#restore Philippines

[anchoredwithhisword]

Wow!!! Every Filipino Should Know This! Davao Restore Philippines Confer...

[dogposts]

An archivist found a long forgotten 8mm film reel in an old metal box, marked "Philippines 1942". Thinking it was lost WWII footage, he sent it in to be restored/digitized. When he got the footage back, he found puppies instead

[southeastasianarchaeology]

Vigan, NCCA to repair structures damaged by July 2022 quake

via Daily Tribune, 24 April 2023: The city of Vigan, in coordination with the NCCA, will begin to repair the structures damaged by the earthquake last year with a P6 million allocation. #vigan #earthquake #restoration

via Daily Tribune, 24 April 2023: The city of Vigan, in coordination with the NCCA, will begin to repair the structures damaged by the earthquake last year with a P6 million allocation, but the stories below suggest that the two parties are not yet quite on the same page. According to Ivan Anthony Henares, NCCA commissioner and program director of UNESCO in the Philippines, “For the NCCA, NCCA is…

[ceyhanmedya]

Hardware

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Hardware

What is Hardware? What are external and internal hardware?

Hardware is a physical circuit board inside an electronic device. Hardware is generally used to run commands or instructions specified by software.

External and internal hardware

Hardware for computers can be divided into two. Internal hardware is located inside the computer and enables the computer to work. 

External hardware,  on the other hand, is the hardware that increases the user’s experience and is used depending on the need.

Internal hardware

motherboard

As the name suggests, the motherboard is the most basic hardware of the computer. No computer will work without a motherboard. The motherboard has all the hardware on it and enables them to communicate with each other.

Processor

The processor ( CPU ) is one of the most important hardware of a computer, which performs most of the mathematical operations in the computer, also called the brain of the computer. The processor consists of two parts:

Control unit

Most computers are managed by the control unit ( CU ). The control unit uses a binary decoder to convert pre-coded instructions into timing and control signals. 

Arithmetic Logic Unit

With its English definition  , ALU is the unit of the processor that performs arithmetic and logic operations. This unit is indispensable for all processors, from the simplest to the most advanced. 

RAM

Random Access Memory (RAM) is hardware that provides temporary storage services within the computer. Since it is a randomly accessible memory, the data in it is reset when the computer is turned off and on again.

Hard Disk

It is the storage unit of the computer. It is the hardware where all the programs and files installed in the computer, including the operating system, are stored. Since the Hard Disk is a mechanical disk, the reading and writing speed is also low compared to today’s technology. In addition  , HDD  is also susceptible to physical damage. SSD  disks are more durable and faster storage units.

Display card

The external graphics cards in the computer are hardware similar to the processor. Also known as GPU  ( Graphics Processor Unit ), these hardware are externally plugged into the computer to perform graphical operations. External graphics cards are used in computers that need graphics performance.

If the computer does not have an external graphics card, graphical operations are performed by the graphics unit on the processor. Not all processors may have a graphics unit.

external hardware

Monitor

The most basic external hardware required to use the computer is the monitor. Without the monitor

 it will be difficult to operate on the computer and nothing can be displayed. 

gamepad

It is preferred by players to play video games more comfortably. It is not mandatory to use, games can be played with keyboard and mouse.

Keyboard

It transmits the inputs to be made by the user to the computer. The keyboard has keys that represent letters, numbers, and some computer commands.

Mouse

It is the user input hardware used to move the cursor on the computer screen. Classic Mice have two buttons and a wheel. The wheel allows pages to be scrolled up and down.

Components that extend functionality

Some hardware can extend the basic functions of computers. Printers  and  scanners  are used to print or scan photos or documents  . 

With portable hard drives, a lot of information can be easily transferred from one computer to another or old files can be archived. Video and sound cards can also be added for multimedia, which may allow connecting more peripherals depending on the computer’s capabilities.

