“Angel Locsin, Blokes PH” – By Blokes, I mean Bodies leading onto knowledge empowering society. By her bodily presence in rallies and demonstrations, without violence she is encouraging her countrymen to say “No to injustice.”
Blokes also means Bloggers of knowledge empowering society. This is for writers dedicated to eradication of farmer poverty in the country. Blokes is a power word inspired by Darna!
PH aggie journalists! So now I am inviting you to submit articles to me – frankahilario@gmail.com– that I will publish online separately according to the following blogs:
Blokes4Chickens
Blokes4Goats
Blokes4NativePigs
Blokes4Rice
Blokes4Corn.
Instructions for writers:
Submit your article to me, preferably with a photo, and I will help you write a better one; you pay me only compliments.
To write, don’t forget to ask people, read materials available, and surf the Web. Put in also what you know. Are you going to write about the success of someone in the raising of native chickens, for instance? Make sure you also tell what circumstances in the life of that raiser can be compared to others so that they can be encouraged to go and do likewise? As much as possible, that success story must be repeatable by other people.
Write also about a successful family, group, association, or LGU working with farmers with promise of income.
My Role:
To mentor you, I will see to it that you write interestingly and not simply follow the old, lousy formula of Who, What, Where, When, Why? You are not simply writing to tell a story – you are writing to motivate others so they too can succeed if they did likewise. It will all be digital, the editing and mentoring. When I am satisfied with your work, I will then include it in the proper blog and give you the link to it.
Today, unfortunately, our PH journalists who should be openly and actively supporting Secretary of Agriculture William Dar/Manong Willie’s “The New Thinking for Agriculture” are nowhere to be found. Not one communicator from the Asian Institute for Journalism & Communication, AIJC; not one from the Philippine Agricultural Journalists, PAJ; not one communicator from the Central Luzon State University, CLSU; and not even one active aggie communicator from UP Los Baños’ College of Development Communication, CDC itself, the original PH DevCom.
The AIJC, PAJ, CLSU, CDC journalists for development are missing!
I think I know why – whatever brand of communication they have been trained on, they simply consider it an ID card for employment, not for public consumption.
It’s not for lack of talent for writing – it’s for lack of appreciation of the need for modern & traditional knowledge empowering society to pursue local and national development, both of which must be inclusive.
PH Journalists, if we don’t write for PH farmer empowerment, who will?
If not us, who?
If not now, when?@517
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