The Movie:MURO-AMI (Reef Hunter)

MURO AMI "Reef Hunters"

Muro Ami is a film that depicts one of the worst forms of child labor in the illegal fishing system. Fredo is the ruthless captain of 150 Muro Ami divers. The illegal fishing is done by pounding and crushing corals underwater to scare the fishes and luring them towards the nets. With a high quota to meet, Fredo forces the divers mostly children, to accomplish at least eight dives a day to meet their goal before the millennium. Tired and harassed after the burdening task being given to them, the children have to make do in subhuman conditions in the Aurora, the Muro Ami boat. They sleep in rat-infested bunks and are fed only twice a day. Life above the boat is much worse than the suffering the children encounter beneath the sea. For every dive, a child's life is perilously in danger.

Awards and Citations:
Winner of thirteen awards at the 1999 Metro Manila Film Festival including
Best Child Performer (Rebecca Lusterio),
Best Story ( Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Ricardo Lee, Jun Lana),
Best Screenplay (Ricardo Lee and Jun Lana),
Best Director (Marilou Diaz-Abaya) and
Best Picture
Direction: Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Screenplay: Ricardo Lee and Jun Lana
Cinematography: Rody Lacap
Film Editing: Jesus Navarro
Production Design: Leo Abaya
Art Direction: Bonna Fajardo and Mannix Mateo
Music: Nonong Buencamino
Producers: Butch Jimenez, Jimmy Duavit, Marilou Diaz-Abaya


Cast:
Fredo - Cesar Montano
Dado - Pen Medina
Susan - Amy Austria
Botong - Jhong Hilario
Kalbo - Rebecca Lusterio

1999 Color 117 minutes Production Company: GMA Network, Inc

A critically - acclaimed portrayal of the lives of Philippines' child laborers who fish to survive.

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Military alert ahead of mass protests in Manila

Manila, 21 Jan. (AKI ) - Philippine security forces were on high alert in Manila on Monday night ahead of mass protests expected to demand the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Thousands of people were expected to converge on the streets of the capital on Tuesday and march towards the Malacanang presidential palace to mark the anniversary of the infamous Mendiola massacre.

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Sa ulat ng dzBB radio nitong Linggo, sisimulan ng mga magsasaka ang pagmartsa sa Enero 16 at inaasahan nilang mararating nila ang Mendiola sa Enero 22.

Matatandaan na 13 magsasaka ang namatay nang paputukan sila ng baril ng mga pulis na nagbabantay sa Mediola noong Enero 22, 1987. Ang mga nasawi ay kabilang sa may 10,000 magsasaka ang nagprotesta sa Malacanang upang hilingin kay dating Pangulong Corazon Aquino na ipatupad ang tunay na repormang agraryo.

Bukod sa mga magsasaka, inihayag ng Katipunan ng mga Samahang Mambubukid sa Timog Katagalugan, na makikiisa sa kanila ang mga mangingisda at iba pang sektor ng manggagawa.

Noong Disyembre, tatlong buwan na naglakad patungong Maynila ang mga magsasaka sa Sumilao, Bukidnon upang ipaglaban ang kanilang sinasakang lupa na nabili ng San Miguel Food Inc.

Inaasahan naman na magiging bantay-sarado sa Enero 22 ang Mediola dahil na rin sa naunang pahayag ni Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez na sa petsang ito isasagawa ang panibagong distabilisasyon laban sa pamahalaan.

Sinabi ni Gonzalez noong Sabado na ang impormasyon sa destabilisasyon ang dahilan kaya nagpalabas siya ng direktiba sa media upang hindi makasagabal sa magiging operasyon ng pulisya at militar.

Pinaalalahanan din ng kalihim ng mga tinatawag nitong “destabilizers" na huwag maliitin ang kakayahan ng pamahalaan.

Hindi naman malinaw kung bahagi ng sinasabing destabilisasyon ni Gonzalez ang nakatakdang protesta ng mga magsasaka. - GMANews.TV


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Black Nazarene

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PHOTO ESSAY-The Feast of Black Nazarene:A Day of Devotion

The Black Nazarene is a life-sized, dark-skinned statue of Jesus Christ that a priest bought in Mexico, carved by an Aztec carpenter. The image is now enshrined in the minor basilica in Quiapo, Manila, Philippines and the day on which devotees go to the church is Friday.

History

The statue was brought to Manila by the first group of Augustinian Recollect friars in May 31, 1606. The image was enshrined at the first Recollect church in Bagumbayan (now part of the Rizal Park), which was inaugurated on September 10, 1606, and placed under the patronage of Saint John the Baptist.

In 1608, the second bigger Recollect church dedicated to San Nicolas de Tolentino(Saint Nicholas of Tolentine ) was completed inside Intramuros (where the building of the Manila Bulletin now stands), where the image of Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno was transferred. The Recollect Fathers then vigorously promoted devotion to the Suffering of Our Lord represented by the image that in fifteen short years, the Cofradia de Jesús Nazareno was established on April 21, 1621. The confraternity obtained Papal approval on April 20, 1650, from His Holiness Pope Innocent X.

Sometime in the year 1787, the Archbishop of Manila, Basilio Sancho de Santas Junta y Rufina, ordered transfer of the image of the Nazareno to the church in Quiapo, again providently placed under the patronage of Saint John the Baptist.

The image survived the great fires that destroyed Quiapo Church in 1791 and 1929, the great earthquakes of 1645 and 1863, and the destructive bombing of Manila in 1945 during World War II.

Recently, however, in 1998, a replica of the original Black Nazarene was first paraded due to the repeated damages on the statue. Today this replica is still used in processions while the original rests inside the church, and other, even smaller replicas can be found in other churches.
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