neues aus dipuntian

  ich besuchte einen monat lang dipuntian, zwei jahre nachdem ich beim
kauf von dipuntian dabei war.
es war ebbe, und ich konnte in 2 std am strand nach dipuntian laufen.
man kann aber auch schon mit dem tricicle von cassiguran bis nach
busok busok fahren. hier eroeffnete IDC einen holzverladeplatz und
eine loggingroad nach ages.
  das wilde dorfleben der vielen kinder war weit zu hoeren, und die
spannung gross. aufregung und freude, viele kannten mich noch. es
leben hier jetzt hauprsaechlich halbagtsas. ich zog in den dachstock
des grossen achteckbaus.
ich hatte eine vollmacht dabei, um eine nichtagtafrau und ihren
kollegen aus dem privatgelaende mit allen mitteln zu vertreiben.
unguenstigerweise war sie  die einzige englich sprechende person am
platz. desweiteren musste ich mich in tagalog ueben. die illegalen
siedler (vmtl.heimliche katholische missionare) waren aber sehr
uneinsichtig. erfreuten sich doch die agtas sehr an ihnen. sie
verliessen das dorf aber vor ablauf meines ultimatums, versuchten
aber spaeter die NPA, die bewaffnete guerilla gegen mich aufzuhetzen.
diese wurde aber ohne schwierigkeiten von den dorfbewohnern
umgestimmt, und verhielte sich immer sehr friedlich. sie stellt nach
wie vor keine gefahr dar, hat auch noch keine finanziellen
forderungen an gaeste gerichtet. das dorf setzte durch, dass sie sich
mir und anderen gaesten nicht mehr zeigten, um uns nicht zu
verunsichern.
alle negritos hier sind schon von der born-again-sekte missioniert,
die vier "untergrundmissionare" sind nach aussage einer von ihnen,
nida, vom katholischen AMP missioncenter    tel 6327260821
1029 P.Noval Street, Sampaloc, Manila
abteilung: indigenuos people apostolate
aussenstelle in Aurora: Dilasag + Dilalungan
geben sich als freiwillige lehrer und schuetzer der agtakultur aus
und wollen natuerlich nur gutes, und bestreiten jede
missionstaetigkeit. die zwei agtas unter ihnen durften bleiben. die
vertriebenen kamen immer mal wieder vorbei. Sie werden sich sicher
wieder anzusiedeln, sobald ich weg bin.
oft wurde ich in diesem strikten naturschutzgebiet von einem bautrupp
aus 2 grossen radladern und 4 lkw aufgeschreckt. diese hatten sich
bereits erlaubt ohne genehmigung eine strasse quer durchs land zu
bauen, und scheuen sich nicht, auch mit der planierraupe abkuerzungen
quer durchs gruen zu nehmen, um den strand zu befahren. es ist eine
staatliche provintial road, die vor allem  IDC  benoetigt, besitzer
der holzkonzession fuer die ganze san ildefonso halbinsel. am anderen
ufer des pasaroboiriver wird eine strasse richtung legen gebaut. auch
hier wird holzschlag geplant. eine weitere schneise wurde durch
dipuntian geschlagen, um eine stromleitung zu spannen.
Ben Ninia
(direktor der stromgesellschaft und chef von DENR aurora)
zur rechtsgrundlage: er glaubt einfach nicht, dass irgendjemand etwas
gegen entwicklung haben koennte.
  its for the benefit of all!
zudem wird kabelfernsehen in die leitung eingespeist.
selbst bein baden im fluss wurde ich von zwei radladern gestoert, die
hier eine kleine illegale kiessgrube betreiben. es wird auf allen
ebenen an dipuntian gegraben. ich konnte die natur nicht so recht in
ruhe geniessen. der nachbar flussaufwaerts der auch in dipuntian
baume faellt hatte schon ein stolzes holzlager von etwa 100 kurzen
staemmen, einige ev von hier, die er ueber den fluss austreidelt, und
bei nacht ausschifft. ein grosser teil der wirtschaftlich
interressanten baume auf dipuntian wurden die letzten 2 jahre
gestohlen. die agtas trauen sich scheinbar nicht, sich einzumischen.
auch das nackt baden wirft nun probleme auf. ich versuchte es bei
einbrechender dunkelheit, doch die kinder sahen es, und damit wussten
es gleich alle. ich erhielt eine schriftliche beschwerde schon beim
aus dem wasser kommen. unter falschen absender: im namen der
dorfaeltesten, geschrieben von der missionarin, sie will hier
strengere sitten einfueren, auch mittels verleugnung.
Ich war viel in der region unterwegs, mit und ohne naton, dem
dorfchef.
bei behoerden, mafiosi, polizei, lokalpolitiker, presse, waelder,
pazific, kahlschlaege, agtadoefer, und dem IDC, dem
holzfaellermonopolisten, dem hauptcontrahenten der waldfreunde.
  ich beschaeftigte mich mit themen rund um geld, macht, politik,
betrug, intriegen, buerokratie, korruption, verbrechen und
laichenfledderei. was die zivilisation so mit sich bringt, und worin
die agtas noch ungeuebt sind.
ich war oft auf der suche nach dem, wass mir keiner sagen will, mit
schlechten tagalogsprachfaehigkeiten, und ohne guten uebersetzer der
sprache und vor allem der logik.
  das diabamassaker wird offiziell verschwiegen, es gibt nur viele
unterschiedliche geruechte.
auf die zuneigung der agtas war verlass, selbst wenn ich mich gegen
ihre interressen einsetzte.
die kinder waren fuer agtas hier recht angriffslustig, sehen im
nachbardorf fern, und testeten dann ihre kungfutechniken an mir.
die zeit verflog, mir wichtige  berge und waelder blieben ungesehen.
mein IDC kontaktmann blieb krank, die security verwehrte mir weitere
kooperation und internetzugang. sie hielten meine spionage im werk
fuer illegal, seit ich dort ihre maschienerie ablichtete.
ich verliess dipuntian veraergert, wurde mir zuletzt doch noch dies
und das von nichtagtas gestohlen. selbst mein opinel wurde mir
abgenommen.
es gelang mir, auf der strasse den holzlaster des IDC zu stoppen, um
kostenlos die region zu verlassen. ich sass auf gut 20-30 t
tropenholz in form von brettern und balken. ich konnte in allen
positionen mit bester aussicht die aufregende piste an der bewaldeten
steilkueste des pazifik geniessen, sogar schlafend. nach 12 std
fahrt, auf halbem wege erst nach manila, oben in den bergen der
sierra madre brach die achsaufhaengung. der bus ist etwa
dreimalsoschnell.

