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Liberal Example of Leadership: Grace Padaca, 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Government Service Isabela Governor Grace Padaca talks about how her Ramon Magsaysay award reaffirms her efforts to empower people to use their democratic right to elect leaders of their own choosing. Four years after bringing down the “Dy-nasty” in Isabela, she believes that this recognition symbolizes that change is possible. Gov. Padaca discuses her continued work for change through the Kaya Natin movement. They make the rounds of schools and meet with different polling groups and civil society organiz ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberal Example of Leadership: Jovito Salonga, 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Government Service Former Senator Jovito Salonga recalls vividly the Liberal Party's proclamation rally in Plaza Miranda on 21 August 1971. He recounts how before he was about to speak, unknown assailants hurled two grenades on stage. He remembers being rushed to the hospital more "dead than alive," and how his doctors only gave him a 5 percent chance to live. The former senator speaks of the mystery of his return to life and of his painful road to recovery. Now at 88, he looks back on his years of service a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberal Example of Leadership: Jesse Robredo, 2000 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Government Service Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo explains that his Ramon Magsaysay award is his people's affirmation of their continuing quest for meaningful politics and governance. He describes the city’s history of active citizen participation and their tradition of seeking out new ideas through debates and discourse. Some of their ideas such as the peace zone, i-governance and tripartite partnership for social housing have been hailed among the world's best practices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forwarding the Democratic Agenda in Asia Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan, Ph.D., spoke on the evolution of ASEAN 41 years ago out of a shared vision for peace, stability, security and prosperity in the region. He describes how it gave rise to other architectures of cooperation such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and Asia-Europe Meeting. These have led to greater collaboration with the international community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Freedom, Rule of Law and Democratic Institutions Senator Manuel "MAR" Roxas II talks about how freedom, the rule of law and democracy are essential to nation building. Without them, a society's development will be stunted and poverty will deepen. However as necessary as these are, it is not enough. A change of mindset is also needed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creative Empowerment and Liberal Education Siegfried Herzog discusses the objectives of a liberal education: acquisition of basic skills, development of a critical mindset and a passion to learn and the instruction of values and sensibilities. He then examines how open education, the growing worldwide movement to develop free educational content, fulfils these. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Role of Civil Society in Philippine Democracy National Institute for Policy Studies President Mario Taguiwalo explains the economic and social background that gives birth to Philippine civil society. He expounds on its rise during the Marcos dictatorship and its continued flourishing in restored democracy. He speaks of civil society as the central channel of engaging politicians due to the lack of ideologically based political parties in the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberalism and Morality: Liberalism and Morality: Capitalism and Christian Values The final part of this installment has Fr. Robert Sirico touching upon the correlation between business ethics and corruption. He explains that personal corruption is one reality, but that it is institutional corruption which forces the lack of business ethics. This occurs when the political apparatus extends into the private sphere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberalism and Morality: Reconciling Christian Values and Free Market Principles In the fourth installment of this series, Fr. Robert Sirico asserts that reconciling Christian values and free market principles begins with giving importance to profit. Profit is the result of an activity planned well and the fruit of human labor. However, the solution to poverty is not redistribution. It is creating mechanisms for superfluous wealth production that let people share. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberalism and Morality: Economics, Liberty and Morality Fr. Robert Sirico discusses how economics, liberty and morality center on the human person. A free environment creates opportunities that allow him to choose and harness resources. Criticism against economics arises because many choices are based on subjective values. However, it is a misconception to understand morality as relativistic. Virtue is something consistent across all humanity. Morality underlines the responsibility to create a flourishing society that is worthy of human dignity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberalism and Morality: The Call of the Entrepreneur The second instalment of this series features Fr. Robert Sirico's commentary on the film: The Call of the Entrepreneur as well as portions of the open forum that followed. Fr. Sirico discusses the value that business brings to a society. He explains that it is through entrepreneurship that the poor's hopes are met and their needs are addressed. He stresses that in order to have this, liberty is required. Without freedom, the human spirit and its creativity are discouraged. