Above, Voltaire Tupaz
was Maria Ressa’s Rappler Recruit #1; he says, “I was a young advocate then, exploring
social media for my social cause” (15 Dec 2021, “Rappler At 10: From Maria
Ressa ‘Troll’ To Employee No 1[1],” Rappler.com):
There were 12 of us in
the founding team… The civic engagement arm, where I belonged, was called MovePH because we built communities to take action
on issues that mattered to them.
Before that, Mr Tupaz was “exploring social media for my
social cause.”
Now
I ask: “Social cause?”
Mr Tupaz says, “I was busy fighting for indigenous peoples’ rights in the
Cordillera.”
“Fighting for peoples’ rights” was what Mr Tupaz was doing.
I would rather do my journalism fighting
for people’s good – not “goods” – as I am doing, with this blog RegINA, Queen Mother Earth, which is
dedicated to the propagation, as it were, of Regenerative
Agriculture, and which idea is enclosed in the first word of the name
that when spelled out. this: RegINA
– Regenerative from Inspiring, Intelligent,
Information-Intense, Insightful, Nature-Nuanced, Applicable Agriculture.
Not another journalist to celebrate, instead I cerebrate. Going not for the gold that glitters, but the gold that spreads out. The
Social Gold. “The One That Builds
Communities.”
Just like our very own Mother Dear, we must respect Mother
Nature even as we do our farming, starting with:
Not disturbing the
soil unnecessarily before planting our crop/s. Not plowing by discs to
literally destroy the soil structure and expose the clods to the sun and wind
that soon dry them up.
I realize, of course, than when I advise farmers, “Do not
plow,” that is going against 100 years of history of science-sponsored agriculture
in the Philippines, starting with the founding of the University of the
Philippines College of Agriculture (UPCA) in 1909. UPCA has now become a
university, namely the University of the
Philippines Los Baños (UPLB).
Unfortunately, as an alumnus of ancient UPCA, now modern
UPLB, I can see that Agriculture as a science is still a century old!
So
I see that social media as a whole is a limitless, unplanted field for digitally
broadcasting knowledge in farming and gardening and fishing for smart social
good!
Rappler formed “MovePH” as its “civic engagement arms” and
Mr Tupaz was its head, the name being an indication that, as he says, “Because
we built communities to take action on issues that mattered to them.”
I have long identified one all-encompassing issue that as a
journalist I love to cover and communicate for the social good, that now I call
RegINA.
And
so while Rappler’s journalism continues to search for the truth behind each and
every major political statement or assertion, I continue to practice my THiNK! Journalism – packaging the True plus Helpful plus Inspiring plus
Necessary plus Kind! into knowledge I happily digitally disseminate for the
social good.@517
[1]https://www.rappler.com/about/from-maria-ressa-troll-account-to-employee-number-1/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3SYITkxmTGpqfsIRqgbmM5Crmw2jW9J-u2s-r6Dte3s37vaAKRLwaDdqs
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