hannes

http://www.leedsef.org.uk/agta.htm

Dear Jordi Reus,
Thanks for your interest in our work.
we would be very pleased if you come to Dipuntian and,
perhaps, shoot some photos there.
You can sleep in the big house there. To get food is
quite easy in Dipuntian.
There are quite frequetly some people from european
race, but not yet always.
How to reach Dipuntian? You take a bus (Genesis from
Pasay, Manila) to Cabanatuan. Some 3 Euro.
From there you take the bus straight to Casiguran,
Some 5 Euro. There you take a tricycle to the pier and
ask for a small outrigger boat (Bangka) to Dipuntian.
1 Euro. In Dipuntian you will e.g. meet the agta
Natong.
Greetings from Hartmut Heller

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Name: Jordi
Email: jordireus2000@...
Address: jovellanos 15, 3A

E-43201 Reus

Spain
Phone: 34977310039
Skills: Dear Sirs, I would like to know if

there is any possibility to join your project working
as a volunteer

since I\'m a Naturalist and a

Freelance Botanical Photographer. I\'ve written some
features about

Corology in my country (Catalonia in Spain) and I\'m
therefore

familiarized with plant identification. Recently I
have been to

Katse Botanic Garden (Lesotho).

Thank you beforehand.

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Dear all,
at this link you will find new pictures from Dipuntian made by Hannes. The
latest development will be come soon.
steffen

http://www.fPcN-global.org/slide-shows/Agta_at_Dipuntian_2003/index.php

Information and Strategy for our Dipuntian project site from fPcN:

Busconnection to Dipuntian:
Manila, Cabanatuan, Maria Aurora, Baler Casiguran, Busok Busok, Diputian

Informations about the Dipuntianland:

Copy of Landtitel on server

Structur of the ownership from Dipuntian:
FdN (Freunde der Naturvoelker e. V.) brought the Land (10 ha) in the year
2000 with money from the German donation Counsil and the land title was
written to Mr. Rico Naval, a philipines Aeta tribes man. Who lives now near=
  Mt.
Pinatubo, near Marcellino (needs address)

Family structure:

Wife 1                                   Wife2
Analin          Rico Naval      Hanglew

Children:
Josef (94)                             Juice (?)
Jessica (97)                           Son (?)
Erap (98)
Monica (01)

FdN has leased this land from Rico Naval for 99 years.

Copy of the Renting contract on server

Copy of Dipuntianlandmap, rescan and upload to server

Logging activities:
The IDC got the Logging concession for the fully half the island of San
Ildefonso, District Aurora from the DENR. But we think becouse we saw it th=
at
only a small part of the loggs is being taken to Manila for producing muble=
s.
Most of the loggs will be illegal exported by sea. See photo.
The Agta from the village Dalugan is about three km south of Dipuntion and =

has attacked the Loggers with bow and arrows. The name of the chief is litt=
le
Joe.

Address of IDC (Industries Development Corporation)
(Manager: Kuri Hara, Japanes)
Sawmill in Dibacong (see map and photos) (visual informations see
Slideshow on fpcn website)

IDC is connected with
MW (Meljori Woodworks)
Manila
Pasig City, Maybunga
F. Legaspistreet 401
Tel: 6427873
Owner: Goerge Ong (of all)

Local Government:
Former Local Government
"Counsellor"
Reynaldo F. Serguina (Macoi)
Arakas Street
Brgy 02
Casiguran

DiCaDi project:
He was a former member of the local Government and, we think, he formed
together with the Secretary Magda the DiCaDi (Dilasag Casiguran
Dinalugan). This organisation was formed in the year 2002 for the
Administration and management of the Ancester Agta Land. The Agta Renato
Prado (Natong) is the President. But Magda is the underlined Boss of all
Decissions. We're thinking, that Magda and Reynaldo want to make money
with this Organisation and will con the Agta, who know nothing about at
all. Most of the Agta dont have trust to these two persons.
The first land that the DiCaDi want is Dipuntian, to control it.

