Balik-Tanaw | Manatili sa katuruan ni Hesus
Kung ayaw nating habang-buhay na mabuhay sa takot sa mga multo ng ating lipunan, kailangan nating manatili kay Hesus. Siya ang nagtagumpay laban sa kasamaan, sa kawalang-katarungan, at maging sa kamatayan.
COMMENTARY
AT GROUND LEVEL
SATUR OCAMPO
At Ground Level | Efforts vs. Manila Bay reclamation push on
For many years, scientists and environmental advocates have cautioned the government against approving more proposals for land reclamation and coastal development projects in Manila Bay. The historic bay, they emphasize, is unsuitable for such projects because of the risks posed by floods, intensified typhoon-induced storm surges and other related consequences.
At Ground Leve l Criminal justice system is working… for whom?
It’s generally conceded that the Philippine criminal justice system grinds exceedingly slow. But for the Marcos Jr. administration, the system has been working well after just one year of the family’s being back in Malacañang.
At Ground Level | Activists push back against red-tagging
Sometimes, people just throw up their hands and shake their heads dejectedly: “But what can you do?” But often there’s really no alternative but to fight back, to push back. It happened again, twice, this week.
BALIK-TANAW
PROMOTION OF CHURCH PEOPLE’S RESPONSE
Balik-Tanaw | Remain faithful in Jesus
I have been away from everything familiar to me for the last seven weeks living in Antigua, Guatemala. I am learning Spanish at a language school and living with a Guatemalan family. Like a child, I am trying to learn the basics of this language. It is humbling to be told so many times that I am not getting it right and that I have to exert more effort. Walking the streets of this old Guatemalan city was a joy in the beginning but after some time reality sinks in that I am far from home. Familiar it may be after so many weeks, there is that lonely thought that I am alone and away from home.
Balik-Tanaw | Witnesses of the resurrected Christ in today’s context
The atmosphere of fear and doubt prevailed among the disciples. Some of the disciples at the moment have not seen Jesus after rising from the dead. They continued to be in hiding after Jesus’ brutal death on the cross in fear of being caught and put on trial as one of those who followed Jesus, whom the authorities have called a blasphemer.
Balik-Tanaw | Transformation, repentance, and renewal
Contemplate the metaphor of yeast and unleavened bread, inviting us to examine the presence of malice and wickedness in our own lives. What old ways of thinking and being, and how might we clear out the old yeast of oppressive colonial ideologies, embracing the sincerity, truth instead, and love of our kapwa-tao that lead to freedom and unconditional love of neighbor?
BALIKSAYSAY
FRANCIS GEALOGO
Tanggol Wika sa Pagbubukas ng Klase
Katatapos lang ng Hunyo at magsimula na ang klase at ang pagharap ng ilang mga kababayan sa maraming mga usapin sa edukasyon. Muli na namang tampok ang usapin ng wika sa pagtuturo sa paaralan, isang usapin na tila kasintagal na ng mahabang kasaysayan ng pagtuturo at kontrobersya sa wika sa kapuluan.
Malaya o nanlilimos? Ang anino ni Recto at ang trahedya sa Recto Bank
Sa panahon ni Recto hanggang ngayon, makabuluhan pa ring tingnan kung paano natin igigiit ang ating kalayaan, at kung paano natin makakamit ang tamang paggalang at pantay na pagtingin sa atin ng ibang bayan.
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BLOODRUSH
SARAH RAYMUNDO
All that I owe (to the 70 years of the Palestinian struggle to return)*
To say that Palestine is in a “state of war” or “at war” is to obscure the fact that it has been occupied. The occupation of Palestine by Israel since 1948 is a state of war that breeds resistance. The terrorist tagging of Palestinians, the racism against the Arab people and the demonization of Islam are crucial to maintaining the architecture of a settler colonial state that now rides on western imperialist logic of accumulation of wealth by mass murder.
#MarchForOurLives
The #MarchForOurLives rally is an outcome of a brave and thoughtful organizing among the youth. They gathered together, reached out to other youths, organizations, institutions, and eventually, the power and speed at which they were holding fast to a belief in the form of an urgent campaign compelled politicians, celebrities, and even ordinary people to share their resources and make the march for our lives happen nationwide. These young people believe in defending lives. And there is nothing more radical, more basic than organizing and politicizing for the defense of lives.
