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In Defense of Greta Thunberg: How are the Old Ones Leaving a Legacy?
Editor’s Note: Like it or not, but a 16-year-old girl got the world talking much about a problem (or not a problem) the world is facing today: Climate Change. Here’s an eloquent note in defense of Greta Thunberg and poem from Anthony Kintanar – a teacher, a biker and a poet from Cebu, Philippines – […]
Jesuit Priest and HR Watch Exec Speak on Philippine Human Rights Situation
New York City – In the wake of the reloading of Tok-hang, the Philippine “anti-drug war” which has resulted thus far in some 20,000 killings, the Fil-Am Press Club of New York will hold a forum featuring activist priest-scholar Fr. Albert Alejo, SJ, and Human Rights Watch Asia Division Deputy Director Phelim Kine. The […]
Interfaith Education: Key to Peace and Understanding of Peoples
“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.” ~ Victor Hugo New York City — “Like everyone else, Muslims want peace and do not like extremists like the ISIS. But the mainstream media is not […]
Obama’s Last SOTU: Recycling Rhetoric and Hope
OSM! Forum Women leaders in various communities in New York were asked their opinion on the State of the Union address of Pres. Obama. They have mixed reactions to his speech. Everyone applauded at the President in criticizing and discouraging racism that continues to divide America. Many gave him the thumbs up for the message of […]
Justice Carpio Optimistic over RP Claim on Islands on South China Sea
By Marivir R. Montebon “The South China Sea actually belongs to the whole humanity. Its vastness has gone beyond the defined 200 nautical miles of the exclusive economic zone of any sovereign state. It is a common ground, as defined by UNCLOS. The 9-dash lines which China is using, without even explaining why, claims the […]
NYC Artists Gather to Preserve Lost Languages
By Marivir Montebon New York City — Grace Baldisseri paints a beautiful picture of her village in our minds, in her poem In My Village, translated in three ethnic languages (Tagalog, Ilocano, and Ibanag) obscured by modernity. Life is beautiful in my village Everybody knows everyone here No one takes drugs, no one is […]
OSM! Enjoys Big Readership in Year 1
OSM! is enjoying a vast readership worldwide with a current and growing online readers of more than 22,000 in less than a year of existence. (February 2013 stats by WordPress) The readers are professional men and women mostly based in the US (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, Chicago, the Carolinas, […]
MADONNA DAVIDOFF: Art is a Matter of Relevance
BY MARIVIR MONTEBON Mention Madonna, and almost always the images of the lady Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, or the pop entertainer who is also referred to as the mother of reinvention (like a virgin, material girl, and all that stuff) strike the mind. But comes now another Madonna, a Filipino, Swiss, and American rolled […]
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