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Armistice@100: Still living and dying for elite peace

Armistice@100: Still living and dying for elite peace

We are still suffering from a crisis-ridden capitalist system for which the First World War was fought and resolved and for which the superpowers imposed a division of the world that continues to emplace our lives and labors. We are still living and dying for the same system for which great wars were fought and ended so that proxy wars and multi-lateral formations like the United Nations (League of Nations resurrected), International Monetary Fund, World Bank, NATO, ASEAN, APEC, and the like will continue to consolidate, retool and recast, whenever necessary, the profits and liberties won by imperialist powers one hundred years ago.

| Nov 11, 2018

WANTED: New Women of the NPA

WANTED: New Women of the NPA

This testimony focuses on Mary, Recca, Tin and Tanya who went to the University of the Philippines-Diliman. As activists and eventually as part of the revolutionary NPA, these women forged their identities by fighting across lines of interlocking oppressions. This account cannot give justice to their work. Rather, my goal is to talk about how revolution looks like in the lives of these revolutionary women.

| Oct 25, 2018

All that I owe (to the 70 years of the Palestinian struggle to return)*

All that I owe (to the 70 years of the Palestinian struggle to return)*

To say that Palestine is in a “state of war” or “at war” is to obscure the fact that it has been occupied. The occupation of Palestine by Israel since 1948 is a state of war that breeds resistance. The terrorist tagging of Palestinians, the racism against the Arab people and the demonization of Islam are crucial to maintaining the architecture of a settler colonial state that now rides on western imperialist logic of accumulation of wealth by mass murder.

| May 14, 2018

#MarchForOurLives

#MarchForOurLives

The #MarchForOurLives rally is an outcome of a brave and thoughtful organizing among the youth. They gathered together, reached out to other youths, organizations, institutions, and eventually, the power and speed at which they were holding fast to a belief in the form of an urgent campaign compelled politicians, celebrities, and even ordinary people to share their resources and make the march for our lives happen nationwide. These young people believe in defending lives. And there is nothing more radical, more basic than organizing and politicizing for the defense of lives.

| Mar 30, 2018

Ode to Shopping

Ode to Shopping

BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO For the UP community, the word shopping is not a verb but a noun with a capital S for Shopping. It is our beloved Shopping Center that we also call SC. But the tongue-in-cheek culture of UP Diliman campus prefers "Shopping." Let me tell...

| Mar 9, 2018

Ars Terror

Ars Terror

This regime labels people who serve the very same people it deprives of life, living wage, and social services as "terrorist" without showing us the way to move the country forward. The term "reactionary state" is crystallized in this government's perpetuation of violence --Martial Law, war on drugs, criminalization of dissent, neoliberal economic policies, and its active campaign for misogyny.

| Mar 6, 2018

Anti-commie PSYOP

Anti-commie PSYOP

While he was quick to add that communists are not terrorists, we all know that a private school history professor is not in any position to dictate upon the president. There has been a strong push back from the mass movement on the labeling of their organizations as “communist fronts.” For progressive activists, this is an act of political vilification enacted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that justifies extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearance, torture, warrantless arrests, and the criminalization of political dissent.

| Dec 13, 2017

Duterte redux

Duterte redux

By SARAH RAYMUNDO BLOOD RUSH In May of last year, one of the goals of this column was to take stock and advance bases for political analyses and solidarities with various sectors dealing with a new regime. I sought to deliver both activist and intellectual...

| Sep 13, 2017

Dugang Kadasig!

Dugang Kadasig!

By SARAH RAYMUNDO Blood Rush The Lumad from different parts of Mindanao are still at the UP International Center (IC). Most of them are students from various Lumad schools. They take refuge here at the University after experiencing the horrifying impact of Martial...

| Aug 4, 2017

Sociology 101: On Jokes

Sociology 101: On Jokes

Sotto, in his reference to the social convention which frames solo parenthood, highlights the former’s low blow on the matter. That single mothers are the kind of women who would be sexed up and left alone to handle post-coital conditions is what the phrase “naano lang yan” means. The phrase is actually a category, a stereotype of women.

| May 4, 2017

Condoms and General Education

Condoms and General Education

The move to reduce GE courses down to 21 units or even just the idea of shaping our GE after the requisites of ASEAN, K-12-- entities that facilitate the tyranny of the free market despite its crisis is a challenge to critical thinking and a symptom of its erosion.

| Mar 20, 2017

Back to the Peace Table

Back to the Peace Table

BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO Bulatlat Peace Talks continues. However, GRP’s Jesus Dureza doubts whether the NDFP can control the NPA as the latter allegedly did not honor its unilateral ceasefire and may not uphold a bilateral ceasefire agreement. How can one sit...

| Mar 13, 2017

Prexy’s misstep

Prexy’s misstep

Against fantasies of demobilization and capitulation, the Peace Talks must be viewed for its real purpose. It is a venue for human rights and international humanitarian law to be revisited on account of the horrifying violations of the rules of war committed especially by government troops against guerrillas and civilians.

| Aug 1, 2016

Cult Rev & Paragas

Cult Rev & Paragas

By SARAH RAYMUNDO Blood Rush Paragas is a testament to the praxis of cultural revolution standing its ground, matching profit accumulation with the accumulation of protest. This new release from Edge Uyanguren and Tubaw easily stands as one of the movement's...

| Jun 27, 2016

Not only drought

Not only drought

Contrary to popular belief that the Kidapawan massacre is one of the logical results of the ecological crisis, the farmers and Lumad could have been spared had their livelihoods and labors been less vulnerable to feudal exploitation.

| Apr 17, 2016

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