Ode to Shopping
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FIRST PERSON
BULATLAT CONTRIBUTORS
Love means fighting back
Yes, we could have a better life like what people would say but remembering the demolition threats among several barangays in Tacloban, the land grabbing cases in Tacloban and Leyte, the illegal arrests of farmers and other activists, the strong Junk STS (socialized tuition scheme) and free education campaign, WE'D STILL MAKE THE CHOICE WE MADE YEARS AGO.
First Person | ‘Whose land is this? Constructing counter-narratives through maps’
In just under six months of fieldwork, we saw the extreme and terrifying change of landscape in the affected areas: hundreds of trees were felled, creeks dried, and mountains flattened; this, despite claims from the Philippine government that New Clark City is “environment-friendly.”
First Person | Mula sa ina ng isang aktibista
Dapat igalang ang pasya ng anak para sa sarili at dapat ipagmalaki anuman ang kanilang desisyon, lalo na ang pagsilbihan ang mamamayan.
KALIBUTAN
KALIKASAN-PEOPLE’S NETWORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Martial Law persists where environmental defenders resist
The ‘infallibility’ of Duterte’s drug war rhetoric has become a convenient front for politically motivated killings.
The waters of Dulyan flow free
That they were able to set up their own water system after long years of deprivation reflects the Ata Manobo’s aspirations for genuine change in their community.
KONTEKSTO
DANILO ARAO
Konteksto | PhD
Para sa mga katulad kong may edad na, may isang pundamental na katotohanan: Wala nang masyadong motibasyon para magtapos sa gradwadong antas. Matagal na kasing nasa akin ang ilang inaasahang nakamit na ng akademikong may nakakabit na PhD sa kanilang pangalan—kawaksing propesor (na ranggong senior sa akademya) nang isang dekada na; patnugot ng internasyonal na pang-akademikong dyornal na may reputasyon naman; awtor ng mga artikulo’t libro sa wikang Ingles at Filipino na dumaan sa prosesong peer review. May iba pang puwedeng banggitin pero hindi ito okasyon ng pagyayabang. Ito ay paglilinaw ng politikal na konteksto.
Konteksto | Bini
Bini o BINI? Bloom o BL&infi;M? May letrang “s” ba dapat sa dulo ng Bloom/BL&infi;M kung tinutukoy ang napakaraming tagahanga? Ano-ano ang mga akmang salita sa panahon ng kasikatan ng walong binibini? Kailangan ba talagang may salitang “Bini” bago ang mga pangalang Aiah, Colet, Gwen, Maloi, Jhoanna, Mikha, Sheena at Stacey? Sige na nga. Baka ito ang patakaran sa tinaguriang BINIverse!
Oposisyon
Hindi porke’t wala na sa posisyon ay oposisyon na. Hindi maikakahon ang mga indibidwal at grupong kritikal sa administrasyon o gobyerno. May mga kritikong itinataguyod ang kapakanan ng mga naghihirap. May mga kritikong itinataguyod lang ang sarili habang ang mga naghihirap ay lalo pang pinahihirapan.
LAB NOTES
Advocates of Science and Technology for the People
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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.
Opinion | Sonya Gregorio’s ‘I don’t care’ as subversion
That the explicitly murderous rhetoric of, and the culture of impunity bred by Duterte has enabled this atrocity, is a glaring fact of our current life. From injunctions like “… kaunting pagkakamali lang barilin mo na,” to promises that no policemen would ever go to jail, everything that Duterte has been saying and doing has provided the very conditions for these atrocities to emerge and fester.
ON THE FRINGES
BULATLAT STAFF
Top 5 quotes from Palparan’s arraignment
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Why was Nora Aunor left out in the proclamation of National Artists?
Nora Aunor and her most memorable films represented the opposite of what the Aquino administration stands for.
QUESTION EVERYTHING
MONG PALATINO
Pedagogy of the digitally oppressed
Education is under threat of being reduced into a mastery of prepackaged learning materials that are stored in downloadable files in the web cloud. Discovery of the new in the near future could simply refer to a browsing experience.
What it means to be a lockdown protester in the Philippines
Our hope lies in how we will face the pandemic not as mask-wearing individuals but as a group promoting medical measures, social reforms, and democratic rights. The pandemic demands medical attention, the crisis requires collective political action.
Love and life lessons from watching Korean TV dramas
If the internet is a weapon of mass distraction, media streaming is the precision missile targeting citizens in search of escape and lazy fun. This is the extra dose supplied by the media industry after lockdowns have been enforced across the world as we battle a pandemic and an economic recession.
ROOT ACCESS
COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS UNION
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