Road project:
The road was built in 2002 from Casiguran, Busok Busok cross Dipuntian and =

heading to the cape of San Ildefonso.
On the juction of the river Paseroboi, continues the road to Legen (Agta
village) and to Ages. All this roads are built from the local Government/
Casiguran district office.  (see map)
An other road starting from the IDC Logging timber yard in Busok Busok, fro=
m
where it goes north to Ages. This is built by the IDC.

Powerlineproject:
In the year 2002 a  Powerline was built from Casiguran to the Cape of San
Ildefonso though is not yet finnished.
The Company Electricity Corparation runs this project. The Director of the =

company is Mr. Deuro Ben Ninia.
He is also the Director of the local DENR (Department for Enviroment and
Natural Resources), who gave the Logging concession for the whole area to
the IDC (Industrial Development Corperartion).

DENR (Department for Enviroment and Natural Resources):
The DENR office is positioned between Casiguran and Dibacong. The
Director Mr. Deuro Ben Ninia. His cousin is the wife from Renato Prado
(Natong) the Chief of the Agta community in Dipuntian. Natong (spoken to by=

the ef) is even the local controler of the whole area for DENR. (see
documents) The local Agta, even the Philippinos on the San Ildefonso Island=

dont want this logging activities. Natong wants the Dipuntian land title fo=
r him
self.

Missonaring:
The Missionaries that work (temporary) on our land are:
AMP Mission Center
Indigenous people Apostlate
P. Naval Street Sampaloc
1029 Manila
Tel.  632 7360 821

The Aurora District Mission House is in Dilasag and Dilalung. They send two=

philippines women to our land, to missionize the Agta. One of their Slogans=
  is:
"where ever we are, we shal be a sign that the church is missionary".

Press information contact: really helpful for local info
Abdul Hassin Kamlon
Alhambra street
Casiguran

NPA:
The NPA (New people Army) is the armed, left wing guerilla militia. The NPA=

is very active in this region and attacked in the year 2002, the Pateco Log=
ging
Company. After this they stopped logging.
The NPA is like a advocate for the under representive poor and landless
Philippine people. Untill now we have had no problems with them. But in the=

future, we may have to pay a kind of "Revolution Tax", paid by all, who hav=
e
any economics activities or Companys in this region.

Strategie for a Solution:
The Lawyer have to go to the Philippines and contact:

           Edgar Guevara (English spoken)
           Geo-Farm
           Barrio Mangayo
           Bayambang
           Pangasinan
           Tel: 075-5923349
                  0919-7393154

This man formed a organic farm, reforestreted Rainforest and give Seminars =

for Farmers, pupils and Students.
He offer Hannes Ruecker, a German FPCN Member and the last visiter of
Dipuntian, help in support our project site. Hannes Rücker will be the new =

project manager, assist by Klaus Ehlers, all FdN members.

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27th-28th Sept. 2003 - at The Dogstar Bar, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton,
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fPcN intercultural and Freunde der Naturvölker present the Tribes and
Tribulations Film Festival in order to demonstrate the situation of
ancient tribal people in their native environment, their history,
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Each film will be preceded with introductions from the film makers
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and answer sessions.
This unique event will be livestreamed on the internet and will
include premiere screenings of documentary films gathered from four
continents.
There will also be live global interaction through internet chat for
supporters in other countries.

FILM SCHEDULE: Saturday 27th Sept. (All Times BST/GMT+1)

2:00pm Beginning
a short film about our founder Hartmut Heller, sadly recently deceased.

2:15pm Americas
Grand Chaco - 'The death of Wilderness', an Ayoreo film - south
American Indians
Dead line Day -  land rights issues - north American Indians

3:45pm Africa
Hadzabe - 'The Last savages of east Africa - No need development'

4:45pm Melanesia
'Blood on the Red Cross' - West Papua
'Papua Merdeka'  - West Papua

6:00pm Food & Music Supper
Entertainment with the Lani Singers

8.30pm Finish


FILM SCHEDULE: Sunday 28th Sept.

