“We are against terrorism but the law [against terrorism] should not violate human rights and the Philippine Constitution.”
‘Advocacy, protests could be declared terrorist’ — lawyers
Day: July 11, 2020
Philippine education in crisis
More than 9 million students in both private and public schools had enrolled online for schoolyear 2020-2021 as the month of June ended. The resumption of K-12 classes is scheduled for Aug. 24 this year, hence the Department of Education’s (DepEd) reserving the entire month of June for registration, and later extending it till July.…
Ambivalence toward the Left and peace talks
Over the last four years of Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s presidency, we may have gotten used to seeing, hearing, or reading about how he has tended to say one thing and, in the same instance, he walks back on that statement and states the opposite. This happened again last Tuesday during his weekly late-night televised address…
From the Fire of Prometheus
By WILLIAM SAUNDERS, JR.* Hold fast to the gift of fire! I am rage! I am wrath! I am ire! The vulture sits on my rock, Licks at the chains that mock Emancipation’s breath, Reeks of death, death, death – Prometheus Unbound, Ruben Cuevas Drenched in the blood of her sons, Under the moon’s lone…
Bulatlatan Q & A | Of rights and wrongs: Free speech and ‘Terror Law’
“At ‘yun ang sinasabi ko palaging dapat panghawakan ‘yung aral ng kasaysayan. Dumaan na tayo dito at tayo’y nagwagi. Wala akong dahilan para maniwalang hindi natin mauulit ‘yan. Lakas ng tao ‘yan, lakas ng bayan ‘yan. Lakas ng sambayanan.”