Month: November 2017

Protesters tag Trump, Duterte as ‘fascists’

By BULATLAT MANILA – Various sectoral groups staged a protest near the US embassy here on Nov. 10, the second day in a row, in anticipation of the first visit by US President Donald Trump in time for the Asean summit on Nov. 12. Hundreds of anti-riot police men blocked the rallyists led by Bagong…

Kontra-modernidad: Ilang Mungkahi sa Pagbabagong Radikal ng Lipunan

“Walang mang-aapi kung walang nagpapaapi…”—Jose Rizal “Walang himagsikang nabibigo. Bawat isa ay hakbang sa wastong direksiyon” —Salud Algabre, lider ng Sakdalista Ni E. SAN JUAN, JR. Polytechnic University of the Philippines LAGOM: Salungat at tahasang lihis sa Kanluraning tipo ng modernidad, ang alternatibong uri ng pakamakabago sa Pilipinas ay natatangi. Dahilan nito ang kolonyal/neokolonyal na…

If these walls could talk | San Agustin Museum and Catholicism’s beginnings in the Philippines through the Augustinians

The building which the museum currently occupies was a former monastery of the Order of St. Augustine or Augustinians, the first Catholic religious order to set foot in the Philippines. Augustinian missionaries from Mexico were brought along by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in his expedition to the Philippines to colonize the archipelago during the expansion of the Spanish Empire.