{"id":3338,"date":"2021-06-28T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diinsiderlife.com\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2022-08-01T01:36:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T01:36:18","slug":"how-community-pantries-spurred-collective-action-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diinsiderlife.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/28\/how-community-pantries-spurred-collective-action-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"How Community Pantries Spurred Collective Action in the Philippines<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What started out as a makeshift communal food station at the most populated city in the Philippines became a movement of solidarity across the country, in response to widespread hunger, job precarity, and inadequate government aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ana Patricia Non organized the Maginhawa Community Pantry in Quezon City on April 14, where the 26-year-old filled a small bamboo cart with food items and other essentials that anyone seeking reprieve can get and those wanting to extend aid can supply. A cardboard sign bearing the words, \u201cGive what you can. Take what you need,\u201d would greet the growing line of pantry goers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI am already tired of inaction,\u201d Non told Phillipine\u00a0media<\/a>\u00a0on why she started the effort, which drew from the power of collective involvement. Among those who flocked to the food bank are people who have lost their\u00a0jobs<\/a>\u00a0as the national economy plummeted while record\u00a0hunger<\/a>\u00a0reached new heights amid COVID-19. Recovery for the country, on the other hand, is seen to be the\u00a0slowest<\/a>\u00a0compared to its Southeast Asian counterparts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Non\u2019s community pantry, while not novel, exemplified in what many say underscores the Bayanihan spirit or the Filipino concept of communal work, derived from the word bayan or nation. In a show of solidarity, others have been galvanized to do the same in different parts of the country.\u00a0Fishers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0farmers<\/a>, those who have been hit the hardest by the pandemic and state neglect, took part in these efforts, giving the surplus they made from their catch and harvests. As of mid-April, more than 350 makeshift food banks were\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0to have been set up nationwide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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While Non has made it clear that community pantries are not the solution to the root cause of hunger, the principle central to the ground-up initiative brought to the mainstream the importance of mutual aid and solidarity in spurring collective action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mutual aid; act of resistance?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the southern Philippines, a 19-year-old communications student, who was inspired by the ripple of community pantries, organized a food hub in Liloan, Cebu. \u201cThat concept of mutual aid is probably the biggest reason why I was really drawn to community pantries,\u201d Celine Lagundi said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One characterization offered on\u00a0mutual aid<\/a>\u00a0is that it\u2019s \u201ca form of solidarity-based support, in which communities unite against a common struggle, rather than leaving individuals to fend for themselves.\u201d Under this framework, community pantries can be seen as a collective response to the immediate needs of the hungry and unemployed brought about by the socioeconomic effects of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This movement of collaboration has become a point of intersection, bridging different people torn from a highly individualized society. For one, Lagundi recounted that a mute woman who approached the community pantry shared how her family member recently became a victim of an extrajudicial killing, a recurring brutal\u00a0pattern<\/a>\u00a0since President Rodrigo Duterte rose to power in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI think this is the most important part of our volunteership at the pantry\u2014the conversations we have and the stories the people would tell. They fuel the need for us to do something; to listen more closely, to help get their calls heard,\u201d Lagundi said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s also because of this that Lagundi considers the community-installed food banks as an act of resistance. \u201cThey show the sheer carelessness and incompetence of the government because why else would the countrymen be forced to fend on their own especially in a time of crisis?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For the likes of Michael Angelo Quijada, a fellow organizer in Cebu City, community pantries are more of extended assistance initiated by private individuals than a display of dissent. Scholars, meanwhile, are keen to\u00a0point out<\/a>\u00a0that \u201ccommunity pantries are not rally or demonstration sites as of yet,\u201d but could very well evolve to be one in the near future as social conditions worsen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But whatever the orientation, this community-based initiative primarily \u201cresonate with the public\u2019s dire needs and brewing discontent in the context of a worsening economic and health care situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At heart of mutual aid and of the establishment of community pantries is solidarity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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According to Regletto Aldrich Imbong, an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of the Philippines Cebu, social solidarity is the conscious effort of overcoming differences\u2014without necessarily eradicating them\u2014in order to build a strong unity that not only voices concrete demands but also identifies new alternatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Without solidarity, Imbong said, collective action will be difficult to come by as people of different classes, races, genders, and sexualities would be constrained to and blinded in their own social identities and, as a result, hamper their capacity to band together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt is this understanding and sharing of the common, of the communal, of the community inherent in social solidarity, that allows the overcoming of the particularities and limitations of identities in order to spur collective action,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For pantry organizers like Lagundi and Quijada, they have learned the importance of trusting the community to achieve common goals and shared interests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe best lesson the community pantry has taught me is to trust in the masses. Us volunteers and organizers are not their saviors and we shouldn\u2019t think of ourselves as such,\u201d Lagundi said. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t use their stories and lives for our personal gains. In fact, we should continue to fight and resist alongside them and amplify their voices.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Quijada emphasized that there is a need to provide communities a platform for mobilizing them and, at the same time, help them especially during this crisis. It is here that Quijada saw the creativity of young members of\u00a0ONE GUADALUPE<\/a>, a local movement he spearheaded, in planning and creating projects that fill the gaps that their barangay in Cebu City continues to endure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As scholars\u00a0see<\/a>\u00a0community pantries as emergent agencies or initiatives undertaken by different stakeholders to independently effect changes in their circumstances, these acts, they say, help inform \u201cbuild back better options […] to a more equitable and sustainable future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For example, the principle and practice of mutual aid and solidarity lend insights to a bottom-up approach in community development \u2014\u00a0one<\/a>\u00a0that gives primacy to local knowledge and local practices of community members in identifying problems and creating solutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This differs from the dominant bureaucratic model of organizations that rely on the wisdom of those at the top of the hierarchy. However, the Philippine national government and its attached agencies continue to largely implement projects through a top-bottom approach that often disregards community members in the decision-making process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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To mobilize communities, which is pivotal in sustaining policies and projects catered for and by them, organizing those at the fringes based on mutual aid and solidarity empower communities by giving them agency to changes they want to undertake. This encourages accountability as the communal is put front and center over the interests of the few.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In rethinking society and development, there is no other alternative to collective action, said Imbong. \u201cIts exceptional politics challenges the existing order and ideology, thereby providing the true alternative rooted in social solidarity and communal social organization,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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