April 10 2006 - Last weekend Bel, myself and Cesmil Ocampo (of the emerging Kabalai San Miguel, Bulacan Chapter) went at the foot of Mt. Talamitam in the town of Basugbu, Provice of Batangas to join the 1st meeting of a community-based cooperative among local residents living near Mt. Talamitam. We came their upon the invitation of Nicky Sanchiangco. Nicky, a 60-yr old mountaineed veteral, an active freelance journalist and a sculpture has spent the past 8 years living at the foot of Mt. Talamitam and has considered himself a steward of the mountain. He resides at a mountaineer's jump off point ... (come back again. blog entry will be finish soon)

Mga Kasama sa Kabalai,

Let us support this komiks project. Their website is at: http://www.redondokomix.com/

Here are a few ways that Kabalai and its members can help:

1) We can promote it in our website, in our blog, our newsletter so that others will know about it and have the option to support.

2) We can buy a paid add into the komiks advertising some of our self liquidating activities (e.g. the April Kabalai Kamp Kalikasan in April 2006 and soon our ecotour packages that we will soon start to market again: the Biak na Bato national park in Bulacan, the Center for Ecozoic
Living and Learning in Silang Cavite, the La Huerta Mangrove area and bird sanctuary in paranaque and soon the Southers Sierra Madre Wilderness center in Tanay). We should discuss this soon.

3) For those who are teaching in schools, we can endorse these komiks as educational materials in specific classes in your schools. The komiks centers on Filipino values; including pagkamakakalikasan. I have seen some of them and they are very good reading materials for your schools

4) Another option is for us to explore the possibility of marketing there komiks art and komiks development skills in our respective organizations, other NGOs, GOs and other offices/organizations we work with. We can explore this further. A YSDA-wide partnership along this line is
on the works. Update you more on this soon.

5) If you are working for a firm or organization who may need to promote your products and services, taping into this komiks as a way to promote your company or organization

Thanks!

Roy

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Dave D'Angelo wrote:
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 23:29:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Dave D'Angelo
Subject: Our organization would like to ask your support for our project

Folks,

Peaceful greetings!

BROOD is an organization in
which two of its main mission are : (1) To appreciate and uplift members’ talents, creativity and accomplishment so that these talents and accomplishments can be of greater use to the society; and (2) To appreciate and preserve each individual culture and help each other recognize the
beauty of every culture, and in addition promote arts because we believe that it is also a basic tool to bring good changes to the society.

With this we would like to invite you to support our cause for the youth by possibly sponsoring and supporting our project --> REDONDO KOMiX.

WHAT IS REDONDO KOMiX? “REDONDO KOMIX” is a 16 page free
comics-tabloid featuring original comic works in tabloid size format (11.5 x 13.5 inches), all pages are in black and white generally, only 4 pages are in color (front, back and centerspread). Paper type is ordinary newsprint.

The project will be a partnership between: BROTHERHOOD OF DESTINY, Inc. , a non-profit youth-serving organization recognized by the National Youth Commission through its Youth Organization Registration Program (YORP) and with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with Registration No. CN200517385 and REDONDO STUDIO, a single-proprietorship owned by Dennis Redondo, an Honorary Member of BROOD and has a pool or artists and writers engaged in the development and publication of creative media.

WHAT IS THE PROJECT STATUS?

We are still in the process of gathering sponsors and partners for
this project. So far we have gathered the following partners:

Filcode Inc . - website hosting sponsor; and

Youth for Sustainable Development Assembly (YSDA) - partner in
Marketing the komix.

We have lowered the sponsor/partner advertising equivalent to
Php50.00 per column centimeter in order to help entreps and businesses with
product advertisement and promotion thus the advertisement equivalent of
the following sponsorships are:

Whole Page (7 cols x 32 cm) - Php9,800;
3/4 Horizontal (7 cols x 24 cm) - Php6,720;
1/2 Page (7 cols x 16cm) - Php4,480;
1/4 Square (4 cols x 8cm) - Php1,280;
1/8 Square (3 cols x 10cm) - Php1,200;
Foot Ad (7 cols x 5cm) - Php1,400; and
Ear Ad (2 cols x 6cm) - Php480

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS PROJECT?

art of the sponsorship for this
project will go to the accomplishment of the vision. mision and
objectives of the organization. Through this we particularly want to achieve
the following for our members, the youth and the society in general:


Provide livelihood;
Raise arts and cultural awareness of the readers, provide
educational and original Filipino works and materials, as well as reinforce
positive values within the target audience;
Provide a cost-effective medium for businesses and advertisers, as
well as young entrepreneurs;
Free-training and low-cost writing and drawing workshops or seminars
to be conducted by publication’s creators to promote arts and culture
awareness;
Sustainable in nature which can lead to establishment of more Free
Komix in the future;
Provide a seed fund for other related activities of BROOD such as
1. Educational Assistance and Scholarship
Fund
2. Environmental Protection Projects
3. Sports building activities
4. Skills and development trainings
5. Exposure projects
6. Others; and
Provide support for special projects or works to non-government
organizations and cause oriented groups.

