Netizens, activists react to Isabelle Duterte ‘imeldific’ photo shoot inside...
(Warning: humour, sarcasm, slaps-in-the-face loaded, not for the die-hard.) While Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that this is not a matter of entitlement since the president himself did not...
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Members of the New Manila-Cubao cluster of the Nicodemus Solidarity Youth, a group of seminarians, hang lanterns made of recycled materials such as paper cups, newspapers and compact discs in a...
View ArticleAdding insult to injury: martial law extension a grave injustice to Lake Sebu...
On December 13, it took the majority of Congress members about four hours to approve President Rodrigo Duterte’s request to extend martial law in Mindanao for another year. Ten days prior to that, it...
View ArticlePagpapasalamat at pamamaalam sa mga batang Lumad 01
Limang buwang pananatili. Limang buwang paniningil. Limang buwan sa kalunsuran. Nakatagpo sa iisang adhikain at mithiin. Nang ibinalita ng Save Our Schools Network sa aming laging nakakasalamuha nila...
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Luha ng saya, pasasalamat at ng pangamba ang iniiyak ng bawat isa sa huling araw ng mga batang Lumad na namalagi dito sa lungsod ng limang buwan. Saya. Hindi mo mabibili ng kahit ilang milyon ‘yung...
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Umaapuhap ang mga pusong nagpupuyos sa matinding pagkatakot ng mga inosenteng mga mata. Nasaksihan ang pagkitil ng buhay dulot ng mga berdugo sa kanayunan. Tila ba naging tangan ng mga berdugong sa...
View ArticleGift suggestions for your upcoming reunions
Still thinking of gifts for groups of friends for your upcoming reunions? Want to buy, give and help at the same time? We have a few suggestions! IBON planner Photo from IBON Bookshop. The IBON 2018...
View ArticleA life…with Dad
My early memories of Daddy (yeah, I know, he was Daddy and she was Nanay – a class divide if ever there was one) come in snatches, some fleeting, some impossible to forget. There was the night I was...
View ArticleSi Kathryn at si Kim sa Sierra Madre
Si Kathryn at si Kim sa Sierra Madre Sa isang kampo ng Bagong Hukbong Bayan sa Sierra Madre Ipinagdiwang ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas ang ika-49 na anibersaryo nito noong ika-29 ng Disyembre sa...
View ArticleStreet dwellers in Manila
At the stroke of midnight, the outermost lane of Maria Orosa Highway in Ermita, Manila transforms. Almost a hundred people turn the long stretch of pavement into a dormitory without beds. Men, women...
View ArticleA glimpse at the people’s war in the Southern Tagalog
At the break of dawn, somewhere deep within the lush Sierra Mountain range, the steady rhythm of marching boots could be heard amidst the cacophony of chirping birds and crickets. A platoon of young...
View ArticlePagpapasalamat at pamamaalam sa mga batang Lumad 01
Limang buwang pananatili. Limang buwang paniningil. Limang buwan sa kalunsuran. Nakatagpo sa iisang adhikain at mithiin. Nang ibinalita ng Save Our Schools Network sa aming laging nakakasalamuha nila...
View ArticlePagpapasalamat at pamamaalam sa mga batang Lumad 02
Luha ng saya, pasasalamat at ng pangamba ang iniiyak ng bawat isa sa huling araw ng mga batang Lumad na namalagi dito sa lungsod ng limang buwan. Saya. Hindi mo mabibili ng kahit ilang milyon ‘yung...
View ArticlePagpapasalamat at pamamaalam sa mga batang Lumad 03
Umaapuhap ang mga pusong nagpupuyos sa matinding pagkatakot ng mga inosenteng mga mata. Nasaksihan ang pagkitil ng buhay dulot ng mga berdugo sa kanayunan. Tila ba naging tangan ng mga berdugong sa...
View ArticleDuterte’s Unraveling and the Surging People’s Resistance in 2017
President Rodrigo Duterte thinks that he can usurp more power by using the machineries of death and destruction. In 2017, this fascist approach led to greater disorder as Duterte completely exposed...
View ArticleHow people’s issues were covered by the media in 2017
Despite limitations, corporate rules restrictions and ‘news elements’ standards of the mainstream media in print, broadcast and new media arena, several causes and advocacies of various groups and...
View ArticleDuterte vs. Duterte
President Rodrigo Duterte is a walking contradiction—his biggest contradiction probably is his self-declaration of being a Leftist and socialist while waging war on the people, inflicting greater...
View ArticleMga usaping mapaminsala sa kalikasan at pagtatanggol ng mamamayan
Naging maingay ang taong 2017 para sa kalikasan. Sunod-sunod tayong niyanig ng mga panawagan at pagkilos ng sambayanan upang muling tutulan ang mga anti-kalikasan at anti-mamamayan na polisiya na...
View Article“New year, new me” at iba pang nakagawian sa social media sa 2017
“New year, new me” sabi nga ng mga photo captions bago magtapos ang 2017. At sa taunang ritwal nating binabago ang mga lumang nakasanayan para maging “better version of ourselves,” ay ang taunang...
View ArticleBarya ng Buhay Ko: Kuwento ni Anselmo “Tata Elmo” Esguerra
ANG KALATAS NA BINABASA MO AY PARENTAL GUIDANCE (PG). Kailangan ang gabay at patnubay nina ate, kuya, tatay, nanay, lolo at lola. Marami sa bagong henerasyon ngayon ang hindi nakakaalam sa kahalagahan...
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