Here is an announcement to all members of the Zamboanga Fearless Mountaineering Society. ZAFMOS will be joining several multisectoral groups, to include the religious, the different schools, farmer's organizations the industrial sector and the business sector in protesting the inaction of the local government to withdraw the "no opposition" resolution of the city council to mining in the Ayala watershed.
We are joing this as we are signatories and stakeholders to a manifesto against mining and the destruction of our watershed.
We urged all other mountaineering groups to please join us in this fight to protect our last remaining forest. Please check on this blogspot for any developments with regards to this activity.
We would also like to urged one and all to ask your respective work organizations to join us in this rally, as this is a fight to conserve our water source in the city of Zamboanga.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Support for St. Francis and Advocacy for the Watershed
We are issuing out this notice to all our loyal members of Zafmos to strongly support us in this campaign to save St. Francis Home for Orphans from the unjust take over by the local government of Mayor Celso Lobregat. As we are all volunteers in taking care of these 90 children, most of whom are street children without parent, we therefore ask all of you to be present in the City Council this coming January 28, 2010, in order to air our united protest against this.
This activity will be two pronged as members of the Silsillah dialogue movement and residents of the west coast will also be joing us in their advocacy to save our watershed. Something which we are passionate about in trying to preserve.
Please find time to join us
This activity will be two pronged as members of the Silsillah dialogue movement and residents of the west coast will also be joing us in their advocacy to save our watershed. Something which we are passionate about in trying to preserve.
Please find time to join us
Preparations for the Mt. Matutum climb
This is a reminder to all members of ZAFMOS that each member should make their physical and financial preparations for the coming Mt. Matutum climb this coming holy week. We urged each and every one to submit to our treasurer, Mr. Jojo Nanquil our monthly contribution of P500, as part of our collection prior to the climb. this collection will help eliminate unnecessary financial hassle for this climb. As we are not soliciting any help from anyone at this time, we urged each member to please comply with this.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
This is an Article on our Global Concern on Environmental Destruction
What is Happening to our Planet?
(A Call for Continuing Dialogue with Creation)
The recent sufferings in loss of lives and damage to properties brought about by two typhoons (international names Ketsana and Parma, locally Ondoy and Pepeng respectively) in September have shaken many people. Those most affected were residents of the National Capital Region (Metro Manila and environs) and several provinces of Luzon.
Within the same fortnight there was the earlier epic dust storm in Australia, the worst that country has seen in many decades. Typhoon Ondoy’s impact on Metro Manila was something that had not been experienced in 30 years. The damage came not from strong winds but from the flood that inundated many areas in Metro Manila. In some places the water went up to the rooftops. Some few days later an earthquake struck Sumatra in Indonesia, killing some 1000 people. Spawned by the earthquake, a tsunami hit Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga in the South Pacific, leveling buildings and killing about a hundred people. When the people affected by Ondoy were still in evacuation centers in Metro Manila another typhoon, Pepeng, entered the Philippines.
What is happening to our planet?
While anticipating Pepeng, which was forecast as a super typhoon with winds in the vicinity of 200 km/hour, in addition to the usual advice on how to safely prepare for the typhoon, a prayer made the rounds in the Philippines.
We quote from the prayer:
“We have not been good stewards of creation. We have confused your command to subdue the Earth. The environment is made to suffer our wrongdoing, and now we reap the harvest of our abuse and indifference“
Scientists have reported that because of global warming and the climate change that it leads to, natural phenomena like typhoons now occur more often and with greater intensity. And consequently, more harm to man. Weather disturbances are still part of nature, but their frequency and intensity are the results of man’s actions.
The earth has been given by God and it is for all of us who inhabit it – mankind, animals on land, fish in the water, birds in the air and all the plants in the lithosphere and the hydrosphere. In Genesis God gives man stewardship over creation; all that is on earth man can use for his good. The prayer reminds us that we have not been responsible in our exercise of stewardship. In many instances, the wealth of the earth has not been used for man’s good but rather abused for man’s greed.
The vision of Silsilah, which has at its core the four pillars of dialogue - dialogue with God, with the self, with others and with creation - recognizes that we must understand and respect the dynamics of relationship between man and creation if we are to arrive at peace in our world. Destruction caused by natural phenomena does not generate a peaceful atmosphere among men. Abuse of natural resources does not general peace. If man must live in peace among themselves, they must learn to live in peace with creation.
Let us now say what we must:
“We turn to You, our loving God, and beg forgiveness for our sins.”
(A Call for Continuing Dialogue with Creation)
The recent sufferings in loss of lives and damage to properties brought about by two typhoons (international names Ketsana and Parma, locally Ondoy and Pepeng respectively) in September have shaken many people. Those most affected were residents of the National Capital Region (Metro Manila and environs) and several provinces of Luzon.
Within the same fortnight there was the earlier epic dust storm in Australia, the worst that country has seen in many decades. Typhoon Ondoy’s impact on Metro Manila was something that had not been experienced in 30 years. The damage came not from strong winds but from the flood that inundated many areas in Metro Manila. In some places the water went up to the rooftops. Some few days later an earthquake struck Sumatra in Indonesia, killing some 1000 people. Spawned by the earthquake, a tsunami hit Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga in the South Pacific, leveling buildings and killing about a hundred people. When the people affected by Ondoy were still in evacuation centers in Metro Manila another typhoon, Pepeng, entered the Philippines.
What is happening to our planet?
While anticipating Pepeng, which was forecast as a super typhoon with winds in the vicinity of 200 km/hour, in addition to the usual advice on how to safely prepare for the typhoon, a prayer made the rounds in the Philippines.
We quote from the prayer:
“We have not been good stewards of creation. We have confused your command to subdue the Earth. The environment is made to suffer our wrongdoing, and now we reap the harvest of our abuse and indifference“
Scientists have reported that because of global warming and the climate change that it leads to, natural phenomena like typhoons now occur more often and with greater intensity. And consequently, more harm to man. Weather disturbances are still part of nature, but their frequency and intensity are the results of man’s actions.
The earth has been given by God and it is for all of us who inhabit it – mankind, animals on land, fish in the water, birds in the air and all the plants in the lithosphere and the hydrosphere. In Genesis God gives man stewardship over creation; all that is on earth man can use for his good. The prayer reminds us that we have not been responsible in our exercise of stewardship. In many instances, the wealth of the earth has not been used for man’s good but rather abused for man’s greed.
The vision of Silsilah, which has at its core the four pillars of dialogue - dialogue with God, with the self, with others and with creation - recognizes that we must understand and respect the dynamics of relationship between man and creation if we are to arrive at peace in our world. Destruction caused by natural phenomena does not generate a peaceful atmosphere among men. Abuse of natural resources does not general peace. If man must live in peace among themselves, they must learn to live in peace with creation.
Let us now say what we must:
“We turn to You, our loving God, and beg forgiveness for our sins.”
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