“The onslaught of commercialization and education deregulation under the Aquino administration has driven not one, but many students to desperation and even death. This is Aquino’s real legacy to the Filipino youth.”
Day: July 26, 2015
Rights group welcomes long-awaited Palparan indictment
“At long last, after eight years, the Manalo brothers will finally have an inch towards the path of justice.”
Aquino’s Final SONA | ‘He’s scared witless’ — rights group
“The SONA overkill security preparations are indications of a regime that is scared witless of the people’s defiance and actions.”
Desperate times, desperate measures
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Something positive could yet result from the Liberal Party’s (LP) failure to find a popular candidate: the possibility that rather than just another popularity contest, the 2016 presidential elections could be about issues and platforms. In a television interview on Wednesday this week, the LP’s Franklin Drilon…
Agriculture lag, other issues in final SONA
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star A month ago I wrote in this space that at least two unresolved issues – his “dismal record” on human rights and impunity and the Mamasapano tragedy – will hound President Aquino in his sixth and last state-of-the-nation address on Monday. That remains true.…
Pabebe’s resistance, Empire’s strategy
BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO What might the pabebe phenomenon tell us about the constructs of resistance, containment in our age? How does it paint the relationship between self, freedom, and technology? What does it allow us to think about, and how? In the following, these untimely questions are addressed if only to show how…
Aquino’s Final SONA | ‘The worst president’ – women’s group
“Due to prevalent joblessness, contractualization, low salaries and for opening our economy to foreign plunder, we present this award to Aquino: ‘Pinakapahirap Award.’” – GWP Rep. Emmi de Jesus
DOJ hit for ‘insulating’ Roxas, Baldoz from liability over Kentex tragedy
“The criminal negligence of the Department of Labor and Employment and the Bureau of Fire Protection resulted in the deaths of Kentex workers…”
Access to information and free expression: Aquino’s damaged and damaging legacy
Has the Aquino administration fulfilled its promise to make the government transparent?