Summer Abroad Program - Philippines

    OPEN TO ALL COLLEGE STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY!
    Summer Abroad Program in the Philippines!
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    Philippines—Labor Supplier to the World

    Manila, Philippines

    Arrive Date: 7/01/2013    End Date: 7/31/2013

    Program Overview

    The Philippines’ most profitable export is its people. It is, in fact, one of the world’s largest labor-exporting countries in the world. How does the Philippine government export workers? How do Philippine citizens feel about it? What are the impacts of such large-scale out-migration for people who are left behind? This program will highlight the ways that the Philippine state plays a central role in mobilizing migrants for export, while also looking at how Philippine citizens confront and contest the government’s program of labor exportation. It will examine the economic, political, and social impacts of large-scale migration for the families that migrants leave behind.

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    Professor Robyn Magalit Rodriguez has conducted research focused specifically on the issue of migration in the Philippines over the course of the last fifteen years. Nearly all of her publications have been about Philippine migration policies and politics. Her 2010 book, Migrants for Export (University of Minnesota Press), addresses the Philippine government’s central in encouraging migration from the country. She has spent considerable time in the city of Manila, where the students will spend the bulk of their time, having lived there and visited the city regularly since 1996. She have also traveled by land, sea and air to various islands around the country. She taught at the Ateneo de Manila University and has close affiliations with faculty and administrators at the University of the Philippines, Diliman as well as Philippine Women’s University. Though her research, moreover, she have cultivated relationships with government officials and migrant advocates and can therefore promise and enriching experience to students enrolled in the program.
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    More details, including draft syllabus, are available HERE.
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    SiGAw! | SISTERS OF GABRIELA, AWAKEN!: Int'l Women's Day Event

    sigawla:

    SiGAw - GABRIELA USA invites you to join us on Wednesday, March 6th to celebrate the 102nd anniversary of International Women’s Day and highlight the courageous determination of women around the world and their contributions to the struggle for social justice. Celebrate with us the resilient,…

    LA, check it out.

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    generating my own fun: help send this birthday girl to the Philippines!

    hanalei:

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    My name is Hanalei and it’s my birthday week.

    This year, in lieu of being on the receiving end of expensive dinners out where we talk about people we didn’t like in high school at length, a Patron-induced hangover in the morning, and quirky knickknacks from your last cruise, I am asking…

    i support this

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    Please come out and support!

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    mackryan:

    This song, which I wrote in April, is a response to what I have observed and experienced, and is also an act of personal accountability. It was not easy to write, and I struggled with how I, as a straight male, could genuinely speak upon this issue.

    Initially, I tried writing from the perspective of a gay, bullied kid, but after getting some feedback, I felt it wasn’t my story to tell. What I do know, and where I wrote from, is my own perspective growing up in a culture where “that’s gay” was commonplace, with a huge stigma on those who identified and were perceived as gay.

    Growing up in the Catholic Church, I saw first-hand how easily religion became a platform for hate and prejudice. Those who “believed” were excused from their own judgments, bypassing the stark issue of basic civil rights.

    But, more influential to me as a kid than the church was hip hop, my cultural foundation that influenced my worldview.

    Unfortunately, intolerance of the gay community in hip hop is widespread. The best rappers will use homophobic language on albums that critics rave about, making hip hop and homophobia inextricably linked. We have sidestepped the issue entirely, become numb to the language that we use, and are increasingly blinded to our own prejudice.

    The consequence and impact of what we say, and the culture of shame and abuse it creates, has very real, sometimes deadly impacts upon LGBTQ young people looking for acceptance and belonging.

    As somebody that believes in equal rights for all humans, you can only watch poison regurgitated for so long.

    I am not saying that intolerance is exclusive to hip hop. Hip hop culture is a part of American culture, and America can be scared, fearful, and prejudiced against its own. My intent is not to scrutinize or single out hip hop. It happens to be the culture that has profoundly shaped me, and the one I feel most accountable to.

    Hip hop is influential to young people, and frames the mindset of the generation that will decide how inclusive and accepting we are.

    More than anything, I am aware of how comfortable I (and many other straight people) have become in staying silent on this issue. If we choose to not speak on an issue of injustice out of fear, or how our peers might perceive us, we’re part of the problem. We know the truth, and vainly refuse to uphold it, when people’s lives are caught in the balance.

    In the last couple of months, amazing things have happened that show progress and accountability to ensure that the LGBTQ community has the same rights and respect as everyone else. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES came out in support of gay marriage.  Jay-Z, arguably the biggest rapper in the world, then followed.  Finally, Frank Ocean felt comfortable enough with himself to share his sexuality in his music and came out last week.  That is courage.

    This song is a humble submission to help bring this conversation to the surface, so that we can reflect on the language we use, and how powerful it can be. Rethinking, and understanding the gravity of how we communicate with each other. Change happens when dialogue happens. When we confront our prejudice and are honest with ourselves, there is room for growth, and there is room for justice.

    After I wrote this song, I played it for a friend of mine who happened to be involved with the Music for Marriage Equality campaign, uniting musicians to help Washington state become the very first to approve marriage equality by a public vote in November.

    My hope is that my personal testimony can help in some way to not only advance the dialogue and approve Referendum 74, but also to help shape a culture of belonging in which ALL people are equal.

    - Macklemore

    “If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” – Lilla Watson


    *Also, huge shout out to the incredibly talented Mary Lambert. Such a blessing to work with her on this song.

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    artivista:

    HIDING THE POOR, PHILIPPINE STYLE. IF YOU CAN’T BEAT POVERTY, JUST HIDE IT, SAYS THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT. “Residents walk past a wall covered with a tarpaulin poster of the ongoing 45th Annual Board of Governors meeting of the Asian Development Bank at suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines, Thursday May 3, 2012. Delegates attending the international conference of the ADB in the Philippines capital may not see what they came to discuss: abject poverty. The makeshift, temporary wall on both sides of the bridge from the airport to downtown Manila, hides a sprawling slum along a garbage-strewn creek in the background.” (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
     
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    The Hunger Games ignorance and connections.

    Yeah… the end of the world done been around for a minute now.

    dorisdhe:

    Check out these tweets of people who failed reading comprehension and were disappointed that the characters Rue and Thresh are black. SMH world!

    Connections: and we are surprised that people like the man who killed Treyvon exist? Tweets seem innocent enough but are so telling that stereotypes are so deeply imbedded in peoples minds. Murder because a kid was wearing a hoodie and “suspicious”? Outrageous. But it all starts and snowballs with “innocent” ignorance as seen in this link.

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    colinresponse:

    what a weary world we wander.

    (Source: faineemae)

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