Currents & Breaking News
Volume 5, Issue No. 1
/ News That Fears None, Views That Favor Nobody /
. . . . . A community service of The Filipino Web Channel (TheFilipinoWebChannel@gmail.com ) and the Philippine Village Voice (PhilVoiceNews@gmail.com ) for the information and understanding of Filipinos and the diverse communities in North America . . . . . .
The News UpFront: (TOP STORY) as of Saturday, January 8, 2011
~ Better late than never. With that statement, we greet the arrival of the New Year and the New Decade eight days into it. We enter the fifth year of this service of providing news and information to Filipino communities everywhere, specifically those in the United States, Canada and the Philippines. As we kick off our coverage, we created a poem and an accompanying video about our friends who are currently engaged in a war. "No Country for Old Men" would seem a perfect title but, unlike in the novel and the movie adaptation, violence and mayhem from the not-so-old gentlemen come from the mouth.
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A LOCAL SEQUEL TO "NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN"?
Twelve Stanzas for Peace - A Celebration of Friends and Friendships
By ROMEO P. MARQUEZ
Member, Asian American Journalists Association
TORONTO - Eight days into the New Year and into the new decade, we bear witness to a saga of some proportions between men who for quite a time now have discarded their gentle countenance in favor of spite and venom.
Their heated, and hated, exchanges, and subsequent attempts to pacify them by well-meaning friends, have inspired us to compose a few verses that we plan to turn into poetry.
We also created a video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3myEF-hauo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Here then are the twelve stanzas for peace dedicated to Don Azarias of Chicago and Jesse Jose of Seattle; and to Bobby Reyes, Joseph Lariosa, Pareng Dido, Lourdes Ceballos, Ting Joven and Bart and Yoly Tubalinal.
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| The falling snow this Saturday (Jan. 8, 2011) was an inspiration to write Twelve Stanzas for Peace. |
Twelve Stanzas for Peace
- A Celebration of Friends and Friendships
In the name of peace
let's not tease, please, please.
In the name of love
let's stop the blab, blab blab.
In the name of community
let's all aspire for unity.
In the name of our families
let's do our sacred homilies.
If fighting, fighting is our thing
No one's left to do the planting.
Foul mouths spew hate, insults and lies
Impacts all, friends, enemies and wise.
Weapons of war like knives, guns, bombs
Kill, maim and make us all hateful dumbs.
Nobody wants somebody's garbage
Dump, recycle them for cabbage.
New year, new decade, time to be new
Banish hate, be honest 'ven for few.
Friends we are, on earth, in cyberspace
Sharing good, bad, ugly thrown our face.
We all suffer in times of war
In times of peace we'll go far, far.
Waste not the time, waste not the day
We can frolic in fun, wait for that day.
(This Currents & Breaking News may be posted online, broadcast or reprinted upon request by interested parties. Permission by the author and the editor must be obtained before any re-posting online or re-publication in print or re-broadcast. Copyright by Romeo P. Marquez, Editor, Philippine Village Voice, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Volume 5, Issue no. 1, January 8, 2011. Email at: TheFilipinoWebChannel@gmail.com, PhilVoiceNews@aol.com or CurrentsBreakingNews@gmail.com ).
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For other stories, please visit:
1. http://currentsbreakingnews.blogspot.com/
2. http://torontonewsroom.blogspot.com/
3. http://timecircumstance.blogspot.com/
4. http://travelsthemes.blogspot.com/
5. http://gotchajournalist.blogspot.com/ .
For newsvideos at The Gotcha Journalist Channel, please click the links:
1. Milestone in Leadership, Friendship and Service of Alpha Phi Omega in San Diego:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4lmYnkU_3s&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
2. A 20-million peso Bounty for Gawad Kalinga from TELUS, a Top Canadian Firm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6w59zu-os8&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
3. Ako ay Pilipino - The Song Heard 'Round Toronto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jlIfQWASv4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
4. Bayan Ko by PAMANA Vocal Ensemble:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOeLLJA094A&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
5. Candid Talk with Tony Meloto, Gawad Kalinga Founder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4mkd_gX6RE&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
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