By: Consuelo Marquez – Reporter / @CMarquezINQ INQUIRER.net / August 20, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Manila Mayor Isko Moreno is calling for the deportation of two Chinese men who allegedly owned the business establishment selling beauty products with an address of “Manila, province of China.” The mayor made the call after the city government discovered…
CROSSCURRENTS By: Antonio T. Carpio – @inquirerdotnet, Philippine Daily Inquirer / August 27, 2020 An obscure group calling themselves the Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte-National Executive Coordinating Committee publicly invited President Duterte “to head a revolutionary government under a revolutionary constitution to last until December 31, 2021.” The group claimed to be one of the original…
By: Danny Petilla – @inquirerdotnet , Philippine Daily Inquirer / August 16, 2020 SEATTLE — Ninety years ago during the Great Depression, the 17-year-old peasant Carlos Bulosan traveled from his small village in the Philippines and arrived in this city. Bulosan would become one of the great writers of his generation and make a decisive…
By: Renzo Acosta, INQUIRER.net / June 21, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Manila is burning. Hell, the world is burning! Conflicts, violence, and COVID-19 pandemic continue to alter everyday life across the world. Yet, in spite of it all, drag queens remain a constant source of respite and a sense of belonging. From the iconic films…
Several international solidarity organizations in Europe paid their last respects to former peace consultant Randall Echanis and added their voices of condemnation to his brutal murder in an online “parangal” (tribute) and protest rally held last Sunday, August 16. “I would like to join in condemning the barbaric murder of comrade Randy Echanis and to…
By Ana P. Santos MANILA, Philippines Drivers sleep, eat and live in their trucks or lorries – a space not bigger than 4 square meters – relieving themselves in their trucks or on the roadside Jojo jumped at the opportunity to work in Europe. He never thought he would end up as a cautionary tale,…
By: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo (Human Face column) – @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / August 13, 2020 Cliché though it sounds, the killing of Randall Echanis was the kind that ran chills down one’s spine. It did not look like most killings of political figures recorded on police blotters. Terrified citizens have, by now, learned to…
By David H. Harwell, PhD I am writing to thank Filipinos for the way you have treated me here, and to pass on a lesson I learned from observing the differences between your culture and mine over the years. I am an expatriate worker. I refer to myself as an OAW, an overseas American worker,…