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Lumad Displacement: a continuing social crisis
With little more than skin and bones to call their own, some makeshift schools for their children, and a patch of forest as source of food, the lumads of Mindanao have been the target of militarization and continuing displacement since anyone can remember.
Decades...
The four faces of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte
In front of the nation on his third year, what face will President Rody Duterte present come July 23?
So far, the President has exhibited four faces in the past two years. The Romans have the two-faced statue of Janus, but Duterte, a Filipino, has...
When God becomes just another joking matter
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will reap.—Galatians 6:7
Rarely do I give myself the chance to write about my faith even though I would like to think of myself as a Christian. Yes, I am...
The art of truth-scribbling
The summer of 2003 seemed to be the beginning of many things. I had returned home from a year-long exile in a distant city, one where neither the city nor I belonged to each other. I carried with me the strangeness of that...
Duterte, aides scrambling to fend of #BabaeAko campaign
Filipino women have been pushing back at Rodrigo Duterte since the first time he burnished his macho credentials with a rape joke during the campaign for the 2016 presidential elections. Women have paid a high price for calling out Duterte’s misogyny.
The women’s group...
Young and (politically) woke by Karl Patrick Wilfred M. Suyat
The path toward national development and economic prosperity requires an informed citizenry who is equipped enough to act upon the changes taking place in a society, especially one that's quickly developing such as ours. Yet the irony of the times is that majority...
