[Pagmumuni-muni ng isang matandang magulang] Ni E. SAN JUAN, JR. Ewan ko’t nalimutan ko na’ng 50,000 libong mamamayang inaresto simula ideklara ang martial law Ewan ko’t nalimutan ko ang baho’t nakasusukang selda sa Fort Bonifacio Ewan ko ba’t nalimutan ko ang...
President Duterte is sustaining his unorthodox way of crafting, by installment, an independent foreign policy through off-the-cuff talks before various Filipino audiences. Before a large group of Filipinos in Hanoi, soon after his arrival on official visit to...
Barely three months in office, President Rodrigo Duterte has shocked, surprised, and outraged groups as diverse as human rights defenders, journalists, and media advocacy organizations as well as those individuals who expect presidents to be more circumspect in...
Women play a vital role in society and their socio-economic needs must be addressed so they could fully realize their potential.
Small fishermen in Patungan, Maragondon, Cavite are being driven away by real estate developers to give way to a high-end resort and other commercial establishments.
At this time of the year since 2011, I have written in this space a piece about martial law and the Marcos dictatorship. Mostly I have ruminated on the wrong decisions by the Cory Aquino government that have, since then, allowed the pernicious imprint of martial...
The “independent foreign policy” that President Rodrigo Duterte said he wants to adopt for the Philippines has for some reason been interpreted as either a policy of isolationor autarky in the sense of non-involvement with the rest of the world and a denial of the...
To any objective, impartial observer, there is no denying that mass poverty, chronic joblessness and socioeconomic inequality constitute stark realities in the country today. Even the past Aquino government, while making extravagant claims about the “robust” state...
Students nationwide stage a walkout to commemorate martial law and protest its repressive legacies.
Every year, Negrenses reenact the massacre that claimed the lives of 20 farmers in Escalante, Negros Occidental.
I want martial law declared because I want corruption and greed to proliferate in the country. I want ten billion dollars in the hands of the dictator and his family and billions more in the pockets of cronies. I want the government to be the milking cow of corrupt politicians and military officers who want to enrich themselves by pocketing the taxes I and other ordinary people like me put in the public coffers. So what if they get rich stealing from me? I always loved that Robin Hood character, except under martial law it will be the rich stealing from the poor. What's so wrong with that?
“The LGBT struggle is not far from the class struggles of the Filipino.”
Three former student activists were awarded with the sablay, symbolizing UP’s recognition of them as honorary alumni.
After more than half a decade of impasse, the resumption of formal peace talks between the Philippine government (GRP) and the revolutionary National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) last Aug. 22-26 in Oslo, Norway is without a doubt a major, major...
United States President Barack Obama is correct: the illegal drug problem is serious enough to merit the best efforts of governments everywhere to solve it. But those efforts must conform with human rights standards and due process, which are mandated in both the...
Wouldn’t the injustice suffered by the victims of the Marcos dictatorship become starker if the Supreme Court allowed the burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani of the dictator’s body – years after his ouster by the Filipino people in 1986 and death in exile in...
Ni JOI BARRIOS-LEBLANC Bato-bato sa langit, tamaan ay huwag magagalit. Nabastusan po ba kayo sa aming Pangulo? Pasensiya na po at nakapagmura. Posibleng: 1. Hindi naturuan ng good manners and right conduct ng mga Thomasites na padala ng Amerika. Hindi nasakop ng...
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