Digital Reality Bites: Alternative Media in the Crosshairs of Cyber Attacks

ni Rene Boy Abiva   Dinggin mo ang bulong sa bayan na yaon- ang nakatutulig na iyak ng mga sanggol na gutom at uhaw ang animo’y kulog na lumagapak na atungal at alulong ng mga inang balo habang nakaluhod sa harapan ng mga batong santo at kahoy na krus.   Nawa’y sa pagdampi ng katotohanang…

“There is no such thing as a tambay culture. That practice is a result of workers’ ways of dealing with precarious work, it’s how the jobless deal with joblessness, and joblessness as we all know is a result of a backward non-industrial economy based on export orientation and import-dependence.” —Prof. Sarah Raymundo, sociologist

Sison said it is convenient for Duterte to scapegoat and attack the NPA to deflect attention to the government’s failures on containing the virus and to deliver food and cash assistance, mass testing and medical treatment to the people. “At the same time, he has used Covid-19 as the reason for grabbing emergency powers, the…