11:00am Africa
'WWF exposes'
'Baka Pygmies' - Integrated in the Civilisation

2:00pm-3:00pm Chat / Lunch

3:00pm Asia
'Maniq of the Malakka peninsular'
Aeta - 'Save the Savages' - former hunter-gatherers of Luzon, in the
Philippines
'Agta in Labuan / Dipuntian'

6pm (appx) Melanesia
'Point of Ignition' - West Papua FdN

'What you can do?' - Direct Action and Solidarity Talk
All Discussions live in the fPcN chat room (till close)

8.30pm Finish

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While Christian Missionaries preach of peace, love and harmony, their
most effective tool for conversions is violence and they will not
hesitate to use it. There are hundreds of violent attacks by
Christian Missionaries every year. Most of these attacks can be
categorized into the following:

1. Divide & Convert (Tahiti) - One of the most efficient way and
brutal ways that Missionaries have converted large amounts of people
is by dividing and conquering. Missionaries will persuade a leader of
a tribe that they will arm him and allow him to defeat a rival tribal
if he converts to Christianity. After the conquering and pillaging of
the opposing tribe, under the rule of the converted leader, both
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While Christian Missionaries preach of peace, love and harmony, their
most effective tool for conversions is violence and they will not
hesitate to use it. There are hundreds of violent attacks by
Christian Missionaries every year. Most of these attacks can be
categorized into the following:

1. Divide & Convert (Tahiti) - One of the most efficient way and
brutal ways that Missionaries have converted large amounts of people
is by dividing and conquering. Missionaries will persuade a leader of
a tribe that they will arm him and allow him to defeat a rival tribal
if he converts to Christianity. After the conquering and pillaging of
the opposing tribe, under the rule of the converted leader, both
tribes convert to Christianity. One classical example occurred is the
story of how the South Pacific was converted:

In 1797, thirty years after the discovery of Tahiti by Wallis, the
first missionaries landed on the island. The missionaries, sent by
the London Missionary Society, tried for seven years to convert the
natives but were unable to make any headway.

It was then that they discovered, as if by miracle, the proper method
of converting the Tahitians. They discovered that the local chief,
Pomare, liked alcohol (distilled by the missionaries) so much that he
became an alcoholic. Addicted to the distilled spirit (perhaps the
"holy" spirit), Pomare agreed to back the missionaries in their work
of conversion. Pomare, supplied with western firearms, easily subdued
his native opponents. Upon his victory over his rivals, the whole
island was forcibly converted in one day.

Then the process of inculcating "Christian virtues" began. Persistent
unbelievers, those who refused to be converted, were executed.
Singing was banned (except for hymns) and all forms of adornment,
flowers or tattoo were disallowed. Of course, surfing and dancing
were not permitted as well. The punishment for breaking any of these
rules included, among others, being sentenced to hard labor.

Within thirty years of missionary control, the population of Tahiti
fell from an initial estimate of 20,000 to 6,000. On another island,
Raiatea, a man who was able to forecast the weather by studying the
behavior of fish was executed for witchcraft. The missionaries
continued this tactic from island to island and managed to convert
the whole South Pacific.

Though this method was used centuries ago, it is still a commonly
used tactic used by Christian Missionaries in tribal areas of Asia
and Africa.

2. Terrorist Organizations (North-East India) - These relatively
small armed tribal groups are eventually nurtured by Missionaries
into violent and sadistic terrorist groups:

On December 4th, 2000, Christians converts under the direction of
Missionaries, desecrated an ashram (Hindu religious retreat) set up
by murdered Hindu leader Shanti Kumar Tripura.  They desecrated Hindu
idols and destroyed photos of the slain religious leader revered by
both Hindu tribals and Bengalis. The Christian converts also raped
two female devotees and brutally attacked two men who had come to the
ashram for puja (religious rituals).

The next day, Christian converts brutally desecrated another ashram
at Jirania Khola and forced the inmates to stop all Hindu rituals and
practices at gunpoint. A group of seven armed converted Christian
terrorists barged into the ashram and threatened the 150 Hindus with
dire consequences if they continued to perform Hindu rites at the
ashram. The terrorists fled only after a large group of locals rushed
to the ashram.

Due to threats by violent Missionaries and their Christian converts,
altogether 11 ashrams, schools and orphanages set up by the murdered
Hindu leader in various parts of the state have been forcibly closed
down by the Christian fundamentalist terrorist organization known as
"National Liberation Front of Tripura" (NLFT).

In early October the same Christian fundamentalists had issued a
diktat ordering the indigenous tribal Hindus to stay away from Durga
Puja celebrations (Hindu Festival) and warned that any tribal members
seen taking part in the festival would be instantly killed. In its
official public statement, the NLFT said it wanted all tribals in
Tripura to become Christians. They also stated that salvation for
Tripura lies only in Christianity and would eliminate anyone who
dared to come in the way of their plans to forcibly convert all of
Tripura to Christianity.

NFLT is still an active and powerful terrorist organization that
operates in Northeast India. They have converted many Hindus and
tribals forcibly at gunpoint, and are involved in rapes, and
assassinations. They continue to receive arms as well as moral and
financial support from Western Christian organizations and
Missionaries.

3. Manhunts (South America) - Another method, aptly called "manhunt",
involves the missionaries going out, sometimes in motorized vehicles,
hunting for natives to integrate them into reservations set up for
missionary work. The New Tribes Mission (NTM), for instance, went on
such a manhunt in Paraguay. Five missionized natives were killed in
one such manhunt. Those unconverted natives were taken to the NTM
camp in Campo Loro. Within a short while, according to Survival
International, all had died of new diseases they had no immunity to.
Stung by criticism, the best reply the NTM 's Director in Paraguay
could muster was: "We don't go after people anymore. We just provide
transport."