HOW CAN YOU HELP? You can help us by being one of our SPONSORS
and/or PARTNERS. You can DOWNLOAD PROJECT INFORMATION FILES at BROOD Online
.

In exchange for your sponsorship and support for this cause we will
provide you with an advertisement in the comics itself plus a parallel
advertisement in our site and affiliate sites through banners for an
equivalent of Php1.00 per impression. Thus for a sponsorship of Php9,800
we will provide 1 page ad in the komix plus 9,800 impressions on our
site.

Sponsor/Parners products can also be distributed with the Free Komix,
they can also give promos and incentives through the Komix. LET US HELP
AND TOGETHER MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

This project among others also aims to raise cultural awareness,
dessiminate Filipino values, give relevant education to the youth and help
Filipino entrepreneurs.
We can also discuss this with you personally at your most conventient
time so please. visit our website at www.redondokomix.com for more
information regarding this project including overview of the project, story
and comics preview and others. We hope that you will be one of our
partners.

Sincerely yours,


DAVID D'ANGELO
Prohect Manager - REDONDO KOMiX
National Secretary General - BROOD Inc.
Mobile No. : +639063093832

Mga Kasama sa Kabalai,

FYI and as a way to discuss how we will standardize our orientation on Kabalai, I would like to report on the orientation about kabalai I did this afternoon to about 30 2nd and 3rd yr HS students of Adamson University. This was organized with the support of the Adamson Kabalai Cell members.

May i invite everyone to start a discussion on the best way you thnk we should organize our orientation sessions.

The presentation this afternoon in Adamson basically followed this step:

1) Participants were asked to give a word that they associate to environment. As expected, most of the participants associated it with elements of nature (living and non-living) and some with relationships and processes (ecology). But all did not mention human beings or "tao" in the associated word. This provided an entry point for explaining the ethno-centric view of nature that is prevalent in our world view and the danger associated with this. This view puts nature as something external to human's concerns and therefor not essential for our survival and humanity.

2) I then presented the kabalai manifesto principles which basically focuses on the more wholistic view that human being are part of nature and that it it essential to our survival and humanity.

3) I then link this with the idea of Kabalai (balai-home) and reminded them that it is natural for all of us to be concern about our own homes and that we tend to protect our home and make it wholesome and conjusive for happy relationships with harmony and balance. With this is a basic premise, i then discussed that in Kabalai, we define our Balai as our sphere/scope of engagements in our work. And one way to determine this is to ask 2 fundamental questions: a) what are the elements that allow us to survive-ano ang bumubuhay sa atin (basic requisites of life such as food, water, etc) and b) what are the elements that make us humane-ano ang nagpapakatao sa atin (intangible elements that allow us to feel and act more humanely or that which expresses our full humanity like our respect for human rights, etc). I then capped this portion by saying that to be a Ka' Balai means to know what our Balai is given the aswer to these 2 questions and to bee able to define them physically from your home as starting point (i made an example that metro manila residents should be fully aware that our water comes from the mountains of the sierra madre range. therefor our concern for water should take us to be aware, to be concern and to act on whats happening in sierra madre,etc.)

4) I then used this as a basis for pointing out that the first step is to "feel" our concern for this. Then once convince at the affective level(heart), to let this fuel our passion for buildin our knowledge and understanding about these key issues (mind) and only after these should it result to actual, tangible actions (the hands)

5) I then likened Kabalai as a self-help support group for those who have accepted that in what we know or not know or what we do or fail to do; we have a profound responsibility for life and the future (inter-generation equity) who have bonded together to learn and work together to change ourselve and reach out to others for the same change. I noted that like "alcoholic anonynous" groups, kabalai is a support group for "environmental violators" anonymous.

6) I then proceeded with explaining that Kabalai is a mass-based organization targetting to train leaders for the next generation who will lead their respective communities to a sustainable future. I explained that given the shift or current Philippine population from urban to rural, most young peple now would be born in an urban setting where it is difficult to observe the natural cycles of nature and its laws and processes as compared to a rural community; thus producing community members without less sense of ecology than earlier generations. These produced people who are less connected with nature and therefor cannot appreciate it. These problem requires two key interventions: a)Outdoor Education on Sustainability and b) Green Lifestyle promotions. Outdoor education for sustainability is essential to get them out to see urban-rural links and let them see the ecosystems and habitat within and more so outside the urban centers and how these ecosystems and habitats still define the very survival and development of our unnatural urban human societies. Green Lifestyle promotion (particuarly on biking, ecowaste and organic food) is essential to reach the gutt level, day-to-day reality of kabalai members as they live their life and make our issues closer to their hearts.This will also lead them to make choices so that they first and foremost stop contributing to unsustianable patterns of consumption and to live fuller and happier lives that will allow them to reach to more people and aspire for a more sustainable and meaningful alternative lifestyle.

