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EARTH INSTITUTE ASIA emailed this Sept. 16, 2008
A Tribute to Filipino Women and the PWU: Builders of the Pillars of Sustainable Development

Filipino women help greatly in building the pillars of sustainable development, which covers the individual, social, environmental, and economic dimensions. But their total financial contribution to the national economy through their jobs in the [...]

Imperialists would create division among their colonized and conquered peoples.
Here in America, with the elections coming up I feel the division between cultures, classes and parties getting wider and wider. It’s heart wrenching and sickening.
I’ve been reading a few things and I wanted to share them. Dare allow yourself to be challenged?

First, I couldn’t believe [...]

This came from my pinoy friends (from way back in High School), Bob and Peter, who I reconnected with through Facebook. nice how they’re guys and aware.
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Please read the online petition to pass the Reproductive Health Bill and “sign” it if you agree that the RP gov’t must provide for the needs of Filipino women [...]

It’s hard to remember or believe, but there was a time that Philippine or American women couldn’t vote at all. There was also a time in America that when women went to the polls that they were harassed and threatened so that they’d be discouraged from exercising their right as citizens.
Today, most of us women [...]

Hello Pinoy and Pinay Designers:
I am inviting you to join a logo design competition. The winning logo design will be used in the up and coming web portal of www.pinay.com, a website for and by Filipinas. This site will be about uplifting and empowering Filipina identity online and in the world. It will have useful services [...]