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Bulatlat Contributors | Nov 22, 2020
First Person | In Montalban, injustice thick as sludge
First Person | In Montalban, injustice thick as sludge
It's as if the greed and neglect piled upon more greed and neglect has turned into something thick and viscid, and like mud threatens to harden into something more permanent. I can only hope that that something is awakening, and not despair.
Balik-Tanaw | The blessed ones
Balik-Tanaw | The blessed ones
Amid this miserable situation, we are still a nation not running out with GREAT PEOPLE...They are sometimes called activists, human rights defenders, advocates, change makers, dreamers. However, under Anti-Terrorism Act, they can be called terrorists or be victims of red-tagging.
The aftermath
The aftermath
A farmer, Nida Davao in barangay San Jose, Montalban, Rizal checking her crops after the typhoon hit their village.
Get out into the storm, my friend
Get out into the storm, my friend
Get out of your comfort zone, my friend,
perhaps you’ll see dehumanizing poverty
Meet the people displaced,
perhaps you’ll see vulnerability
Mayor of Cagayan town appeals to leaders: Heed science to save drowning towns
Mayor of Cagayan town appeals to leaders: Heed science to save drowning towns
A recent study found that the “mountains, slopes and watersheds in the whole Cagayan Valley have been stripped of native trees that hold soil and regulate water release.”
Balik-Tanaw | Saying no to an unjust system
Balik-Tanaw | Saying no to an unjust system
The Bible, through this parable, is teaching us to say NO to an unjust system that exploits our workers and laborers. We advocate for ‘living wages’ and necessary benefits for our laborers. We face the greedy masters and tell them, “enough is enough.”
‘#UlyssesPH worse than Ondoy’ – Marikina residents
‘#UlyssesPH worse than Ondoy’ – Marikina residents
"This is worse than Ondoy. The pandemic still rages on, which makes it even more difficult for us." -- Marikina resident
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.
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.
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.
Balik-Tanaw | No hypocrites allowed
Balik-Tanaw | No hypocrites allowed
The hypocrites in government malign the work of organizers, humanitarian workers, and human rights defenders, vilifying and tagging them as enemies of the state and terrorists. They persecute many who truly work for the betterment of our society.
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.
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...
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