On The Fringes | Mentally surviving the rotten healthcare system
I spent more hours in the waiting area than in my consultations. Most of my conversations with the doctor took only 15 to 30 minutes.
COMMENTARY
Truth be Told (Again) | To make a dictator (un)necessary
Truth be Told (Again) | To make a dictator (un)necessary
On September 23, 1972, the day Martial Law was announced, Ferdinand Marcos was certain — or, at the very least, he was determined to sound like it.
AT GROUND LEVEL
SATUR OCAMPO
US tries out new missile system in ‘Balikatan’ 2024
The Marcos Jr. administration appears to be “slowly but surely allowing the country to be dragged into the massive US-led military build-up against China, threatening to engulf the whole region in war.”
Bantayog ng mga Bayani honors 13 ‘pillars’
Engraved in golden letters on the granite Wall of Remembrance at the Bantayog Memorial Center in Quezon City are the names of the heroes and martyrs who fought with the people against the long Marcos dictatorship.
‘Not war with China; don’t rely only on US’ – Marcos Jr.
In an interview on Bloomberg TV last Wednesday, as reported in another national daily, he made two related comments that could represent important government policy stands. First, regarding China’s increasing aggressive moves against Philippine vessels in the West Philippine Sea; second, about the United States’ repeated assurance of its “iron-clad” defense commitment under the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty.
BALIK-TANAW
PROMOTION OF CHURCH PEOPLE’S RESPONSE
Balik-Tanaw | Unveiled glory: Transfiguration and the call to transformation amid crisis”
Today, as we face an election that could shape our democracy, we must not remain passive observers. The call of Christ is to descend from our comfort zones and engage in the realities of the suffering and struggling masses. We cannot afford to be apathetic.
Balik-Tanaw | Called, transformed, sent
In the First Reading from Isaiah (6:1-8), the prophet Isaiah has a powerful vision of God’s holiness. He sees the Lord in all His glory and is overwhelmed by His presence. Isaiah realizes his own unworthiness and sins, but instead of being turned away, God purifies him and calls him to be His messenger. Isaiah’s response is simple yet profound: “Here am I, send me.”
Balik-Tanaw | Good news
I was walking with a colleague to the Surigao house we share and came to talk about her first foray into the city. A development worker, she had come from Iligan and had just been onboarded into a response team here in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Odette in 2021. Her work then must have been challenging, made even more difficult by the prevailing Covid. Being new here myself and getting a lot of help settling in, I was immediately reminded that I arrived at a better time.
BALIKSAYSAY
FRANCIS GEALOGO
Vandals
Sa imahinasyon ng mga bayaning nakikipaglaban sa pananakop, mahalaga ang pagpapahayag na maituturing na vandalism na gumagambala sa kapanatagan ng mga naghaharing uri. Matatandaan na sa El Filibusterismo, mahalaga ang pangyayari ng pagkatuklas ng mga paskil na nagpapahayag ng paglaban sa pang-aabuso ng mga prayle at iba pang mga pinunong Espanyol na naging dahilan upang hulihin ang mga pinaghihinalaang mga estudyante at magkaroon ng panic ang mga pinuno ng bayan sa pinaghihinalaang kilusang konspiratoryal na magpapabagsak sa pamahalaan. Sa nobela ni Rizal, pinatalsik sa pamantasan ang mga pinaghihinalaang mga estudyante kahit na iyong wala namang kinalaman sa kilusan.
Si Mariano Ponce, ang Tsina, ang Hapon at ang Amerika sa karagatan ng Pilipinas
Isang balaraw na may dalawang matutulis na dulo ang Pan Asianismo. Maaari itong gawing inspirasyon sa pagpapalaya sa bayan. Subalit maaari din itong gamitin upang manakop ang malalakas na bayang Asyano at mawalan ng teritoryo ang mga mahihina at maliliit na bayan.
OFW sa kasaysayan
Kakaiba ang ganitong patakaran dahil kung ang ilang bayan ay nakasalalay sa pagpapahalaga sa kanyang manggagawa upang manatili para sa ikauunlad ng domestikong ekonomiya, institusyonal namang sinusuportahan ng pamahalaan na mangibang bayan ang kanyang mga manggagawa para magtrabaho sa ekonomiya ng ibang lipunan.
BLOODRUSH
SARAH RAYMUNDO
BLOOD RUSH | Edel Garcellano’s Decolonial Project*
Garcellano’s “The Philippines As Yugoslavia Revisited” wields academic freedom as a tool to crystallize the best aspects of so-called competing paradigms. But this is less an affirmation of the “marketplace of ideas,” a faux heterodoxy that has no other function but to fragment and marginalize in the name of pluralism than Garcellano’s thoughtful engagement with dialectical thought and totality.
Community Pantry Ph: Hugpungan ng ginhawa at pag-iral ng use value
Sa pagsulpot ng mga Community Pantry sa buong kapuluan, nagkaroon ng bagong hugpungan o pagkakatagpo-tagpo. Sa hugpungang ito, matingkad ang diwa ng kolektibismo na may potensyal na makipagtalaban sa gutom, karahasan at pandemya. Litaw rin ang materyal na pag-iral ng use value (laban sa exchange value) upang makamtan ng mamamayan ang kanilang mga pangangailangan.
