“Principles, not plunder. Platform, not personality.”
Month: September 2015
Junk DMCI coal plant, green groups urge DENR
“Palawan has 17 key biodiversity areas, two World Heritage sites, and virtually the whole province – consisting of 1,780 islands – is a virtual protected area, protected by so many laws.”
Voice of a Lumad widow: Our land, our blood
“All we want is for our children to know how to read, write and have a better life ahead of them. The Lumad took a stand to protect the environment and give our children education but they don’t want us to do that. The government and the capitalists want us to remain uneducated, primitive and weak.”
For eroding PH economy, APEC 2015 dubbed as ‘unwelcome’ imposition
Progressives say APEC 2015 in the Philippines is just a costly gathering of government leaders to forge agreements that would further impoverish the masses of people in the Asia Pacific region.
‘Delusional Palparan seeks senate seat to get acquitted’
The mothers of the two missing UP students suspect “The Butcher” is seeking acquittal through a senate seat.
Army, Alamara block Lumad festival, school celebration in Talaingod
In spite of military denials of links with paramilitary groups, Army soldiers and the paramilitary group Alamara continue to hold sway in southern Mindanao.
2 women who almost suffered Mary Jane’s fate
“We will fight for this, because we do not want others to be victimized.”
Full Tilt
BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO There are various permutations of bourgeois narrow-mindedness which wrongly equates impartiality with stupidity, democratic deliberation and pluralism with the amplification of state discourse. In the following, the dissemination of these permutations is problematized in two ways. First, in terms of their concretizations in media and academic discourse. Second, in ideological…
Lumad leader says CHR failed to probe paramilitary, Army abuses
“Is the CHR serious with its intention to get to the roots of the problems of the Lumad evacuees?”
Avengers
Aspiring filmmaker tackles homosexuality, love, unhappy endings
I don’t just shoot and edit videos, I tell stories.”