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... ...Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 1948 -- "A Cause for Celebration" ... 'Demands of Dignity' 'Demands of Dignity' <DEVELOPING THE DISCOURSE ON OUR DECEMBER 1Oth DECLARATION>
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'Demands of Dignity' by Ed Aurelio C. Reyes, 2008
CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK: Response
to the Spanish Response Response to the American Non-Response Demands of Dignity
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About the Author -----------------------------
Ed Aurelio C. Reyes AFTER
his first two-dozen published books and pamphlets, mostly on historical
and environmental themes, formal and This lead founder and then executive director of Kamalaysayan (Campaign Network for Sense of History) wrote the first such book, Press Freedom -- The People's Right: Suppression and Assertion in the Philippines (1992) as then Secretary-General of the Philippine Movement for Press Freedom (PMPF), which was circulated mainly among journalist members of the 52 member-organizations of that nationwide alliance. The second was The White Man's Burden: From Call of Duty to Sense of Shame (1996), which centered on the theme of colonialism, and showed how that historical phenomenon violated all the human rights of the colonized ethno-linguistic groups, especially the indigenous peoples of the world. By that time, he had added to his organizational affiliations Tunay na Alyansa ng Bayan Alay sa Katutubo (T ABAK), a support alliance of advocates in the Philippines for the indigenous people's causes, and the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA), of which he later became a member of the national council of leaders and elected chairman of its research institution, the Philippine Human Rights Information Center (PhilRights).He wrote the present book Demands of Dignity, within the human development and harmony framework of the SanibLakas (synergy) Foundation, which he had led as lead founder and first president and now serves as secretary general, even as the foundation has very recently transformed itself into a community of synergism-oriented organizations. 56-year-old "Ding," as his nickname goes, had toured the quadri-media scene, working in various print periodicals since the martial law period, notably We Forum, Malaya, Sunday Globe Magazine, Mr. & Ms., Dispatch and, most recently, Kabayan broadsheet, and anchoring radio programs over dzME ("Kamalaysayan sa Himpapawid") and Radyo Veritas ("Balitang Totoo" sign-on newscast, and "Sentenaryo sa Radyo,"). For ABS-CBN television he had become creative committee member and script supervisor of the history-oriented daily show for children,"Bayani," his own concept, after writing scripts for "Sine-Skwela." His main media work since the last half-decade has been in the cyberspace where he has been director and lead webmaster of SanibLakas Cyber-Services and editor of SanibLakas InfoShare's uploads. Prof. Reyes teaches subjects under the under-graduate program of the International Academy of Management and Economics (IAME) in Makati, Metro Manila, and had earlier taught for a few years various subjects under the Cosmic Anthropology doctoral program of the Asian Social Institute (ASI) in the City of Manila. Outside the classroom, he conducts seminars on human oneness and synergy, sense of history, basic communication principles, organization development, community empowerment, gender harmony and various other concerns. He has also had fruitful interactions with the Philippine offices of the United Nations. UN Information Center (UNIC) nominated him to be the founding chair (one of two) of WED-Phils., and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) started his active involvement in the Philippine cooperative movement. UNDP's regional office in Colombo, Sri Lanka contracted him to prepare a paper on a Philippine poverty-alleviation measure, and present it at a regional conference in Colombo in 2007. As an active environmentalist, Ding was founding chairman of the UN-mandated World Environment Day-Philippines network, which he has been serving since 1994 as secretary-general. Since 1990 he has been the main moderator of the monthly Kamayan para sa Kalikasan forum on environmental topics. His book, Biped on the Blue Ball: The Supposed-Sapiens Who Laughed at the Dodo has had two editions (1990 and 2000) and is due to be released again soon in a third one. He has also been a painter in various media (oil, watercolor, etc.) and a pen and ink illustrator, and dabbles in composing original songs and in translating songs, writing poems and short stories in English and in Filipino, writing play scripts, and acting in some theatrical performances. He has brought up two sons, Plebeian and Pilipino Amado, alone as a single parent since the passing of his wife Carmencita S. Soriente-Reyes back home to "Our Source" in 1994. Based on her preparatory writing on her fight against cancer, he wrote and published Cita Lives! -- Thoughts and Feelings About Living and Passing (2004). [Reyes writes a blog, <readdingz.blogspot.com>. A catalogue of his earlier books is carried by <bookmakers-phils.8m.net>. His active email address is <dingreyes@yahoo.com>.] back to top
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The
Author: Ed Aurelio Reyes 
non-formal
educator, well-rounded activist and synergy-builder Ed Aurelio C. Reyes
now comes out with his third book that applies a living sense of history
to the theme of human rights.
