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Ang alaala ng mga Rosa Henson

Sa halip na kilalanin bilang opisyal na ginawa ng pamahalaan noong digmaan at humingi ng tawad sa pang-aabuso, ang ginawa ng mga Hapon ay magtatag ng AWF o Asian Women’s Fund na isang pribadong pondo para sa pantulong sa mga comfort women. Marami pang kakulangan sa pagkilala sa mga naranasan ng mga comfort women. Binubura ang kanilang mga alaala sa bawat mga opisyal na pagtanggi ng kanilang pag-iral. Maraming bayan, lalo na sa Hapon, ang hindi nakapaloob ang karanasan ng mga comfort women bilang bahagi ng pagtalakay sa kasaysayan.

Francis Gealogo | Aug 18, 2020

Balik-Tanaw | Pentecost: The Unshakeable Faith of the Canaanite Woman

The reality of the pandemic only exposes the viciousness, the corruption, and indifference of our leaders. Worst, they took advantage of the pandemic to amass more wealth, abuse their authority, show their sheer negligence and apathy to the people’s welfare and well-being, and their utmost disregard for civil liberties and human rights.

Bulatlat Contributors | Aug 15, 2020

Ka Randy and the path to peace and ploughshares

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Kalikasan PNE | Aug 12, 2020

Balik-Tanaw | 10th Sunday after Pentecost: God is here and there is hope

God is in every act of kindness that we extend to the people around us especially those who have lost much. In the midst of all the efforts that are being done to defeat this virus, in the midst of all the fear, doubt, desperation, anger, and frustration, an act of kindness is like a tiny, insignificant whispering sound. And yet it is there where hope springs anew. God is there.

Bulatlat Contributors | Aug 8, 2020

Politics and resistance under a lockdown regime

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Mong Palatino | Aug 5, 2020

Balik-Tanaw | 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time: An invitation to abundant life

Our governments have created structures and supported systems which aggravated this separation by worshiping the god of mammon in the altar of profit. As we can see, the coronavirus pandemic has nakedly exposed and is slowly breaking down all these propped up global economic structures and systems that dehumanizes the world. We cannot breathe anymore!

Bulatlat Contributors | Aug 2, 2020

Balik-Tanaw | Pentecost: The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl

As Christians, who do God’s work, we are being called to be like treasure hunters–to prioritize the Kingdom of heaven and work for the common good of all persons. God teaches us to focus on the treasures of heaven and earth and what matters most – the dignity of life.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jul 27, 2020

The Duterte era: A state of nature under attack

If we do not fight back, no one will be left to fight for us and the future generations. If we do not push back, the world that sustain our very lives will be pushed to the brink by tyrants and demagogues like Duterte.

Kalikasan PNE | Jul 25, 2020

Balik-Tanaw | Be the Wheat!

The ownership of land is in the hands of the powerful people – the landed elites, the mighty corporations that exacted money out of the hard labor, sweat, and blood of the oppressed. They are the bureaucrats, the people in the governments who governed as if the fate of the people is in their hands to give or to put to an end.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jul 20, 2020

Greta Thunberg and the DDS Playbook

The dangers have always been real. This aggressive troll offensive is trying to obscure the fact that the Philippines has been ranked the deadliest country in the world for land and environmental defenders just last year in an incisive report by international investigative group Global Witness.

Kalikasan PNE | Jul 16, 2020

Balik-Tanaw | Come to Me, and I will Give You Rest

Rest is also about releasing the heavy burden of yoke of slavery from unjust laws and practices. Rest is learning to set boundaries and saying “no” to any form of exploitation. For us today, rest is also about resistance.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jul 5, 2020

Ang iba’t ibang Hulyo kwatro

Sa halip na kalayaan, itinali ng mga kasunduan ang Pilipinas sa kalagayan ng pagiging palaasa at laging nakasandig sa Amerika. Sa larangan ng kabuhayan, sa kamay pa rin ng mga Amerikano ang kontrol sa kabuhayan at ekonomiya. Sa usapin naman ng depensa at militar, itinatayang nabansot ang kakanyahan ng kapuluang magpaunlad ng sariling kakanyahang pangdepensa dahil sa pagpapatuloy ng pagkakataling pangseguridad ng Pilipinas sa Amerika.

