MANIFESTO OF FILIPINO SCIENTISTS TO SOLVE THE RICE CRISIS

Reference: 
Dr. Giovanni Tapang, Chairperson gtapang@agham.org

The continuing rice crisis — reportedly the worst in the last three decades — is fast becoming the most urgent issue at hand.  The crisis, together with non-stop increases in the prices of petroleum products has placed the Filipino people in much trouble. Piecemeal subsidies doled out by the Arroyo government to poor families does not address the current crisis.  We believe that an end to the rice crisis requires a sincere solution that will truly benefit the Filipino people.

Rice Crisis, Agricultural, Modernization and Land Reform Forum

FOR THE VICTIMS OF TYPHOON FRANK IN ILOILO

AGHAM, Computer Professionals' Union, KALIKASAN-PNE and the Center for the Environmental Concerns are accepting donations for the victims of typhoon Frank in Iloilo.
Our next relief operation will be on July 14.

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Day 1 Destruction

Our brothers and sisters are in need of the following:

1. Food
2. Medicines
3. Household materials (mats, mosquito nets, clothings and other)

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Precursors

Reference: 
Dr. Giovanni Tapang, Chairperson gtapang@agham.org
Reading through the archives at the UP library, I came across a pamphlet entitled "The Oil Problem in the Philippines," written by the Samahan ng mga Makabayang Siyentipiko (SMS, Association of Patriotic Scientists) during the days of the Diliman Commune in the University of the Philippines in 1971. It was in February 1971, when hundreds of students formed a barricade on University Avenue on the University of the Philippines Diliman campus to protest an oil price increase of three centavos per liter.

The pamphlet clarified important issues raging

The mathematics of a fare hike

Reference: 

Dr. Giovanni Tapang, Chairperson
gtapang@agham.org

IT is hard to write about oil prices nowadays because most probably by this time this coming weekend another price hike would have driven prices even higher. Due to the ever-increasing price of gas and diesel, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Bureau, with the concurrence of the National Economic Development Authority, granted a fare increase of one peso for the first four kilometers of jeepney routes.

Warship to the rescue

Reference: 
Dr. Giovanni Tapang, Chairperson gtapang@agham.org


The presence of the aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan and its warships, in Philippine waters is not only a mockery of the Constitution but is also a form of intimidation and opportunism by the US foces in pushing its own agenda here in the Philippines.

 

Seaworthy

Reference: 

Dr. Giovanni Tapang, Chairperson
gtapang@agham.org

The growing frustration of the families of the passengers in the MV Princess of the Stars reflects the long-running problems of our domestic shipping industry. The ship went down near Romblon when Typhoon Frank hit the country last weekend.

While we were taught in elementary school that the Philippines is made up of 7,100 islands, going to these islands is difficult and expensive for most. Even within the three main island groupings, inter-island commuting carries the stigma from the sea tragedies in the past.