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The Anarchist Network here in the Philippines prioritise the local collective first.
But it doesn愒 mean that the solidarity as a collective in the Philippines itself is divided.
We still have solidarity among networks in the Philippines,
In every action among networks in the Philippines we meet through
the use of technology: internet - chatting system. - Why?
Because Philippines is an archipelagic country,
so we use technology for any mobilisation, action, project or solidarity campaign.
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Last 2005 we organised a protest in support with the victims of torture
in different places in the Philippines.
Against the inhuman torture of the authority: police, military ...
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This autonomous center is done through the effort of the "United Collective",
which is the United for Peace and the Pinagkaisahang Collective, which means United.
This autonomous center is a project of different individuals composed of anarchists, punks, parties.
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The objective of this center is to create a social community space
to facilitate different activities such as host film screening, meet-up venue,
mini-library to offer literature and
to cook for the FNB-project (Food not Bombs).
This is the whole objective of the autonomous center.
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This autonomous center was founded and organised in support for
the "Illiteracy Campaign" of the Food not Bombs Group - Buliwag Chapter.
This is in support of the Illiteracy Level of the Philippines, that is very low in the children愀 literacy level.
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The collective believes that education is a right and not a privilege,
and is part of the improvement of the persons as an individual.
And to show the government that we can have an alternative program prior to the government, that
this collective can also give education and literacy for the children and for the people itself.
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These books are all given through donations from volunteers
to show the government that the 1.2 billion of the annual cuts on projects ...
What they are giving for the education is not enough for the Filipino people
for the children who are in the schools.
Because here in the Philippines the schools are unimproved, there is lackings of books
from the 1.2 billion cuts that they have taken from the education.
And most of the students here in the Philippines are having no pencils, papers
and everything that is needed for education.
The basic things that are needed by the children.
This autonomous center - the library center of the "Pinagkaisahang Kolektiba" - is a venue
for the people - to give an alternative program for the people.
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This project is an alternative way for us to have an sustainable living.
We have a problem on food safety.
This is the land our Guerilla Farming Project will be,
but on a lack on financial budget ...
The problem of the moment are the tools, but
we have many volunteers to do this project.
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We are coming from the Punk subculture.
Before we were punks and then we got active with this group.
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Food not Bombs Baliwag was formed way back 2003
when a group of young people were gathered together with peoples of ...
as influenced by the FNB Network in some of the country outside.
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The vegetables come from the market itself.
The volunteers gather it asking the sellers.
No money involved in having this.
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It is a joyous moment to work with the Food not Bombs,
and give food to the street children and homeless.
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This is an answer to the call of the wavering problems in the society
for example among the youth are the drugs
and some of it were the violence.
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This is also a call for a kind of protest against of the violent actions
that are done or are taken through by the government.
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Here in the Philippines we are gathering partnerships, networks with you.
from abroad and also from here locally in the Philippines.
And that愀 it.
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