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Monday, February 26, 2018

Nangangailangan ang TWSC ng Isang Kawaksing Mananaliksik

Kailangang isumite ng interesadong aplikante sa twsc.updiliman@up.edu.ph o sa uptwsc@gmail.com ang pdf ng sumusunod:

  • liham ng aplikasyon na naka-address sa direktor ng TWSC;
  • kumprehensibong résumé;
  • diplomang nagpapatunay na nagtapos sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas ng anumang kursong agham panlipunan o kaugnay nitong disiplina;
  • kopya ng mga gradong natanggap (TOR, TCG, o galing CRS); at
  • isang sanaysay sa Ingles na hindi hihigit sa 1,000 salita na sumasagot dito: describe a violent act and its nonviolent alternative.
Ilagay na subject ng inyong email: RA Aplikasyon Marso 2018.

Gagampanan ng mapipiling kawaksing mananaliksik ang mga sumusunod na gawain:
  • tagapag-ugnay ng proyektong “Violence, Human Rights, and Democracy in the Philippines,” kung saan siya tutulong sa pagpaplano at pamamahala ng mga gawaing pampananaliksik at administratibo;
  • kawaksing editor ng Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies kung saan siya magsasagawa ng plagiarism check at paunang editoryal na pagsusuri sa mga isinumiteng papel, at magkacopyedit at layout ng mga papel na tinanggap at ilalathala;
  • at tumulong sa iba pang mga gawain ng TWSC. 
Para sa mga nasabing gawain tatanggap ang kawaksing mananaliksik ng kabuuang sahod na PHP 25,000.00.

Sa simula, tatlong buwan muna ang itatagal ng kontrata upang masubok ang kaangkupan ng napili sa trabaho. Sakaling magpakita ng husay at dedikasyon ang napili, bibigyan siya ng taunang kontrata.

Tatanggap lamang ng aplikasyon hanggang eksaktong 5:00 n.h., 22 Marso 2018.

Thursday, February 08, 2018

Forum 1: Matotokhang Ba ang 1987 Constitution? | Sa Bungad ng Diktadura? Ang 2018 Third World Studies Center Public Forum Series


MATOTOKHANG BA ANG 1987 CONSTITUTION?

Alamin ang sagot ng mismong mga miyembro ng 1986 Constitutional Commission na sina Ponciano Bennagen, Florangel Rosario Braid, Edmundo G. Garcia, at Wilfrido Villacorta.

Dumalo at makilahok sa isang malayang talakayan sa Benitez Theater, College of Education, University of the Philippines Diliman sa 23 Pebrero 2018 (Biyernes), mula 1:00-4:00 ng hapon. Si Propesor Randy David ang moderator ng public forum.

Sa pamamagitan ng forum na ito inilulunsad ang "Sa Bungad ng Diktadura? Ang 2018 Third World Studies Center Public Forum Series."

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At the time of this forum we will be celebrating the thirty-second anniversary of the EDSA Revolution. The Filipino people still bears the consequences of this historic event. One of its foremost legacies is now the center of utmost scrutiny: the 1987 Constitution.

The members of the 1986 Constitutional Commission were not voted into office. Then president Corazon Aquino chose them. But they were able to write a constitution, that, as stated in its preamble, would be the basis of a “just and humane society” with a government “that shall embody our ideals and aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our posterity, the blessings of independence and democracy under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace.” This lofty aim we should understand in the context of the fall and dismantlement of an autocratic regime—a regime that through state forces ever loyal to a dictator hoping to cling eternally to power, imprisoned, tortured, and killed thousands—and the promise of a more democratic means of governance by the Aquino administration.

This forum considers the 1987 Constitution not a sacred text worthy only of veneration nor an outdated piece of paper easy to discard. Past administrations have tried to tinker with it. None succeeded. This is proof of the Constitution’s continuing potency and relevance and of its being a constant magnet to the power-hungry horde. It is under this very same constitution that Rodrigo Roa Duterte was sworn into the presidency. A president that refers to himself a dictator and a fascist. Sobriquets not belied by his continuing support for bloody purges of those he considers as the scum and dregs of society—a patent disregard of what the 1987 Constitution intends for a just and humane society.

Is this how the 1987 Constitution will end? Bludgeoned, bloodied, dead in a ditch, wrapped in a packaging tape with a sign that reads: ‘Wag Tularan.

