Day: March 2, 2016
Observer
Photo by CLEMENTE BAUTISTA
Letter to a grandson on ‘people power’ and revolutionary change
Dear Grandson, I thought I would write to you and try to explain what EDSA I was all about. The idea came up with all the recent talk about how your parents’ generation does not understand, much less appreciate, what happened thirty years ago, at the “people power” uprising that brought down the brutal and…
Nuns, environmentalists hail Leonardo DiCarpio for Oscar speech
Thank you, Leo, said Philippine environmentalists.
Here’s how to tell if your friend is misinformed about activism
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com Respect for diverse beliefs is one of the prescriptions of political correctness so therefore your decision to become an activist should no longer provoke scandalous reactions. But the menacing tentacles of Red Scare and Philippine-style McCarthyism continue to wield considerable influence in our social institutions. The result is that your…
Cops break anti-mining barricade in Zambales
An anti-mining barricade was dispersed as soon as it was put up in Candelaria, Zambales.