In another such "manhunt" in 1979, also in Paraguay, one of the
frightened natives fell down from a tree and broke her leg. (Her
right breast had already been shot off by a previous encounter with
the missionaries.) She was compelled, with her broken leg, to walk
back to the mission camp. She subsequently died.

4. Kidnappings - In conjunction with the "manhunt", converted natives
are trained by the missionaries to carry guns. The "newly contacted"
natives are then rounded off to the mission camp. One American
organization, Cultural Survival, reported in 1986 that natives in the
NTM camp in Paraguay kidnapped and forced into missionary schools.

5. Forced Captivity - In one such Missionary camp, a witness
described the situation of the kidnapped captives:

"I Š saw two old ladies lying on some rags on the ground in the last
stages of emaciation and clearly on the verge of death. One was
unconscious, the second in what was evidently a state of
catalepsy...In the second hut lay another woman, also in a desperate
condition and with untreated wounds on her legs. A small, naked,
tearful boy sat at her side...The three women and the boy had been
taken in a recent forest roundup, the third woman having being shot
in the side while attempting to escape."

6. Genocide (Brazil) - There are many accounts of genocide committed
by Missionaries but they rarely reported in Christian media because
of the perverse nature of the crime and because they are usually
committed against remote tribals. One of the most horrific massacres
was of Brazilian tribals by the grossly misnamed Indian Protection
Service, which Christian Missionaries supported and often assisted in
killings.

In just a few years, the following tribes population was reduced due
to Missionary genocide:

* Munducurus tribe: reduced from 19,000 to 1,200
* Guaranis tribe: reduced from 5,000 to 200
* Cajaras tribe: from 4,000 to 400
* Cintas Largas: from 10,000 to 500
* Tapaiunas: completely extirpated
* Other tribes were reduced to only a few (one or two!) individuals
and some by only a single family.

The Missionaries employed some of the following methods in their killings:

* The Cintas Largas were attacked by dropping dynamites from airplanes.
* The Maxacalis were given alcohol and then shot down when they became drunk.
* The Nhambiquera were killed in huge numbers by machine gun fire.
* Two Patachos tribes were exterminated by giving the unsuspecting
Indians smallpox injections.
* Some of the Indians were murdered by presenting them with food
laced with arsenic and formicides.
* One missionary persuaded 600 Ticuna Indians that the end of the
world is taking place and they will only be safe on a ranch. On that
ranch the Indians were made slaves and tortured.
* The Bororos tribe was banned from performing customary religious
rites on the dead. Deprived of their cultural identity, the Bororos,
instead of converting, committed suicide on by one, until the tribe
was extinct.

7. Intentional Denial of Medicines- In another New Tribes Mission
(NTM) mission camp, many of the natives either died from starvation
or from diseases transmitted by the missionaries for which they had
no immunity against. In one such mission camp in Paraguay, the German
anthropologist, Dr. Mark Munzel, reported that food and medicine were
deliberately withheld by the missionaries. From a total of 277
natives in April 1972 only 202 survivors were left three months
later. A US congressional report confirmed that 49% of the camp
population had vanished!

In Bolivia, William Pencille, of the South American Missionary
Society, was called in to help when white ranchers moving into the
tribal areas came upon the Ayoreos. Pencille persuaded these natives
to stop resisting the encroachment of the cattlemen and to settle on
a patch of barren land beside a railroad tract. The natives, having
no resistance to common diseases of the "modern" man, began to die.
Throughout all this Pencille had the means to save the lives of these
people. He had access to many modes of transport, including an
airplane, and to funds which could easily have been used to buy
medicines for them. Yet this is what he said: "It's better they
should die. Then I baptize them (on the point of death) and they go
straight to heaven."

Summary
The above is only a small sampling of the atrocities that have been
committed by Missionaries. It can be seen that Missionaries do not
hesitate rape, torture, enslave and murder in order to forcibly
spread Christianity. Though all these events occurred in the past,
some occurred as recently as only a few years ago, and they still
continue today on an even larger scale unreported by Western media.

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Dear Fellow OFWs:

Your assistance is highly appreciated. Let's do what we can to save
the Manobos. Please see the email of Bro Karl Gaspar below. I am
sending this as a mass mail reaching more than 5000 Filipinos
worldwide. Please help spread the word as well and let's join hands
to save the Manobos. We can form brigades in our present location
then contact Bro Karl and find out how we can best help with our
available resources. Let's pool our powers, Folks! It's OFW power
again to face this emergency! Pls take it away!

Bro Karl:

Thanks for sharing this. Hope you will advise where to send the
donations. Kindly open your mobile # for concerned OFWs to inquire
and understand best on how they can help. You had mentioned about
seeds. What else? Pls itemize for us and if there will be cash
donations, how will it be used and who will use for transparency if
ever?