Read here the statement of some of the members of the 1986 Constitutional Commission. See link as well for a summary of Dr. Wilfrido Villacorta's presentation.

Click here for the video recordings of the public forum.

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Sa Bungad ng Diktadura? 
Ang 2018 Third World Studies Center Public Forum Series

Ngayon at sa mga susunod na taon, pilit na isasailalim sa mga ‘di pa nasubukang pagbabago ang Saligang Batas. Rerebisahin ito, babaguhin para umakma sa desinyo ng federalismo, at sa kung anupamang mga retoke at maniobra na hindi pa lantad sa ngayon. Nang huli nating sinubok ang ganitong sabay-sabay, magulo, at malabong mga pagbabago sa pinakabatayang batas ng ating bansa, nasamantala ang oportunidad para mailuklok ang isang diktador. Ano ang garantiya na natuto na tayo sa ating kasaysayan at malalagpasan natin ang ganitong panganib?

Nang mapatalsik ng Pag-aalsang EDSA ang diktadura ni Ferdinand Marcos, muling binuhay ng administrasyon ni Corazon Aquino ang mga institusyon ng demokrasya. Binuo ang Saligang Batas ng 1987 upang hindi na muling mapasailalim ang bansa sa isang pang diktadura. “Never Again” ang katagang inukit sa panahon bilang pananda sa tapang at determinasyon ng henerasyon ng mga Filipino na bumalikwas laban sa isang diktador.

Ngunit ang paglaya ay kalahati lamang ng walang katapusang pagkilos para sa demokrasya. Sa ‘di man ginusto o inasahang bunga, ang mga mismong institusyon na ito ay siya ring tinutuligsang nagkukulang o sira. Kaya sa seryeng ito ng mga pampublikong talakayan, nakatuon ang usapan sa batas at sa monopolyo ng dahas  ng estado, ang mga pangunahing institusyon na agad na kokontrolin ng isang diktador, at kapag nakontrol na, ang pinakamahirap ding kalabanin ng taumbayan.

Sa unang forum, mapapakinggan ang pagsusuri at mga babala ng mga pangunahing nakakaalam ng diwa ng ating Saligang Batas ngayon—ang mga nagbalangkas nito. Sa ikinikilos ng kasalukuyang administrasyon, may mga palatandaan bang mababago ang kanilang isinulat upang bigyang-daan ang isa na namang mapang-abusong rehimen?

Sa ikawalang forum, tatalakayin, sa pangunguna ng mga dating miyembro ng Korte Suprema at mga iskolar ng konstitusyon, kung ano ang mga posibleng mangyari sa hudikatura kung ang Saligang Batas malagay sa purgatoryo ng mga emyenda o kung tuluyan itong palitan.

Sa ikatlo’t huling forum, maipapaliwanag ng mga dating naka-unipormeng tagapagpatupad ng batas  kung ano-anong mga hamon ang haharapin ng kanilang institusyon sa oras na makulayan ng mga partikular na interes ang proseso ng pagpapalit o pag-iemyenda ng konstitusyon.

Kailangan nating usisain at papanagutin lagi, hindi lamang ang may hawak ng kapangyarihan, kundi kahit ang mga taong nagtalaga kung ano ang halaga at bisa ng kapangyarihang ito. Nagsisilbing okasyon ang kasalukuyang banta ng diktadura upang bigyang diin ang pagtitimbang na ito, at upang mabantayan ang mga nakaambang pandarahas sa mga demokratikong institusyon ng bansa.



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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

An invitation to the Philippine launch of A Time to Rise


PHILIPPINE BOOK LAUNCH:
A Time to Rise: Collective Memoirs of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP)
Conference Hall, UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies
Lower Ground Floor, Ang Bahay ng Alumni
University of the Philippines-Diliman
2 February 2018 (Friday), 4:00 - 6:00 PM


The Program on Alternative Development and the Program on Social and Political Change of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies, the UP Third World Studies Center, the Department of Political Science, UP Diliman, and Laban ng Masa invite the public to the Philippine book launch of A Time to Rise: Collective Memoirs of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP) edited by Rene Ciria Cruz, Cindy Domingo, and Bruce Occena, with foreword by Augusto F. Espiritu.

Ms. Domingo, one of the book's editors, will be present at the launch event.

This book launch is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.


