Balik-Tanaw | Responding to God and neighbor
There is always the love and compassion that summon me to respond to the Others without filling them fully or arriving finally to the end.
Balik-Tanaw | Responding to God and neighbor
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IN PHOTOS: Local products showcased in farmers’ market
IN PHOTOS: Local products showcased in farmers’ market
Local vegetables were from Bulacan farmers who have been decrying the demolition of their farms, particularly in San Jose del Monte area.
LOOK: Netizens say #NoToRedTagging #YesToRedLipstick
LOOK: Netizens say #NoToRedTagging #YesToRedLipstick
Netizens used the hastags #YesToRedLipstick and #NoToRedTagging to call out Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade's red-tagging of advocates.
What is the weight of a monument?
What is the weight of a monument?
Like the Bantayog ng mga Bayani memorial in Quezon City, dedicated to a wide segment of Martial Law martyrs from community leaders such as Dulag to fighters of the New People’s Army in resisting the Marcos dictatorship, or the 1933 Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan honoring revolutionary heroes of the Katipunan who fought for independence from Spanish rule, the Anti-Chico Dam Struggle monument represents a step foward in committing our histories of resistance to public memory in more permanent form. To demolish it would be a grave disrespect of cultural and social history at the very least.
Balik-Tanaw | Images. Incriptions. Possessions
Balik-Tanaw | Images. Incriptions. Possessions
Again, paying taxes is not bad. It is every citizen’s duty. However when taxes are enforced to exploit and abuse the already over-burdened poor, taxes become an immoral tool of exploitation. The situation becomes abusive when taxes are used as a source of power play of the Cesars” – to command allegiance and support from the people.
No respect for a mother’s grief
No respect for a mother’s grief
Political prisoner Reina Mae Nasino only wants to grieve in peace but jail guards and policemen attempt to whisk her away twice.
Victim blaming the people’s resistance
Victim blaming the people’s resistance
Politicians are experts in articulating this unscientific argument. They blame the people’s resistance for causing social ills as if the system were just and equitable before the Left conspired to destroy it. They insinuate that the people’s struggle is instigating terror. It is convenient for them to scapegoat activism instead of acknowledging their criminal liability in perpetuating a state of mass poverty.
Mother, teacher, lawmaker | France Castro finds time to help son’s distance learning
Mother, teacher, lawmaker | France Castro finds time to help son’s distance learning
Last week, Bulatlat’s very own Martin’s Purrspective came up with a comic strip on how students, mothers, and teachers are faring on the first week of the ongoing distance learning. But what happens when the mother is also a teacher and a lawmaker batting for the rights of Filipino students and teachers?
Balik-Tanaw | The parable of the wedding banquet
Balik-Tanaw | The parable of the wedding banquet
The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed a corrupt system and culture. The pandemic did not break the system, for the system was already broken. The masses have been suffering way before the pandemic.
We cried a River
We cried a River
As a mother myself, I cannot begin to fathom how Andrea felt, and how Reina feels now. I have been struggling to find the right words. But there are, simply, no words enough to aptly describe the pain, the rage, the emptiness, and despair.
This October, the world fights for Palestine
This October, the world fights for Palestine
“Despite the UN Resolution 194 that called for the returning of Palestinian refugees to their homeland, Israel denies our existence because their ideology is that no people were ever in that place called Palestine.”
Artists give voice to the poor’s woes during quarantine
Artists give voice to the poor’s woes during quarantine
The songs try to "capture the struggles of poor communities in the Philippines subjected to their government's Enhanced Community Quarantine rules."
Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment
Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment
The Center for Environment Concerns – Philippines (CEC) recognized the valiant environment defenders who put their lives on the line against large-scale mining. They include the late Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez, residents of Didipio in Nueva Vizcaya and community organizers.
On World Teachers’ Day, groups call for higher education budget
On World Teachers’ Day, groups call for higher education budget
It is the Duterte administration's responsibility to provide these basic demands for enough learning modules per student, available gadgets and laptops for both student and teachers for online classes, adequate health measures are in place to ensure health safety for both teacher and student, and sufficient teaching expenses allowances for our teachers in this new normal for education."
Balik-Tanaw | The good farmers
Balik-Tanaw | The good farmers
The God I know works with the farmers who work hard to keep land fertile and productive. God is with them during planting season, during harvest time, and celebrates with them, and blesses them every time the land produces a sprout, a fruit, a produce so that life may be shared, and others may live. We should thank our farmers for that.
A conversation on ‘Filipinx’ and its vicissitudes
A conversation on ‘Filipinx’ and its vicissitudes
Does it invigorate or paralyze movements for racial equality? More important, does it subordinate the struggle for genuine national sovereignty to the paramount goal of gender-neutrality? Does it obscure the asymmetry between the imperial hegemonic United States and its virtual neocolony, the Philippines? To push further, which cause would advance a systemic solution to racist, sexist global capitalism?
Target: Obispo Ramento
Target: Obispo Ramento
Ilang mga Alberto Ramento na ang pinaslang ng mga iba't ibang rehimen hanggang kasalukuyan kaugnay ng di matapos na red tagging, panggigipit at karahasan ng mga nasa kapangyarihan. Hanggang sa kasalukuyan, pinagbabantaan pa rin ang mga taong simbahan na kumakalinga sa karapatang pantao, sa nagsusulong ng makatarungang kapayapaan, at pambansang kararinlan sa kapuluan.
People’s tribunal to investigate US war crimes
People’s tribunal to investigate US war crimes
One half-century later, the Progressive International (PI) is once again calling on the conscience of mankind against the crimes of US imperialism.
In search of methods to fight historical revisionism
In search of methods to fight historical revisionism
If it is true that there is a big disjuncture between those who persistently write and tell the wrongs of martial rule and those who could not yet fully connect to these tales written and told, then shouldn’t finding a way to narrow this gap become an essential phase in our political work?
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