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[heeeygracie]

I just read in your header that you restore art?? I'd love to hear more 👀

Haha Yeees! But mostly Philippine artworks :)) I worked for a private art conservator in the PH. I enjoy the practical work very much! Very therapeautic lol

And then after gaining like 5 years of work experience, I am now getting my MA degree lol i just need to finish my thesis 😆

[copperbadge]

Radio Free Monday

Good morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!

Ways to Give:

feralfxckxr is raising funds for an in-clinic abortion procedure after the initial pill failed to work following an assault. They are offering tarot readings and have friends offering art commissions; you can read more, reblog, and find giving/commission information here.

Anon linked to a fundraiser findingfeather is running to help mythopoetry live safely in Ottawa long enough to get her citizenship finalized and her healthcare needs met after her health was neglected for years during an abusive marriage. You can read more, reblog, and find giving information here or give at the fundraiser here.

lexin linked to a fundraiser for Laura, whose lease is up for renewal; she wants to get out but needs to delay, as her physical health is not good and there's a lot of work that needs to be done for her to be able to move house, and some of that work will need to be something they pay others to do. You can read more and give to the fundraiser here.

Anon linked to a fundraiser for a friend, Angel, who is trying to purchase a recumbent bike; Angel has significant physical restrictions and needs exercise to improve health and stave off future health issues. You can read more and support the fundraiser here.

Stevie linked to a fundraiser for friends Caine and Mary, who are trying to restore their small-town farm; they bought the farm attempting to become more self-sufficient as a queer and disabled couple, but the house needs repairs and they've had a few setbacks, and government aid is slow in coming. You can read more and support the fundraiser here.

Recurring Needs:

loversdoom is a college student from the Philippines, studying away from her family, and her parents are unexpectedly unable to support her education; she is dealing with a number of expenses and is now looking at costly medical procedures as well. You can read more and reblog here or give to the fundraiser here.

onedollopofsourcream is raising funds to help with food, transportation, medication for their family, and other expenses after a string of financial issues; you can read more, reblog, and find giving information here.

rilee16 is raising funds to get out of an abusive home situation; with irregular work hours and a tax debt due on top of chronic illness issues, they also need funds to repair their phone, which is dying, and cover utility bills. You can read more, reblog, and find giving information here.

Anon linked to a fundraiser for their friend dyken, who along with their partner has been having trouble covering bills, food, and mental health treatment; their family is abusive and unwilling to help financially. They are accepting donations via paypal and commissions via ko-fi; you can read more, reblog, and find giving information here.

chingaderita's partner recently lost their job due to a house fire that also destroyed the house; they're raising funds to keep food on the table for a family of nine, to try and get a supply of water to keep clean, and for medications and bills until they can find new work. You can read more, reblog, and support the fundraiser here.

karla-hoshi (Hoshi on TikTok) has been raising funds for cancer treatment for her cat Naku, but unfortunately Naku passed last week. Between Naku's treatments and other unexpected financial issues, they are short funds for the last lab tests and for cremation to help make the loss easier; you can read more, reblog, and support the fundraiser here.

And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can post items for my attention at the Radio Free Monday submissions form. If you're new to fundraising, you may want to check out my guide to fundraising here.

[bengiyo]

Marahuyo Project Eps 1 & 2 Stray Thoughts

I am so excited about this show! Anima Studios was behind Gaya sa Pelikula (Like in the Movies), and JP Habac is back directing. They even got Adrian Lindayag from The Boy Foretold by the Stars and Love Beneath the Stars, and they got Tommy Alejandrino from The Day I Loved You. I am so ready.

Episode 1 – Amihan

I do like opening with a quick queer history lesson reminding that much of our modern homophobic experience is a byproduct of imperialism.

Look at them!! I missed you, boys!

Hold on, I’m already ascending over these two giving each other the signal to kiss in front of the dean.

Homophobe down!

I wonder if we’ll see the macho dad later. I’m looking forward to the mom drama.

