme. (AKP Images / Ruby Thursday More)

"Butcher, Keep Out!" Members of progressive organizations called National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales a berdugo (butcher) in a recent picket outside the Ateneo de Davao University where Gonzales spoke for the Mindanao Peace of Week celebration. Leftist activists say Gonzales heads the Inter-Agency Legal Action Group and is the mastermind of arbitrary arrests and fabricated charges of their fellow-activists -- a major component of Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL). Under the OBL, they say, killings and enforced disappearances of legal activists are implemented by the agents of the Arroyo government. (davaotoday.com photo by BARRY OHAYLAN)

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Spawn. This photo, taken by photojournalist Sonny Espiritu, won the Best Single Photo award in the recent annual PopDev Awards. The photo was first published by the Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project with this caption: "An urban poor woman feeds her youngest child while washing clothes for a living and looking after other children. Modern contraception advocates say having fewer children would help fight poverty and hunger, but the predominent Catholic Church says there is no link between poverty and population, of which the Philippines has now almost 90 million."

End The Violence. Members of the women's group Gabriela make known their sentiments about violence against women. They commemorated yesterday, Nov. 25, the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. (Photo courtesy of arkibongbayan.org)

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A Challenge to Bambee dela Paz and Other Bloggers
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Years From Now
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NINOTCHKA ROSCA While lining up for kona coffee ($1.95 per 8-ounce Styrofoam cup) at the central kiosk of the food court of the Ala Moana Center, I suffered a mild fugue. Like palimpsest, the image of the food court at the Ali Mall in Quezon City, Philippines, seeped through the environs; surely, that must have been the ancestor of all food courts in the world.

Nasser Pangandaman Jr.: The Warlord of Masiu
December 28, 2008, 10:20 AM

CARLOS H. CONDE A Cabinet secretary and peace negotiator condoning the violence his son and friends were inflicting on an old man and a 14-year-old boy? By doing nothing to stop the beating, Pangandaman Sr. betrayed his skewed ethical and moral sense. President Arroyo should fire him.

The Message of Christmas
December 24, 2008, 02:15 PM

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Cory Aquino’s Betrayal
December 24, 2008, 10:16 AM

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