7) Before I ended my presentation, I reminded that group that while Kabalai starts with lifestyle and education in our work; we are fully aware that environmental issues are real political issues and that we cannot detached ourselves from political ecology as an arena of our work. However, i reminded them also that development process of individual members in Kabalai boil down to individual choices and level of engagement depending on the level of "balai" or sphere of engagement to protect the "home" that each member defines for itself

Ellen Estares, one of the Kabalai founders who is teaching in Adamson ended the process by reading outloud to the group the moto of kabalai: "Ang Mundo'y ating Balai (Bahay). Pangalagaan at Ipaglaban Ito... Turuan ang Susunod na Salinlahi" (english translation: The World is our Home. Lets us take care of it and defend it. Let us teach the next generations!"

After the session, i had an informal discussion with Ronnie and Jonathan. Together with Ellen, the three of them comprise the core members in the Adamson Cell of Kabalai. They are part of the Kabalai NCR chaptere. Ellen is a faculty members in Adamson. Ronnie is a volunteer scouting leader together with Jonathan in Adamson H.S. Jonathan is a 5rh year engineering student also in Adamson.

Thanks!

Roy

Mga Kasama sa Kabalai,

This is the minutes of this meeting last night. Ellen, myself and an applicant member, Jill Roque participated in the meeting.

HIGHLIGHTS AND KEY DECISIONS
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1) ANGELICUM ECOWASTE PROJECT. We are waiting for project proposal from Cel on the ecowaste project in angelicum which is also her masteral thesis. Ellen and i are exploring an ADB possible funding. trainors training on ecowaste for us set on march 25 sat whole day sa national ecology center (NEC) sa timog

2) KABALAI LEGAL REGISTRATION. On the legal registration, we have two options. one, i have prepared for siginig by those who want to be legal incorporators and board our SEC papers. Riza has committed to get someone to work on the submission and follow to SEC. The 2nd option is to wait for the negotiations with CFTF. We have a meeting with the Petines brothers tom (time to be confirmed) to discuss possibility of CFTF-Kabalai merger. In any case... we need to decide on which option by end of march

3) KABALAI TO SUPPORT GREEN BRIGADE OF SAN LORENZO VILL SK. On the possible Kabalai consultancy to help the SK in San Lorenzo Village Makati on developing a program for their Green Brigade, Bea and I will have explo meeting with them on march 20. the SK have funding for thier program.

4) KABALAI KAMP KALIKASAN THIS APRIL ON CLEAN AIR. YSDA national Kamp K was decided by the YSDA board to be moved from April to October. Therefore, this gives space for kabalai to push through with its own NCR Kamp K on April focus on clean air; possibley with biking, mountaineering component somehwere possibly in Antipolo where the air pollution in manila is very visible. Bea is now exploring possible tie up with a group imkplementing a USAID project to fund this. Bbut we are organizing this as a self-liquidating project. Ellen with support from YSDA secreatriat (Lids) will market this camp to paying clients targeting HS teachers and their students from NCR.

5) KAMP K LINK WITH KABALAI REPRSENTATION IN THE NCR AIRSHED MANAGEMENT BOARD. Jill and I will work on a program and a post kamp progrm scenario that will allow us to build on this Kamp to set-up a regular youth constitutency on clean air issues in NCR to ssubstantiate my representation in the NCR airshed management board. we are creating an online forum in the YSDA website on this so that we can all discuss this

6) KABALAI E.D. SESSION ON RE-STRUCTURING GOVERNMENT TOWARDS A GREEN PHILIPPINES. our ED (education discussion) session on Green Government that was postpone from Feb 18 will now be organize in Ateneo on March 18. Im meeting our local student group partner tom in ateneo to finalize this. All kabalai members are required to attend this 2-6pm on March 18. Aproposal for funding has been submitted for this to the CODE NGO democracy fund

7) SITE VISIT ON THE NEW MIRIAM ESI SITE ON COMMUNITY BASED ECOTOURISM IN SOUTHERN SIERRA MADRE. Confirm yng march 11 na site visit sa southern sierra madre ecotour. : thats a new ecotour site ng Miriam ESI that they have asked Kabalai to market. Ive ask Ickx and Riza to go.

8) KABALAI WEBSITE AT WWW. KABALAI.ORG SOON! speaking of marketing... we recommend we get the services of Dave (the YSDA webmaster) to develop our own website using the same program as that of YSDA website (JOOMLA) so that professional yng site natin. ill explore this now kahit lapa tayo funds. we need 2600/yr to have this website at www.kabalai.org

Thanks!

Roy

1) ED Session on Green Government Postponed

Our planned ED (Education Discussion) Session for the Kabalai NCR chapter last February 18 was postponed due to problems with venue confirmation. The topic for this ED session is "Re-Organizing Government Towards A Green Philippines". Key topics for discussion are: a) Green Perspective on Decentralization, Federalism and Charter Change; b) Basics on the Federalism Issues in the Philippines (including debate vs Constituent Assembly vs Constitutional Convention); c) Structural government change through extra-constitutonal means: the Transitory Revolutionary Government (TRG) Proposal.