Not the fish going flying during a Crash Into You moment.

Points to grandma for knowing more terms, but you can’t just ask this boy that kinda stuff!

I think the actress playing the mom is Sue Prado, who also played Cairo’s mom in Gameboys.

Okay, I love his internal monologue and that he chides himself with feminine pronouns. Good shout out on that @lurkingshan

OOF. It’s missing my grandmothers hours.

Oh hey we’re gonna keep going with the spectrum. Very relieved to be outside of the bubble again.

Oh, I like the name Venice.

That reaction to the extended LGBTQIA+ was really elegant. Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in some of the internal politics, but folks away from major population centers are so isolated that the specific terminology is just not their priority, and they don’t get the updates.

Lovi Poe mentioned!! Everyone go watch Sleep With Me on GagaOOlala!!

I want you all to know that @yankeebastard and I call each other “sis�� all the time. I’m having a great time.

Oh no they’re gonna throw my boy into the pool.

There it is.

You win this round, President Fish Boy.

Episode 2 – Dios Buhawi

Oh, that was too aggressive, King, but I feel you.

Yes! Call your friends! I was worried they’d be out of the picture after the expulsion.

Damn, it really be your own people dragging you. Juvy called out King’s crush so fast.

It’s really refreshing to watch a show wearing its politics on its sleeves.

I’m really intrigued by the way this show breaks the fourth wall. I’m going to have to think about what role we fill in King’s existence.

Okay, the gibberish bit was funny.

Lorena Gomez, are you family?

About to cry about this dress scene.

Lorena and Lili, are you two best friends in love with each other in an unexpressed way??

Yes, drag his ass. Shut the fuck up, Marco.

Venice suffering in the heat should not be this funny.

I am curious what “friendly recruiter” King looks like.

Yes, what is the tea on Archie?

I do love King. Reminds me of a boy who protected me when I was a refugee. I watched him fight four boys on a stairwell and win.

Crash Into You again??? And in front of everyone!

Now, Marco, what the fuck was that look?

Ino, you ain’t fooling me trying to suss out how much King likes you, or if he has a boyfriend back in Manila.

Ino, you ain’t gotta stand that close to King.

Interesting. I think Archie was warning Venice to hide after the dean showed up.

Thankfully the front of his mullet blends in with the background.

BESTIES, WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK! This is so good right out of the gate. I love that King is such a warrior. He’s not passive at all, and everyone clocks him so quickly. I’m so ready to see what Ino is going to do since he can’t help but flirt with King. I have big hopes for Lorena and Lili. It feels so good to be back in a well-produced show from the Philippines with a huge heart and a lot to say. I feel restored.

[boosqoowoo]

the full timeline of burning sun (and goo hara)

2015 - 2017 crimes committed pre-burning sun

13 december 2015: seungri throws a birthday party for himself in shanghai with his friends and investors. here, he requests for girls that "give it good" for his investors (bbc)

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2016 jung joon young (jjy)'s molka (secret recording) crime

january 2016 - jjy, choi jung hoon (cjh) went to a ski resort with 2 others. at 7.39pm, kim sent a video to seungri (who wasnt present) about sexually assaulting a victim at the resort (bbc) *note: seungri was in japan for the big bang made concert tour from jan 9 - jan 11

february 2016 - jjy's ex gf filed a police report about him secretly recording a sexual video of her

15 march 2016 - jjy, cjh, park and kim assaulted a victim in daegu (bbc)

16 march 2016 - jjy had a fan meeting, one day after assaulting a victim

22 august 2016 - police requested that the private forensics company write a report to the police that "jjy's phone is unable to be restored and there are no data recovered"** 23 september 2016 - exclusive article released by reporter park hyo sil about the crime. for the next 3 years, park hyo sil will be a victim of a public witch hunt, having 2 miscarriages from the stress

06 october 2016 - jjy was cleared on all crimes. public opinion was in favor of him.

