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NEW BOOK TO BE RELEASED THIS AUGUST BY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS: TOWARD FILIPINO SELF-DETERMNATION by E. SAN JUAN, Jr.

HINDI PA KASI TAYO “CIVILIZED”— ANG PAGPATAY KAY REBELYN PITAO NG MGA MILITAR AT PAMAHALAAN NI GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO Naibalita sa Internet, kamakailan, na hindi raw gaganti ang NPA sa pagpaslang ng gobyerno kay Rebelyn Pitao Ngunit ito ba ang hinihingi ng masa? Humihingi ang masa ng hustisya at “accountability”: Sino ang mananagot sa krimeng ito? Naunahan na tayo sa sagot ng NPA…. Nailinya na ba ng partido ang damdamin lungkot pait sakit pagpigil ng galit ng masa? Nailinya na ba kung paano magagalit o matutuwa? Nailinya na ba kung kalian dapat mapoot at kailan dapat umibig? Nailinya na ba kung paano dapat maging mapaghinala o mapagtiwala? Nailinya na ba kung paano maging mataray o masuyo? Nailinya na ba kund paano dapat maging matalino o maging tanga? Nailinya na ba lahat ng hindi pa nararanasan? Kung nag-aapoy ang galit, masusubhan ba iyon ng tubig ng panghihinayang? Hanggang saan dapat umabot ang pasensya? Noong digmaan ng Filipino't Amerikano noong 1899, na kumitil n...

“GLOBAL CRISIS, WAR, AND THE ACADEME” DELIA AGUILAR E. SAN JUAN, JR. guest speakers 12 January 2009 10 am, CAL New Bldg. Rm 201 - Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND-UP)

HAHAMAKIN LAHAT, MASUNOD KA LAMANG? Sa pagkakataong ito, Pebrero 14, 2009, Tamuneneng ko, habang bumabagsak sa bangin ang imperyalistang pamamanhik ng mga tumitingala sa iyo: “Dini sa dibdib ko na nahihilahil… nasa aking puso’t doon humihimbing” Ngunit bakit pa itatawid itong kapalaran “At lahat ng hirap pag-aralang bathin” Kung anumang layo, “kung ating ibigin daig ang malapit na ayaw lakbayin”? Gayundin ang sugat na kung tinanggap di daramdamin ang antak Ngunit kung umayaw o di payag galos o gurlis lamang ay magnanaknak— Ay, d’yos ko, ay, Tamuneng ko, tanggapin ma’y sukdulang nagnanaknak! --Ni E. SAN JUAN, Jr.

RE-VISITING THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC IMAGINATION IN PHILIPPINE WRITING by E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Inaugurated by the United Nation's bombing of Iraq for occupying the territory of another nation (Kuwait), the post-Cold War era we inhabit today may be as far removed from the Enlightenment vision of a cosmopolitan world culture (expressed, for example, in Goethe's notion of a Weltliteratur) as the years when this century opened with the Boer Wars in South Africa, the Boxer rebellion against foreign incursions in China, and the Spanish-American War. Our postmodern conjuncture is in fact distinguished by ethnic particularisms and by the valorization of the aleatory, contingent, and heterogeneous. Indeed, the ideal of internationalism presupposes a plurality of nation-states asymmetrically ranked in a conflict-ridden global market. It thrives on national differences since "world interdependence has diffused balance of power considerations and transformed them into a ba...

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THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL MELTDOWN: CAUSES AND CURES Ellen Hodgson Brown, J.D. www.webofdebt.com IBON Europe Conference, January 30, 2009 The global financial system is in crisis, but the problem is not with the earth or its resources. The problem is in the banking system itself. The banking system is collapsing because it can no longer cover up the shell game it has played for three centuries with other people’s money. Controlled collapse, however, is not necessarily a bad thing. The old corrupt system must come down before it can be replaced with something new. The good news is that violent revolution has not been necessary to bring it down. The old is collapsing of its own weight. Violent revolution has not been necessary to bring it down, but violent revolution may well be the result if the old system is not quickly replaced with something better; and that is why conferences like this one are so important. There is a better solution to our monetary ills than throwing billions of...

E. SAN JUAN: THE RETURN OF THE TRANFORMATIVE INTELLECTUAL by Peter McLaren Professor of Graduate Education University of California, Los Angeles The catastrophic decline of Wall Street and the global meltdown of finance capital in September and October 2008 signal a fortuitous turn in world history. It marks the beginning of the end of imperialist domination, a warning to the transnational capitalist class, and the advent of socialist reconstruction. Local and transnational movements for social justice have been significantly impacted by what has been taking place on a global basis since capital began responding to the crisis of the 1970s of Fordist-Keynesian capitalism--which William I. Robinson (2008) has characterized as capital's ferocious quest to break free of nation state constraints to accumulation and 20th century regulated capital-labor relations based on a limited number of reciprocal commitments and rights. Accordingly, we have witnessed the development of a new t...

HARANANG HANDOG SA ISANG AKTIBISTA, HINAHAMON ANG TADHANA ni E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Pambihira ka Matatag matingkad mabagsik ang luntiang apoy sa iyong mga mata Habang dumarampi ang hamog ng umaga Sa iyong pisnging hinog sa pangarap ng dinukot at ibinilanggong kinabukasan— Nagliliyab ang iyong tapang, nakapapaso ang dingas ng iyong determinasyon— Nabighani sa alindog ng iyong dangal habang lugmok sa panaginip Nangahas ang kaluluwang lumantad madarang, nahimok ng kung anong bagwis Ng tukso sa bulong ng iyong labi’t galaw, tuloy naligaw sa paglalakbay— Walang sindak mong binalangkas ang ordeng mapanganib at binungkal ang landas Namumukod sa madla, buntalang motor/dynamo ng bukang-liwayway…. Kahit sumabog ang pulbura sa mundong binagtas ng iyong budhi, wala kang takot Hawak ang sulo ng katarungan, sumusugod ka-- Siklab ng huling paghuhukom, O armadong anghel-- Bumabangon sa iyong bisig at kamao ang mga biktima ng imperyalismo Upang bawat nilalang ay magkaroon ng pambihirang katangian tul...

A THIRD VIETNAM? "EMBEDDED" IN ARROYO'S MILITARY, US SOLDIERS ENGAGE MUSLIM INSURGENTS IN THE PHILIPPINES With six hundred engaged on each side, we lost fifteen men killed outright, and we had thirty-two wounded--counting that nose and that elbow. The enemy numbered six hundred--including women and children--and we abolished them utterly, leaving not even a baby alive to cry for its dead mother. This is incomparably the greatest victory that was ever achieved by the Christian soldiers of the United States. --MARK TWAIN, comment on the massacre of Moros at Mt. Dajo, Jolo, 1906, in WEAPONS OF SATIRE, ed. Jim Zwick (Syracuse U Press, 1992). > by E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Unless US soldiers rape a Filipina date, or Abu Sayyaf bandits kidnap American tourists, nobody notices what's going on in the Philippines today. But now that Britney Spears just belted out her tempting warble of "sneaking into the Philippines, " can the PENTAGON Special F...