Rape as state violence
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Anne Marxze Umil | Nov 3, 2018
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Sagay massacre: A matter of social justice
Sagay massacre: A matter of social justice
The telenovela spin of state security forces never erases the fact that the Sagay massacre is yet another proof of the failure of government to render social justice to the tillers of the land.
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.
Forbid, threaten the youth against joining CPP? It only makes it cool to join
Forbid, threaten the youth against joining CPP? It only makes it cool to join
President Duterte knows first-hand the seductiveness and convincing power of talking about revolution and change. That’s exactly the costume and makeup he used when he campaigned for the presidency.
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.
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