By DEE AYROSO
Tokhang in Negros
Month: April 2019
DDoS at ang oras ng pagtutuos
Internet traffic, bandwidth, online user, DDoS, VPN, IP address, server logs at kung ano-ano pa. Masyadong teknikal ang mga termino kaya mahirap maintindihan ng ordinaryong tao. Paano ba ipapaliwanag ang pinagdaraanan ng ilang website ng alternatibong midya? At higit sa lahat, paano ba iuugnay ito sa kalayaan sa pamamahayag? Noong nakaraang taon, nakaranas ang mga…
From Negros to the Academe and back
When the Spaniards came to Buglas in April 1565, they saw dark-skinned natives and ironically cut them off from the act of naming one’s land after one’s labor. Buglas in Hiligaynon is precisely the act of cutting off. The Spanish conquerors, needy and exploitative as they were, re-named the land Negros to naturalize a violent…
Fools
By DEE AYROSO
Karapatan dares gov’t not to thwart probe of rights violations in PH
“We echo the same challenge to the Duterte government and its rabid gang of militarists: If indeed human rights organizations are merely spouting lies to defame the government, then do not block efforts by the ICC (International Criminal Court) and United Nations Independent Experts to investigate these human rights violations that we have reported and exposed.”
14 peasants killed, 12 arrested in a day in Negros Oriental
“This is unconscionable.”