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Dee Ayroso | Nov 9, 2020
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At cross-purposes with itself
At cross-purposes with itself
It explains why it is abridging the people’s right to information: it is to prevent the citizenry from demanding that government truly address the roots of poverty by, among other means, curbing the dishonesty in public office that contributes to the hopelessness, hunger and despair that has led many Filipinos to take up the gun. His own regime is in that sense at cross-purposes with Mr. Duterte’s oft repeated promise to end corruption.
Unreason as norm
Unreason as norm
Both reactions provoke further criticism and even outrage not only from ordinary citizens but even from their fellow officials themselves. No one can blame those who, as a result, end up concluding that regime bureaucrats focus on non-essentials because the administration they’re serving can’t even articulate its own policies and actions.
Who’s fooling whom in anti-Left task force?
Who’s fooling whom in anti-Left task force?
President Duterte’s people need to get their act together and stop this game of putting innocent people’s lives and security at stake.
Pushback slows down red-tagging spree
Pushback slows down red-tagging spree
It seems that time is up for reckoning on the crude, arrogant and irresponsible red-tagging campaign, waged mainly by the military and police at the behest of the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Confict or NTF-ELCAC. Created and nominally...
Duterte’s new tack on drug killings: take the rap
Duterte’s new tack on drug killings: take the rap
Several times in the last four years, whenever he talked about his “war on drugs” carried out by the Philippine National Police and the thousands of killings attributed to it, President Duterte insistently denied the killings were state-sponsored, or that they had...
Teachers urge DepEd to help Bicol, resolve problems in distance learning
Teachers urge DepEd to help Bicol, resolve problems in distance learning
“The multitude of problems plaguing distance learning since its conception to its implementation has not been addressed by Secretary Briones and the rest of this administration. It's enraging to hear her gloat now about some survey while our calls and cries have been largely ignored."
Activists launch #RollyPH relief ops
Activists launch #RollyPH relief ops
KMP is seeking urgent donations and support to aid farmers in need of immediate relief -- rice, food, relief packs, hygiene kits, drinking water, clothes, sleeping kits, and medicines. A more long-term rehabilitation effort is also needed and farmers and fisherfolk will need seeds and seedlings, farm tools, farm animals, bancas and fishing equipment, and production subsidies.
Teachers blast DepEd’s insufficient materials for blended learning
Teachers blast DepEd’s insufficient materials for blended learning
“All these mean longer work hours, sleepless nights, no-weekends for teachers, and that’s only for one modality.”
Senate hearing on red-tagging ill-timed amid pandemic, calamity, groups say
Senate hearing on red-tagging ill-timed amid pandemic, calamity, groups say
As the nation reels from the destruction of the typhoon and continued socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, Karapatan said that the hearing is not only ill-timed but “a foreboding of the things to come when the Anti-Terrorism Act is fully implemented.”
U.S. elections as a platform for pushing for reforms
U.S. elections as a platform for pushing for reforms
Biden and Trump may seem like they’re polar opposites but they’re not. The former plays a strongman right-wing fanatic character, while the latter takes the “Uncle Joe” / “Obama association” character. Either way, both candidates play through character branding while they fall short on the real programs that would genuinely benefit the people.
Urban poor women of Pandi sowing seeds of hope
Urban poor women of Pandi sowing seeds of hope
While middle class citizens in the Metro have started tending to plants as a way to cope with their isolation, urban poor communities, with no option to work from home, collectively cultivated gardens to put food on their tables.
My first ever out-of-town coverage
My first ever out-of-town coverage
More than the success of growing vegetables and crops, there is a bigger fight that Pandi women and the urban poor community in Bulacan are fighting for. They continue to struggle against discrimination and harassment from state agents and for basic human rights, decency and respect.
Airing entertainment shows amid a super typhoon a disservice to the audience
Airing entertainment shows amid a super typhoon a disservice to the audience
The media should resist all commercialist trappings and not favor profit over truth-telling. Journalists and news media organizations need to brush up on the normative standards of journalism, if only to realize that bias is inherent and should not be hidden.
TWIPH: Teresa Magbanua
TWIPH: Teresa Magbanua
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Why the Kurdistan struggle should be a global struggle
Why the Kurdistan struggle should be a global struggle
"This is not just a Kurdish problem. This is a problem artificially created by the imperialist European states, mainly Britain and France, after the collapse of the Ottoman empire. This means that the solidarity with the Kurdish people's struggle is not just a solidarity for their right to self-determination. The vital part of the Kurdish struggle is the democratization of the region."
Fire destroys 400 homes in Cavite reclamation zone during super typhoon
Fire destroys 400 homes in Cavite reclamation zone during super typhoon
All of the incidents happened in communities directly affected by the Bacoor Reclamation and Development Project, which spans 320-hectares along the Manila Bay coastline. The project is composed of two artificial islands, a road network, drainage system, containment structures, storm surge protection, and access ways.
Call for justice for the disappeared continues
Call for justice for the disappeared continues
The group continues to demand justice for all victims of enforced disappearance and to hold into account the perpetrators. There are more than 1,000 who disappeared from Marcos dictatorship until the present administration, according to Desaparecidos.
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