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Overseas Filipino Workers: The Making of an Asian-Pacific Diaspora
By E. San Juan, Jr.

The Philippines remains an inchoate nation, its polity fragmented into ethnic communities. The exported labor of Filipino women and their treatment as serfs or quasislaves offers a laboratory for the critical analysis of the global market and its impact on poor countries.


Readings on Warlordism:

Dissecting the system of warlordism and political dynasties in the Philippines, in the light of the recent massacre of 57 civilians in Maguindanao province reportedly by the private army members of the Ampatuans.


CenPEG chair receives Dangal ng Lahi medallion

UP reaps awards in this year’s literary contests
By Francis Paolo M. Quina and
Ynna Abuan
Posted by CenPEG, Oct. 20, 2009

The season for literary awards has come and gone, and once again UP alumni, faculty members, and workshop fellows have cornered the lion’s share of the medals for 2009.


Philippines: Corruption Timeline
The Global Integrity Report
(report.globalintegrity.org)

Posted by CenPEG
Oct. 21, 2009


Can we learn from Cuba's lesson?
The tiny country is known for its hurricane planning that keeps its people prepared and fatalities low.
By SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN, Times Senior Correspondent
Published September 9, 2005

Before Hurricane Ivan whipped Cuba last year with 160 mph winds, the government evacuated nearly 2-million people. The result: not a single death or serious injury.


CenPEG, other volunteers bring relief to Montalban typhoon victims

CenPEG, other volunteers bring relief to Montalban typhoon victims
Children refugees of Montalban

(CenPEG, Oct. 6, 2009) - Volunteers from the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) became one with the victims of Typhoon Ondoy in remote barangay (village). San Jose Montalban, Rizal as they conducted a relief million for hundreds of displaced families last September 31.


2 Scientists probe into the recent flood of Metro Manila
Learning Lessons Carrying On after ONDOY

A disaster waiting to happen

It was a sight never seen in the Philippines in recent decades: Whole villages under water, human corpses lying along drainages and tunnels, vast swathes of fields and highways inundated. The human toll was high, scores of persons remain missing, property losses total PhP8.3 billion at the latest count.


Issue Analysis No. 23
October 6, 2006

DISASTERS AND FAULTY GOVERNANCE

CenPEG is reposting this Issue Analysis on disasters and weak government response which first appeared on October 6, 2006.


Urban Floods and the Marginalized Estero Spaces of Manila
By Trina Go Listanco
Department of Geography
University of the Philippines

Urban Floods and the Marginalized Esterospaces of Manila

COMMENTARY
What went wrong? Like sound of 1 hand clapping


By Raul Lejano, Chinie Canivel
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:13:00 10/08/2009


More typhoons! Hilarious and serious
A moderate dig at presidents and presidentiables

Political parties, including the Nationalista Party, PDP-Laban, Ang Kapatiran Party, the office of Senator Jamby Madrigal and Makabayan Coalition today on February 22 joined hands with citizens’ groups Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) and AES Watch to demand for a genuine source code review.


Joint Statement of Political Parties and Citizens’ Groups on Comelec’s ‘Source Code Review’
What is a Proper Source Code Review?
By AES Watch
Feb. 22, 2010

A proper source code review is one that is conducted comprehensively following IT industry best practices and accepted methodologies in software quality and integrity assurance and using automated tools for testing parts or the whole of the code.

Source Code Review According to COMELEC: A Commentary
By Pablo Manalastas

There are steps that COMELEC can do to allow source code review of the 2010 election programs -- steps that are truly honorable, that remove the public impression that COMELEC is hiding behind the shadow of Smartmatic, the public impression that it is under Smartmatic control.

CenPEG’s voters’ education, poll watch training stepped up as election nears

To build critical public awareness on the prospects and complexities of the automated election system (AES), the Center for People Empowerment (CenPEG) continues to make rounds in forums and discussions with various religious groups, schools and other organizations nationwide.


Center trains church-based poll watchers in island of Chocolate Hills

(Tagbilaran, CenPEG News) - Dubbed as one of the country’s tourist destinations, Tagbilaran City on the island province of Bohol, central Visayas was the venue for a three-day national training on voters’ education and the automated election last February 19-21.
CenPEG's Rosa Castillo discusses poll automation.


Poll watch volunteers listen to CenPEG briefing


Automated Election System: AES Watch STAR Card
The Automated Election System (AES) Watch issues its third rating of Comelec’s election preparedness.


STAR card

Remarks for NASSA Training
By Jose L. Cuisia
Chair, National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel)

As the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of the AES continue to unravel with the inadequate preparation of the COMELEC and SMARTMATIC; we in the church, civil society & church laity; who share the same desire of having a fair & credible elections this May should find ways to work together to achieve this common objective.

UP-based think tank won’t be part of Comelec’s sham software review
The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) today announced that it will not take part in the “source code review” called by the Commission on Elections Comelec) to study the software program of
the May 10 automated election system (AES). (Press Release, Feb. 9, 2010)

Comelec ‘allows’ source code review: A commentary
Pablo Manalastas, PhD
Fellow and IT Consultant, CenPEG
Faculty, Ateneo and UP computer studies


Comelec’s source code review highly-restricted – CenPEG
The software program that will run the automated election’s 82,000 machines will not be trusted by voters unless Comelec allowed a real source code review. (CenPEG press release, Feb. 3, 2010)

Comelec should answer for sham source code review
Any mishaps or risks arising from the lack of an independent and
thorough source code review of the poll automation will have to be
explained by the Comelec later.


