Continuing questions on automated elections
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Bulatlat Contributors | May 26, 2019
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Pagtingin sa wika
Pagtingin sa wika
Ang sariling wika ay bahagi ng kultura at instrumento ng pagkakaisa. Ang pagpapaunlad ng sariling wika ay magreresulta sa pagpapalaya hindi lang ng bayan kundi ng kaisipan.
My first five years as a full-time activist
My first five years as a full-time activist
It is methodical, thorough, repetitive, but never dull. That’s why those who lampoon the mundaneness of rallies are either clueless commenters, misinformed keyboard analysts, or apologists of the state.
Stop the smear campaign and red tagging of human rights defenders
Stop the smear campaign and red tagging of human rights defenders
Let me ask fellow PMAers, the generals of the AFP and PNP mentioned above, what has happened to the PMA Honor Code of NOT TO LIE, NOT TO STEAL, NOT TO CHEAT nor TOLERATE THOSE WHO DO?
Bobotante? Not.
Bobotante? Not.
Rather than blame the poor and the victims, let us blame and seek solutions for this obviously flawed, foreign-patented, non-transparent automated elections system in an elite democracy.
A youth’s perspective | The messiah and our road ahead
A youth’s perspective | The messiah and our road ahead
Thus, our task after this disastrous and fraudulent election isn't to book flights overseas nor to scorn our country as an unlovable mess. No. Our task is simple but arduous: to educate, organize, and mobilize the masses; to awaken more of our messiah.
How attacks against workers’ rights ‘censored’ us
How attacks against workers’ rights ‘censored’ us
How unfortunate, really, since there were only three journalists in the restaurant at that time – Marya, Zeng, and I. And all three of them happened to be holding a spoon on one hand and fork on the other and not a camera to capture the moment.
On ouster plots and upholding the people’s right to oust tyrannical regimes
On ouster plots and upholding the people’s right to oust tyrannical regimes
If there exists an actual, substantive, and strong basis for the people to call for Duterte’s resignation, ouster, or removal from office by whatever means, the people have the right to exercise their sovereign will to do so.
Matrix, a bad omen for democracy
Matrix, a bad omen for democracy
Painting a conspiracy among the media groups and lawyers -- all perceived as enemies by Duterte -- might be used to justify further draconian measures and blatant attacks.
Bukas na liham kay Dante Ang | Sino po ba kayo?
Bukas na liham kay Dante Ang | Sino po ba kayo?
Anong klaseng halimbawa ang ipinapakita ng isang chairman emeritus kung ang isang “screaming headline” na sinulat niya ay hindi pumapasa sa mataas na normatibong pamantayan.
Persistent disasters
Persistent disasters
It is not by accident or a matter of racial superiority that rich countries have the technologies for disaster preparedness and management such as early warning signs, sturdy infrastructures. The resources at their disposal are proof of unequal development of nations as a direct result of imperialist plunder of resources and exploitation of cheap labor in the Global South by the Global North’s oligarchy. Imperialist plunder accounts for the stark differences in welfare, well-being and chances of survival people in this political-economic and spatial divide under global capitalism.
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