The Mindanao Economic Development Council (Medco) organized last 26-27 November in Davao City a forum for government, media and citizen communicators, for peace initiatives in Mindanao. This was done through Medco’s Mindanao Information Network for Development and Peace, or MINDPeace.
It was a well-represented group of concerned parties: there were delegates from mainstream media, non-traditional media [...]
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Bloggers speak out against Maguindanao massacre
The hideous event yesterday in Maguindanao Province has proven yet again how power corrupts the weak and the cowardly. It corrupts people to their core.
The Mindanao Bloggers Community condemns the perpetrators, those criminals, and their masters who allowed the massacre of innocent people. The bloodshed, we are all too aware, was meant as a ploy [...]
MB in Hong Kong
BlogFest.Asia, the first-ever pan-Asia bloggers’ conference, became a venue for introducing the Mindanao Bloggers Community to the world. Put together by the DotAsia Organisation (the registrar for .asia domain names) in Hong Kong from 6 to 8 November 2009, 3 Filipinos were present at BlogFest.Asia to provide the audience with primers on the Philippine blogosphere. [...]
Continue →The 3rd Summit
The 3rd Mindanao Bloggers Summit, held in Cagayan de Oro City last 24 October 2009, despite a rather poor showing in the number of participants, was another feather in the cap of the MB Community. The CDO Bloggers group displayed their cohesiveness and enthusiasm and unfailing energy to pull off the event quite admirably.
The highlight [...]
The bloggers of Zamboanga
I was very happy to have visited — at long last! — Asia’s Latin City (from 17 to 20 October), and to have touched base with the bloggers of Zamboanga. I’d already met some of them online (and two of them ‘offline’ during the 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit last year), but seeing them all together [...]
Continue →Mindanaoan Artist in Lexicon of Surrealism
At a time when Manila is rocked by controversies surrounding the questionable declaration of some personalities as National Artists, a Davao-born art talent quietly carved a niche among history’s greatest surrealists. His stuttering childlike speech, incompatible with his towering 6-foot height, sometimes amuses people. But today, Bienvenido Banez, Jr., towers all the more for achievements [...]
Continue →Blogging for peace initiative
The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), through its Southeast Asian regional secretariat, Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID), has launched a worthy program that is very much in line with what the Mindanao Bloggers Community stands for: iBlogforPeace.
“iBlogforPeace seeks to broaden the discourse on peace by providing an online platform for civil [...]
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- Vice Mayoralty Candidate in Surigao del Norte ShotDecember 31, 2009 by: striker_jem Butuan –On December 29, 2009 around 7 o’clock in the evening at Brgy Aurora, Taganaan, Surigao del Norte, a certain Wilberto Suanco Origenes, 49 years old married, Barangay Captain of Brgy Aurora, Taganaan, Surigao del Norte and ABC President of said municipality was shot inside his residence by an unidentified person. The v […]
- Wrecked JeepThe driver of this jeep, identified as Eulogio Juanito, about 70 years old, was killed on the spot his jeep collided with a truck head-on along Davao-Cotabato hiway at barangay Pagangan, Aleosan, North Cotabato on Tuesday, December 29. The jeep was bound for Midsayap while the truck was bound for Davao City when the accident [...] […]
- Vehicular AccidentLocal residents lift the wrecked owner-type jeep out of the hiway after collided with a truck head-on along Davao-Cotabato hiway at barangay Pagangan, Aleosan, North Cotabato on Tuesday, December 29. The driver of the jeep identified as Eulogio Juanito, about 70 years old, was killed on the spot while five others were taken at nearby [...] […]
- Vehicular Accident in ALeosan, North CotabatLocal residents further push to the side of the hiway the wrecked owner-type jeep out of the hiway after collided with a truck head-on along Davao-Cotabato hiway at barangay Pagangan, Aleosan, North Cotabato on Tuesday, December 29. The driver of the jeep identified as Eulogio Juanito, about 70 years old, was killed on the spot [...] […]