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The case of Manalo brothers

The Manalo brothers continue to fight for justice as Bulacan court acquitted retired major Jovito Palparan over the kidnapping and illegal detention charges.

BALIK-TANAW

PROMOTION OF CHURCH PEOPLE’S RESPONSE

Balik-Tanaw | The bastard from Nazareth

But Sunday’s lection on Jesus’s homecoming paints a different picture. His townmates ask, “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?” Mark’s ‘The carpenter from Nazareth, the son of Mary’ (read, bastard) was a hard sell. It was certainly a hard sell for the other Nazarenes; in the Lukan version of this story, they tried to throw Jesus off a cliff.

Balik-Tanaw | Making society whole again – justice and peace work is healing work

I love quiet times. Perhaps it is the best sign of my “coming of ageing”, or perhaps it is just the way I am loving that moment when I transitioned into 60 years. No fanfare, no special 60th party. I was alone. But it was not a lonely moment. If I am affected by comparisons to other people who have celebrated their 60th with fireworks and expensive staycations, I would have been the loneliest. One of my friends even told me, seriously, “You are like an outcast!” But sure enough it was the most intimate of my celebrations ever. In the quiet and stillness of that day, God’s love became real. It was a miracle. It was a healing moment.

Balik-Tanaw | Storms at sea

In Sunday’s lection, the disciples find themselves in the middle of a raging storm. Jesus is with them, but he is asleep. The Gospel of Mark shares the detail that he was sleeping on a pillow. Scholars say that pillow was actually a sack of sand for ballast.

BALIKSAYSAY

FRANCIS GEALOGO

Ang mga piging at mga byahe ng pinuno ng Republika

Sa panahong pinipiga ang mga ahensya ng pamahalaan na nagbibigay serbisyong panlipunan sa mga mamamayan sa pambabarat sa kanilang badyet, pati na ang di pagbibigay ng umento sa mga guro at pagtatanggal sa mga kontraktwal na mga nars at kawani dahil sa kulang sa perang pampamahalaan - patuloy pa rin ang mararangyang piging at mga byahe Pangulo at ng mga kaalyado nito.

Si Rizal at ang alegorya ng dalawang magkapatid

Sa panahong inagaw ng mga Amerikano ang nakamit ng rebolusyong Pilipino, maraming nagkabilang bakod agad at kumampi sa bagong mananakop habang iniiwan ang mga nanatili sa labanan. Gayundin ang nangyari sa panahon ng mga Hapones, at ang kontrobersyal na usapin ng kolaborasyon sa mga kaaway. Sa panahon ng batas militar, maraming nagbanggit na mabuti sa kanila ang diktadura at awtoritaryanismo kahit na kapuna-punang maraming mga kababayan ang naging biktima nito.

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Tanong ni Jacinto: Qualified ba ang pinuno?

Ayon sa kanya, ang pinuno ang dapat na maglilingkod sa mga tao, at hindi ang tao ang maglilingkod sa mga pinuno – ang pinuno ang dapat na mag iisip sa kapakanan ng nakararami bago ang sarili.

BLOODRUSH

SARAH RAYMUNDO

An appeal for sobriety and prudence

he defense for Lisandro Claudio, PhD is an opportunistic reaction to a petition signed by 467 academics, artists and activists. The petition rightly argues that an academic who is engaged in tagging activist organizations as communist fronts is doing something unbecoming. It correctly articulates the global and local contexts in which such disposition is lamentable at the very least.

Persistent disasters

It is not by accident or a matter of racial superiority that rich countries have the technologies for disaster preparedness and management such as early warning signs, sturdy infrastructures. The resources at their disposal are proof of unequal development of nations as a direct result of imperialist plunder of resources and exploitation of cheap labor in the Global South by the Global North’s oligarchy. Imperialist plunder accounts for the stark differences in welfare, well-being and chances of survival people in this political-economic and spatial divide under global capitalism.

FIRST PERSON

BULATLAT CONTRIBUTORS

First Person | The case of Rey

They kept Rey jailed because he had another case. This was in Lupon, Davao Oriental, where he has never set foot until case trial started after over a year in prison. Yet he was charged with murder and attempted murder against government troops in an alleged encounter between them and the New People’s Army (NPA).

KALIBUTAN

KALIKASAN-PEOPLE’S NETWORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan

Four heroic women for Mother Earth

But hope springs eternal. Environmental defenders everywhere are tirelessly working to protect the last frontiers of nature and restore our despoiled environment.

Mining Act

Fool’s gold under Duterte

It looks like gold, shimmers like gold. But scrape its surface off and it's just muck. Like Duterte's promised 'change.'

KONTEKSTO

DANILO ARAO

Konteksto | 56

Sa okasyon ng aking ika-56 na taon sa mundong ibabaw, patuloy ang malalim na pag-alala at pagpapaalala lalo na sa kabataan. Panatilihing nasa tamang bahagi ng kasaysayan.

Konteksto | Shiminet

Batikusin ang hindi katanggap-tanggap at huwag palampasin ang aroganteng pag-uugali ng mga dapat na nagsisilbi sa mamamayan. Habang patuloy nilang pinagkakaitan at pinahihirapan ang marami, kunin ang lahat ng pagkakataon para sila’y birahin at singilin, kahit nangangahulugan ito ng pagkawala ng kanilang pagkatao. Anong klaseng tao ba naman kasi ang puro kahayupan ang nasa katawan?

Konteksto | Peyups

Mula “paglingkuran ang sambayanan” papuntang paglingkuran ang AFP. Ano na nga ba ang nangyayari sa tinaguriang pambansang unibersidad? Mainam na tanungin ang mga opisyal na payaso, kung kaya pa nilang sumagot nang hindi humihingi ng permiso sa mga berdugong may baril.

LAB NOTES

Advocates of Science and Technology for the People

Privatization of LRT bleeding us dry

Unknown to many, Filipinos taxpayers and their families are made to carry the burden of paying for various deal sweeteners included in the LRT1 concession agreement. This includes a P5-billion project startup subsidy, P105 billion in tax exemptions, revenue shortfall subsidies, and assured fare increases of up to 10.25% every two years and 5% upon completion of the LRT1 extension. These are on top of a sovereign guarantee amounting to P7,519,428,667 to be paid next year in penalties and fees. All these will be drawn out from the pockets of Ruby and us, the taxpayers and commuters – a clear mass robbery in broad daylight.

OPINION

BULATLAT EDITORS

Opinion | In defense of our red (tagged) comrades in the ivory tower!

These red (tagged) comrades were not responsible for the phasing out of jeepneys, for rampant violations of human rights, for the collapse of our agriculture. They took up arms precisely because they know that the peaceful means to achieve genuine social change is irresolvable in the current existing system. They realized that it was the existing system, which is unsustainable, that is utopian rather than the alternative future that they were willing to die for. They were not dreamers! They were realistic! Like the 1968 French student rebellion, they demanded the impossible!

How conservatives share the same bed with fascists

Is conservatism a legitimate ideology? Yes. At its most benign, it aims to maintain the status quo and works for the benefit of the ruling class. At its worst, it supports fascism and actively works against the masses.

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Question Everything | Ligalig at social media

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COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS UNION

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