Kuya, if you have a video to share the present situation, we could
include it as one program of Tulong Pinoy TV at OFW-TV www.ofw-
tv.com so OFWs will see the realities there aside from your sent
email. I personally would like to understand the situation of
Manobo children there. How are they doing for example.

Regards and our prayers for the Manobos,
Tonette Binsol
www.tpmovers.org
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www.ruralcomp.net

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Karl Gaspar <karlgasp@y...> wrote:

Dear Lalay, Domingo, Antonina, Tito, Ino and Teods,

Here's AN EMERGENCY ALERT
related to the BEGINNINGS OF A DROUGHT SEASON
affecting parts of Central and Western Mindanao
(as requested by some of you who have heard of this emergency
situation and might be able to tap Filipino communities wherever you
are and/or other groups interested to respond to another crisis, in
the wake of the Quezon floods that hit up North end of last year,
and of course the major tsunami event just after Christmas):

A. WHAT IS THE CRISIS?
Since last year, the Weather Bureau has sent notices to media
announcing of the possibility of a drought (El Nino) that would hit
central-western Mindanao this year. Last Sunday, in the Philippine
Daily Inquirer, the Minister of Energy announced there could be
serious cutbacks of electricity in Mindanao because the waters from
the rivers that flow towards the hydro-eletric dams in Lanao would
be severely afffected. While there are still rains here in Davao
and towards Agusan-Surigao, there have been no rains in Sultan
Kudarat-Maguindanao since immediately after Christmas. This is
especially true where I am based, namely, the town of Kulaman
located up in the Cotabato Cordillera that traverses Maguindanao and
Sultan Kudarat. The last strong rains were just after Christmas.
There's been no rain since, and it looks like there would be no
rains until July 2005. I cannot give you the situation elsewhere, I
could only report to you what is the situation where I am and what
could be
the extent of the emergency situation if the drought persists until
July 2005 and even beyond.

B. THE AREA
Kulaman is both a plateau and a valley. When one speaks of Kulaman,
this is the mountain area covering parts of the towns of Bagumbayan,
Sen. Ninoy Aquino and Palembang, all in the province of Sultan
Kudarat. I have been working with the Indigenous People's
Apostolate of this area in the last three years. This area is more
or less a plateau up on top of the Cotabato Cordillera also known as
DAGUMA range. Kulaman also refers to the poblacion of the town of
Sen. Ninoy Aquino which is a valley. The Dulangan Manobos are the
indigenous peoples of this whole area. The Ilokanos reached this
place in the late 1950s coming from Kalamansig and Lebak, the
Ilonggos came up with the logging operations in the l970s and the
Cebuanos in the l990s.

In the year 2000, the Archdiocse of Cotabato's Indigenous People's
Apostolate did a census of the Dulangan Manobos and reported that
there were 36,768 of them. The big majority are in the Kulaman
area. They are scattered in roughly 60 communities which we have
visited and have been linked to the IPA in the past three years.
Each community would average 35 households. The settlers population
of the Kulaman area could easily be 60,000 by this year.

Since the year 2003, rats had infested the farms of both the Manobos
and settlers of the area. The Manobos, of course, were the most
affected and most vulnerable to rat infestation. We've been
assisting them with the help of Tabang Mindanaw for sustainable
agriculture involving the introduction of organic farming, wet-rice
cultivation, contouring and all kinds of ways of alternative
farming. Despite all these assistance, food production has been
quite limited owing to the rat infestation. Even before the
drought, the Manobo communities have been faced with a serious
scarcity of food, especially the staple food of corn and rice. Most
of the communities now subsist on root crops: camote, camoteng kahoy
and local indigenous root crops, a little bit also of banana. We've
began to distribute food since last year, through the assistance of
Tabang Mindanaw and made sure this would not be dole-out. Food-for-
work schemes were set up especially in the pilot areas for
sustainable
agriculture. In some communities, there are no more seeds
available for the next planting; these have all been consumed.
This is tragic, as most of these seeds are the traditional upland
rice seedlings that go back hundreds of years ago. In our research
only a few communities still have such remaining seeds.

The rains for the next harvest usually start to fall in the Cotabato
Cordillera by late March then peak towards July. Already there are
very little seeds for the Manobos to plan even if the rains will
come soon. According to their traditional farming practice, the
Manobos now begin their kaingin of the remaining areas suited for
this traditional practice. This is the time when the star formation
of Orio appears at a particular angle in the sky (referred to as
Telo Bituwen by the Manobos). By March, they would be at a
particular angle that signals the planting of the seeds. The
Manobos already sense that there is a climactic difference this
year, so their anxiety has further deepened.

Whether the drought persists beyond this month, already there is
hunger among the Manobos. If the news of the drought is reversed
and we could get the rains by March, then a massive hunger could be
prevented as they could plant in March/April and would have harvests
in July-august. That is, if the rats would cease to destroy their
groups this year.

But there seems to be a big possibility that the drought will take
place as forecasted since there's been no rain for 7 weeks now - a
very long time for having no rains in a place like Kulaman.

