Last year, Philippine Churches, especially the Roman Catholic Church, marked the month of November for Christian martyrs. Cathedrals, national shrines, and parishes supposedly be “awash in red lights and adornments in November to mark the sacrifice of Christians all over the world.” The “Red Wednesday,” is a global campaign of the Churches through-out the world…
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Paco residents staged a ‘unity walk’ to protest the impending eviction threat due to the North-South Railway Project under President Duterte’s Build, Build, Build program. The group marched from Philippine National Railway (PNR) Paco Station to nearby barangays that are expected to be carpeted to pave way for the said project. They called out to…
“You don’t know what it’s like to watch one of your brothers die.” I may not be on the frontlines, side-by-side the Red fighters, but I can feel their loss ten thousand miles away. Guiller… JP… I felt your deaths this past September. I did not know you, but I know we took the same…
Research group IBON said that jeepney drivers and their families have suffered huge income losses from rising pump prices on top of facing rising prices of basic goods and services. The initial and impending fare hikes give immediate relief but only temporarily. Fare hikes only worsen the burden on commuters and the government needs to…
It is not yet a severe economic crisis as such but the accumulation of economic bad news is worrying. It is clear that the fundamentals are unsound and the economy is weakening aside from increasingly vulnerable to a political upheaval or to a renewed global downturn. The majority of Filipinos are poor and gained little…
It is not yet a severe economic crisis as such but the accumulation of economic bad news is worrying. It is clear that the fundamentals are unsound and the economy is weakening aside from increasingly vulnerable to a political upheaval or to a renewed global downturn. The majority of Filipinos are poor and gained little…
Last night I was watching the Warriors game held at the Oracle. How big is the Oracle? Maybe it has a capacity of 18 to 20,000. Imagine the Oracle full of dead bodies. This is the estimated number of drug-related extrajudicial killings in the Philippines under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. Perhaps you already…