Shine the light

The proclamation of the state of health emergency was hijacked by the government to dismantle people’s solidarities and put in place dictatorial rule that wiped out human, civil and political rights. Thus grotesquely rises, in the quasi-hobbesian sense, an all absorbing Leviathan. By TOMAS TALLEDO* Bulatlat.com “This hyper vigilant, threat-seeking way of living is exhausting…they…

Video grabbed from video footage by Tudla Productions. “The authorities cannot violently disperse it and forcefully arrest the protesters, when the said protest action is held peacefully and, now with proper observance of health protocols under the COVID-19 pandemic.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – A group of human rights lawyers said there…