#JunkTerrorBill! Tindig ng UP Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas laban sa Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020

Tumitindig ang UP Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas (UP DFPP) laban sa pagpasa ng Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. … More

Manindigan para sa Kalayaang Akademiko at Demokratikong Karapatan

Pahayag ng Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas (DFPP) laban sa red-tagging at pagpapatahimik ng mga progresibong tinig sa … More

Endangering indigenous communities in Panay

In his first State of the Nation Address last July 25, President Rodrigo Duterte urged indigenous peoples to make use … More

International Solidarity Mission on Panay mega dam launched

Originally posted on Panay Today:
ILOILO City – The Jalaur River for the People’s Movement (JRPM), an alliance composed of environmental…

Many political prisoners are young

The untimely death of Eduardo Serrano trained the spotlight on the plight of political prisoners in the Philippines. He was … More

Can the Lumad speak?

Responding to the public outrage against the Lumad killings and the growing clamor to end the militarization of their schools … More

Whitewashing the killing of ‘lumad’

The way the military brass has insisted on its innocence in the killing of lumad, the indigenous peoples of Mindanao, is reminiscent of Freud’s story of the borrowed kettle.

As in Freud’s paradoxical logic of dreams, what the AFP persistently denies is confirmed by its contradictory statements. Indeed, some may find this stupidly funny if only it were not the government and the armed forces brazenly hiding the truth and playing with people’s lives.

AFP’s propaganda machine “grossly distorts” UN official’s statement

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has been put in hot water for grossly distorting the statements ofUnited Nations … More

Portraits give Filipino political prisoners human face

“There are no political prisoners.” This is the common refrain of almost every succeeding regime from the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship … More

Hindi ipinagdiriwang ang Internasyunal na Araw sa Karapatang Pantao

I wrote this article for the Philippine Online Chronicles. Idineklara ng United Nations ang Disyembre 10 bilang pagunita ng internasyunal … More

Youth activists disrupt BS Aquino speech in Iloilo

This article was written for Philippine Online Chronicles. For the second time in the same month youth activists once again … More

Memory and Resistance: The Desaparecidos Monument in Oton, Iloilo

I wrote this commentary for the Philippine Online Chronicles. Seemingly out of nowhere, motorists travelling along the Iloilo-Antique National Highway pass by … More