**today, we know that the private forensic company had secretly recovered all the files from his phone, and kept in 3 USBs. it contains data from 2015 - 2016. in 2019, a female from the company dropped of the 3 USBs at an attorney's office, who later contacted reporter kang kyung yoon. this will be the break of the burning sun case in 2019

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9 december 2017 - seungri rented an entire resort for his birthday party in palawan, philippines. here, he invited investors that would help him in his opening of the burning sun club. (bbc)

23 february 2018 - burning sun opened

2018 goo hara's assault from her boyfriend

10 september 2018 - goo hara has lunch with her manager and a male colleague for an upcoming schedule, without informing her boyfriend, choi jeong beom (cjb). cjb was known to be very jealous and overprotective of goo hara meeting other men, even if it is totally platonic and for business

13 september 2018 - choi jeong beom assaults goo hara 12.30am: cjb enters goo hara's home, drunk, and assaults goo hara 1.26am: cjb emails dispatch to provide them with "goo hara tip" 1.39am: cjb's friend helps to move cjb's luggage out of goo hara's house 2.04am: cjb sends goo hara their sex tape 2.21am: goo hara kneels to cjb in front of her elevator 2.22am: goo hara follows cjb down to his car 2.23am: cjb sends goo hara a second video of their sex tape, while loading his luggage into his car 3.30am: cjb called the police and was dispatched 4.21am: cjb emails dispatch a 2nd time about this "goo hara tip"

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the rise and fall of burning sun

24 november 2018 - club-goer kim sang kyo was allegedly physically assaulted by burning sun staff members when he was trying to save a victim

28 january 2019 - news reports about the assault at burning sun are released

26 february 2019 - reporter kang kyung yoon releases the kakao chat messages between the perpetrators

14/15 march 2019 - goo hara privately contacts reporter kang kyung yoon, telling her that she wants to help with the investigation since she is a victim of revenge porn. goo hara calls choi jung hoon (cjh), who were close friends since their trainee days. she persuaded cjh to tell the reporter who the police officer that was covering up their tracks were. the police officer was revealed by cjh to be yoon kyu keun, who had worked in the president's residence. (bbc)

16 march 2019 - articles about police officer yoon kyu keun are released, less than 48 hours after goo hara called cjh

14 october 2019 - f(x)'s sulli, goo hara's close friend, commits suicide 24 november 2019 - goo hara commits suicide

14 january 2020 - someone steals goo hara’s safe in her house

jung joon young: 5 years of prison choi jung hoon: 2 years of prison seungri: 18 months of prison

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others related to this case

people that were part of the group chats and admitted to watching the videos illegally filmed, but had not actively sexually assault anyone

beast/highlight yong jun hyung

cnblue lee jong hyun

soloist roy kim

soloist eddy kim

hyuna and yong junhyung relationship

2009 - 2010: 4minute hyuna and goo hara became close friends while filming invincible youth 2011 - march 2013: yong junhyung and goo hara's relationship may 2016 - november 2022: pentagon edawn/dawn/kim hyojong and hyuna's relationship january 2024 onwards - yong junhyung and hyuna dating and getting married

[starrjoy]

Damn, it sucks that you got your old blog deleted. I hope it gets restored by Tumblr. Love from Philippines ❤️

thank you 💖

[valleydoll]

My 8 year old niece Addy is visiting me this week and as a budding doll collector herself she was very interested in learning about restoring vintage thrifted dolls. I dug through one of my bins of flotsam and jetsam accumulated from my own thrifted dolls and found a 1983 Crystal Barbie in very sad shape - ratty sticky hair, sticky legs, and generally grimy. I even found her original dress and boa at the bottom of a bag although one of the dress straps is missing and of course the jewelry and shoes are no where to be seen (we gave her some cute pink shoes instead).

