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Is Rizal still relevant?

A hundred-and-twenty-two years is a fairly long time. Only very few live that long. For the youth, much too vague. Too murky that some are even asking: Is Rizal still relevant today? Here’s a better question. To die the way Rizal did: what was...

Unhidden markers of Kilometer Zero

This was my daughter Janna’s idea; I never wanted to go to Rizal Park at midmorning, when the sun’s rays piercing the skin without mercy. Yes, I woke up early so we wouldn’t get stuck in the hell of Manila traffic. I was...

Hoops, we did it again

Settle down, people, but the battle of Katipunan between Ateneo de Manila and the University of the Philippines happens every year and not necessarily on the basketball court. In fact, if you ask a certain defined group, the yearly rivalry between UP and...

When labor leaders get killed

T­he row of factories that lined the main road in Barangay Mamatid, Cabuyao, Laguna brought back memories of another time, when students like her, from the University of the Philippines at Los Baños (UPLB), crossed over from student activism to trade union organizing. “We...

PCSO levels up in gender and development

After review and evaluation of the agency’s Gender and Development activities covering the period October 2017 to November of this year, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) General Manager Alexander Balutan reported that the agency is now a Gender Mainstreaming Evaluation Framework (GMEF)...

The subject was Filipino

Among the first columns I wrote for this magazine, one stands out in my memory as one of my favorites.  It dealt with Filipino as our official language and the role of the Supreme Court in fostering its use.  I argued that the...

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