In 1941, a film titled Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles) told the story of a reporter trying to uncover the meaning behind the titular character’s dying word. As he embarks on his search for answers, he discovers a complex personality and his rise from obscurity to affluence before dying a rich but lonely man. The…
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“I am not a terrorist, have never been nor ever will be a terrorist!” This is the statement of former Bayan Muna Partylist Representative Satur Ocampo in a press conference held today in Quezon City as he vehemently denounced the Duterte administration for including him as one of the alleged ‘known officers’ of the Communist…
The recent statement from Harry Roque declaring Mocha Uson as a role model for a Filipina during the International Working Women’s Day seems to be a mockery to those who desire for empowerment such as a Filipina. For as everyone sought her posts, of showing distorted reports what more of comments coming from the regime’s…
Rights group Karapatan condemned the listing of more than 600 persons, human rights defenders and critics of the Duterte government in the proscription petition filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The filing of the petition in February followed President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement in January this year to “go after the legal fronts’ of the…
In a tweet thread, Lumad school group Alternative Learning Center for Agricultural and Livelihood Development or Alcadev reacted to the statement of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) on the use of ‘bagani’ in ABS-CBN’s new fantasy series. “NCIP has remained silent on the numerous [human rights violations] against the Lumad. But now that…
For motives of accumulating profits, commercial television will not hesitate to appropriate cultural symbols and states of indigenous people. ABS-CBN’s flippant drama series, Bagani is an eminent proof. TV programs have to make a profit; to make a profit requires high viewership ratings to attract commercial advertisers. The problem, however, is the programs they feed…
Women from all walks of life marched together against discrimination, harassment, violence, poverty, and, most of all, what they call the macho-fascist dictatorship of President Rodrigo Duterte. The post IN PHOTOS: International Women’s Day 2018 in Manila appeared first on Manila Today.