Jed Lee is a Chinese-Filipino Taiwanese-American who’s studying at UC Berkeley. He’s currently majoring in Society & Environment while also minoring in Global Poverty & Practice, Food Systems, and City Planning. This summer of 2018, Jed traveled to the Philippines and worked with the IBON International for the Practice Experience component of his GPP minor. Jed shares his reflection of being in the Philippines, seeing the differences and inequalities, especially from a privileged first-world perspective, while also trying to find ways to advocate for both the environment and marginalized communities. He talks about his experience within the Global Poverty & Practice minor, in addition to some reflections regarding “sustainable development,” activism, and other complicated topics related to poverty alleviation.
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IBON Foundation
Government is incapable of addressing the crisis squarely because the Duterte administration's econ managers stubbornly adhere to failed neoliberal policies https://t.co/Eecczs2xsc #IBON40 #UpholdPeopleEconomics
— IBON Foundation (@IbonFoundation) September 6, 2018
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Power Plants, Dirty Fish, and Children's Books - KuyaChris - Medium
Traffic is real. But the need for education is realer. People's Solidarity and Education Tours (PSET) was tasked to deliver a set of books donated by CANVAS, a non-profit aiming to deliver 1 million books to 1 million Filipino children over the next few years.
Jed’s photos were used in the above writeup.
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