An Ateneo de Manila contact facilitated by Bea Misa has agreed to help us secure a new venue. We are moving this ED session to March 18 (Saturday) from 2pm to 6pm. Exact details to be confirmed. This is part of a simutaneous youth forum on structural change by many YSDA members. For more information, please visit the online project page at: http://projects.takingitglobal.org/green_government

For more insight and informaton about Filipino youth's perspective on structural social change in our current government, i would also like to recommend you visit www.yes2change.org

Given what has happened lately during the 20th anniversary of the EDSA revolution, this ED session has become more relevant and we need to push through with this for all our members so that we can be better informed about our political choices and options in the next few weeks or months.

2) Kabalai featured in BROOD Newsletter

Brotherhood of Destiny Inc., a fellow member organization in YSDA featured kabalai in their latest newsletter. You can download it at http://www.broodonline.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=59&func=fileinfo&id=49. For more information about BROOD, visit them at www.broodonline.com

This should remind us to start discussing how we will revive our own newsletter: BANTAY BALAI (Earth Watch!). Does anyone want to volunteer? Email me please kabalai_chair@yahoo.com

3) New Egroup (kabalai_members@groups.takingitglobal.org)

Having our egroup in yahoo is problematic because the yahoogroups no longer allows automatic subsription. You may have noticed that we have moved to a new egroup in Taking IT Global. Please use our egroup to post messages to all members.

4) Youth for CBFM Petition

The YSDA website (www.ysda.org) recently featured a call from the CBFM Communities National Federation asking the DENR (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) to recall its recent orders cancelling all Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) contracts all over the country due to the failure of some of these contracts. Recalling an earlier position of the YSDA supportive of CBFM as a main strategy for sustainable forest management, the network has openly declared its support to the CBFM. A Youth for CBFM Online Petition has been initiated by YSDA. Bea Misa, Kabalai rep to YSDA has signed up in behalf of Kabalai to support this petition. If you want to sign up individually or if you want to encourage others to sign up, please visit the online petition at: http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/youth4cbfm/

If you want to understand this issue more, we would like to encourage you to join the YSDA online forum on this at: http://www.ysda.org/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=83&topic=39.0

5) Old Kabalai Logo

Ickx Tan, one of the founders of Kabalai shared to all the old Kabalai logo which should remind us that Kabalai is a merger of two organization with very distinct nature: Kabalay (Kampo Kabataan para sa Kalayaan) and EWOC (Earth Watchers Outdoor Club). Kabalay is an activist youth collective promoting sense of Filipino culture and history. EWOC is an environmental, youth outdoor club with an eco-preneurial spirit. To download the old kabalai logo, pls visit: <http://files.tiggroups.org/31812/KKK.jpg>

6) Update on Membership Confirmation

Fritz Balgos, who is now based in Davao city has expressed interest to be active again in Kabalai. Kabalai Metro Davao Chapter Coordinator, Jani Liboon has welcomed Fritz and will meet with him soon.

Jill Roque, based here in Metro Manila has likewise expres her interest to be active in Kabalai; initially expressing interest to support Kabalai Chair, Roy Cabonegro's membership in the NCR Airshed Management Board representing Kabalai in behalf of YSDA. (more on this in update 7) Lets all welcome Fritz and Jill!

7) NCR Airshed Management Board

Kabalai Chair Roy Cabonegro has been named in a DENR Special Order constituting the members of the NCR (National Capital Region or Metro Manila) Airshed Management Board. The board is a legal multi-stakeholder mechanism who is tasked to ensure the quality of the airshed covering Metro Manila and its nearby environment. Roy will sit here as Kabalai in behalf of YSDA. More information on this in the next issue.

8) CFTF-Kabalai merger?

Kabalai is not yet legally registered. This year, we want to register ourselves into a coperative so that the benefits of our ecoturs redowns to the benefits of members. However, a part of Kabalai character (being an advocacy group on green lifestyle issues, environmental educations and community-based ecotourism and Philippine culture and history) is not for profit at all but voluntary and activists. The Kabalai NCR chapter wants to register earlier in SEC as an NGO so that it can pursue its partnership with Angelicum college for its ecowaste project.