I walked Addy through the restore process (scrubbing with Bon Ami, washing and combing the hair with a fine tooth metal comb with a bit of heavy duty condition to smooth the comb out process, etc.) and here is the doll she restored looking beautiful once again:

ETA: Apparently this is a Philippines edition Crystal Barbie, I wasn’t aware that there were Taiwan and Philippines versions and the faces seem to be slightly different?

[southeastasianists]

When the Manila Metropolitan Theater (abbreviated as MET) was formally opened on December 10, 1931, it was considered the country’s first national theater. In 1973, it was inscribed as a National Historic Landmark. The National Museum of the Philippines declared it a National Culture Treasure in 2010 because it’s a unique, well-preserved Art Deco building of an outstanding size in Asia.

It hasn't been always been in the limelight since its opening. Before it re-acquired its stature as the "Grand Dame of Manila," the building has suffered. The MET was damaged during the 1945 Battle of Manila and was used for various purposes in the following years—as a boxing gym, a seedy motel, a gay bar, a basketball court, a garage, and a warehouse. It was restored under the auspices of Imelda Marcos in 1978 and then shuttered again in 1996 due to conflicts of ownership between the City of Manila and the government insurance company that sponsored its restoration. 

A government arm, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) bought the theater from the the government insurance company in 2015 and started restoration work in February 2017. After its most extensive public restoration efforts, the MET reopened on December 10, 2021—90 years after its inauguration

The building was designed by a Filipino architect Juan M. Arrelano, who had to undertake additional studies in the United States to learn theater design, as he had previously specialized in Neoclassical buildings. His earlier works include the nearby National Museum of Fine Arts, Manila Post Office, and Jones Bridge.

The MET is known for its Art Deco design, but Arrelano made sure that Filipino decorative elements were incorporated throughout the building: batik patterns of the southern Mindanaon regions, capiz lamps, and banana leaf pillars. It gets better when you look up at the ceiling of the main theater, which is embellished with mangoes, bananas, and tropical leaves.

[anchoredwithhisword]

Let the Trumpets Sound! Short Recap of Davao Restore Philippines, Sept. ...

[celestinagoldentrail]

WELCOME TO MY MAIN AU, THE ACTOR AU!!! :D

This is where everything is an act (literally)!

Info:

They are indeed legit alagaddans but this is where it's different! They did in fact have a shitty time back then and they were acting all of it just for the memories! This is where each of them were finally able to express themselves, see it as the future!

Although, in this au, there are a lot of things that aren't really that legit and just made for the fans to applause!

Rubedo/Rue is married to a gal named Veronica from Spain! (I'll draw her soon!)

Citrinitas is indeed married to Liam but those two have a son named Daniell.

Albedo is married to a man named Alex from England.

Nigredo is married to Doc, AKA Jack G Noir!

Celestina and Lakelynn are yes, married

The Ambassador was chucked out of the 'insanity' it had and finally felt other feelings other than pride and arrogance.

The King is finally restored to sanity and is very happy.

The Alaggadan citizens all have also regained sanity. The king apologized for his behavior and of course, they still love him!

The Brother's of Death dropped the deal they made with the king when he lost a gamble with them, returning all the citizens souls.

Eventually the king got his wife back (Isabella)

The SCP foundation has let all the SCPs out after rehabilitation except for specific ones like the machine SCPs and The Meatball House thing.

Alagadda is now a safe place for any ages.

Celestina is a legit florist in USA, she used to live in the middle of Point Nemo.

Bianca is actually 22 years old and works as a bartender! She's eventually married her Alaggadan girlfriend, Sylvanna.

Liam and Zachary are indeed bestfriends from birth and they both came from different countries; Liam being from the Philippines and Zachary being from Sweden!

Ceris is helping the humans explore the ocean. He now resides in Mariana Trench!

Minerva has a husband named Felix Trench. She did once have a crush on Albedo but moved on.

Alexander is a diver now, often visiting Ceris and the others!