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberalism and Morality: A Five-Part Series In this first episode of a five-part series, Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Siegfried Herzog introduce Fr. Robert Sirico and Kris A. Mauren, founders of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. Fr. Sirico and Kris explain the reasons behind establishing the institute and its mission of reconciling liberalism and morality. They also talk about their Asian visit and their impressions of the Philippines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turning the Page: A Review of the Foundation’s Publications and Projects, as We Enter the New Year In this episode, Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Siegfried Herzog review the Foundation's projects in the latter part of the year: the second Liberal Leadership Training seminar, the book launch of Notes from the Academy, a compilation of International Academy for Leadership (IAF) reports, the Kapihan (coffee forum) on the Human Rights Situation, and the book launch of Beyond Borders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Liberal Foundation and Human Rights Advocacy: A look at the Ateneo Human Rights Center's Internship Program and the Impact on the Lives of Law Students Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Ronald Meinardus talk about human rights advocacy as a vital cause to the liberal Foundation. They discuss the Foundation’s support for the Ateneo Human Rights Center's (AHRC) human rights field work program, and the AHRC and the Foundation’s joint launch of the book Remembering Still: Interns’ Reflections on Alternative Lawyering in the Philippines. This book is a compilation of essays on lessons learned from law students’ immersions in the fringe sectors ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Third in a Three-Part Special Episode Series Featuring Speeches from the 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit: A Focus on Professional Blogging The final part in the three part series of special episodes focuses on professional blogging. The Liberal Times Manila podcast discusses how blogs have changed the media landscape. It features interviews with Mike Abundo on the social aspects of Philippine blogging and how to blog for the world community, and Abe Olandres on how to earn from your blog. It also includes a personal account from Angelo Racoma on how he moved from full-time employee to full-time blogger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Second Part in a Three Part Special Episode Featuring Speeches and Interviews from the Second Philippine Blogging Summit with a Focus on Podcasting in the Philippines and Beyond The Liberal Times Manila podcast co-host Ronald Meinardus shares his views on podcasting (and blogging) in civic education. Manuel Viloria talks about podcasting trends in the Philippines. Finally Brian Ligsay shares his experiences on how to set up a podcast and also how to make money with it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberal Perspectives on Philippine Education: Private-Public Nexus The final part of the education podcast series takes a look at liberal solutions. Dr. Chito Salazar, head of the Philippine Investment Management Education Network, proposes reforms: deregulating the education industry, rationalizing state universities and colleges and pursuing quality oriented reforms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberal Perspectives on Philippine Education: Is the Philippines Educating for Competitiveness? From the perspective of a globalized world, Juan Miguel "Mike" Luz, International Institute for Rural Reconstruction president, explores whether the Philippines is educating for competitiveness or is barely trying to educate for competence. He discusses five disconnects in Philippine education: the two-types of Philippine basic education, the low pay of teachers, the school age of children, the male drop-out rate and the isolation of Muslim Filipino children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberal Perspectives on Philippine Education: Philippine Public Basic Education In the second-part of this education podcast, former Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Florencio "Butch" Abad outlines the crisis in Philippine education: poor competency and the meaninglessness of diplomas and professional licenses. He also talks about the DepEd's reform initiatives such as the Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberal Perspectives on Philippine Education: First in a Four-Part Special Podcast Series on Education Alexandra Cuyegkeng, Siegfried Herzog and Jojo Antonio, International Academy for Leadership alumnus, reflect on the Friedrich Naumann Foundation’s first IAF replication seminar on education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcasting in the Philippines In the maiden issue of The Liberal Times Manila Podcast, Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Ronald Meinardus explain why the Friedrich Naumann Foundation's Philippine Office (create link to our homepage) has joined the growing community of podcasters. They share some thoughts on the possible relevance and the potential of podcasting in the Philippines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Economic Freedom and Development Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Siegfried Herzog discuss the Foundation's, the Foundation for Economic Freedom's (FEF) and Center for Research and Communication (CRC)' s launch of the first Philippine edition of the Economic Freedom of the World 2007 report. This is an annual report that discusses the degree of economic freedom around the world based on a composite Index that includes: size of government, legal structure and security of property rights, access to sound money, freedom to trade inter ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First in a Three-Part Special Episode Series Featuring Speeches from the Second Philippine Blogging Summit: A Focus on Political Blogging and the Politics of Blogging The Liberal Times Manila podcast highlights speeches and interviews with Internet personalities of the 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit on 18 April 2006 at the UP College of Law, Quezon City in a series of three special episodes. Following the summit’s format of dividing topics into tracks, The Liberal Times Manila podcast will also divide the special episodes into three themes: political blogging and the politics of blogging, podcasts and problogging. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International and regional activities of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and iBlog2: The 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit A closer look at the international and regional activities of the liberal Foundation and a short preview of the 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit on April 18, 2006 of which The Liberal Times Manila Podcast is a co-sponsor Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Liberal Leadership Training at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation A portrait of the International Academy for Leadership (IAF) in Gummersbach, Germany and participants from the Philippines. A review of a successful hands-on workshop on blogging and podcasting in the context of Philippine politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Liberal Party In the second episode of The Liberal Times Manila Podcast, Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Ronald Meinardus review the various activities held on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Liberal Party of the Philippines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberal Leadership Training: Globalization Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Siegfried