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Dear friend in the arts,
You might be mildly aware that there is an ongoing campaign towards the strengthening of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement in the Philippines as the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced plans in April 2008 to pursue more aggressive IP protection schemes with its trading partners around the world.
This global campaign […]

In many places, resistance is futile (you will be assimilated). So yes, artists can provide new insights and new forms of resistance in these situations, insofar as they take great effort in understanding how the system works, and that their works enable others to understand how the system works too, and not just be auto-therapeutic […]

Some of you may have participated in security training seminar where we were resource persons. We probably showed you how to use Hushmail from a Canadian company. Basically, you visit their website and you get to download their Java applet. The applet does the encryption and the e-mail gets sent to the Hushmail, encrypted.
Surprise! Hushmail […]

Ex-Philippine President Joseph Estrada has been pardoned by his successor Gloria Arroyo, just weeks after he was jailed for life for corruption. As part of the deal, Estrada guaranteed he would not seek office again - fueling accusations that Mrs Arroyo’s move was politically motivated.
Here, readers from the Philippines discuss what is behind the move […]

From BBC News-Asia Pacific:
“Given all the allegations of corruption against Arroyo, I think that she is the wrong person to use the wisdom of executive clemency.
It is not a question of whether it is right or wrong to pardon Estrada - she is the wrong person to do it.
Any criminal must be punished for their […]

Victor Papanek
Design for the Real World
Human Ecology and Social Change
Paladin, 1974
In 1986, when I enrolled in the University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts as a Visual Communication major, industrial design had just been introduced as a new field of study. I decided to take it, along with a few other people, and, if […]

One can suspect that to survive and prosper in a rapidly changing world it might be useful to understand the way complexity, conflict and change are manifest in one’s (personal) environment: Complex changes in (external) conditions may require a reconsideration of one’s current organisational and belief systems in order to discover which rules are still […]