ABOUT THE BOOK

In the politically turbulent 1970s and '80s, a revolutionary organization emerged in the Filipino American community. Overcoming cultural and class differences, the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP) members joined in a single national organization to mobilize for civil rights in the United States and for democracy and national liberation in the Philippines.

A Time to Rise collects forty-three personal accounts by participants in the struggle, providing a full and multifaceted picture of KDP recruitment, organizing, and training, including women's central role in the organization and its leadership. Many stories involve the long road to justice for murdered KDP and union leaders Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, culminating in the 1989 landmark victory in the federal civil suit against Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos and their codefendants. These memoirs offer political insights and stirring examples of courage that resonate today.


Refreshments will be provided.

Saturday, November 18, 2017

Kasarinlan: Marcos Pa Rin!



UPDATE: This special issue is now on Kasarinlan's official website: journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/kasarinlan/issue/view/602 (this link cannot be accessed using DILNET due to migration of University of the Philippines Diliman Journals Online website). You may also download a full copy of the issue here.

KASARINLAN: PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF THIRD WORLD STUDIES MARCOS PA RIN!
VOLUMES 27–28 NUMBERS 1–2
2012–2013

THE EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

1 Why Marcos Pa Rin!
Miguel Paolo P. Reyes and Ricardo T. Jose

FORUMS

19 Ang mga Isyu at Interes sa Pagpangalan sa UP College of Business Administration na Cesar E. A. Virata School of Business
Judy M. Taguiwalo · Nelson A. Navarro · Eduardo C. Tadem · Amado Mendoza Jr.

65 Forum 1 Rapporteur’s Report

73 Pangako Sa ‘Yo: Kompensasyon sa mga Biktima ng Batas Militar
Rodrigo C. Domingo Jr. · Fe Buenaventura-Mangahas · Rita Melecio · Meynardo P. Mendoza ·  Roberto Diciembre · Karen Gomez-Dumpit

117 Forum 2 Rapporteur’s Report

125 Bonggang Bonggang Bongbong: Ang Rehabilitasyong Pulitikal ng mga Marcos
Amado Mendoza Jr. · Ferdinand C. Llanes · Gerardo Eusebio · Butch Hernandez

163 Forum 3 Rapporteur’s Report

169 ‘Pag Meron Ka Nito, Wala Kang Talo! Ang mga Abugado, ang Hudikatura, at ang Arkitekturang Legal ng Awtoritaryanismong Marcos
Froilan Bacungan · Raul Pangalangan · Marites Dañguilan-Vitug · Rene A.V. Saguisag

213 Forum 4 Rapporteur’s Report

221 My Husband’s Lovers: Ang Pag-ibig at Pagkamuhi Kina FM at Meldy Magmula sa mga Martial Law Babies Hanggang sa Kasalukuyang Henerasyon
Teresita G. Maceda · Frank Cimatu · Raissa Robles

265 Forum 5 Rapporteur’s Report

APPENDICES

277 1.1 Excerpt from the Minutes of the 1287th Meeting of the Board of Regents on the Renaming of the UP College of Business Administration into the Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business, 12 April 2013

279 1.2 Letter from the Office of the Dean, University of the Philippines Diliman College of Business Administration to the University of the Philippines Board of Regents on the Renaming of the UP College of Business Administration to the Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business, 15 March 2013

297 1.3 Letter from the Office of the Chancellor to UP President Alfredo Pascual on the Request to Rename the College of Business Administration into the Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business, 11 April 2013

301 1.4 Intelligence Assessment, “Philippine Economic Decision Making: The System and the Players” by the Central Intelligence Agency, United States of America, March 1983

311 1.5 “Nine-Hole Golf Course Is New Attraction on University Campus,” Diliman Star, 25 October 1952

315 1.6 Confidential Cable from the US Embassy in Manila, “Imelda and the Intellectuals,” 25 February 1976

319 1.7 Confidential Cable from the US Embassy in Manila, “Mrs. Marcos Chides New Alma Mater,” 19 April 1977

323 1.8 Resolution Adopted by the UP Faculty Assembly, Some Members of the Faculty of the College of Business Administration, and the College of Law on the Suspension of the Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, 21 August 1971

327 1.9 Ferdinand E. Marcos on Agrarian Reform

339 2.1 Celsa Hilao, et al. v. Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos

349 2.2 Republic Act 10368, “Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013”