Maduro’s bus and Venezuela’s El Caracazo
El Caracazo in 1989 and the current Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela show that resistance to imperialist plunder and mass immiseration and murder of the people through the IMF-WB and the whole neoliberal project is possible and the absolute right and duty of the people.
FIRST PERSON
BULATLAT CONTRIBUTORS
First Person | Si Kelot
There is nothing farther from the truth, if we go by the sharpness of her poetry and the chronicles of her life: all inflected with a sense of purpose, survival, and integrity.
First Person | How we strive to become people’s doctors
The worst illnesses of our country are the ones that make us believe that social change is impossible, and that the suffering of millions of Filipinos is inescapable. The worst living conditions is where med students and health workers believe that they have no role in campaigning and fighting for just and lasting peace.
KALIBUTAN
KALIKASAN-PEOPLE’S NETWORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Mining in the Philippines: The steep price our people pay to line the pockets of a few
Without a domestic industry processing our mining products to make our own metals, only the large corporations exporting it reap the most benefit, at the expense of the poor and the environment.
Four factors why #Habagat2018 became a flood disaster (Part 2 of 2)
The challenge to build genuine solutions to flood risk factors should not have been new to the administration of Rodrigo Duterte. These proposals were outlined already in the 2016 People’s Agenda for Nationalist and Progressive Change, a comprehensive 100-day agenda document hand-delivered to Duterte himself.
Four factors why #Habagat2018 became a flood disaster
The recent deluge delivers a chilling warning about the climate crisis. Worse, 9 years after Ondoy, the capital region's perennial vulnerability to extreme rainfall remains.
KONTEKSTO
DANILO ARAO
Konteksto | Walkout
Tandaang hindi porke’t mura o libreng edukasyon ay puwede na ang “mababang” kalidad. Kung tutuusin, mas nararapat ang dekalidad na edukasyon kung mahirap ang estudyante!
Konteksto | Guro
Nagsimula ang lahat sa isang kampus sa Taft Avenue kung saan estudyante ako sa antas masterado. Nagkaroon ng bakante para sa isang lektyurer. Tinanong ako ng mga kaklaseng guro kung interesado akong mag-apply.
Konteksto | Protesta
Patuloy ang batuhan ng akusasyon sa Kongreso. Matindi ang pagdiin sa ilang personalidad samantalang maingat naman sa iba pa. Tila ayaw marinig ang buong katotohanan at nais lang makuha ang impormasyong aayon sa pansariling interes.
LAB NOTES
Advocates of Science and Technology for the People
Seven Reasons Why We Should March for Science
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OPINION
BULATLAT EDITORS
Opinion | Shrinking civic spaces in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications in national levels
“The shrinking of civic spaces in the Asia-Pacific region is a dire warning of the broader challenges faced by civil society at the national level. It is a call to action for governments to respect, protect, and fulfill the rights of civil society and people's organizations to participate in decision-making processes.”
Repression on a loop
This atrocious prohibition is not at all new. Seventeen years ago in September of 2007, the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board under Consoliza Laguardia imposed an X rating on a short indie film titled “Rights”, made to press for the safe release of Jonas Burgos.
Rooster or Chicken? On why some disappearances are silenced
That is why I think this is a missed opportunity for a festival to demonstrate how it can protect, through its mandate, a work which, like the rest, claims to reveal truth in the face of power.
ON THE FRINGES
BULATLAT STAFF
The fire-resistant Duterte siokoy, chanting in the rain and other SONA 2019 sidelights
Youth activists were stirred to chant louder as the rain fell harder: “Magpapatakot ba tayo sa ulan? Ang mga magsasaka nga, pinauulanan ng bala. Tubig lang ‘yan!”
How attacks against workers’ rights ‘censored’ us
How unfortunate, really, since there were only three journalists in the restaurant at that time – Marya, Zeng, and I. And all three of them happened to be holding a spoon on one hand and fork on the other and not a camera to capture the moment.
QUESTION EVERYTHING
MONG PALATINO
Question Everything | Banning Joma Sison on social media sets a dangerous precedent
One does not need to subscribe to Sison’s political doctrines to see the ban as an act of censorship. If not challenged, the ban can be expanded and used as a tactic to enforce digital crackdowns. It gives tyrants the license to dictate who or what can be accessed or streamed on our networks. It is therefore a threat to our civic space.
How information disorder undermined the 2022 Philippine elections
A movement has already emerged which aims to counter the nefarious impact of disinformation. It reflects the clamor of the people to make elections and governance more transparent by ensuring that people can readily access accurate and credible information.
Fact-checking as a political movement
When disinformation is widely shared at a dizzying realtime speed by paid cyber mercenaries, can fact-checking stand a chance? There are short-term and long-term interventions that may require the enforcement of technical and regulatory mechanisms. For our part, we must not lose sight of the political solution because the roots of the information disorder are also linked to deeper structural infirmities in society.
ROOT ACCESS
COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS UNION
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