The Ambassador actually has a humor!

Retalea is basically Rubedo's next neighbor and best friend she gossips with!

Do know that this AU will have my most focus so I'll be focusing more in this and drawing more of the AU :D

@aidiotloool Hope Rubedo being with someone else out of camera doesn't affect anything!

[fatehbaz]

Growing up at the turn of the 20th century, for many American children, also meant learning to view the world through the lens of “home geography.” [...] [T]hey inevitably responded to the transnational whims of an empire that had stretched its dominion across the globe [with US forays into Panama, Cuba, Hawai'i, the Philippines, and elsewhere]. [...] [T]hey recorded far more aggressive views of “home” in terms of what/where/whom it included and what/where/whom it excluded, both within and beyond the immediate borders of the United States. Thanks to “home geography” as an imperial pedagogic tool, white, well-to-do, literate American children not only lived in the safety of homes (housing their immediate families, but also, symbolically, the nation), but many of them also learned how to identify and imagine “homes” on the map of the world. [...] On the one hand [...] “home” became ever more closely associated with whiteness, literacy, hygiene, heteronormativity [...]. This turned school geography into a site where exclusionary, exceptionalist views of the world took root in childhood. [...] [C]hildren could also imagine what other homes and non-homes looked like, could fantasize about who lived in a home [...].

Consequently, the cognitive maps children developed, to which we have access through the scant archival records they left behind (i.e., geographical puzzles they designed and printed in juvenile periodicals), show great degrees of nativism and racism. As relatively marginal scraps in a multitude of records that I understand as scripts of empire, children’s cognitive maps further mixed nativism and the logic of colonization with playful, appropriative scalar confusion, and an intimate, often unquestioned sense of belonging to the global expanse of an empire [...].

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Dissected maps - that is, maps mounted on cardboard or wood and then cut into smaller pieces that children were to put back together - are a generative example of the ways imperial pedagogy (and the violence it promoted [...]) found its place outside formal education, in children’s lives outside the classroom. [...] In return, playing with dissected maps was designed to keep children [...] informed about the world the United States was keen on entering and colonizing; it invited children to assume a unique, complex role. Children would [...] vacillate between seeing themselves as cartographers in charge of the chaos of the various pieces and as reinscriptive cartographers who strove to restore the whole map out of its pieces. [...] After all, [...] well before having been adopted as playthings in the United States, dissected maps had been designed to entertain and teach the children of King George III about the global spatial affairs of the British Empire. [...]

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Given the frequency with which juvenile periodicals of the time printed child-made geographical puzzles, children’s involvement in composing scripts of empire confirms that what motivated them to design geographical puzzles involved more than mere showing off of the basics of geographic literacy. [...] And this is best registered in the letters children wrote to Harper’s Young People and St. Nicholas, but also to other juvenile periodicals of the time (such as the long-livedYouth’s Companion). In these letters, we encounter American children writing about the towns and cities they come from and about their travels or studies abroad. [...] [I]t was their assumption that “(un)charted,” non-American spaces (both inside and outside the national borders) sought legibility as potential homes, as well as entry and inclusion in the American household, and that, if they did not do so, they were bound to recede into ruin/“savagery,” meaning that it would become the colonizers’ responsibility/burden to “restore” them [...].

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Sánchez-Eppler does something particularly generative for childhood studies: [...] “Raising Empires like Children” centers the study of US Empire on childhood as an inherently political project. She convincingly argues that empires learn from and owe to childhood in their attempts at survival and growth over generations. [...] [I]t is critical to study these records to find out how empires (what I characterize as “multigenerational power constellations”) survived by making accessible pedagogical scripts that children of the white and wealthy could learn from and appropriate as times changed. [...] [T]he study of childhood as a highly politicized [...] category of dependence in the 19th century opens doors to [...] engagements with the ways childhood as an allegedly innocent, ambivalent project of growing up corroborated, was shaped by, and gave shape to the empire as an inescapably violent, racialized project.

