This chapter looks at contemporary union, teachers organizations and student struggles in the University of the Philippines to shed light…
Top Ten Reads of 2019
The year that was had been a hectic one, peppered by worthwhile endeavors and some useless distractions that took away…
Militant Struggles and Anti-Imperialism in Resil Mojares’s The Freeman Columns during the Early 1970s
In the early 1970s, Resil Mojares wrote a newspaper column in the Cebu-based daily The Freeman on what he dubbed…
Wala: Mga Tula (2018): E. San Juan Jr.’s post-conceptual interventions
Review of E. San Juan, Jr, Wala (Polytechnic University of the Philippines Press, 2016; revised edition, Philippines Studies Center, 2018).…
Labanan ang Imperyalistang Opensibang Pangkultura! Ipaglaban ang Pagtuturo ng Filipino at Panitikan sa Kolehiyo!
Pahayag ng Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND), ika-2 ng Hunyo 2019 Nitong nakaraang linggo lumabas ang desisyon…
End the economic blockade against Venezuela! Stand with the Bolivarian Revolution against US imperialist sanctions and military intervention!
We, anti-war and anti-imperialist activists of the Phlippines-Bolivarian Venezuela Friendship Association (PBVFA),reiterate our full support and utmost respect for the Bolivarian…
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…
Media Review: Mobile Gaming Apps on Duterte’s War on Drugs
This media review looks into one of the remarkable aspects of Mr. Rodrigo Duterte’s ascent to power: the proliferation of…
Response to Immanuel Ness
[This is a message I gave as reactor to Immanuel Ness’ “Global Rupture: Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Poverty…
Top Ten Reads of 2018
Last year much of my time was taken up mainly juggling (1) domestic duties, (2) masters thesis proposal writing, (3)…
Maya Daniel: poet-painter, revolutionary
This was the last Facebook update of Maya Daniel just before Aug. 14 midnight. A few minutes later, he would…
Beyond politicizing mental health
Originally posted on Signals:
Anthony Bourdain’s suicide recently inspired a flurry of social media posts in my personal feeds regarding…
Adventures at the UPV Main Library, Miag-ao
[This essay is forthcoming in the next issue of Pagbutlak, the official student publication at UP Visayas Miag-ao.] After settling on the…
Media Review: Mainstream Press Coverage of the Philippine Government’s Peace Talks with Filipino Communists
Peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and Filipino communists represented by the National Democratic…
Libraries I (Diliman)
The library fee takes a significant portion of the school fees we’re paying in graduate school. This is the biggest reason…
Bombard the Headquarters! 