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Filipinos Rapped Poverty and Rapped Against It |
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Friday, 31 October 2008 08:43 |
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THERE ARE CAMPAIGNS, and there are campaigns. I have been involved in quite a lot owing to my past incarnation as an activist. From mobilizing for students rights and welfare to anti-US military bases, from indigenous people’s right to self-determination to freedom from East Timor, from fund raising for ailing activists and artists to peace campaign for Mindanao.
But the Stand Up, Take Action campaign has a different take. One, it is competing against itself to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the most number of people who stood up against poverty; second the need to coordinate the actions of various people’s movements and governments, and consolidate these efforts; third, the follow through, meaning building up from what has been achieved to perhaps set an even bigger record next year.
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Mar Roxas Statement on the International Day of Action Against Poverty |
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Friday, 17 October 2008 00:00 |
 I join the Filipinos and the entire world in the Global Call to Action against Poverty. Poverty is no longer a lack of property or food; it is the lack of trust in each other. It is ironic that as we gather to make poverty history, we face a financial crisis that threatens to divide us. The effects of this financial crisis are intensifying because of apprehension and doubt. Trust between institutions is in short demand. Prices of food and other commodities are rising. Jobs and livelihoods are being lost. The fear of poverty is blanketing the globe in a scope and magnitude that have never happened before.
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25.4M Filipinos are living below $1.35/day Asian Poverty Line |
Written by Lala RimandoÂ
Thursday, 28 August 2008
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About 25.4 million Filipinos are living below the new benchmark for estimating how many are poor in Asia and the Pacific region, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released Wednesday showed.
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Local Stars Join International Celebrities in Anti-Poverty Advocacy |
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 00:00 |
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Film and television personalities join the growing international list of celebrity endorsers of the campaign to eradicate poverty.
Actresses Mylene Dizon, director Jim Libiran, poet-spoken word artist Lourd De Veyra , songwriter Vince de Jesus lead the list of showbiz denizens who are standing up against poverty. The list includes TV directors Andoy Ranay and Rico Gutierrez, comedian Earl Ignacio and writers Aida Santos and Celina Cristobal.
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Sen. Loren Legarda Solidarity Message to GCAP |
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Friday, 17 October 2008 00:00 |
 Greetings! Let me express my solidarity with the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) Philippines and the Filipino people on the occasion of the global Stand Up and Take Action against Poverty day. I join the voice of over 67 million people all over the world in pressing leaders, the Philippine President especially, to deliver on their promise to eradicate extreme poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
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Anti-Poverty Day Gains Ground with Showbiz Folks Participating |
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Friday, 17 October 2008 00:00 |
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Today is the international day of action against poverty. One percent of the world’s entire population is expected to stand up against poverty and commit to take action. The Philippines alone is targeting 14 million people to participate.
This year’s target exceeds last year’s 43.7 million people who participated in the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, a global campaign to remind world leaders of their responsibility to meet the millennium development goals.
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