If there will be no rains for the planting of the main crops of the
year in March-April, things will worsen and this time, practically
all the people in Kulaman will be affected, as the majority are poor
Ilokano, Ilonggo and Cebuano peasants. Already, in some Christian
communities, there are reports that corn and rice seeds are very
limited.

Assistance for seeds right now for both Manobo and Christian
settlers are quite needed.
If there are no rains by March-April, massive hunger will strike
Kulaman by June-August and beyond. Even if there are rains in
August, that meant that the main cropping season for the year (March-
July) would have been wasted. If there will still be no rains by
August-September, things will further worsen as the secondary
cropping season (the pangulilang as Bisayas would call it), would
also be affected.

I've been through a number of drought seasons while doing grassroots
work in Mindanao in the past three decades, so I know how things
could be very very bad when a drought strikes.

Of course, we do have some inkling as to why droughts take place.
In our study sessions in the past few months, we've incorporated
ecological awareness in such sessions. But there is only so much
that can be done from our end. And when a calamity like floods, rat
infestation and droughts come, we feel the immense pressure to do as
much as we can to assist those who go hungry. And, of course, the
first to be affected are the children. The malnutrition rate among
Manobo children right now is already quite frightening. What more if
this drought persists.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
Help us help the hungry now, and if the drought persists to the
middle of the year, those who will become part of the list of hungry
people in Kulaman.
Cetral and west Mindanao are supposed to be hit also.
We could only deal with the area where we are now, which is Kulaman.
We've done our bit to prepare the communities for this since we
first heard about it
last year. We've encouraged and assisted the Manobo communities to
plant banana
and rootcrops. But even these are already being consumed now.
If you have a way to reach out to groups/communities - especially
Filipino communities out there - who could offer help, no matter how
small, that would be very helpful for us.
Of course, with the recent tragedies affecting Quezon last year and
the tsunami after Christmas, funds for calamities everywhere may now
be very limited.
But no matter how little you can offer, this will go a long way up
in Kulaman.

I still need to check out how you can transfer funds.
Our bank up there in Kulaman may not be the ideal bank for money
transfer.
I am making an arrangement here in Davao but I need to call up
friends
to finalize this.
Before I leave Davao for the bukid in Kulaman at the end of the week-
end
I would be sending you an e-mail message with the name of the bank
and the account number.

Thanks for whatever you can do to help us help the people in Kulaman.
As ever,
Karl

Pls contact: Karl Gaspar <karlgasp@y...>


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Who is Bro Karl Gaspar?

From: "Leila Rispens-Noel" <leila@r...> Subject:
more about Karl Gaspar
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:39:34 +0100


Dear Tonette,



Just more background about Bro. Karl as he is called now. However to
his friends in the 1970�fs, he remains Karl. We are very fond of him
and he remains a friend despite all these years. My youngest son
Richard is named after him Richard Karl Edward.



Karl was our executive secretary of Mindanao Sulu Pastoral
Conference. He is a very gifted man of deep spirituality and an
artist. He has so many talents. He had so much fun working with him
despite all the difficulties during Martial Law years.



In the late �e70s, he wrote so many theater plays which we used for
awareness program in far flung barrios. He was also detained because
of his conviction to fight for justice and peace. Anyhow, working
with the lumads was his choice and he will remain working in the
mountains despite all his chances to teach in big universities in
the Philippines and abroad.



I am very grateful for your posting. I hope people will heed your
call. I am transferring an amount to Karl.



Ate Lalay





The rich and the famous, the poor and the obscure
for Batch 2003

by Carolyn O. Arguillas

DAVAO CITY - Tuesday morning's graduation speeches at the University
of Mindanao (UM) and the University of the Philippines-Mindanao
(UPMin) - are a study in contrast, and it is not only because the
first was delivered by one who is rich and famous and the second by
one who could have been rich and famous but opted to be poor and
obscure.


President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Redemptorist Brother
Carlos "Karl" M. Gaspar, both born in the year 1947, both academic
achievers - valedictorians in high school; in college, magna cum
laude for her and cum laude for him - and both holders of doctorate
degrees from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, she in
Economics, he in Philippine Studies.


At UM, she urged at least a thousand graduates to apply at the jobs
fair on Labor Day as 2,000 jobs will be offered by 20 overseas
recruiters and seven local companies. At UPMin, he offered 124
graduates "the chance of a lifetime," to "work with us at the
grassroots" by being a "barefoot teacher, researcher, ecologist,
health worker, cooperatives promoter, agriculturist and human
resource trainor." Gaspar, a political prisoner under martial law,
joined the Redemptorist Itinerant Mission Team after EDSA and has
served and lived among grassroots communities in Bukidnon, Zamboanga
del Sur, Lanao del Norte, and is presently based in Kulaman, Sultan
Kudarat.


"I am poor to the extent that I - like the members of my community -
live a life devoid of comforts and conveniences.. on many occasions
we sleep in the homes of poor peasants which rarely have
electricity, flowing water and a decent comfort room. The food we
eat are the usual poor person's meals�c.I am obscure only to the
extent that the people hardly know who I am apart from the basic
information they care to ask for. I am obscure in that I have
disappeared into the landscape of the interior and am treated
accordingly by the folks there," Gaspar wrote a few months ago.