Herzog take you with them to Panglao Island, Bohol where the Foundation conducted the offline part of its online seminar on globalization from 22-26 April 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberal Leadership Training: Globalization Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Siegfried Herzog take you with them to Panglao Island, Bohol where the Foundation conducted the offline part of its online seminar on globalization from 22-26 April 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strengthening, Re-organizing and Revitalizing In this episode, Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Siegfried Herzog discuss the Foundation's regional partner, the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD)'s recent political party management workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Foundation sponsored the workshop which was designed to strengthen CALD's member parties - young, liberal Asian democracies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Liberal Foundation and its Regional Partners Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Siegfried Herzog take a closer look at two of the Foundation's regional partners: the Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism (Working Group) and the Young Liberals and Democrats of Asia (YLDA). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good-bye and Hello: Tribute to Outgoing Resident Representative Dr. Ronald Meinardus and Welcome to His Successor, Mr. Siegfried Herzog Alexandra Cuyegkeng welcomes her new co-host, new Resident Representative Siegfried Herzog. Together they pay tribute to Dr. Ronald Meinardus and talk about his contributions to the Foundation’s Philippine project. They discuss his last two programs in the Philippines and in the region: the first Liberal Leadership Training seminar on local government and the fourth Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats communication workshop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good-bye and Hello: Tribute to Outgoing Resident Representative Dr. Ronald Meinardus and Welcome to His Successor, Mr. Siegfried Herzog Alexandra Cuyegkeng welcomes her new co-host, new Resident Representative Siegfried Herzog. Together they pay tribute to Dr. Ronald Meinardus and talk about his contributions to the Foundation’s Philippine project. They discuss his last two programs in the Philippines and in the region: the first Liberal Leadership Training seminar on local government and the fourth Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats communication workshop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Liberal View on Terrorism – Speech by the Lord Alderdice, President of Liberal International at the international conference of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD), the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and Liberal In Lord Alderdice is the President of Liberal International, the global network of liberal political parties. He hails from Northern Ireland, where he was at the helm of the Alliance Party for many years. He also served as Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly and on the independent Monitoring Commission charged with looking after paramilitary activities and security normalization in Northern Ireland. As Lord Alderdice explains in his speech, terrorism in the various parts of the world has ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Liberal View on Terrorism – Speech by the Lord Alderdice, President of Liberal International at the international conference of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD), the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and Liberal In Lord Alderdice is the President of Liberal International, the global network of liberal political parties. He hails from Northern Ireland, where he was at the helm of the Alliance Party for many years. He also served as Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly and on the independent Monitoring Commission charged with looking after paramilitary activities and security normalization in Northern Ireland. As Lord Alderdice explains in his speech, terrorism in the various parts of the world has ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Migration, Population and the Globalization of Labor – Comments and Speeches from the international conference of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD), the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and Liberal International (Jun In this episode, Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Ronald Meinardus present comments and extracts of speeches presented at the CALD-ALDE-conference in the Philippines in late June 2006. What made this conference special was its partisan character: All of the more than 100 participating politicians from various parts of the world belong to liberal parties. They assembled in Manila to discuss common liberal approaches to important global issues their societies in Asia and Europe are confronted with. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Liberal Party In the second episode of The Liberal Times Manila Podcast, Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Ronald Meinardus review the various activities held on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Liberal Party of the Philippines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcasting in the Philippines In the maiden issue of The Liberal Times Manila Podcast, Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Ronald Meinardus explain why the Friedrich Naumann Foundation's Philippine Office (create link to our homepage) has joined the growing community of podcasters. They share some thoughts on the possible relevance and the potential of podcasting in the Philippines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Institutions and Economic Development 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics laureate Douglass C. North speaks on the formation of human societies. Restricted social orders continue to be the norm in most of the contemporary world. These limited access societies are ruled by elites through monopolies or rents. These coalitions are based on personal ties, hence he calls such societies“natural” states. However, a number of countries have developed into open access societies where competition in economic and political markets, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creative Empowerment and Liberal Education Siegfried Herzog discusses the objectives of a liberal education: acquisition of basic skills, development of a critical mindset and a passion to learn and the instruction of values and sensibilities. He then examines how open education, the growing worldwide movement to develop free educational content, fulfils these. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website