365 2.3 Excerpts from In Re Estate of Marcos Human Rights Litigation, 910 F. Supp. 1460 (MDL 840)

377 2.4 Yuchengco v. Sandiganbayan, G.R. No. 149802

389 2.5 Chico River-Basin Development Project

397 2.6 Selections from Philippines: Testimonies on Human Rights Violations

407 2.7 Confidential Cable from the US Embassy in Manila, “Congressman Solarz Calls on President Marcos,” 26 November 1976

413 2.8 The Detainee Mariflor Parpan

419 2.9 Excerpts from Generoso N. Subayco, Alfredo T. Alcalde, and Eleuterio O. Ibaez, petitioners, vs. Sandiganbayan and People of the Philippines, respondents, G.R. Nos. 117267–117310, 22 August 1996

425 3.1 Of Trickery and Omissions: Bongbong Marcos Biography from His Official Website

433 3.2 Popularizing Political Rehabilitation: Bongbong Marcos’s Friendster

437 3.3 Excerpts from “Project Appraisal Document on the Purchase of Emission Reductions Proposed by the Prototype Carbon Fund in the Amount of USD 1.5 Million to the Northwind Power Development Corporation for a Northwind Bangui Bay Project,” World Bank, 8 December 2004

447 3.4 Questionable Authorship Claim of Bongbong Marcos on the National Youth Commission Act

449 3.5 Ferdinand R. Marcos II v. Court of Appeals, The Commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Herminia D. de Guzman

453 3.6 Heir to the Throne

459 3.7 (Governor) Bongbong Marcos, Game Hunter

463 3.8 Senate Bill 2593, “An Act Creating a Hydrogen Research and Development Center and Providing Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes,” 15 November 2010

467 4.1 Foreword, Ferdinand E. Marcos on Human Rights

469 4.2 Confidential Cable from the US Embassy in Manila, “Supreme Court Justice Calls for Lifting of Martial Law,” 7 July 1976

473 4.3 Excerpts from Luneta v. Special Military Commission, G.R. No. L-49473, and the Concurring Opinion by Chief Justice Fernando

475 4.4 Excerpt from “A Greater Responsibility for Our Soldiers,” 26 January 1972

479 4.5 Citizenship of Justice Claudio Teehankee Sr.

485 4.6 Marcos Diary Entry, 15 September 1971

491 4.7 Marcos Diary Entry, 16 September 1971

497 4.8 Marcos Diary Entry, 18 September 1971

503 4.9 Marcos Diary Entry, 24 September 1972

509 4.10 Marcos Diary Entry, 25 September 1972

517 4.11 Marcos Diary Entry, 11 October 1972

525 4.12 Marcos Diary Entry, 14 November 1972

531 4.13 Marcos Diary Entry, 19 December 1972

535 4.14 Marcos Diary Entry, 20 December 1972

539 4.15 Marcos Diary Entry, 23 December 1972

545 4.16 Marcos Diary Entry, 27 January 1973

547 4.17 Marcos Diary Entry, 29 January 1973

549 4.18 Ferdinand Marcos’s Self-Serving Presidential Decrees

561 4.19 Superexecutive, Supercourt, Superlegislature, and One-Man Constitutional Convention

573 4.20 Resolution of U.P. Law Class 1939 Declaring Its Unqualified Adherence to the New Society and Pledging Its Loyalty and Fealty to President Ferdinand E. Marcos

577 4.21 Marcos Diary Entries, 8 October 1970 and 11 June 1979

589 5.1 Letter from Luis Nepomuceno to Imelda Marcos on the Film Maharlika

593 5.2 “A Man of His Time,” A Year Before Martial Law, 11 September 1971

599 5.3 Letter of Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas, SJ on the Barangay Brigade or Barangay Kawal, 22 May 1979

605 5.4 The President’s Physique

607 5.5 Timeline from the Marcos Presidential Center Website

615 5.6 Excerpts from Agapita Trajano; Archimedes Trajano, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Ferdinand E. Marcos, Defendant, and Imee Marcos-Manotoc, Defendant-Appellant

621 5.7 Project Completion Report: Philippine National Railways

625 5.8 OFW Remittances: Executive Orders No. 857 and 1021

633 5.9 Excerpts from “The Peace and Order Situation” by Fidel V. Ramos, 28 March 1980