At UM, the President spent more time talking about her campaign
against terrorism, the Abu Sayyaf, Balikatan, US assistance,
fostering a climate conducive to economic growth, rather than her
message to Batch 2003.
To the graduates, she announced that the Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE) will hold a jobs fair at the SM Davao here on May
1. She said some 2,000 jobs will be offered at the fair by 20
overseas recruiters and seven local companies and that providing
employment to new graduates as well as the 3.6 million individuals
in the country currently unemployed is one of her main concerns.


She said there will be a continuing jobs fair, also at SM Davao,
from May 15 to June 10 but did not say how many jobs would be
available. "I am sure that graduating students of the University of
Mindanao will be qualified, maybe even more qualified, than other
job applicants who will go to these jobs fairs," she said.


The President also said that government agencies will also conduct
medical and legal assistance, livelihood opportunities, and a
demonstration of skills at SM Davao because "I want your future to
be not one of great peril but one of peace and development, one
characterized by a Strong Republic."


Over at UPMin, Gaspar gave a juxtaposition of two periods - his
generation and the graduates'.
He said a crisis in the capitalist system hit the world when Batch
2003 graduated from high school in 1999 and when his generation
graduated from high school in 1963. "In your era, it was manifested
in the Asian flu that hit practically all of Asia except China that
led to the tumbling down of the value of practically all Asian
currencies. In ours, it showed in the consequences of the oil
crisis. By the time we graduated in college in 1967, another global
crisis erupted - the Vietnam war. In your case, as you graduate this
year, a more serious global crisis has exploded - the Iraqi war. In
both wars, the USA or the United States of Arrogance ignored global
opposition and declared war on a Third World country for reasons
that can only be connected to its hegemonic - the Arab world would
label it demonic - agenda," he said.


"In both wars, the doublespeak and the subtexts can make a sane man
go mad. The Vietnam war was waged to make the Vietnamese people
free! The Iraqi war was waged to liberate the Iraqis from an
oppressive dictator! There was need for war to have peace! There was
need to bomb these countries so that they can be reconstructed! The
theoretical justifications were aggressively broadcasted by the
American-controlled media: first communism, then next, terrorism had
to be eradicated from this world, by hook or by crook�c. The domino
theory in the 1960s and the clash of civilizations theory in the
2000s were theoretical constructs that legitimized these imperialist
adventurous incursions. Two generations of peace advocacy and we are
back today where we were in the 1960s," he said.
He said a history teacher back in high school told them that if no
radical changes take place in the country, "the social volcano will
erupt ten years from now. In fact, precisely because structural
injustice and the class contradiction is worsened, nine years later,
in 1972, it did. Marcos declared martial law and hell broke loose."


"My childhood ended that year in 1963. I took my teacher's words to
heart; I, also, intuitively sensed, he was correct. Even if I didn't
know then how I would do it, I opted to do my share in transforming
Philippine society. As it turned out, it was not to be a lonely
crusade, an impossible dream ala Don Quixote. It became a passionate
option of a generation. Of course, it did not involve all of us, but
definitely big numbers among those of us in our 20s during the 60s
all over the country embraced the cause. This nationalist movement
was further enriched by a global ferment arising from the opposition
to the Vietnam war and a search for alternatives. Then the First
Quarter Storm erupted. Those events politicized my generation; we
were never the same after experiencing State violence," Gaspar said.


He brought the graduates back to the 1970s and how young men and
women worked at the grassroots organizing communities and mounting
plays of the 'theatre of the oppressed," how many of them got
arrested and put in prison, how many fresh graduates from college
joined the church's justice and peace programs and "did all sort of
support work for grassroots communities" - training community-based
health workers, seeking financial assistance for the organizing of
workers in banana and coconut plantations, helping document the
human rights violations of Lumad communities, helping communities
resist State development aggression, starting interfaith dialogue
with Muslim communities and forming basic Christian communities that
were militant in pursuing justice and peace.


And he brought them back to 1983, the year most of the Batch 2003
graduates were born. "That year many of you were gifted with life,
that same year, a few of us found ourselves facing death as we were
abducted by the military, brought to safehouses, interrogated,
tortured and detained indefinitely."


Gaspar spoke on the difficulties and dangers of doing grassroots
work, especially as some people immediately suspect why a UP
graduate would work in rural communities. But apart from the
dangers, he said, "the lifeworld reality of the grassroots is framed
within a landscape that could truly be spellbinding and awesome�c
you can go swim in the river and ride a horse. You can bike through
trails, go mountain-climbing anytime, and gaze at both the fireflies
and stars at night. And - with the coolest evenings - you fall into
deep slumber, the sleep of the just."


He urged the graduates to "work with us at the grassroots" and if
they are not yet ready for it and would still want to go to graduate
school or accumulate work experience here or abroad, "go, but come
back. Come back to Mindanao because you are a Mindanawon. Your
people are here. Your life. Your future." (Reprinted from MindaNews)

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