Some of us who started kabalai before coming together to form Kabalai first came together as part of a fledging organization called Conserving for Tomorrow Foundation (CFTF) who were organizing nature awareness camps and eco tours in the early 90s. A large part of the Kabalai character (its outdoor environmental education and eco-preneurial character) we owe toour experience in CFTF. To date CFTF remains a registered foundation but is no longer operating. Its current board (who are mostly now senior citizens) have been wanting to turn over CFTF to a younger batch who will take over the revive it. In this regard, Kabalai Chair Roy Cabonegro and Sec Gen Ellen Estares; both former CFTF members are proposing the following:

We offer to the remaing board of the CFTF to turn over the CFTF to Kabalai as our legal shell and integrate Kabalai and CFTF. The Kabalai name will be apended to CFTF as CFTF's local name. Thus the new group will be known as Kabalai (also known as Conserving for Tomorrow Foundation). 1 or 2 of the original CFTF board will be retained. The rest will be from Kabalai.
Kabalai members will be the memebrs of CFTF. SInce CFTF have not maintained their membership, we may invite them to join but we need not wait for them to come back
We will integrate all Kabalai work in this new Kabalai-CFTF organization

Later on, out of members of Kabalai-CFTF, we will open membership for the Kabalai-CFTF Ecotour Cooperative. The coop will donate portion of its earning to the Kabalai-CFTF; making the coop a fund raising extension of the main organization. The coop will be exclusive to Kabalai-CFTF members.

Ellen and Roy are set to have an exploratory meeting with the remaining CFTF board to discuss these. We assume that the CFTF BIR registration, financial systems and document such official receipts (ORs) and a bank account are still intact. The old board can offer an office address for this new group but I can work from home on the daily operation of this group. The rest of our operation will be online on a good website.

9) Kuro-Kuro Ukol sa Demokrasya! : Reflections on the Current National Situation by: Roy Cabonegro (*)

Ako simple lang ang pananaw dito.

Ang mas nakikinabang na kakaunti lamang sa kasalukuyang sistema ng lipunan ay makikipagpatayan na maipagpatuloy ang ganitong uri ng sistema. Hindi na dapat kataka taka yan.

Sa kasawiang palad, ang ganitong uri ng sistema ay nagpapasarap at nagpapayaman sa buhay ng iilan lang habang pumapatay at nagpapahirap sa karamihan.

Ang tanong ay kung ang gusto nating pagbabago ay pundamental tungo sa pagrerepaso ng kasalukuyang sistema ng lipunan o pagpapalit lang ng mukha ng mga namumuno at nagpapakasasa.

Ito ang tunay na batayan ng siyang dapat magwaging idelohiya sa laban ng mga idelohiya ngayon!

Ang gobyerno bilang pangunahing institusyon na nagdadala ng interes ng estado ay dapat itinutulak ang interes ng lahat ng mamamayan nito kung saan nangagaling ang tunay na awtoridad at soberentiya. Sa katotoahang sa isang lipunan, iba-iba at nagbabangaan ang interes ng mga mamamayan nito, ang esensya ng demokrasya ("rule of many") ay unahin ang interes ng nakararami. Ang nakararami sa aitng lipunan ay ang mga mahihirap. Interes nila ang dapat inuuna ng estado at ng gobyerno.

May karapatan sa pagaalsa ang taong bayan laban sa gobyernong hindi interes ng karamihan ang inuuna.

> English Translation:

I have a simple way of looking at this. It is no longer suprising that the minority who benefits more from this current system of our society will do anything and even kill to keep the status quo.

Unfortunately this system only makes a few rich and happy while the majority suffers and even die because of this.

The queston is whether the change we are supporting now are fundamental societal change that will change the entire system or will it merely change the people who will continue to plunder and abuse the rest for thier own benefit and the benefit of the few.

This is the real benchmark for the ideology that should win the battle of ideology raging now in our society.

Government, which is the main instiution of the state should promote the interest of all its citizens as it it from the people themselves that true authority and sovereignty resides. However, we all know that interests of different groups of people in a given society varies and often conflicts with each other. In a democracy which means the rule of the majority, it is the obligation of the government to prioritize the interest of the majority. In the Philippine society, the majority are the poor. It is therefor their interest that our government should prioritize.

People have the right to revolt against a government whose interest it does not prioritize!

(* Ito ay personal na opinyon at pananaw ng may akda at di opisyal na pahayag ng Kabalai. Gayunpaman mainam na paunang opinyon ito na sana ay magbukas ng malalim na paguusap at pagninilay-nilay sa loob ng Kabalai. - This is a personal opinion and perspective of the author and not an official statement of Kabalai. Nonetheless, it is hoped that this initial expression of opinion would catalyze deeper discussions within Kabalai. To contact the author, please email rcabonegro2001@yahoo.com )

Restructuring Government for a Green Philippines: A Youth Dialogue

Jointly Organized by: Kabalai, Liguasan Youth Association for Sustainable Development, Brotherhood of Destiny Inc., Lamitan Green Brigade and the Katipunan ng Kabataan para sa Kalikasan

February 18 2006
Simultaneous in the following sites:
1)Quezon City, Metro Manila
2)Tacurong, Maguindanao
3)Baliuag, Bulacan
4)Lamitan, Basilan
5)Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental

Objectives:

1)To raise the level of awareness and understanding of some 100 youth leaders from the target sites (at least 20 from each site) on the greens and sustainable development principles relating to decentralization of governance in relation to the various proposals on re-structuring the Philippine government via constitutional (e.g. charter change) or extra-constitutional (e.g. transitory revolutionary government) means;

