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Q&A with Hidilyn & EJ
Months before the Tokyo Olympics, Sam Corrales—TV producer, dance fitness instructor, host, and courtside reporter—interviewed Olympic qualifiers Hidilyn Diaz and EJ Ebuena at the Summit Natural Drinking Water “Thirst for Gold” Virtual Press Conference.
Also present at the presser were Jill Villanueva, marketing manager...
Of Labor & Literature
It is a tale of conflict as old as societies and governments. In the age of antiquity, it was between master and slave. During feudal times, between landlord and tenant. Come the Industrial Age, the landlord became the capitalist; the tenant, the worker.
Over...
2 writers : Manuel E. Arguilla & Edgardo M. Reyes
They were never part of the trade union movement. In the labor-management schism that afflicted workers in their millions, the likes of Manuel E. Arguilla and Edgardo M. Reyes sifted through this amalgam of discord and carried with them faces, voices, and stories—always,...
The Mighty Words: Writers of Protest and Revolution
Speak of protest and one speaks of proletariat literature. The notion of labor leaders and activists carry with it the stipulation of the simplistic and naïve. And yet, Filomeno V. Aguilar, social historian, writing for the Philippine Studies asked a question about the...
In dubious battle: Organized labor in the time of COVID-19
TOP PHOTO: Building workers. A young man, hoists a bucket of cement up during the rebuilding, renovation, of a building in Tabuk on the island of Luzon, province Kalinga. Construction is the top industry group affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: Dreamstime)
Between COVID-19...
LOOK! The Philippines Graphic May issue on Obrero Poets and Fiction Writers is the LED billboard display on the wall of the GA Tower...
(Billboard up today, May 19 until Friday, May 21)
History has delegated the 1st of May as Labor Day, in recognition of the workers of the world. But in this month of May, the Philippines Graphic takes a step back in time and opens...