637 5.10 William Saunders and Jane Ryan

645 5.11 Francisco I. Chavez, petitioner, vs. Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) and Magtanggol Gunigundo, (in his capacity as chairman of the PCGG), respondents

659 5.12 UP ROTC Website Profile on Alumnus Ferdinand E. Marcos

663 5.13 Executive Order 879, “Directing the Propagation of the Filipino Ideology and Creating a Committee to Evolve, Supervise and Monitor the Implementation of the Program for Its Dissemination”

671 5.14 Introduction, Introductory Readings in Filipino Ideology

675 5.15 Confidential Memo for Ferdinand Marcos from Arturo Tanco on Rice Crisis, 16 July 1973

679 5.16 Confidential Cable from the US Embassy in Manila, “Marcos Delivers Major Economic Policy Speech with Minor Results,” 22 November 1976

685 5.17 Marcos Pays for Propaganda

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

TWSC Holds Its 2017 Writeshop, 25-27 October 2017


The 2017 TWSC Writeshop 
Third World Studies Center, Lower Ground Floor, 
College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, 
Palma Hall, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City 
25-27 October 2017


About the writeshop 

The Third World Studies Center (TWSC) holds the 2017 TWSC Writeshop from 25 to 27 October 2017 in continuing its commitment to build the capacity of early career researchers, junior faculty members, and graduate students in the social sciences. As a premiere social science research center in the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines-Diliman, the TWSC continues to develop critical, alternative paradigms to promote progressive scholarship by undertaking pioneering research and publishing original, empirically-grounded, and innovative studies. 

Originally meant as a capacity-building workshop on social science research in 2010, the TWSC Writeshop transformed into a unique publication platform for early career researchers, junior faculty members, and graduate students in the social sciences. Since 2014, successful Writeshop participants were not only given the opportunity to interact with experts from the academe and the publishing industry, but also the opportunity to produce a publishable manuscript for the TWSC’s internationally refereed journal Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies. 

The 2017 TWSC Writeshop sustains the manuscript-driven mentoring format in the form of intensive yet collegial small-group discussions with mentors, established scholars in their respective fields and the Kasarinlan editorial staff. The intensive three-day session will bring into line problematization, researcher positionality and ethics, and meaningful narratives based on empirical work to equip the participants in making a contribution to social science scholarship, i.e., a publishable work. In seeing through the TWSC Writeshop’s goal, the Writeshop culminates in the publication of successful manuscripts in a special issue in Kasarinlan.

The writeshop fellows
  1. Matavia, Hilarion C. Jr., Philippine Science High School - Southern Mindanao Campus - "Dátäl Bôb – An Emerging Model For A Peaceful Polyethnic Community"
  2. Millondaga, Kenette Jean I., University of the Philippines – Mindanao - "Troubled Kahusayan: Klata Bagobo’s History of Violence and Unrest"
  3. Ruiz, Amihan T., University of the Philippines – Diliman - "Five in One: Local Meanings on the Proliferation of Mosques in Al Salam Compound, Culiat"
  4. Redison, Frances Anthea R., Ateneo De Manila University - "Kahilway ag kalisod: People’s Experiences cited in Philippine Historical Data Papers during Japanese Occupation in Aklan (Capiz) 1942-1945"
  5. Mansujeto, Patrick John F., University of the Philippines – Diliman - "Wings of Supremacy: The Start of Aviation in the Philippines, 1909-1919"
  6. Arguelles, Cleve Kevin Robert V., University of the Philippines – Manila - "Reconceptualizing populism: Perspectives from the Philippine populist publics"
  7. Bunquin, Jon Benedik A., University of the Philippines – Diliman - "A Profile of the Political Communication Network of the Filipino Youth"
  8. Fernandez, Maria Carmen, Independent researcher - "Implementing Peace and Development in the Bangsamoro: Potentials and Constraints of Socio-Economic Programs for Conflict-Affected Areas in Southern Philippines, 1913-2015"
  9. Esquejo, Kristoffer R., University of the Philippines – Diliman - "Family and Politics in an Archipelagic Province: The Legacy of Moreno Brothers in Post-War Romblon, 1949-1969"
  10. Alporha, Veronica C., University of the Philippines – Los Baños - "Manuel Quezon and the Filipino Women’s Suffrage of 1937"
  11. Nubla, Frances Michelle, Ateneo De Naga University - "The Dynamics of Single Parenting"
Photos from the event

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