paki relay nalang sa iba nating mga kababayan diyan sa US lalo na ang mga taga didto ha aton ha Homonhon. Damo it amon ginbubuhat pagsupil hine nga pagmina han aton anay mabaysay nga Isla. Pagburublig kita ngan buligi liwat kami niyo para mas magin mabaskug pa it amon mga tindog. salamat ngahaw ha imo ug hit imo pa mabubuhat para hit Isla hit Homonhon.
BILLY
kamnusta billy,
ReplyDeletedi na ko masyadong makaintindi ng waray. i can definitely understand some pero tagalog mo nalang. hehe! d na ako masyadong makapagsalita ng waray lalo na kung slang. it has been over 21 years. Nakakamiss pero.
Okay naman dito, sa tabi ng pamilya. Pero may tanung ako sa blog mo, FACTSHEET: STRATEGIC LAWSUIT AGAINST PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. Puede ka bang mag-consult ng lawyer to counter the case?
Kasi sa opinion ko, u might pero di ako masyadong pamiliar sa processo dyan.
What is your suggestion in terms of collecting overseas pinoys and pinays to support the above mentioned cause? There are a lot of filipinos around her in Florida.
Thank you for welcoming me to your blog. I will be checking in here every now and then. You have some pretty interesting stuff here. Keep me posted!
Pakumusta sa pamilya at mga kababayan natin dyan.
Ingat kayo lagi!
Hello Ciely, kumusta? where are you na? Are you still connected with Ateneo? The ALG and LRC has offered help for the resolution of the case filed against us by one of the mining comapnies operating in Homonhon Island. A lot more mining firms had made entry to the Island to do mining virtually taking and seizing the whole drylands including our residential and farmlands. For these, we still counting for your assistance and help in whatever way. We're very grateful for all the help and actions you've given and extended to us and we wish you more joy and happiness in every moments of your life and may God shower you always with all the blessings in life. Ingatz lagi and thank you! ----Billy
ReplyDeleteTo Zenaida,
ReplyDeleteYes, napagkwentuhan namin nina Nora at Maricar tungkol nga dito sa pag subscribe mo sa aking blogspot, thank you very much.
Sa ating mga kababayan diyan, para makapag subscribe din sila, pwede mong i-email sa kanila ang blogspot na ito, simply type Billy Abueme and the this site will come out. my email address is billy78abueme@yahoo.com. you can email me on this address anytime. kumusta nalang sa inyong lahat diyan, sa buo mong pamilya, mga kaibigan at pakikumusta narin kina Angie at buong buong pamilya niya. Ingatz and thank you uli.
Hi Billy,
ReplyDeleteYour website is very encouraging. It is sad to think of what those abusers are doing to the island. Nevertheless, they will try and find power to support the evilness of their intentions. Right now with the economy the way it is going, everyone should consider the humanity in place of power. I think the most intelligent suggestion at this time, is to encourage the “Bariohanon to focus in farming. Everyone should go out and take a portion of that mountain and plant any produce product to show those miners that the land or the island belongs to everyone who is trying to survive. I am sure that if someone will start this mass farming you will get a lot of support to come up for some tools, seedlings, and fertilizer. In no time the island will be producing crops to support the inhabitants of Homonhon and at the same time everyone can claim ownership. All the aliens that are trying to take over the island should think, that wherever they came from they don’t have no right to go over and take ownership of the island just because the have a freaking piece of paper showing that someone had scratch their freaking name to come up with they call a freaking permit, so they think they have the right to dig the entire island. What a shame. Regards to everyone and most especially to Day-day and family, tell her I send my regards and love.
To Ate (Mahal)
ReplyDeletethank you for subscribing my website, I am really pleased to hear from you with regards to this malignant problem in our beloved Island, this incessant mining issue.
Yes, we are persuading everyone or those who believe in us to till the land and plant crops and other fruit bearing trees that thrives in the area and we are promoting agriculture as the most viable and sustainable source of subsistence in the Island. The fact that, in Brgy. Cagusu-an, some farmers had grouped themselves and did the so-called 'bayanihan farming' (BULUS-BULUSAY), where the group worked together in tilling ones' farm and then to another until every member got the same services and come to a farm of their own. The provincial Government of
Eastern Samar had twice given complete fertilizer to Homonhononanons and we have some say on that aside from the relief goods (rice) that they had also twice given within this year.
We understand that the perennial financial problem of many of the locals hinders them to extensively acquire considerable areas of cultivated lands and for this, we are seeking support or assistance or grants from sympathetic and kind-hearted groups or individuals from out there to adopt a group of farmers and helped them secure their subsistence or have adequate living condition and also to claim their rights. We believe in your capacities Ate and we wish that you may help us in realizing this worthy endeavor.
Best regards to your whole family and friends there and may God continuously shower you with all the blessings in life.
Salamat uli.
Billy
, regards to you and to all your whole family and friends there.
I am so glad to know that “those who believe in us” is going to make a very productive decision to farm and do something with the land. I know it is hard to make everyone understand your motive at this time but in long run they will. This is a cry for help, not only for the recent generation, but for the children of our children. Not to mention the fact that people are getting ill or even death,
ReplyDeleteCan chromium cause cancer?
