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Volume 3,  Number 39               November 2 - 8, 2003            Quezon City, Philippines


 





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A Post-All Saints’ Day Photo Essay 

This two-part photo essay deals with the issues of inequality and poverty.  The first part shows how inequality persists even after death. The second part shows how poverty pushes people to be “creative” and live on the dead.  

TEXT AND PHOTOS BY ROWENA CARRANZA
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Part II: Living on the Dead

All Saints’ Day is, for Filipinos, time to honor the dead. But for some of them, it is also time to earn money. Poverty apparently helps to sharpen creativity and resourcefulness as the following cases show.

 

WHATUWANT? This old lady sells everything – from candles, novena prayers and fruits to cardboard pieces to sit on. She is rummaging through her wares for the fan that a woman wants to buy.

Part I: Unequal, Dead or Alive

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