WATCH: ‘Hindi namin kayo titigilan’
Listen to a poem of the late peasant advocate Randall Echanis performed by Ian Lomongo.
WATCH: ‘Hindi namin kayo titigilan’
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...
Balik-Tanaw | Responding to God and neighbor
Balik-Tanaw | Responding to God and neighbor
There is always the love and compassion that summon me to respond to the Others without filling them fully or arriving finally to the end.
What is the weight of a monument?
What is the weight of a monument?
Like the Bantayog ng mga Bayani memorial in Quezon City, dedicated to a wide segment of Martial Law martyrs from community leaders such as Dulag to fighters of the New People’s Army in resisting the Marcos dictatorship, or the 1933 Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan honoring revolutionary heroes of the Katipunan who fought for independence from Spanish rule, the Anti-Chico Dam Struggle monument represents a step foward in committing our histories of resistance to public memory in more permanent form. To demolish it would be a grave disrespect of cultural and social history at the very least.
Balik-Tanaw | Images. Incriptions. Possessions
Balik-Tanaw | Images. Incriptions. Possessions
Again, paying taxes is not bad. It is every citizen’s duty. However when taxes are enforced to exploit and abuse the already over-burdened poor, taxes become an immoral tool of exploitation. The situation becomes abusive when taxes are used as a source of power play of the Cesars” – to command allegiance and support from the people.
Surveys and the fear factor
Surveys and the fear factor
The results of the September 2020 Ulat ng Bayan (literally, the People’s Report) survey of Pulse Asia released on Oct. 8 surprised — and, said one of their fellow political observers, even “appalled” — some of the polling firm’s own executives. Indeed, in response...
‘Yes, we can’ — two women activists show how
‘Yes, we can’ — two women activists show how
A lot of dire scenarios have been drawn up about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Monetary Fund recently issued World Economic Outlook 2020 saying that the global economic output has lost about $28 trillion thus far, leaving “deep and enduring...
Threats, empty and otherwise
Threats, empty and otherwise
It doesn’t take much imagination to picture some of President Rodrigo Duterte’s officials shaking their heads or slapping their foreheads and muttering “why on earth did he say that?” when their boss of bosses blurts out something patently absurd, incoherent, or...
Balik-Tanaw | The parable of the wedding banquet
Balik-Tanaw | The parable of the wedding banquet
The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed a corrupt system and culture. The pandemic did not break the system, for the system was already broken. The masses have been suffering way before the pandemic.
Sapagkat Hindi
Sapagkat Hindi
BY JHIO JAN NAVARRO Bulatlat Sapagkat hindi braso’t bisig ng rehas bagkus galamay ng panunupil ang dumukot at nagwalay ng sanggol sa ina, at hindi talim ng pulmonya bagkus talas ng paniniil ang pumigtas sa hininga ni River at bumutas sa puso ni Ina, hindi lamang...
Discredited accusation repeated after 14 years
Discredited accusation repeated after 14 years
Last week I wrote about President Duterte’s principal adviser on intelligence owning up before Congress that he had shared posts on social media from four spurious Facebook pages, without verifying the source and veracity of the information. That admission, I...
UN rights body reso on PH falls short of search for justice – victims’ kin
UN rights body reso on PH falls short of search for justice – victims’ kin
Edre Olalia, president of the National Union of Peoples' Lawyers (NUPL), said the new resolution is not a magic wand that can erase the human rights violations and the accountability that those concerned will face.
UNHRC adopts reso sparing PH from international probe into rights abuses
UNHRC adopts reso sparing PH from international probe into rights abuses
Despite its shortcomings, the resolution remains “among the indications of the international community’s acknowledgement of and persisting scrutiny on the human rights crisis” under the Duterte administration.
ALAB ANALYSIS: Ban and delete Facebook?
ALAB ANALYSIS: Ban and delete Facebook?
Pag-usapan natin ang banta ni Pang. Duterte sa Facebook kasama sina Maria Ressa at Gemma Mendoza ng Rappler, at digital activist Tonyo Cruz.
A conversation on ‘Filipinx’ and its vicissitudes
A conversation on ‘Filipinx’ and its vicissitudes
Does it invigorate or paralyze movements for racial equality? More important, does it subordinate the struggle for genuine national sovereignty to the paramount goal of gender-neutrality? Does it obscure the asymmetry between the imperial hegemonic United States and its virtual neocolony, the Philippines? To push further, which cause would advance a systemic solution to racist, sexist global capitalism?
Balik-Tanaw | The good farmers
Balik-Tanaw | The good farmers
The God I know works with the farmers who work hard to keep land fertile and productive. God is with them during planting season, during harvest time, and celebrates with them, and blesses them every time the land produces a sprout, a fruit, a produce so that life may be shared, and others may live. We should thank our farmers for that.
A cruel irony
A cruel irony
Could Senator Leila de Lima be right? Was President Rodrigo Duterte’s speech as “plastic and (as) fake as the dolomite beach”? Did he not really mean what he said? Senator De Lima was primarily alluding to Mr. Duterte’s pre-recorded speech before the United Nations...
Does dubious intel input guide policy-making?
Does dubious intel input guide policy-making?
It’s a legitimate public concern to raise such a question, in light of what the designated “principal adviser to the President on intelligence” has owned up to: that he had been sharing posts on social media without verifying the source and the veracity of the...
People’s tribunal to investigate US war crimes
People’s tribunal to investigate US war crimes
One half-century later, the Progressive International (PI) is once again calling on the conscience of mankind against the crimes of US imperialism.
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