What’s at stake in Trump’s Manila visit?
The Filipino people must join hands with the peoples of Southeast Asia to resist foreign domination.
COMMENTARY
AT GROUND LEVEL
SATUR OCAMPO
Sending our farm workers to South Korea: good news?
Growing up in Sta. Rita, Pampanga, where I was born into a rice-farming family eight decades back, I enjoyed watching seasonal farmworkers do their tasks during the planting and harvesting seasons.
SC defends judiciary from online abuse
“By merely having access to social media, private individuals could publish their thoughts without need of self-policing or adhering to the ethical standard required of the press. As a result, content could be created and shared with abandon, purely for clout for ‘likes’ and even disregard for the truth.”
Military hubris at play in envi activists’ case
To recall, the two activists, Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro, both in their early 20s, were kidnapped and held in secret custody for 17 days in September last year. Presented at a press conference purportedly to announce that they had surrendered, the two instead accused the military of abducting them. Taken by surprise, the authorities were shocked into releasing them pronto.
BALIK-TANAW
PROMOTION OF CHURCH PEOPLE’S RESPONSE
Balik-Tanaw | Tubig ng buhay sa uhaw na mundo: Water to wine: A call to justice and transformation
In Jesus’ time, while water is essential, it is often unsafe to drink due to high possibility of contamination. Waterborne diseases were very common and were a major cause of death especially to the poor. Historically, wine being fermented, was a safer and more practical option, frequently diluted with water to purify it and extend its use. In our scripture reading, at Cana, there were six stone jars filled with water for purification, these were meant for ritual purposes, yet as we look beyond the narrative and fill the gaps of the story, these tapayans, or clay jars were not just religious objects but practical necessities. These are symbols of survival in a world of scarcity. If there’s no clean water and no wine, what else could there be?
Balik-Tanaw | Humility, courage and hope
The Baptism of the Lord is more than a thing to remember or a period in Jesus’ life – it is a powerful reminder to reflect on how His baptism shapes our very being. It invites us to examine our purpose as the baptized. It is challenging us to step beyond comfort , and embody a solidarity that responds to the cries of a world yearning for justice, peace, and hope.
Balik-Tanaw | A reflection on Epiphany, and what it may mean for our times
When the album Folklore was released on July 2020, it was just months after Covid 19 affected the entire world. Taylor Swift isolated herself in those days, but aloneness proved to be fertile ground for a revelation. One song stood out among those included in the album. In this poetic, lyrical piece, Swift “empathizes with doctors and nurses, who served the affected despite their harrowing work, and mental trauma they have to experience while handling the loss of human lives.”
BALIKSAYSAY
FRANCIS GEALOGO
Lindol
Mahalaga ring tingnan na ang kalimitang nagiging biktima ng lindol ang mga sektor na bulnerable at walang kakanyahang makaaagapay sa dagdag na pahirap na idudulot ng kalamidad. Kung ang isang maralita, naulila, walang trabaho, at walang tirahan ang mabiktima ng lindol, higit na magiging trahedya ito sa kanya at maaaring magdulot ng higit na kahirapan na magdadala sa kanya sa kalagayang hindi na makakaahon. Dito dapat papasok ang institusyonal na suporta sa mga nasalanta.
Latin Amerika at Pilipinas, sa pagitan ng mga rebolusyon
Hindi kataka-taka na maraming bansa sa Asya, Latina Amerika at Africa ang tumitingin sa Cuba bilang modelo ng pagtugon sa pangangailangan ng kanilang mamamayan. Ang mga naganap sa Chile sa panahon ni Allende, sa Venezuela mula sa panahon ni Chavez, sa Nicaragua sa ilalim ng mga Sandinista - ang naglagay sa rehiyon sa pagpapatuloy ng diwa ng pagpapalaya sa sarili na nagdulot naman ng reaksyon ng mga konserbatibong pwersa.
BLOODRUSH
SARAH RAYMUNDO
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.
BLOOD RUSH | People’s war for the 21st century
In the midst of a heightened climate of impunity, this current volume locates the place of the people’s war as a revolutionary process in which alternatives are approached in terms of tactical and strategic objectives. In doing so, resistance is foregrounded as both an actual reality and a goal of people’s war taking place in two different and parallel spheres, namely, organized and legal street protest and the underground revolutionary armed struggle.
What makes The Accord* special?
Those activists taught us how to expand, how to imagine the world with compassion, a sense of mission and commitment, freely, creatively and scientifically. None of our goals end when our personal ambitions shatter. There is a bigger picture to this accord and even to the so-called student power that made it possible.
FIRST PERSON
BULATLAT CONTRIBUTORS
FIRST PERSON | ‘Lumad students are not child warriors’
"It was indeed very enriching for me to be given the opportunity to teach the Lumad Junior and Senior High-School students. Likewise, it was very heart-wrenching as I had learned many things from them especially in their narratives of struggles to uphold ownership of their ancestral lands and their way of life as well as their fight for self-determination and liberation from the shackles of their oppressors."
FIRST PERSON | Solidarity with the poor, defending labor rights
For almost 30 years, I was granted the privilege of being issued a permanent resident VISA. I have been living my mission in the Philippines and I have no further desire than to continue my mission among the oppressed workers.
KALIBUTAN
KALIKASAN-PEOPLE’S NETWORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
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.
Enough of Duterte’s cesspool politics
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KONTEKSTO
DANILO ARAO
Konteksto | Sunog
Sadyang sinasadya. Sinusunog dahil may binabalak. Dahil nasa kapangyarihan, kayang pagtakpan ng retorika’t pera ang anumang ginagawang kontra sa interes ng mga nasa laylayan ng lipunan. Harap-harapan ang pagnanakaw, patalikod naman kung umasta para itago ang ebidensiya.
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.
OPINION
BULATLAT EDITORS
Namber wan delubyo
Ano ang hinaing ng maralita pagkatapos ng SONA at bagyong Carina?
From Marcos to Marcos: Lawyers murderously attacked
From the Marcos Martial Law period to 2000, one lawyer was killed each year (18 in 18 years). From 2001 to the present, there have been 204 lawyers killed at a yearly rate of about 8.87.
Tinig Migrante | Not all migrant workers
For many Filipino migrant workers abroad, advancements in technology have been able to provide comfort as they navigate the long and painful separation from their children, spouses, and parents back in the Philippines. They can check if their children have done their homework, watch their graduation ceremony live, virtually join a family reunion or birthday celebration, or share a prayer with their ailing mother or father. Smartphones, the internet and social media have become essential tools in their lives as migrants. For most Filipino migrants, visits back to their home provinces are expensive, and these are not even possible for many undocumented OFWs.
ON THE FRINGES
BULATLAT STAFF
The Sentinel, truth and fortitude*
Truth was our weapon. Truth effected change.
Sitio Sandugo: A postscript
The Lakbayan camp is like a river junction from where water rushes stronger towards a new direction.
QUESTION EVERYTHING
MONG PALATINO
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.
Question Everything | Affirming solidarity and redefining development during the pandemic
...[t]he task of shaping the “new normal” should come from the actions of the people; it should be the outcome of our political organizing. We should claim the narrative of the “new normal” in order to reclaim our right to enjoy a better future.
Question Everything | From Million People March to Pink Rallies
The strength of Pink Rallies relies on the practical wisdom of its participants who maximize various internet platforms to build anticipation, exhibit the broad character of the event, and sustain the message of the political action for several days.
ROOT ACCESS
COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS UNION
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