The new CDA chairman: A Statesman and a Cooperative Revolutionary
SIX-score years ago, the call for revolution to unfetter the country from Spanish colonialism had reverberated from Cavite led by Emilio Aguinaldo. The problems besetting the country then may be different from the challenges we are facing now but the formula that relies on the inherent power of...
Ravanera: Cooperative market debunks dominant paradigm
THE growth-at-all-cost development strategy that sacrifices the people and the environment to the altar of greed and profit in the name of materialism and consumerism must now be stopped. This is particularly true in a country such as ours that has been selling and consuming what is it not...
Ravanera: Liberating force against poverty
WITH a firm collective belief that cooperativism is the beacon of light amidst the darkness of poverty, the 1,354 cooperatives in region 10 with some half a million members are serving notice to one and all that they have awakened and that poverty has no place in an island oozing with ecological...
Ravanera: Hounding Heaven with Prayers
HE HAD almost leaped to the Great Beyond that fateful day of November 26, 2010 after suffering from hemorrhagic stroke, so severe that the attending physician had given him a slim chance to live. But as always, Atty. Manuel "Maning" Ravanera, did remain his true self, an intrepid warrior, when...
Ravanera: Let our people bleed no more
THE “Maguindanao Massacre” is the most tragic and horrible manifestation of “negative peace” aptly described as a condition where there is no on-going actual violence but the ingredients of conflict are present which can erupt anytime.
NAFECOOP: Towards a new era of a strong cooperative development
WHETHER in politics or in business, the word “change” has become a by-word now-a-days that as if change can easily be had by just invoking some magical powers.
Ravanera: 1O.1O.1O
THE 10th day of the 10th month of the 10th year of the 21st century saw the national convergence of some 4,000 cooperative leaders who attended the 3-day 10th National Cooperative Summit at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City. Number 10 stood out that day as the Opening Program, which should...
Ravanera: Supreme Court Affirms Tax Exemption of Cooperatives
IN A recent case entitled Dumaguete Cathedral Credit Cooperative (DCCCO) versus Commissioner of Internal Revenue, no less than the highest court of the land affirms the tax exemption of cooperatives.
Ravanera: October is Cooperative Month
"COME another around people wherever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown. And admit that soon you'll be drenched to the bone, if your time for you is worth saving. Then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone. For the times they are a-changing."
Ravanera: Cooperative Revolution
THE lethal combination of poverty, hunger, ecological disasters, corruption, violence, apathy and greed has no match against the formidable alliance of an empowered people to advance good governance,
Ravanera: Two Weddings in the Gardens of Marco
"The union of your spirits here has caused Him to remain, for whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name, there is love, Oh, there is Love!"
Ravanera: Cooperatives Gear-Up for the 4P’s
BY NATURE, nurture and by law, cooperatives exist for social transformation based on the principles of social justice, equity and sustainable development.
Ravanera: The Grandeur That Was Macajalar Bay
"WHEN the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted, only then will man realize that he cannot eat his money."
CDA Sec. Lecira V. Juarez: A Transformational Leader
THIS country reeks with so many transactional leaders and politicians.
Emma A. Nieva: Cooperative Star
PERHAPS there are no better words that can aptly express the unconditional essence of love than those prescribed by Og Mandino on how to greet each day: “I will greet each day with love in my heart.
Ravanera: Empower Communities -- FPSDC shows the way
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Ravanera: Let us heal the wounds of Mother Earth
TODAY is Earth Day.
Ravanera: Fighting Poverty and Ecological Degradations Through Cooperativism
Last of 2 Parts
Ravanera: Fighting Poverty & Ecological Degradations through Cooperativism
LOOK at the sky. It has the same color wherever you go. Just as we see the same color of the sky, all of the peoples in the world now face common challenges and share the same vision.
Ravanera: An urgent call to save cagayan de oro
A MONTH or so ago on a helicopter ride over the banks of Iponon River across Barangay Tumpagon and neighboring upland barangays of Cagayan de Oro, I saw the ongoing massive hydraulic mining operations
Lawyer Isidro Q. Lico, The Cooperative Statesman
FOR lawyer Sid Lico, the Chairman of the Regional Cooperative Development Council who is at the helm of the 1,300 active cooperatives in Northern Mindanao with over 700,000 member-cooperators, social
Ravanera: Atty. Mordino R. Cua - A Tribute to a Cooperative Hero
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Ravanera: Atty. Mordino R. Cua - A Tribute To A Cooperative Hero
(First of 2 Parts)
Ravanera: The People United Can Never Be Defeated!
They come from all walks of life – farmers, fisherfolk, workers, indigenous people, vendors, drivers, OFWs, government employees, entrepreneurs, the youth, senior citizens, police, military, former
Ravanera: Oro Integrated Cooperative, People’s Leading Edge
THE love of money has been said to be the root of all evil; however, the lack of it causes so many evil.
