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How much are we manifesting? Blessed Sunday, especially to those still asleep, as usual!

Isla de Maripipi Biliran is also-home Maripipi Multipurpose Cooperative

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—Have Merzci for the best of Bacolod and Iloilo!

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—We want to tell the cooperative story through magic beans (coffee). And either we will, or we shall!

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—The World's No. 1 Rum is . . . a product of the Philippines! (Drink International Magazine)

This is well-written column, apt for those in rainy and brownout (but still have batteries) areas today.

Best lines:

"Rodrigo Duterte’s vital dilemma lies in a very serious internal inadequacy that even his own children cannot fight because they are gasping for air in their own battles."

"If the old man Duterte, now 79, has one foot in the grave . . . The Duterte dream of restoring itself to Malacañang does not have the luxury of time, much less of stamina and of bright ideas."

"Duterte created his own set of Chinese businessmen cronies with largesse of government contracts. The fight against corruption increasingly became nebulous as Duterte rewarded himself with huge unaudited confidential funds, some of it going to rewards for extrajudicial kill quotas of police in the drug war."

"Overall, the Duterte rhetoric of tough-talk bravado was not designed to see change in governance “by empowering the people in raising their political consciousness.” If ever it saw success, it succeeded in damaging the moral psyche of the Filipino by using troll-generated popularity. Duterte was exposed as a quintessential trapo whose aim was only self-preservation and entitlement for his family."

"Simply put, the people are not buying a Duterte return to power. The tough talk against corruption was a big dud."

"The Duterte dilemma lies not in the break-up of team unity and the unrelenting attacks against his family by the Martin Romualdez House. His real dilemma lies in the bankruptcy of his political strategy."

The end of the Dutertes is here COMMENTARY: Simply put, the people are not buying a Duterte return to power.

Yes!

2024 Co-op Month resources now available!

Under the theme “The Future is Cooperative,” this year’s Co-op Month is a chance to envision a cooperative future. Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/2xebkjpx

There's a CoopShop in everyone!
Visit www.shop.buy.coop!

The first San Miguel Pale Pilsen priced in bitcoin (as far as we know!) You can pay that of course with CoopPay by One Cooperative Technology Service

See what we're secretly building at www.buy.coop brick by brick! Then guess how that connects with our pilot CoopShops www.shop.buy.coop

"The best coffees are the ones that taste like a [cooperative] conversation"

- Author unknown, [commenter] unknown

Image sources known: Cooperative Coffee Roasters, Equal Exchange

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2 billion cups -- Estimated coffee cups brewed every day

12.5 million -- Estimated coffee farms today

95% -- Coffee farms less than 5 hectares in size, owned by smallholder farmers, imagine the UP Sunken Garden

8 out of 10 -- Coffee farms even smaller than 2 hectares, less than half of UP Sunken Garden

60% -- But smallholder farmers grow 60 percent of the world's coffee!

Coffee cooperatives whose members are small-scale farmers are the heart of coffee production and of their communities.

Data and image (Koperasi Baithul Qiradh Baburrayyan, Indonesia. Jumiran is a member-farmer who owns 1 ha and produces around 4,200 kg cherry per year): Fairtrade.net

Coop Energy and fun! Privilege to meet the owners of 1 Cooperative Insurance System of the Philippines Life & General Insurance in Region 6!

There are crimes of passion.
Then there are cooperative passions.

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But there will be signs
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Lightning wallet for the weekend: Zeus!

www.zeusln.com

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Our mission is to elevate the co-op brand. We're looking for you, wherever cooperative you are in the Philippines (our pilots are in Bacolod, Makati and Leyte)

If you want a dedicated world-class product site, let's build one for you, ex. www.kodak.buy.coop

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C.S. Lewis to a young girl
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