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All text above are the words Mashid Mayar. As transcribed in an interview conducted and published by M. Buna. “Children’s Maps of the American Empire: A Conversation with Mashid Mayar.” LA Review of Books. 11 July 2022. At: lareviewofbooks dot org/article/childrens-maps-of-the-american-empire-a-conversation-with-mahshid-mayar/ [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism.]

[methed-up-marxist]

How have these global dynamics affected politics in the Philippines? 

We are in the middle of a looming theatre of war between the US and China, in which the policy adopted by the previous Rodrigo Duterte regime of favouring the Chinese government’s interests and taking a “soft” stance on the West Philippine issue has been replaced by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s shameless subservience to US imperialist interests. 

Under Marcos Jr, patronage to US imperialist interests has been duly restored, with Marcos Jr increasing the number of US military bases in the Philippines from five to nine under the expanded Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). In contrast, Duterte claims that increasing the number of US military bases directed towards China and the South China Sea pose an “imminent threat of war”, one that would inevitably involve the Philippines. 

Aside from its military bases in the Pacific, the US also has many nuclear submarines, hundreds of warships, almost a thousand combat aircraft and more than 300,000 soldiers and personnel patrolling the Pacific and Indian Oceans, including the South China Sea. On the other hand, China has deployed four nuclear submarines to guard the oceans, 350 warships (China is the largest naval power in the world today), thousands of ground-launched missiles capable of retaliating against US bombs (and that can reach the west coast of the US) and air-defence systems scattered across China and its occupied islands and atolls in the South China Sea.

The left and progressive movements in the Philippines oppose these preparations for war by both the US and China. PLM is campaigning for the dismantling of US bases established under the Visiting Forces and EDCA agreements, and for the withdrawal of all troops belonging to the US and its imperialist allies in the Asia-Pacific region. PLM also calls on China to halt its militarisation of the region and its bullying of countries that maintain sovereign rights over specific zones of the South China Sea. We call for the implementation of the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Treaty in order to urgently demilitarise the region, and advocate for a broader Asia-Pacific-wide nuclear-weapon-free zone treaty and regime. 

[copperbadge]

Radio Free Monday

Good morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!

Ways to Give:

doriandangerous is raising funds to escape their abusive family and get themself and their partner to a safer home; you can read more and support the fundraiser here or reblog here. (Warning for some reference to suicide in the text of the fundraiser.)

mtdewwhore is a queer nonbinary person raising funds for a hysterectomy, to treat for uterine cancer initially misdiagnosed as pregnancy; they have no insurance and need to pay upfront, since it has not yet been deemed life-threatening. You can read more, reblog, and find giving information here.

Buy Stuff, Help Out:

Anon linked to thyfleshc0nsumed, whose main income has come from Tumblr recently and whose main account Tumblr recently terminated; since the item was submitted the account has been restored but she is still working hard to get by on sales of her leatherwork, which is largely queer and BDSM themed. You can check out her shop here.

News to Know:

soc_puppet linked to summerofthe69 on Dreamwidth, a creative fest inspired by the 69 sexual position, which opened on Sunday; it's open to all fandoms and original works, and runs through September 6th, with a comment prompt post and weekly themes. You can read more and find links to the rules and prompts here.

Recurring Needs:

rilee16 is raising funds to get out of an abusive home situation, where their roommate has now started throwing out their furniture; they are also being harassed by text. You can read more, reblog, and find giving information here.

loversdoom is a college student from the Philippines, studying away from her family, and her parents are unexpectedly unable to support her education; she is dealing with a number of expenses and is now looking at costly dental work, and medical procedures to do with likely PCOS. You can read more and reblog here or give via paypal here.

And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can post items for my attention at the Radio Free Monday submissions form. If you're new to fundraising, you may want to check out my guide to fundraising here.