‘Groundhog Day’ in Congress
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Mong Palatino | Dec 30, 2018
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Sampung pinakamatinding kampanya para sa kalikasan
Sampung pinakamatinding kampanya para sa kalikasan
Bibilib ka talaga sa mga Pinoy environmental defenders sa walang pagod at walang sawa nilang pagkilos.
People’s response to mining plunder
People’s response to mining plunder
The people’s armed defense of their lands and national patrimony has been a recourse that must be recognized and respected in the context of deep-seated historic injustices and brutal suppression. The revolutionary armed movement in the Philippines led by the CPP-NPA-NDFP has maintained a strong opposition to destructive large-scale mining operations.
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.
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.
Mining in the Philippines: The steep price our people pay to line the pockets of a few
Mining in the Philippines: The steep price our people pay to line the pockets of a few
Without a domestic industry processing our mining products to make our own metals, only the large corporations exporting it reap the most benefit, at the expense of the poor and the environment.
Why are there no Filipino rightists in the news?
Why are there no Filipino rightists in the news?
But a real existing rightist is rendered hidden from public gaze. When citizens encounter a rightist politician, they fail to see a person already succeeding in imposing his dogmatic political beliefs in the bureaucracy. They don’t even see him as a political actor with ideological bias.
Four factors why #Habagat2018 became a flood disaster (Part 2 of 2)
Four factors why #Habagat2018 became a flood disaster (Part 2 of 2)
The challenge to build genuine solutions to flood risk factors should not have been new to the administration of Rodrigo Duterte. These proposals were outlined already in the 2016 People’s Agenda for Nationalist and Progressive Change, a comprehensive 100-day agenda document hand-delivered to Duterte himself.
Four factors why #Habagat2018 became a flood disaster
Four factors why #Habagat2018 became a flood disaster
The recent deluge delivers a chilling warning about the climate crisis. Worse, 9 years after Ondoy, the capital region's perennial vulnerability to extreme rainfall remains.
In peril: Southeast Asia’s environment and its defenders (Part 1 of 2)
In peril: Southeast Asia’s environment and its defenders (Part 1 of 2)
With so much biodiversity and unique ecosystems holding economically valuable natural resources, Asia is an alarming hotspot of biodiversity loss.
Cayetano crying ‘wolf!’ against UN Human Rights Council
Cayetano crying ‘wolf!’ against UN Human Rights Council
It is ironic that the Philippine government still holds the vice presidency of the UN Human Rights Council’s Bureau despite its flagrant disregard of human rights.
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.
#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.
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