{"id":231121,"date":"2016-06-30T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=231121"},"modified":"2016-06-30T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T20:00:53","slug":"skywalker-communications-head-must-protect-women-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/skywalker-communications-head-must-protect-women-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Skywalker Communications head: We must protect our women, kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-231121 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/skywalker-communications-head-must-protect-women-kids\/skywalker-pix-1\/'>Skywalker-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231146'>\n\t\t\t\tSkywalker Communications Group managing director Dr. Hu Bo, Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang, and Trench Tech Promotions owners Cuki Alvarez share the stage with Liberation Day Queen contestants and mixed martial arts practitioners after an MMA exhibition two weekends ago at the Liberation Day Festivities grounds. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/skywalker-communications-head-must-protect-women-kids\/skywalker-pix-2-2\/'>Skywalker-pix-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231147'>\n\t\t\t\tSkywalker Communications Group managing director Dr. Hu Bo and Trench Tech Promotions owners Cuki Alvarez shadow box on stage at the Liberation Day Festivities grounds. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Skywalker Communications Group managing director Dr. Hu Bo believes that there\u2019s still to be thankful for in life especially for the women and children. He said women gives life while the kids carry our hopes for a better future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why it is important that we do what we can to protect and keep them safe,\u201d added Bo, whose group is the main organizer and sponsor of the CNMI Liberation Day Festivites.<\/p>\n<p>Bo added that we must be passionate about the protection of women and children. That\u2019s why he is fully supporting the purpose of local mixed martial organization Trench Tech Promotions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI support the purpose of the MMA and other similar sports entertainment program and the discipline of mind and body that it teaches. However, this is not the only reason I decided to feature it at the Liberation festival grounds,\u201d added Bo.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bo, the Skywalker Communications believes in the protection of women\u2019s and children\u2019s rights and wellbeing. \u201cNot many will help women and children when they are being bullied or abused so they must also learn to protect themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy hope is that they learn a few pointers on how to protect themselves through watching the exhibition last Saturday. All over the world, women and children are harmed by strangers, friends, and [sometimes] family [members],\u201d said Bo. \u201cWe need to do our part to stop [the violence], especially here in our islands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang agrees. \u201cWe need to enforce the zero tolerance law on domestic and sexual and all forms of violence to the fullest extent.  We need to have and implement an anti-bullying law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the sake of our children, for the sake of our people, I am calling on members of our Legislature to introduce a law that will make bullying a criminal offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apatang and Bo laud the efforts of the likes of Maisie Bermudes Tenorio, Kiki Igitol, and Cuki Alvarez and his family in dedicating their time and made it their mission to educate the community about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a teen these days is not easy. Being a women these days is not easy too,\u201d adds Bo. \u201dThere is enough pressure to be like the ladies you see on TV and in magazines. There is enough pressure to be cool and accepted by others. You are constantly judged and compared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a stressful life. Being bullied and abused adds to that stress. Sometimes it gets too much that people become the violator or take the easy way out. We need to stop the cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez, MMA organizer and promoter, shares similar views about bullying and the need for teens to learn the basics to self-protection. \u201cThere are lots of kids on Saipan that have no direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have no plans; some of them get in trouble fighting outside. So, when I created Trench Tech I had lots of kids coming and changing their lives by learning how to be disciplined, to respect each other. The people who learn our sport become better people,\u201d says Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004 Alvarez invited Kato Tetsuji, a Japanese trainer, to the CNMI to teach various MMA techniques. For six years, the duo continued to touch and change the lives of the youth on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Skywalker Communications is looking forward to working closely with Alvarez to create programs that will benefit CNMI\u2019s women and youth and as well as create and promote more sports entertainment in the CNMI. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skywalker Communications Group managing director Dr. Hu Bo believes that there\u2019s still to be thankful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":231146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,163,67,3705],"class_list":["post-231121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-kids","tag-people","tag-skywalker-communications-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}