2)To consult the members of the five (5) organizing groups who initiated this dialogue and other local youth leaders and youth groups on their views and positions on specific issues such as: a) the proposed amendments of the Philippine Constitution by the Constitutional Commission; b) the 3 modalities for charter change: peoples initiative, constituent assembly, and constitutional convention; c) the proposal for a transitory revolutionary government (TRG);

3)To advocate against the proposal for constituent assembly (con ass) as the means towards charter change among participating organizations and youth leaders in this dialogue;

Specific Outputs:

1)A common position paper from each of these simultaneous dialogue outlining their consensus and duly signed by the participants to be circulated to media and made public;

2)A rode map of action from each of the five simultaneous dialogue consisting of specific action plans and commitments by dialogue participants for the next 6months to one year to facilitate working together in tangible actions consistent with the agreed consensus position paper;


Proposed Program

1. Registration
2. Opening
3. Input 1: Decentralization, Sustainable Development and the Green Development Principles – How can a Federal-Parliamentary Form of Government Lead to These Ideals
(Target Presentor: Philippines Greens and/or Philippines Suswatch Network)
4. Open Forum
5. Input 2: Issues on the Charter Change: Form and Process: Why not Con Ass? (Target Presentor: Citizens Movement for a Federal Philippines)
6. Open Forum
7. Input 3: The Transitory Revolutionary Government (TRG) Proposal (Target Presentor: Laban gn Masa)
8. Open Forum
9. Moderated Discussion-Leading to Action Planning
Guide Question:
a)What is your/your organization’s stand or position on these issues?
b)In what actions can you/your group contribute to this ongoing campaign?
10.Synhesis
11.Closing

Available Support

1. Reading materials on the Greens & Decentralization
2. Reading materials on charter change-related issues
3. Reading materials on the Transitory Revolutionary Government (TRG) proposal
4. Reading materials on why not constituent assembly
5. Backdrop banner with the title of the consultation for each of the site
6. List of possible resource person from the following organizations:
a. Philippine Greens
b. Maximo T Kalaw Institute for Sustainable Development
c. Laban ng Masa
d. Citizens Movement for a Federal Philippines (CMFP)

Mga Kasama,

Just to inspire everyone, find below announcement of the latest BROOD (www.broodonline.com) newsletter where we are featured (naks...)

This should now trigger us to reflect and start discussing how to do our own monthly newsletter. Any suggestions or offer of voluntary commitment? hehehehe

Cornel,,, can you help?

Roy
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BROOD Online Newsletter-Magazine for the month of November 2005 - January 2006 is now officially released. DOWNLOAD IT HERE and READ MORE to know what's inside this issue.

Inside this Issue:
BROOD Update
BROOD Signs Project MOA
Bulacan Chapter Sets Summer Campo
Project REDONDO KOMiX launched

Opinion
Youth Violence

The Hero We've Known Yesterday, Lives with his Memories Reminisced.
MYX reveals the top OPM songs that hit 2005
8 ways to successful youth leaders
Think about this...You may not realize it, but it's 100% true.
Every Day is Thanksgiving!
Featured Organization: KABALAI

Features
8 ways to successful youth leaders
Think about this...You may not realize it, but it's 100% true.
Every Day is Thanksgiving!
Featured Organization: KABALAI

Others
Info Tech Update

Website Watch : REDONDO KOMiX

Poems by Rey Runtgen Martin A. Del Rosario
Poems by Silent Lady Violin

Review of Samurai Champloo by Charizard

Buddy Paraiso's 3D Arts



National Secretary General
Brotherhood of Destiny (BROOD)
Registered with the National Youth Commission
SEC Registration #CN200517385

Secretariat Member
Youth for Sustainable Developmentn Assembly

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Mga Kasama sa Kabalai,

1) Kabalai Egroup. We would like to request everyone to subscribe to our egroup. You can do that now by sending a blank email to kabalai-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

2) Kabalai Blog for Updates. While we are still updating our website at www.kabalai.ysda.org , may i invite all to regularly visit our TIG Blog at http://kabalai.tigblog.org/

3) Kabalai Membership Documents. Im resending herewith a copy of the Kabalai membership form, manifesto of unity, constitution and our organizational policy. All members are required to fill up and send to us a copy of your membership form with your scanned picture. We are still refining our services to members so please hold your inquiries on that. If you have some ideas, please email us.

4) Kabalai Angelicum Ecowaste Project Featured in YSDA website. Please visit www.ysda.org and look for the feature project section. Maricel is currently negotiating the implementation of this project in Angelicum College. May we invite Ellen in Adamson to consider this in their campus as well. Andrew and Cornel, is something like this still needed in Christian Value School? Maricel is also developing this into a full proposal for submission to possible donor. We are starting with an ADB-Philippine office fund for this. Bel was tasked to organized internal trainings on ecowaste for our members in the NCR. More details on this soon.