Francis Gealogo | Jul 3, 2020

Balik-Tanaw | Pentecost: Fear No One

It’s hard to be a prophet; it is difficult to tell and live by the truth, to raise our voice and denounce what is wrong. It is more comfortable to remain at the margins in silence and pretend not to see and hear what is happening, or to let the others talk. Still, if one wants a real change in our society, a community faithful to the Gospel and more docile to the spirit, if one aspires to a newness of life, prophets are needed. Like Jeremiah, may we have the courage to say what the Lord tells us, even at the risk of life.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jun 21, 2020

Republikang Basahan

Sa panahong maramihan pa rin ang nakararanas ng malawakang kakulangan sa pinakabatayang pangangailangan ng pag-iral ng tao bilang tao – pagkain, damit, tirahan, kalusugan, edukasyon – nananatiling mahalaga na palalimin ang kahulugan ng kalayaan. Sa panahong maraming pagbabanta sa unibersal nang kinikilala bilang karapatan ng lahat ng tao – makapagpahayag nang malaya, mamuhay nang walang takot, makapagtipon nang hindi sinusukol – nananatiling may saysay ang pagtalakay sa kahulugan ng kalayaan.

Francis Gealogo | Jun 11, 2020

Balik-Tanaw | Trinity Sunday: A Reflection on the Trinity, the Great Commission … and the Anti-Terrorism Bill

COVID-19 has revealed the deep roots of systemic injustice and reminds us why seeking justice, pursuing peace is essential. We have seen thousands of cases of extra-judicial killings, of arrests, of the intensification of attacks and threats against community leaders, human rights defenders, and political dissenters. Living out our faith in Jesus is more than ever important when laws like the Anti-Terrorism Bill of 2020 are enacted. The current Human Security Act of 2007 which will replace it is problematic enough

Bulatlat Contributors | Jun 7, 2020

Pedagogy of the digitally oppressed

Education is under threat of being reduced into a mastery of prepackaged learning materials that are stored in downloadable files in the web cloud. Discovery of the new in the near future could simply refer to a browsing experience.

Mong Palatino | Jun 2, 2020

Balik-Tanaw | Pentecost: Together in one place

As we continue to live every day under the pandemic, as followers of the God of justice, I hope that we may never give in to the temptation to be silent and be complacent as the State and the ruling class slowly reveal to us the “new normal” that would only selfishly favor their interests. If we don’t learn to speak the tongues of the people, if we don’t shout with them their calls #MassTestingNow, #AyudaNgayonNa, and #SerbisyongMedikalHindiMilitar, we fail to do our crucial role as church-people.

Bulatlat Contributors | May 31, 2020

The animal industry can be the next pandemic ground zero

Both influenza A (H1N1) and ASFV are not endemic to the Philippines. It has been established that the sources of these diseases came from imported meat or livestock.

Kalikasan PNE | May 29, 2020

Anti-imperialist light bulb in dark times

Without undergoing a revolutionary process, governments in neo-colonies like the Philippines cannot plan. This government will always have to wait for imperialist dictates through neoliberal structural adjustment of the economy and culture. This government has no sense of nation because to think of nation and national sovereignty is to be up against imperialism, which has been the source of political and economic power by rich and corrupt Filipino politicians.

Sarah Raymundo | May 28, 2020

Ang 12 diablong katutubo, si Plasencia at ang demonisasyon ng mga Lumad

Ilang dantaon nang ipinakikita ng mga mananakop ang demonisasyon ng mga katutubo upang maipakitang lehitimo ang pananakop, pagsasamantala, at pagpapasunod sa mga ito.

Francis Gealogo | May 28, 2020

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