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified Chromium (VI) as causing cancer in humans. Breathing air containing chromium (VI) compounds for long periods may cause lung cancer e.g. in workers involved in the production of chromates and chromate pigments . Children exposed to chromium compounds will have the same effects of poisoning as adults.
Open Your Eyes People
Regards
Yes, I have heard that from one of our support groups. Somewhere in India has this problem daw but I have to see the report yet.
ReplyDeleteSame methods of extraction and same minerals (chromite) had been mined out in one part of India for several years, 50 years or more. Unknowingly, the residents within the center and periphery of this mining activity were having intakes of the said chromium element but its effects were not felt or did not manifest for a period of time. Aside from lung cancer that can attributed to their hardwork and other vices, such study found out that chromium damages the reproductive system of a person and its effects manifests on the offsprings. There were many cases daw in that place that a mother gave birth to deformed child, some have only one leg or arm and other defromations which researchers said that it was the cause and effect of chromium that had accumulated in somebody's body.
Have you opened our video documentary "Ha Homonhon" in the Youtube? If you did, Papa Ladying was the main character of that film, but we're sad to tell you that he already passes away just this May 11, 2009. But lest, he had left a legacy for Homonhon, to fight for our rights, the environment and the future and we are proud of him.
I am so sorry about papa Ladying. Was he sick? Please e-mail me your response.
ReplyDeletePlease read;
MThe journal Epidemiology has just published new evidence that drinking hexavalent chromium — also called chromium 6 — increases risk of stomach cancer. The study is important for public health purposes, since many drinking water sources are chromium contaminated (including the water in the community in the movie Erin Brockovich).
This new study is also the latest piece of a very ugly scandal that illustrates how polluters manufacture doubt to impede regulation. And this scandal is but one of several in which chromium polluters have manipulated epidemiologic studies to sow uncertainty – see our case study on chromium 6 at DefendingScience.org.
Pump Handle readers may recall our reporting on the controversy around a study of stomach cancer in Chinese villages where there were high levels of chromium in the drinking water. After an initial study reported elevated rates of stomach cancer, product defense consultants working for US chromium polluters reanalyzed the study, and the increased risk disappeared. The consultants re-analyzed the data and arranged for it to be published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM) without their names on it, hiding any connection to the product defense firm (Chemrisk) or the polluters who paid for the re-analysis. After the controversy was reported in the Wall Street Journal, the editor of JOEM retracted the study.
Now, James J. Beaumont and a group of scientists employed by the state of California have published a new analysis of cancer rates among the Chinese villagers with highest exposures, in which they found an association between chromium 6 exposure and stomach cancer. Beaumont and his colleagues are careful to put many caveats on their conclusion, but the results are of tremendous importance.
Chromium 6 is a powerful lung carcinogen, shown in many studies of workers who breathe the chemical. It also causes cancer in animals given chromium 6-contaminated water, and there is evidence that drinking it causes cancer in humans. Although chromium 6 contaminates the drinking water of many communities, it is difficult to study the effects of the relatively low-level environmental exposures that are common throughout the country (according to Beaumont and his colleagues, chromium 6 was detected in about one-third of 7000 drinking water sources surveyed in California).
As a result, studies on humans who drink heavily contaminated water would be of great use in measuring the risk of cancer associated with this pollutant. And the Chinese villages in question may provide the best opportunity – possibly the only opportunity — to do that.
Allan H. Smith, a very distinguished epidemiologist at the School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley (and one of the world’s experts in the effects of arsenic contaminated drinking water, so he knows the methodological issue well), penned a commentary in the same issue of Epidemiology. He writes that these villages are “perhaps the only place in the world where the effects of ingestion of hexavalent chromium could be studied with adequate power.”
In his commentary, Smith reviews the limitations of the study, but puts them into a very useful perspective:
epidemiology is often at its best when functioning as an opportunistic observational science. Better to conduct shoddy studies of high exposures than high-quality studies of low exposures. It is a bit like the man who searched for his lost wallet under a lamppost. When asked where he lost it, he points to an area in the dark—but, he says, “the light is better over here.” Epidemiologic studies are too often conducted where it is easy to do them, rather than where the real evidence may be found. The excuse is that the high exposures occur where studies are difficult to conduct. Indeed, the future of environmental epidemiology lies in the developing world, where studies are usually difficult to do.
I commend Beaumont and his colleagues for struggling with an epidemiologic analysis with poor data. If there are human risks from hexavalent chromium in water, such risks are more likely to be found where exposures are high than by insisting on high-quality studies of populations where exposures are much lower.
Does the Beaumont reanalysis prove that ingestion of chromium causes cancer in humans? Of course not. Does it provide evidence that is consistent with there being increased risks? I suggest it does. Perhaps the greatest weakness of the evidence is the very short latency from exposure to increased mortality risks. Even if the exposures started as early as 1960, the latency for the period 1970–1978 reported here involves just 10 to 18 years, which (as noted by the authors) is very short for solid tumors. One would hope for and urge further follow-up of this exposed population in China, including both mortality studies and perhaps also case-control studies of stomach cancer. There may be no other population in the world that can provide such valuable information concerning ingestion of hexavalent chromium in water and human cancer.