5) Possible Partnership with an SK-Green Brigade Program in Makati. Bea is working on a possible partnership between Kabalai-SK of San Lorenzo and the Y-Earth (an informal network of student environmental advocates) for us to help them develop a demonstration project on involving youth in community-level sustainable development. Details of this soon.

6) Possible Beneficiary of a New Call Center Company. Ellen is confirming a possible partnership with a new call center company who is looking for an NGO beneficiary for their Corporate Social Responsibility polic. Details soon.

7) Possible Partership with an Outdoor Ads Company for Proper Re-Use of their Tarpauline. Cornel is exploring the possibility of Kabalai being a partner of an Oudoor Ad company to find alternative usese (re-use) of their exess tarpauline. May be some of you have ideas? Can this not be used for example in putting up large tents in our ecotour campigns sites? Ideas please?

8) Kabalai ONLINE meeting. We missed our General Membership (all members, all chapters) ONLINE meeting last 30 January. May I recommend we try to do this on the 11th (Saturday) from 4pm up using the chat room in the www.ysda.org To use this, all of you must first register in the YSDA website which you should do now. The focus of the online meeting is to discuss: a) the setting up of the Ecotour marketing program of Kabalai, b) the Kabalai Physical General Assembly (July 7). In this online meeting of everyone, Allan will discuss his paper reviewing the ecotour policies, structures and institutions that will affect our work. Jani will discuss his paper on the market and competition of a Kabalai ecotour marketing enterpruse. I will discuss my paper on registering the Kabalai into a coop and its requirements and implications. Can i ask if Bea would be interested to present her ideas on a possible training program for kabalai related to ecotour marketing? Of course, its ideal that all these document are emailed to all prior to the online meeting so that we can all read prior to the meeitng.

9) Your Homepage at the YSDA Website. Since Kabalai is a member of YSDA and you are all members of Kabalai, you are entitled to a homepage and ur own sub-domain name in the YSDA website. The sub-domain name can take this form (www.rcabonegro.ysda.org) Once your registered with the YSDA website, please go to Members Corner and go to Manage my homepage, There you will find a web development tool where you can develop your homepage. After that, we will assign you your subdomain name. This homepage will later be deelop into a personal blog. Also pag naupgrade na ang YSA web account, we will be providing free kabalai.ysda.org email accounts (e.g roy@kabalai.ysda.org)

10) Possible new members. We are trying our best to reach out again to those who express interest before to joinj Kabalai pero di natin na follow up. Im happy to announced that to date, Ethel and Estrela of NCR, Cesmil of Bulacan and Russel of Bacolod have expressed interest. Ive included them in this email.Lets all welcome the,. Is there any potential Cesmil and Russel that you can form a Kabalai chapter in your own areas; building on your exisitng groups or involvements?

11) Organizing the Cavite Chapter. SInce Cornel is no longer working for Christian Values School, he acan no longer supervise the cell building in that school. While COrnel remains the chapter coordinator in Cavite, we have started to link up with some key student sin CVS to follou up the Kabalai Cell formation their. More in this soon.

12) Kabalai NCR Chapter ED Session. This months Education Discussion (ED) session of the Kabalai NCR chapter will be held tentatively in Adamson University on 18th February Saturday. The topic is on understanding the Charter Change, Federalism and the Transitory Revolutionary government proposals from the point of view of sustianable development, environment and greens perspective. This is part of 5-simultaneous local youth dialogue on the issue together with 4 other YSDA memebr organizations. Together with us, a similar dialogue/ED session will be held in Tacurong, Maguindanao, Cagayan de Oro City, Baliuag Bulacan and Lamitan Basilan. Details of this are in the project page located at http://projects.takingitglobal.org/green_government. For your information, attached is the concept paper of this dialogue/ED session.

12) Registering Kabalai in SEC. As per recommendation of the Kabalai Angelicum cell and considerign that if we are to access funds for the Campus Ecowaste project in angelicum, we must have some legal entity; we will register the Kabalai NCR chapter in the SEC as an NGO. Of course, this is not with prejudice to the agreement earlier that as a whole, kabalai will be registered this year as a coop.

13) Miriam ESI Southern Sierra Madre Ecotour Partnership. The Miriam College Environmental Studies Institute (ESI) has recently opened a new ecotour site in Southern Sierra Madre,. We are now awaiting details from them because they have expressed their interest to get us as a partner in running and ,marketing this ecotour. The first task would be a site visit, So, people get ready to climb.

14) Kabalai NCR Chapter meetng. The chapter wil meet on thursday, Feb 9 6pm at Angelicum college. May i know kung kailan ang meeting ng Davao at Cavite chapters?

Thanks for the patient in reading all these updates,. If you have any quesions, email me or text me 0919 4619322

Salamat!

