Help Typhoon Sendong Victims! Help Northern Mindanao!

What to donate? Drinking water, ready-to-eat food in easy-to-open containers, medicine, toiletries, sanitary pads, soap, shampoo, infant needs, baby bottles, milk, diapers, clothes, mats to sleep on, blankets.

Where and how to donate? Bayan Muna Partylist partnered with LBC Foundation so we can send our relief goods to Typhoon Sending affected areas for free. Do the following:

1. Pack your goods properly.
2. Bring to LBC TIMOG Branch (in front of GMA 7).
3. Look for the manager, MS. Gina Torre.
4. Fill in the form with the following info: Consignee: PANDAY BULIG, Cagayan De Oro City

Let’s all make our holidays more meaningful, help Mindanao! Tell your friends, spread the word!

Justice still elusive two years after Ampatuan Massacre

First published at the Philippine Online Chronicles.

Joining the Solidarity Mission to Maguindanao

Raymund Villanueva and I will be joining the National Interfaith Mission for Peace and Justice in Maguindanao which will run from January 23 to 26, 2010. We will be providing video, audio, and photo coverage of the mission so stay tuned with Kodao Productions’ Twitter, Facebook fan page, and website.

Mindanao Film Festival 2009

Organizers of the 5th Mindanao Film Festival are now accepting entries. They are also conducting film workshops this october. Check the rest of the details by clicking here.

Kodao Coverage of Fact Finding Mission about Surigao Militarization

Kodao will be joining the National Solidarity Mission to Surigao Del Sur. We will be twitting updates of progress of the fact finding mission and will be posting field videos as soon as our correspondents are able to send them. Follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/kodao or view the twitter updates directly from the Kodao website www.kodao.org.

Task Force Surigao “PAGBAWI SA KINABUHI, PAGBAWI SA YUTANG KABILIN” (Reclaiming our Lives, Reclaiming our Ancestral Lands) will start on August 28 and will culminate on September 1, 2009. The Task Force hopes to help in documenting the cases of human rights violations in Surigao Del Sur perpetrated by the 58th Infantry Battalion led by Col. Benjamin Pedralvez, and accompany the displaced Manobo people back to their communities to harvest their crops and retrieve other useful things from their homes.