Mock polls portend of worse to come on May 10
Independent observers’ reports show a different picture

How NGOs are Profiting Off a Grave Situation
Haiti and the Aid Racket

By ASHLEY SMITH

While some NGOs like Partners in Health have been set up to develop Haitian grassroots self-organization and control, most major NGOs have been accomplices in the neoliberal catastrophe the U.S. wrought in Haiti.

 
Will the US Meet Its Waterloo in Afghanistan and Iraq?
2nd Anuradha Ghandy Memorial Lecture
By Dr. Jan Myrdal
Global Research, February 9, 2010

In both Iraq and Afghanistan the people have had to pay heavily - both materially and in dead and wounded - for the US war.

EVMs are not tamper-free; Dr. Swamy files PIL for dual voting system
Red Alert: The Second Wave of The Financial Tsunami
The Wave is gathering force & could hit between the first & second quarter of 2010

U.S. Backs Illegal Elections in Honduras
Uruguay Elects Former Guerrilla as Next President
The Role of America's Financial Elite in the Obama RegimeBARACK OBAMA

"The True Story of the Bilderberg Group" and What They May Be Planning Now, A Review of Daniel Estulin's book, by Stephen Lendman

Trilateral Commission; Obama appointed no less than eleven members
By CFR


The Story Behind the Uruguayan Elections

09 November 2009
by: Julie R. Butler, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

The international headlines all read something to this effect, "In Uruguay: Ex-Guerrilla Fighter Headed for Runoff Vote in November." Attention-grabbing as it is, that headline doesn't do justice to the complex story behind this ex-guerrilla fighter being on the verge of becoming Uruguay's next president.
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and Debt is Recovery
By Andrew Gavin Marshall

In light of the ever-present and unyieldingly persistent exclamations of ‘an end’ to the recession, a ‘solution’ to the crisis, and a ‘recovery’ of the economy; we must remember that we are being told this by the very same people and institutions which told us, in years past, that there was ‘nothing to worry about,’ that ‘the fundamentals are fine,’ and that there was ‘no danger’ of an economic crisis.


Afghanistan Election Fraud and the High Price of Empire

Posted by John Nichols on 09/10/2009 @ 8:50pm

It is amusing, if remarkable, that there are still some players in Washington who try to maintain the fantasy that Afghan President Hamid Karzai governs with anything akin to legitimacy.


Nuclear Noh Drama: Tokyo, Washington and the Case of the Missing Nuclear Agreements

The Obama Deception
A video documentary of Barack Obama’s first months as US President

What Reforms Will The United States Have as a Result of This Recession?
September 18, 2009
By Mark Weisbrot
ZMag


Afghanistan Election Fraud and the High Price of Empire

Hamid Karzai was given the presidency of Afghanistan under US occupation in 2004. The latest elections in Afghanistan re-elected Karzai but they are said to be fraudulent. The United States claims to be promoting democracy, but its worldwide interests drive policy, not purported concerns about freedom, human rights and fair elections.

Entering the Greatest Depression in History
More Bubbles Waiting to Burst
Entering the Greatest Depression in History By Andrew Gavin Marshall
Globalresearch
August 7, 2009

ISSUE ANALYSIS No. 02
Series of 2010

The farce about disbanding the private armies
Presidential aspirants should be probed about their possible connections to private armies. They should be willing to stake their presidency to the disbandment of private armies.


ISSUE ANALYSIS No. 01
Series of 2010

2010: Signs of hope and disquiet
A priority agenda of the new government is to restore faith in government by mending the institutions that were undermined by the outgoing regime.


ISSUE ANALYSIS No. 14
Series of 2009

The Maguindanao Massacre and Politics of Violence
The Maguindanao Massacre and Politics of Violence
Wherever there are powerful dynasties and warlords one can be sure these co-exist – nay, these perpetuate - deeply-entrenched poverty and social injustice.

ISSUE ANALYSIS No. 13
Series of 2009

The Bane of Development Illusion
Persons displaced by disasters to leap from 2.6M in 2005 to 10M by end-2009

ISSUE ANALYSIS No. 13In the years ahead, the number and magnitude of disasters will increase with colossal human and economic losses. The task of rescue, recovery, relief and rehabilitation will have to fall more and more on the people themselves as they have in fact done in recent years.


ISSUE ANALYSIS No. 12
Series of 2009

The Presidential Race and Accountability

The current row in the presidential race regarding preference ratings and the alleged use of public funds for election infomercials has been expected, as in past elections. Sorely missed is accountability that should be raised as an issue in the coming national election – a benchmark for choosing who among the aspirants deserves to become the next President.


ISSUE ANALYSIS No. 11
Series of 2009

How the Politics of Reform Lost and Re-claimed Cory
(Corazon C. Aquino, 1933-2009)

How the Politics of Reform Lost and Re-claimed CoryThere may be icons and there may be symbols but real transformation can only take place by giving flesh and blood to people power. Only the masses can truly represent “people power” and it is high time that it is re-claimed by the people themselves.


ISSUE ANALYSIS No. 10
Series of 2009


GOLLUM IS HERE!
Keeping Power at the Expense of the People and our Institutions


GOLLUM is hereThis is not just about bad governance. It is about mass poverty inflicted by a corrupt and greedy regime. This is the sad and despicable state of the Presidency today.

ISSUE ANALYSIS No. 09
Series of 2009

Poll automation: Make or break for Comelec

ISSUE ANALYSIS No. 09
Whether modernized or not, no election system will bring democracy to the people and a just government elected unless the systemic problem of fraud which is run by powerful politicians in and out of government is addressed decisively and comprehensively.

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