Roy



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Roy Jerusalem Cabonegro
Chairperson, Kabalai
Website: www.kabalai.ysda.org
Mailing Address: 210-D Kanlaon Street, Brgy Maharlika, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Mobile Phone +63 (919) 4619322
Fax +63 (2) 4266740 (c/o YSDA-Pilipinas)
Email: kabalai_chair@yahoo.com

Mga Kasama sa Kabalai,

I met with our 3 members who are in Angelicum college (Riza, Maricel and Bel) and id like to share with you the highlights of that meeting:

1) On Overall Kabalai Immediate Focus and Independence of Chapter Focus. I explained to them about the Jan 23 online mtg between Jani, Allan and myself and they are in agreement to the strategy for the Kabalai as a whole to concentrate on the enterprise/fund raising component (coop for ecotour services). But they asssert that indeed the local chapters and cells must be allowed to continue wih their own plans and activities while contributing to that overall strategy and focus of kabalai.

2) On Branding Asseignment. On the propose assignment for them to work on the branding for kabalai (common logo, symbol, emblem and other corporate designs and visual signatures), they think its better to get all chapters (NCR, Cavite and Davao) to do their respective branstorming on branding and prepare designs which we can then openly share among each other and from their pick the best design rathern than just assigned it to the NCR chapter to do. Our General Assembly (July 7) would be an excellent time to have these various options for branding designs to be presented and for the best to be adopted by the kabalai general membership. Also, we also noted Cornel's comments that the draft revised profile document of Kabalai while focus on the ecotour enterprise work mus be seen as just one of the nature of kabalai. We reiterate that while we agree ont he strategy that we should focus on the enterprise, this does not change the fact that Kabali has 2 focus - outdoor education on sustainability and green lifestyle promotions. We are both eco-preneurial and at the same time a youth training and advocacy group. These dual nature of Kabalai and the documents that articulates this should be the basis of any branding brainstorming session and not just the document on the ecotour enterprise work.

3) On the July 7 2006 Kabalai General Assembly. They think its too short to prepare logistically; if the vision is a grand gathering of ALL members of Kabalai in all chapters. They recommend we do that one year after pa. July 7 2007. Bale 7-7-7 yun... Suwerte daw yun. However, we should do what we need to do in consulting each other for the Coop registration through email and mail and not wait for a July 7 2007 gathering.

4) On request to comment on key documents (YSDA ecotour marketing proposal, revised kabalai profile, website design). They committed to try to contribute to this and send me some comments soon.

5) On optimizing the YSDA website. They agreed to optimize on the personal homepage and the online forum for kabalai members in the YSDA website

5) Key Focus of the Angelicum Kabalai Cell. We then discuss beyond the overall focus of Kabalai and look at the spcific activities and targets that the Angelicum cell would like to do this year. We agree on the ff:

5.1. Campus Ecowaste Project for Angelicum College which will now start July 2006
To do this project, the following are pre-requisites and support activities:

5.1.1. Register the Kabalai NCR chapter in teh SEC to have legal identity (Riza)
5.1.2. Establish parterships wih ecowaste groups (Roy)
5.1.3. Dialogue with Angelicum College for the project (Maricel)
5.1.4. Write project proposal for submission to donors (MAricel)
5.1.5. Internal training session on ecowaste management (Bel)
5.1.6. Internal planning session for kabalai on the project (Maricel)

5.2. A Cell Planning Session on 3rd or 4th week of April 2006 (out of town)
5.3. Monthly ED sessions (tentatively last saturdays of every month)- for Feb, they will host an ED session on Greening Federalis, Cha cha and the ConAss-Concon issue
5.4. Weekend Thematic Green Lifestyle Camps/Ecotours (to be marketed with a fee)
5.4.1. July 2006 - focus on Ecowaste
5.4.2. October 2006 - focus on Organic food and sustainable agriculture
5.4.3. December 2006 - focus on Biking and green transport
5.4.4. February 2007 - to be defined

5.5. A consolidated weeklong green lifesyle camp (to be marketed witth a fee) on April 22-26 2007 as the group's Earth Day 2007 project

6) On Kabalai NCR Chapter Jacket. We agreed to have a common Kabalai signature windbreaker (jacket) to be produce with the Kabalai logo in navy blue color to be produce for everyone. KKB for now because kabalai doesnt have any common fund at the moment.

Thanks!

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Roy Jerusalem Cabonegro
Chairperson, Kabalai
Website: www.kabalai.ysda.org
Mailing Address: 210-D Kanlaon Street, Brgy Maharlika, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Mobile Phone +63 (919) 4619322
Fax +63 (2) 4266740 (c/o YSDA-Pilipinas)
Email: kabalai_chair@yahoo.com

Last January 23, the founders of Kabalai; Jani Liboon, Roy Cabonegro and Allan Escano met and discussed the situation of Kabalai. We all agreed that Kabalai should be continued but we must take a more pragmatic approach that focused first on the financial sustainability of the organization. While affirming that Kabalai remains focus on developing leaders among the youth towards building sustainable societies through outdoor education on sustainability and green lifestyle promotions; for the next 3-5 years, we will FIRST focus on building up the Kabalai community-based ecotour marketing enterprise. This will ensure that the organization earn enough to sustain all its planned advocacies and expansion.