Solar plant to replace rice lands in Rizal town
“Many of us will go hungry if the solar project continues. The development they claim is not for the farmers but for the businessmen.”
Solar plant to replace rice lands in Rizal town
People’s barricade in Davao City demands pullout of state troops
People’s barricade in Davao City demands pullout of state troops
Lumad, peasants and small-scale miners stopped traffic in downtown Davao City on March 18.
Senator who?
Senator who?
Fifty men and women are running for the Senate this year, while 115 party list groups are contending for seats in the House of Representatives. But one would hardly know it from the way the media are practically ignoring the senatorial and party list elections....
Engaging moments with Jovito R. Salonga
Engaging moments with Jovito R. Salonga
At the Senate tribute to Jovito R. Salonga, who passed away last week at age 95, Senate President Franklin Drilon recalled how in 1991 Salonga, then the chamber’s head, had firmly but politely refused President Cory Aquino’s plea that the Senate ratify the...
Grace Poe and the call for change
Grace Poe and the call for change
As expected, her rivals for the Presidency of the Republic are downplaying its impact on their chances this May. But the Supreme Court en banc vote of nine to six reversing the Commission on Elections (Comelec) order disqualifying Grace Poe from running is likely...
Poor people are losing their homes everywhere
Poor people are losing their homes everywhere
For two days recently, violent clashes broke out between the police and informal settlers resisting the demolition of their homes (about 100 families) in a privately claimed lot in Culiat, Quezon City. These were but the latest of similar scenes in the metropolis...
Finding Dory: Stories of Tondo’s centenarian parlorista
Finding Dory: Stories of Tondo’s centenarian parlorista
If Annie Batumbakal from Frisco had a counterpart in Tondo, it would be Lola Dory.
‘Gapok’ and micronarratives of poverty
‘Gapok’ and micronarratives of poverty
The political cleavages within the family is obviously a consequence of individual persuasions and particular interests. This fragmentation exposed by 'Gapok' makes the symbolic real and emphasizes the micronarratives of poverty.
Limang kabaong
Limang kabaong
Ni KARL PAULIE ESCUDERO ANARETA Panglima ka na pala Masama mang isipin Pero inasahan ko na rin Na mayroon pang susunod sa kanya At malamang, sa iyo Panglima ka na pala Sa ganitong sistema Na ang edukasyo'y kailangang Ibenta at ilako Nakakasuka Pero, normal lang daw...
Foreign chambers: Gov’t actions ‘great’ but slow
Foreign chambers: Gov’t actions ‘great’ but slow
Six years ago, when President Aquino was still campaigning for the presidency, his platform had already adopted the recommendations of the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce, which were formally presented to his administration in a 400-page paper titled “Arangkada...
Aquino vs Marcos reprised
Aquino vs Marcos reprised
With the 2016 elections as subtext, a reprise of the decades-long war between Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr. and Ferdinand E. Marcos, Sr. that culminated in Aquino’s assassination in 1983 is currently being fought between their respective offspring. Benigno “Noynoy”...
Letter to a grandson on ‘people power’ and revolutionary change
Letter to a grandson on ‘people power’ and revolutionary change
Dear Grandson, I thought I would write to you and try to explain what EDSA I was all about. The idea came up with all the recent talk about how your parents’ generation does not understand, much less appreciate, what happened thirty years ago, at the “people power”...
Legacy of EDSA ‘People Power’
Legacy of EDSA ‘People Power’
Worse, a significant number of young people have been hoodwinked into believing that the US-backed Marcos dictatorship was a kind of benevolent strongman rule that the present crisis-ridden Philippine society sorely needs to set things aright. It has been said that...
Pagtupad sa pangako
Pagtupad sa pangako
Ni JAY MARS JACINTO ang umaga'y isang kabalintunaan. mga nagtipo'y tila mga kriminal na lagi't-laging pumapatay sa diwa at mga bayani ng pag-aalsa. buong palalong inako ni aquino ang tagumpay at mga nakamit laban sa diktadurya. naroroon ba siya? mainit na salita...
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