Mar Roxas

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No to Cha-cha and GRP-MILF MOA(10)

Posted by carlo ople on August 13th, 2008 | Categorized as Mar on Issues | Tagged as MILF-GRP MOA, Senator Mar Roxas

Hi everyone. Senator Roxas is currently in Mindanao meeting with local leaders about the GRP-MILF MOA. This issue is currently one of the most pressing concerns for the country and Senator Roxas gave a privilege speech in the Senate clarifying his stand on this issue last August 11, 2008. We’ve uploaded a video of his [...]

Old Pictures and Facebook(9)

Posted by Mar Roxas on August 9th, 2008 | Categorized as Random Topics | Tagged as Facebook, Senator Mar Roxas, Virtual Rally

Hi everyone. This is Mar.
I thought of putting up some of my older pictures, to at least for the moment take our minds off the troubling national situation. I’ve also put these pictures up on my Facebook account. Feel free to add me as a friend there.
Playing Basketball

Knockout by Onyok

Helping out moving cameras for Mr.Palengke [...]

Join the Virtual Rally Against VAT on Oil(1)

Posted by carlo ople on August 8th, 2008 | Categorized as Mar in Action | Tagged as Senator Mar Roxas, Virtual Rally

Senator Roxas launched this blog and talked about a Virtual Rally against VAT on oil products during his blogger meet-up last week held at Annabel’s Restaurant in Tomas Morato. The Virtual Rally is a petition website that allows you to put an online avatar on a “cyber EDSA”. We’d like to invite everyone to join [...]

Esperon should be removed(11)

Posted by Mar Roxas on August 6th, 2008 | Categorized as Mar on Issues | Tagged as General Esperon, MILF, Senator Mar Roxas

Hi. This is Mar.
This is going to be a short post, because it’s promising to be a busy next few days for me. Too many things have been happening. As I write this we are preparing for a press conference on the situation in Mindanao. I’ll have a member of my staff post a video [...]

Mr. Palengke is also Mr. Techie(1)

Posted by carlo ople on August 6th, 2008 | Categorized as Mar Videos | Tagged as New Media, Senator Mar Roxas

Last week, I went with Inquirer.Net reporter Alex Villafania do an interview with Senator Mar Roxas about how New Media and the internet impacts his work as a legislator. He goes on to discuss blogging, micro-blogging, internet research, social networking, and even butterflies in Brazil. They recently uploaded the video on Inquirer.Net Videos and I [...]

Mar Meets the Bloggers(23)

Posted by carlo ople on August 2nd, 2008 | Categorized as Mar in Action | Tagged as Bloggers, New Media, Senator Mar Roxas

Last August 1, 2008, we had a casual dinner meeting for Senator Roxas and several Philippine bloggers. There was a good mix of bloggers from various niches - politics, tech, consumer products, personal, and even animal rights. The meeting was set for 5:00PM-6:00PM at Annabel’s Restaurant along Tomas Morato, Quezon City. To say that the [...]