The pre-colonial Ivatan society, defined by its fortified idjangs (mountain fortresses) and autonomous participation in the Maritime Jade Road, was a sovereign entity. To subsume their heritage under a Chinese claim based on ancient trade networks or proximity is an epistemic assault.
Kapag binabasa natin ang talinhaga ng manghahasik, madalas na nakatuon ang ating pansin sa iba’t ibang uri ng lupa. Ngunit kung babalik tayo sa mismong tagpo ng Ebanghelyo, may isang taong hindi natin gaanong napapansin—ang manghahasik. Siya ang unang lumabas. Siya ang unang nagpagod. Siya ang unang umasa.
This is the third piece in a row I’ve written about perceivable hindrances to the smooth resumption of formal peace negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. It had been announced in early December that they had agreed to do so in Oslo, Norway, on Nov. 23.
This was the top-of-mind step that Ian Fry, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, urged the Philippine government to take as he wound up a 10-day official visit in the country last Wednesday.
At two world institutions, the United Nations and the Vatican, despite obstacles, momentous changes are on the way: changes that would ensure women equal rights with men to be elected heads of their policy-making and executive bodies.
Many people sleep during Sunday services. Many people find such behavior unacceptable. Many other people understand the reasons why many people sleep during Sunday services.
As we delve into these texts, we’re reminded of the universal nature of God’s call. The invitation is open for all- elite or the powerful are invited, likewise God welcomes the marginalized, and ordinary people. Amos, a shepherd and dresser of sycamores, embodies this truth. His story challenges the established power structures and affirms that prophecy and justice can emerge from the margins.
But Sunday’s lection on Jesus’s homecoming paints a different picture. His townmates ask, “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?” Mark’s ‘The carpenter from Nazareth, the son of Mary’ (read, bastard) was a hard sell. It was certainly a hard sell for the other Nazarenes; in the Lukan version of this story, they tried to throw Jesus off a cliff.
Maraming trahedya ang inianak ng Setyembre 11 na naglalahad ng pagpapatuloy ng naratibo ng tunggalian hanggang sa kasalukyang panahon. Hindi na gaya ng dati ang kalakaran sa daigdig mula noong Setyembre 11. Subalit gaya ng mga iba pang digmaan sa kasaysayan ng tao, higit na maraming dalamhati ang naranasan ng mga sibilyan tuwing magkakaroon ng digmaan.
Kung magiging katulad na ng iba pang mga taga-patag na Kristiyano ang mga katutubo sanhi ng ‘pag-unlad’ o ‘development’ na ipinapahayag ng mga nasa pamahalaan, ano na ang mangyayari sa katutubong kultura, paniniwala, kalinangan, wika, at pamamaraan ng pamumuhay ng mga lumad, ng mga Moro, ng mga taga-Kordilyera at ng mga Mangyan? Ano ang pag-unlad kung mabubura naman ang kanilang lipunan dahil lalamunin lamang ito ng mga kalinangang kanluranin?
Nagkakaroon ng kaluwagan sa pagtrato sa mga presong may kaya samantalang tila impyerno naman sa lupa ang kalagayan ng mga mahihirap na bilanggo. Sa loob o labas man ng kulungan, napapanatili ang paghahati ng lipunan sa pagitan ng may kapangyarihan at wala.
The predator, in this case, is a corrupt politician who had the police functioned as his private army. This equally brutal government is about to set him free. We have all the reasons to fear rape and death to this day.
The separate spheres theory has been rendered obsolete in modern times on account capitalism's inclusion of women workers in production while maintaining the wage gap and other sexist practices that serves the interest of profit accumulation.The separate spheres ideology also has a profound impact on culture, and therefore on mindsets, that it has normalized gendered restrictions in the use of public toilets.
So, how does this contact tracing really happen? In my case, wala (none). It didn't happen. I hope this is an isolated case but if this is the norm in most cases, gets ko yung sinasabi ng matanda na we just wait for a vaccine. For the meantime, use gasoline to clean your face masks but do not add fuel to the fire.
But her death will be a living testimony that terror-tagging is dangerous, that senseless murders happen under a regime that does nothing but to sow fear among the people.
It is not only COVID - but it made everything: hardest. DO NOT MAKE US CHOOSE WHO DESERVES TO LIVE. Because neither of us, wants to hear and utter these words: "maam, sir..sorry guid..wala lugar". (Sorry, we don’t have space.)
The Alternatives to Mines and Money campaign delivers a message of protest to the Mines and Money Conference of big mining corporations in London.
This war of suppression, directed at people who resist what government armed forces call ‘vital installations’ and ‘flagship projects,’ has always been the biggest investment guarantee that the Philippine government grants to extractive and pollutive large-scale industries.
Donald Trump's 'Paris Pullout' was not the first time the US backed out of international climate accords.
Ang inakala kong election-related violence na away ng dalawang politikal na angkan, may nadamay palang mga peryodista’t manggagawa sa midya. Ang inakala kong posibleng mabilang sa daliri ang mga pinatay na kasama sa trabaho, napakarami pala.
Sa ngalan ng bilyon-bilyong kita, nagiging manhid na ang mga mayaman at makapangyarihan sa hinaing ng mga nasalanta.
Kasama ka ba sa halos 70 milyong Pilipinong boboto sa Mayo 12, 2025? Sinubaybayan mo ba ang pagsusumite ng mga nagnanais kumandidato sa mahigit 18,000 posisyon sa pambansa’t lokal na antas? At sa iyong pagbabasa, pakikinig o panonood mula Oktubre 1 hanggang 8, ilang beses ka bang nahulog sa upuan? Hanggang ngayon, nakataas pa rin ba ang kilay mo?
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Sa buktot na pagtingin, inaakala ng mga nasa kapangyarihan na ang pagsikil sa pagkalat ng teksto ay sapat na para tuldukan ang mga ideyang nais nilang pigilan. Subalit kasaysayan na rin ang magtuturo, gaya sa mga halimbawang nailahad sa itaas, na ang mga “subersibong ideya” ay hindi lang kalipunan ng mga salita kundi produkto ng kolektibong pagkilos ng mga taong naninindigan.
“It’s a bad call by the PDI management, a setback for press freedom and a sad day for Philippine journalism.”
Kapatid seeks to join hands with you all to continue pressing government agencies for expedient, positive, humanitarian action for the benefit of prisoners, including political prisoners, amid the continuing pandemic. Tao rin sila, may karapatang makaligtas sa pandemya.
Our country underwent numerous transitions in the past century which saw the rise and fall of winners, losers, heroes, villains, oppressors, and the oppressed. Which of the contending forces emerged triumphant and what was its impact on society? Rather than amplify the mainstream version of history, our role is to find the voices which were dismissed by those in power as noise, nuisance, and irrelevant chatter. We have to assert the need to record and popularize this history from below.
It dutifully served the role of an opposition force guided by its principles and program of action while bridging the agenda of the other parliament, the parliament of the streets.
Bookworm, activist and former legislator Mong Palatino shares with us the books he read in 2020.
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